Asking Stacktic about your tools in Slack

For: any employee. Takes about 3 minutes.

What this does

Stacktic has a Slack bot that answers plain-English questions about your company's tools. It can tell you what you use, who owns it, and how to get in. You don't need access to the Stacktic app itself. If you're in Slack, you can ask.

How to ask

Talk to Stacktic like you'd talk to a coworker. There's no slash command and no special syntax:

• @mention it in a channel it's a member of: @Stacktic what tools do we have?
• Send it a DM. Open a direct message with Stacktic and just type your question.

There's no /stacktic command to memorize. Type your question in plain English, and Stacktic figures out what you're asking.

Things you can ask

A few real examples:

• "What tools do we use?" lists the company's registry. You can narrow it by category ("what design tools do we have?"). Or ask specifically about tools built in-house ("what internal tools do we have?").
• "Who owns Figma?" or "Tell me about Vercel" pulls up one tool's info card. It shows the owner, admin, and how to get access.
• "Can I get access to Linear?" depends on the tool. If it has an access workflow turned on, Stacktic replies with a Request access button that starts a request for you. If not, you get the regular info card. See Requesting access to a tool.
• "What do we use for time tracking?" searches by what a tool does, not just its name. It's for when you don't know the product but know the job.
• "What tasks do I have?" shows your own open offboarding tasks and any Signals assigned to you. (Request steps waiting on you aren't included. Answer those from their Slack card, or from the Requests tab of My Tasks in Stacktic.)

What it can't answer yet

Stacktic can tell you who owns and admins a tool. But it can't yet answer questions about who personally has access to something. Questions like "who has access to Figma?" or "what do I have access to?" aren't built yet. If you ask, Stacktic will fall back to a generic help response rather than guess.

What it can and can't do

Stacktic in Slack mostly answers questions. It can't grant or revoke access by itself, or change anything in the registry. A few things it does carry out:

• Access requests. Ask for access to a tool that has an access workflow. Stacktic starts a request and keeps you posted by DM. See Requesting access to a tool.
• Approvals and setup. Sometimes a request step is sent to you. Its card arrives in Slack with Approve and Reject (or Mark done and Decline) buttons, and you answer it right there.
• Offboarding. An admin can ask Stacktic to start or schedule an offboarding right from Slack. It applies the same checks as the web app. If the person still owns tools, or backs an integration's credential, the confirmation card lists them. It doesn't offer Confirm until they're reassigned.