Create Free Slack Pro Alternative with AI Summaries & Google Drive Archiving

Description 💸💬 Slack Pro is powerful — but the price hurts, especially for growing teams. This workflow is designed as a low-cost alternative solution that provides some Slack Pro functions (searchable history + AI summaries) while you stay on the free Slack plan (or minimal paid seats).

What is the advantage? 🧠 AI Slack assistant on demand – @mention the bot in any channel to get clear summaries of recent discussions (“yesterday”, “last 7 days”, “this week”, etc.). 🗄️ External message history – recent messages are routinely saved into Google Drive, so important conversations live outside Slack’s 90-day / 10k-message limit. 💰 Cost-efficient setup – rely on Slack free plan + a little Google Drive storage + low-cost AI API, instead of paying Slack Pro ($8.75 USD per user / month). 📚 Business value – you keep the benefits you wanted from Slack Pro (memory, context, easy catch-up) while avoiding a big monthly bill.

🧠 Upgrade your Slack for free with AI chat summaries & history archiving

👥 Who’s it for 💰 Teams stuck on Slack Free because Pro is too expensive (e.g. founders, small teams) Want longer history and better context, but can’t justify per-seat upgrades. Need “Pro-like” benefits (search, memory, recap) in a budget-friendly way.

⚙️ How it works 📝 Slack stays as your main chat tool: People talk in channels the way they already do. 🤖 You add a bot powered by this workflow: When someone @mentions it with something like (@SlackHistoryBot summarize this week). 📆 On a schedule (e.g. monthly), it backs up channels: Walks through channels the bot can access and saves recent messages (e.g. last 30 days) as a CSV file into Google Drive.

🛠️ How to set up

🔑 Connect credentials (once) Slack (Bot / App): recommend other tutorial video Create and configure a bot. Create a credential. Invite the bot to channels you want to cover. Google Drive Connect a Google account for storage. Create a folder like Slack History (Archived) in Drive and select it in the workflow. AI Provider (e.g. DeepSeek) Grab any LLM API key. Plug it into the AI node so summaries use that model.

🚀 Quick Start Import the JSON workflow. Attach your credentials. Save and activate the workflow. Try a real-world test: In a test channel, have a short conversation. Then try @(your bot name) summarize today. Check that archives appear: Manually trigger the “archive” part from your automation tool. You should see files named after your channels and time period in Google Drive.

🧰 How to Customize the Workflow Limit where it runs Only invite the bot to “high value” channels (projects, clients, leadership). This keeps both AI and storage usage under control. Adjust archive frequency ⏰ Monthly is usually enough; weekly only for critical channels. Less frequent archives = fewer operations = lower cost. *Customize the summary style (system prompt) *📃 What language to use (e.g. Chinese by default, or English, or both). How to structure the summary (topics, bullets, separators). What to focus on (projects, decisions, tasks, risks, etc.).

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