01 — First principles

Built for shipping
Not for billing

Slick is the team chat platform engineered for the AI age. First-class bots. An MCP server with full UI parity. A pricing model that doesn't tax your headcount. Built by people who got tired of paying $7.25 a seat for the privilege of being gamified.

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02 — Product

Channels, threads, bots — and a Resolution when the thread is done.

Rich text with custom blocks. Inline files. Tables. A composer that stays out of the way. Plugin tabs that extend the channel — not iframes you have to pretend to like.

slick.chat / acme-robotics / ship-it

#ship-it

Where shipping happens. No vibes-only posts.

iris14:08

Pushing ABAC roles tonight. Going to ship behind roles.abac.v2 for enterprise tenants first. Anyone hard-blocked if we go at 22:00 CET?

deploy-botBOT14:11

Staged v2104.7 on staging.slick.chat. All checks green.

ci · build #2104.72m 53s · 1,899 specs

Suite	Pass	Time
auth	412	1m 04s
chat	1,200	2m 11s
mcp	287	0m 38s

marc14:14

+1, cut at 22:00 works. @linear-bot move ENG-1842 to In Progress, please.

3 repliesView thread›

A message that ships an idea — tables, blocks, files, inline embeds…

⌘↵ to send

Bots are first-classSame sidebar list. Same identity model. Same permissions.

External channelsCustomers and partners join scoped channels. They never see your other rooms.

Plugin tabsLinear, Notion, GitHub — extending the channel itself, not embedded in a 90s iframe.

ResolutionsWalk away. Walk back. Read the four-line digest. Decide.

03 — First principles

What we refuse to be.
And why.

Team chat was due for replacement. We took the job.

Inc · 2013

Slack

Taxes you for every hire. Drowns in unfurled cards. Bots have always been almost-citizens. The marketplace is a museum.

Inc · 2017

MS Teams

A chat window stapled to SharePoint. Built for procurement, not for shipping. Customising it requires a consultant and a sigh.

Inc · 2015

Discord

Engineered to keep teens online. Pricing punishes the wrong axis. Beautifully fast — but it was never about work.

OSS · 2016

Mattermost

A fork in a tuxedo. Self-host is a romantic idea until you're carrying the pager. AI bolted on as an afterthought.

Per-seat pricing is a regressive tax on your team's success. It punishes the exact thing you're trying to do — grow. We don't do that.

— Slick. Operating principle №01.

04 — Pricing

Tiers by workspace size.
Never by seat.
Yes, we did the math.

Priced for 2026. Not 2013.

tier 01solo

Free

For small teams, side projects, and the curious.

0/ forever

Up to 10 humans · unlimited bots

Unlimited messages & history
3 plugins
Bot identities
RBAC roles
MCP server (read-only)

Start free

tier 02starter

Starter

For teams who outgrew Free but refuse to be taxed.

€79/ month, flat

Up to 50 humans · unlimited bots

Everything in Free
Unlimited plugins
ABAC + custom roles
External channels
Resolutions & AI daily digest
MCP server (full)

Start trial

tier 03★ most teams

Team +

For shipping orgs. The one most teams pick.

€249/ month, flat

Up to 250 humans · unlimited bots · unlimited external

Everything in Starter
Slick Bot (BYOK · usage-based)
App creation & distribution
Priority support · 4h SLA
SSO (Google / GitHub)
Audit log · 1 year

Start trial

tier 04enterprise

Scale

For when your finance team wants a custom contract.

talk/ to us

Unlimited · self-host optional

Everything in Team+
SAML / OIDC SSO & SCIM
Data residency & HIPAA
Custom audit retention
VPC / on-prem
Dedicated CSE

Book a call

★ Adding a teammate doesn't cost a cent until you cross the tier ceiling. ★ External members from their own paid Slick workspace are free — they don't count against your seat ceiling, ever.

All prices in EUR. Annual billing available with 2 months free. We will never charge you per-seat for someone who logs in twice a quarter. Pinky promise. (And a TOS.)

Same team. Same usage. Annual cost.50 humans · 8 bots · 90d retention

Metric	Slack Pro	MS Teams Ent.	Slick Team+
Annual cost	€4,350	€3,300	€2,988
Per-seat tax	+€87/seat	+€66/seat	€0
Bot seats	Counted	Counted	Free
External members	Charged	Limited	Free
MCP server	—	—	Included

05 — Bots

If they have an identity,
they're a citizen.

Bots aren't second-class. They never were.

Two-click onboarding.

Drop a name. Choose a role. Done. No JSON manifests, no developer mode, no app review queue. Bots get an identity, an avatar, a sidebar slot — like anyone else who joined yesterday.

Same RBAC. Same ABAC. Same audit log.

A bot is a principal. It carries scoped permissions, custom roles, channel access, and its actions land in the same audit trail as humans. Your security team will sleep at night. SOC2-ready.

Free, forever.

Bots don't count toward your tier ceiling. Run a hundred. Run two. We're not going to charge you for an agent that posts a release note once a day.

Bring your own keys.

Slick Bot — our managed assistant — supports openrouter, anthropic, and openai out of the box. Or wire your own. Usage-based, transparent, opt-out at any time.

Add a bot

⌥ + B

Name your bot

deploy-bot · created 14:08

Pick a role

Inherits permissions · ABAC scoped

role:runner↑↓ to choose

Issue keys

MCP endpoint · API tokens · webhooks

Cancel Add bot →

06 — MCP

Out of the box.
Full UI parity.
No 'enterprise tier required.'

