tellr

Slack app

Tellr for Slack

Tellr pings the right person or channel when something in your workspace needs them, and answers when you @ it: what went live on Reddit, where you rank, which articles to refresh.

Add to Slack

Security

The Tellr Slack app works like the Tellr connector in Claude: when someone @mentions it, it answers from your own Tellr workspace in read-only mode.

In Slack it only sees the channels and DMs it has been invited into. It can't read the rest of your workspace or open files, and it can only post messages. Its access is limited to sending messages and looking up user and channel names, and its token is stored encrypted on our side.

You stay in control: invite it to the channels you choose, remove it from any channel, or uninstall it in one click from Slack's admin settings, which cuts off its access immediately.

Install it

You need a Tellr workspace. The Slack app connects to it, so you install it from inside Tellr.

  1. 1Sign in to Tellr with the email you already use.
  2. 2Open Manage → Integrations and choose Slack → Add to Slack.
  3. 3Slack asks you to pick your Slack workspace and approve. You need permission to add apps there.
  4. 4Back in Tellr, set who gets which notification. Invite @Tellr to any channel you want it to post in or answer in.

Not the Slack admin? Ask us for an install link you can forward to them — they can approve it without a Tellr account.

Notifications

You decide what Tellr tells Slack. Set up notifications based on actions in your workspace, so the right people hear about them without checking the dashboard. Each notification is built from four parts:

When
Pick the action in your Tellr workspace that should trigger it.
Timing
Send it right away, after a delay, or a set time before a due date.
Who
Named Slack people, a channel, or whoever is responsible for that item.
Message
Write it once, with the details filled in automatically. Send a test before turning it on.

Ask it anything about your results

Mention @Tellr in a channel or send it a direct message. It answers in the thread, short, with the numbers and links behind it — and only with what your own Tellr account can see.

  • @Tellr which Reddit threads show up on Google for our keywords?

    The threads ranking for each keyword, with a link to each one.

  • @Tellr how did we do on Reddit this month?

    Comments that went live, where they landed, and links to each one.

  • @Tellr are we in Google's AI Overview for our key keywords?

    Per keyword: whether you're cited, and who is instead.

  • @Tellr which articles should we refresh first?

    Pages losing clicks or position, with the numbers behind each.

What it does

  • Send the notifications you set up, to the people or channels you pick
  • Answer questions about your own Tellr workspace when you @Tellr or DM it
  • Let you act on a notification from the message itself, where it has buttons
  • Reply in the thread it was asked in, in a sentence or two

What it doesn't

  • Read channels it isn't addressed in — other messages are ignored
  • Store your Slack messages — they are used only to write the reply
  • Answer about any Tellr workspace other than the one it's connected to
  • Show anyone more than their own Tellr account is allowed to see

Removing it

Disconnect from Manage → Integrations in Tellr, or remove the app in your Slack workspace's app settings. Either stops it at once.

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