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The conversation that decides an email almost never happens in your inbox. It happens in Slack — a client thread, a deal channel, a “can someone reply to this?” — and then someone has to leave, switch to mail, and rebuild the context from memory.
@Airo closes that gap. Tag it in any Slack thread and it reads the conversation, works out whether you’re replying to an existing email or starting a new one, and drafts it for you in Airo — where the draft writes itself live in front of you, and you review, steer, and send.
Dana 10:32
Can we push the kickoff to Thursday?
You 10:33
@Airo draft a reply saying Thursday works
Hi Dana,
Thursday works on our end — let's keep the kickoff then.
I'll send an updated invite shortly
Slack is where you say what you want. Airo is where the email actually gets written. Nothing is ever sent from Slack.
Quick start
- Add @Airo to your Slack workspace once, from Settings → Slack in Airo. Installing links the app to your workspace.
- In any thread, tag
@Airowith what you want: “@Airo draft a reply telling them Thursday works.” - @Airo replies in the thread with a link — an ephemeral message only you can see.
- Open the link. The draft streams into Airo’s AI draft sidebar, writing itself as you watch. Adjust the tone, fix a detail, add recipients, then send from Airo.
What @Airo does when you tag it
The moment you tag it, @Airo does the minimum needed to hand off — it never makes you wait while it writes:
- Reads the thread it was tagged in for context (or the recent channel messages, if you tagged it at the top level).
- Decides reply or new email. If the thread is about a message already in your inbox, it sets up a reply. Otherwise it starts a fresh compose.
- Posts the link back as an ephemeral reply — instant, and visible only to you.
Then the actual writing happens in Airo, in the sidebar, live. That’s the whole point of landing in Airo instead of getting a finished block of text pasted into Slack: you see the draft being written and can change it as it goes.
Reply, or new email
@Airo picks one of two flavors from the thread — and you can always override it once you’re in Airo.
Into an existing thread
The Slack chat is about mail you already have. @Airo lands you on the matching thread — paste an Airo link to pin it exactly, or switch threads in the sidebar if it guessed wrong.
A brand-new email
Nothing to reply to. @Airo opens a fresh compose draft with the same sidebar beside it — steer it, add recipients, and send.
When it sets up a reply, point it precisely by pasting an Airo thread link into your @Airo message — that exact thread becomes the target, no guessing. If it matched the wrong thread anyway, the change-thread control in the sidebar offers the closest matches so you can re-target in a tap.
Who @Airo drafts as
@Airo recognizes you by the email on your Slack profile matching a mailbox you’ve connected to Airo. That’s what lets it draft as you, from your account.
Slack profile email
you@company.com
Connected Airo mailbox
you@company.com
If it can’t match you — the email on your Slack profile isn’t one you’ve connected — it’ll tell you in an ephemeral reply and point you to connect that address in Airo. Connect it, tag again, and you’re set.
What stays true
A few guarantees are worth stating plainly, because they’re the point of the design:
Nothing sends from Slack
@Airo only ever drafts. Every email is reviewed and sent by you, in Airo.
Only you see the handoff
@Airo's reply is ephemeral — visible to you, the tagger, and no one else in the channel.
The link is yours, and one-time
A single-use token tied to your account — never the email text in a URL. Only your signed-in session opens it.
The email always lives in your mail system, never in Slack. @Airo just gets it started from the place the decision was actually made.