Managing tasks in Slack usually means a second place to forget them.
Keeping tasks inside chat gives you a list nobody outside the channel can see. Ray does the opposite: work discussed in Slack lands in the tracker the rest of the company already reads, and Ray keeps up with it from the channel so nobody has to go and look.
Ray is on Slack today. Free to start, and nothing sensitive happens without your approval.
- 50 free tasks to start, then 25 a month free
- No credit card
- Nothing sensitive without your approval
How it goes now
The version of this everyone recognises, and nobody has time to fix.
- There is a list in the tracker, a list in someone's saved messages, and a list in a pinned post that is three weeks stale.
- Nobody knows what is actually in flight without opening the tracker and reading it, which is why nobody does.
- Things get marked done in conversation and never in the system, so the board slowly stops being true.
- The weekly ask of who is blocked gets answered from memory by whoever replies first.
How it actually works
No builder, no workflow to configure, and nothing that acts on its own.
The channel is the inbox
Work gets described where it always was. Ray reads the channels you invite it to and turns what is genuinely a task into one, in your tracker, with your approval.
Ray keeps the record straight
When something is discussed as done or changed in the thread, Ray updates the tracker to match rather than letting the board drift from reality. Changes are writes, so each one waits for a tap.
Ask about the pile in plain words
What is overdue, what has not moved this week, what is assigned to nobody. Ray reads the live state and answers in the thread. Reads never wait for approval, at any volume.
The digest comes to you
Schedule one and Ray posts what moved, what is waiting and what is overdue, on the days you say, in the channel you say.
What that looks like in a channel
Somebody says something. Ray does the rest, and asks before anything leaves the room.
“What is still open for the launch, and who has not started?”
Ray reads the live board, answers in the thread with the open items and their owners, and names the ones with no assignee at all.
Asana
ClickUp
Linear
Jira“That one is done, I shipped it yesterday.”
Ray moves it to done in the tracker and shows you the change first, so the board stops disagreeing with the conversation.
Todoist
Trello
NotionIt works where the work already is
Each of these has its own page saying exactly what Ray reads and what waits for your approval. Nothing is hidden behind a demo call.
What Ray does not do here
Worth knowing before you try it, rather than after.
- Ray has no board, no list view and no dashboard. If you want somewhere to drag cards around, that is your tracker's job and Ray does not replace it.
- It will not mark something done because it sounds finished. A status change is a write, and it waits for a person.
- Free workspaces get one scheduled digest. More than one needs Pro.
- Ray reads the channels it is invited to and nothing else, so work discussed somewhere Ray is not a member stays invisible to it.
What people ask first
The short answers are here. If we have not covered something, just ask.
Add Ray to one channel and hand it something.
Free to start, no card, about two minutes. Ray sees only the channels you invite it to.