Interacting with Doti in Slack

Doti is your AI teammate in Slack - ready to search across your internal tools, reference external knowledge, and take action instantly from the flow of conversation.

You can chat with Doti in:

• Direct Messages (DMs) - for private queries and task execution

• Public or Private Channels - by mentioning @doti directly

What Happens When You Ask Doti a Question

When you send a prompt, Doti activates a full pipeline to understand, search, and respond:

1. Real-Time Reasoning

Doti shows a live status of its thinking process:

• Searching your connected sources

• Filtering based on your access permissions

• Generating a contextual answer

This keeps you informed at every step — no “black box.”

2. Resources Block (with Inline Citations)

Every answer includes:

• Inline citations like [1] linked to full sources below

• A "Sources used in the answer" section showing:

  • Document or message name (with direct link)

  • Owner of the content (if known)

  • Last modified timestamp

✅ This improves transparency and trust. You always know where the answer came from.

3. Interactive Actions

At the bottom of every answer, you’ll see:

• 🔍 Specify Search - Refine the sources used in future searches

  • Opens a modal to select integrations like Slack, Confluence, Jira, etc.

• ✍️ Modify - Change the answer and make Doti remember it

  • Great for correcting tone, adding context, or customizing for your team

• 👍 / 👎 Feedback - Help improve Doti’s future performance

You can also dismiss the message if it’s no longer relevant.

Targeting Specific Sources

You can guide Doti to search in a specific system by saying:

@doti What’s the latest security policy? Look in Confluence.

Or use the Specify Search button to open a dropdown modal:

Select one or more integrations:

• Slack

• Salesforce

• Google

• Jira

• Confluence

• GitHub

• Notion …and more

Beyond Search: GPT Features & Web Access

Doti doesn’t stop at knowledge retrieval. It also supports advanced AI tasks:

🌐 Doti can combine internal knowledge with live web data - giving you powerful blended insights in one step.

Traceability with QID

Each answer ends with a QID (Query ID):

QID: 1750676375373

If anything looks off or needs follow-up, just share this ID with Doti support or your admin. It enables fast investigation into:

• Prompt context

• Source data used

• Response logic

Summary

Doti in Slack is more than an assistant - it’s your real-time interface to your company’s knowledge, context, and decision-making tools.