I built a custom Slack inbox. It was easier than you’d think. | Yash Tekriwal (Clay)

I truly wake up to maybe a 100 to a 150 new Slack notifications, not even just like, oh, these are unread channels. Truly, someone has tagged me. To 80% are more in the FYI category. So my 100 to 150 that's giving me anxiety is actually more like 30 to 40 that I really need to be on top of. You can use AI to do a task for you, like categorize things, summarize things, or you can use AI just to build a tool that would have been much harder to build before with very straightforward APIs and structured data. Exactly. Think about, like, a Kanban style board. You have in red on the left, action required, urgent. Yash needs to get back to it. In the middle, we've got a yellow need to read column. And then on the right in green, much more easy, I have a bunch of FYIs. I can just go ahead and click this archive all button. They'll disappear from the dash, and then those notifications will also disappear on my Slack. Ugh. That's magic. And this is such a better way to just get through your queue. My dream is for someone else to watch this video and say, I wanna build that app on top of Slack, and then I can go pay that person $15 a month for this app to be maintained and used. And then I can file bug reports with them instead of having to fix it myself because I would happily pay that. Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vogue, product leader and AI obsessive here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, have Yash Takroral, head of education at Clay, and he is a hyper optimizer showing us how he uses Perplexity Computer to work through the hundreds of Slack messages he gets every day. We're also gonna debate is SaaS really dead? Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Guru, the AI layer of truth for your company's knowledge. Here's the problem. Your AI is only as good as the information you feed it. Most companies are getting confident but wrong answers from AI because their underlying knowledge is outdated, incomplete, or just plain incorrect. Bad information doesn't just slow you down. It costs you money and puts you at risk. Guru solves this by adding a verification layer between your company's knowledge Instead of just hoping your AI gets it right, Guru automatically scores content for accuracy, flags, outdated information, and ensures your team gets trustworthy answers every time. It works with the tools you already use, so you don't have to change how you work. Thousands of companies trust Guru to keep their AI accurate and compliant. Ready to stop playing Russian roulette with your company's knowledge? Visit getguru.com to learn more. Welcome to How I AI. Yosh, I'm so excited. We've been trying to make this happen for …