Anything the UI can do, your agents can do.

/ 01

Full surface area.

Every action available in the Slick UI — sending a message, creating a channel, scoping a role, installing a plugin — is exposed as an MCP tool. No subset. No 'premium' gates.

/ 02

Scoped to the bot's identity.

An agent acting via MCP carries the bot's role. RBAC and ABAC apply. The audit log records the agent, the prompt context, and the principal that authorised the call.

/ 03

Or skip MCP — there's a CLI.

The same surface ships as slick. Script it, pipe it into anything, or run slick listen to stream live workspace events — messages, reactions, resolutions — to a local handler over SSE.

Watch #ship-it. When the deploy is green, cut the release and close the thread.

slick · conv_by_slug workspace: acme · slug: ship-it

resolved #ship-it · 8 unread

slick · conv_messages conv: #ship-it · limit: 20

deploy-bot: “All checks green” · ci #2104.7 passed

Green across auth, chat, mcp. Cutting v2104.7 and posting the digest.

slick · messages_send conv: #ship-it

✓ msg_01H… “Cutting v2104.7 at 22:00 🚀”

slick · threads_resolve thread: thr_01H…

✓ resolved · 4-line digest pinned

slick · reactions_toggle msg: msg_01H… · emoji: rocket

✓ :rocket: added

07 — Integrations

Plugins extend the channel,
not haunt it with iframes.

Workspace extensions, not iframe prisons.

Linear

A sticky activity feed in #engineering. Issues pinned to channels. Cycle progress as a real block. Bot-driven status updates that don't read like spam.

Channel rail · live activity
Pin issues · cycle widgets
/linear slash commands

Notion

A Notion tab per channel — not a link, an actual page surface. Edit pages in place. Embed databases as blocks. Mentions that round-trip both ways.

Per-channel page surface
Inline database blocks
Bi-directional mentions

GitHub

PR previews that aren't a wall of unfurled cards. Inline diffs as blocks. Review state, CI runs, draft comments — all in-channel, all live.

Inline PR diff blocks
Live CI & check status
Review threads in-channel

Build your own with the Slick Plugin SDK. Distribute via the MCP server or in-app.

08 — In the box

Everything ready
at GA.

A pile of features, with a spine.

✎

a · 01

Rich-text editor with custom blocks

Tables. Inline files. Code with syntax. Callouts. Embeds that load. A composer you'll actually want to write in.

WYSIWYG

∑

a · 02

Resolution summaries

Long thread? Get the four-line digest. Owner, decision, blockers, next step. Returns you to flow in twelve seconds.

AI · included

⌖

a · 03

Daily AI digest

One message in the morning. What moved while you slept. What needs you. Skip the catch-up scroll forever.

AI · included

⎔

b · 04

External channels

Invite a customer's admin to one channel. Scoped. Notifications in one place. They don't count toward your seat ceiling.

free seats

⚑

b · 05

ABAC + custom roles

Permissions by attribute, not just role. Build your own. All tiers. Bots and humans, same model.

all tiers

⌬

b · 06

Apps + distribution

Build apps in-product or via MCP. Distribute privately or to the Slick directory. Earn revenue at GA+1.

SDK · GA

⌘

c · 07

Slick Bot

An assistant that manages your workspace and integrations on demand. BYOK: OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI. Usage-based, transparent.

BYOK · usage-based

↻

c · 08

Social SSO + SAML

Google. GitHub. Apple. Magic links. SAML/OIDC + SCIM on Scale. Enterprise SSO without the enterprise tax.

all tiers

⌥

c · 09

MCP server, full parity

Every UI action exposed as a tool. Scoped to a bot principal. Audit-logged. Hosted, self-host, or local.

included

09 — External

Stop juggling workspaces.
Stop paying for guests.

One workspace. Everyone you ship with.

Acme Robotics

your workspace

# general

# ship-it

# design

●acme ↔ midas

Midas Co.

customer · paying

# general

# billing

●acme ↔ midas

# engineering

scoped channel · invite admin only · 0 seats charged

Acme sees their own workspace. Midas sees theirs. Both meet in acme ↔ midas. Each side controls who from their org can enter. Nobody pays twice.

A channel that belongs to two organisations.

Open a support channel. Invite a customer's admin. They invite their own people, scoped to that channel only. Notifications land in one app, not three.

Each side controls their own invites. Your customer's admin manages their people. You manage yours.
External paying members are free. If they have their own Slick workspace, they don't count against your seat ceiling.
One inbox. One audit log per side. Permissions don't leak across the bridge.

10 — Platforms

Same product. Same speed.
On every surface.

Web. Mobile. Desktop. All three. All fully featured.

Web

Chrome · Safari · Firefox · Edge

A real web app. Keyboard-first. Works offline. PWA-installable.

Cmd-K everywhere
Local cache, offline reads
Push via web standards

Mobile

iOS · Android · native

Native apps that ship the same week. Composer with the full block set. No 'mobile lite.'

Native composer
Inline file capture
Push that doesn't lie

Desktop

macOS · Windows · Linux

A real desktop client. Multi-window. Multi-workspace. Built on Tauri — fast and light.

Multi-workspace switcher
Tauri · <40MB binary
Native notifications & tray

A workspace for people
who ship.

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