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Business Intelligence Assistant for Slack using Explorium MCP & Claude AI

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Explorium Agent for Slack

AI-powered Slack bot for business intelligence queries using Explorium API through MCP.

Prerequisites

  • Slack workspace with admin access
  • Anthropic API key (You can replace with other LLM Chat)
  • Explorium API Key

1. Create Slack App

Create App

  1. Go to api.slack.com/apps
  2. Click Create New AppFrom scratch
  3. Give it name (e.g., "Explorium Agent") and select workspace

Bot Permissions (OAuth & Permissions)

Add these Bot Token Scopes:

app_mentions:read
channels:history
channels:read
chat:write
emoji:read
groups:history
groups:read
im:history
im:read
mpim:history
mpim:read
reactions:read
users:read

Enable Events

  1. Event Subscriptions → Enable
  2. Add Request URL (from n8n Slack Trigger node)
  3. Subscribe to bot events:
    • app_mention
    • message.channels
    • message.groups
    • message.im
    • message.mpim
    • reaction_added

Install App

  1. Install AppInstall to Workspace
  2. Copy Bot User OAuth Token (xoxb-...)

2. Configure n8n

Import & Setup

  1. Import this JSON template

  2. Slack Trigger node:

    • Add Slack credential with Bot Token
    • Copy webhook URL
    • Paste in Slack Event Subscriptions Request URL
  3. Anthropic Chat Model node:

    • Add Anthropic API credential
    • Model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

(You can replace it with other chat models)

  1. MCP Client node:

Usage Examples

@ExploriumAgent find tech companies in SF with 50-200 employees
@ExploriumAgent show Microsoft's technology stack
@ExploriumAgent get CMO contacts at healthcare companies