Stop switching between Slack and your analytics dashboards. Mention the bot in any Slack channel, ask a business question, and get an AI-powered answer from Databox in seconds - without leaving Slack.
Who's it for
- Marketing and growth teams who want instant data answers during standups
- Managers who need quick metric checks without logging into dashboards
- Anyone using Slack who wants to query Databox data conversationally
How it works
- @mention the bot in Slack with a business question
- Slack Trigger captures the message and passes it to the AI Agent
- AI Agent queries Databox via MCP in real time
- Answer is posted back to the same Slack channel
Requirements
- Databox account (free plan works)
- OpenAI API key (or Anthropic)
- Slack account with a custom Slack app (setup guide in the sticky notes)
How to set up
Setup takes around 15 minutes. The main step is creating a custom Slack app:
- Go to api.slack.com/apps - create an app - add
app_mentions:readandchat:writescopes - Copy the Bot Token (xoxb-) and Signing Secret - add as a Slack API credential in n8n
- Click Databox MCP Tool - set Authentication to OAuth2 and authorize
- Add your OpenAI API key to the Chat Model node
- Activate - paste the webhook URL into Slack Event Subscriptions
- Invite the bot to your channel with
/invite @BotName