Descriptions:
Yash Tekriwal, head of education at Clay, wakes up to 100–150 Slack notifications daily — and built his own solution rather than waiting for Slack to ship one. In this episode of How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, Tekriwal walks through a custom Slack inbox management dashboard he built using Perplexity Computer, organizing messages into a kanban-style triage board with three columns: action required (red), need to read (yellow), and FYI (green).
The tool goes beyond simple filtering. Tekriwal explains how he layered additional sorting logic on top — grouping messages by type (DMs, group mentions, thread replies) and building an archive-all button that simultaneously clears FYI items from the dashboard and marks them as read in Slack itself. The result reduces his effective high-priority queue from 100+ items to a manageable 30–40 without losing visibility. He credits Perplexity Computer’s multi-threaded concurrency and connector ecosystem as the enabling layer that made building this feasible without a dedicated engineering team.
The conversation also touches on a broader question: whether tools like this signal the end of traditional SaaS. Tekriwal and Vo conclude that AI doesn’t replace Slack so much as it lets individuals close the gap between how a product works and how they actually think — a practical case study in personal workflow automation that anyone managing high-volume communication channels will find directly applicable.
📺 Source: How I AI · Published April 08, 2026
🏷️ Format: Workflow Case Study
