Launch your app’s Slack integration in record time
Great Slack integrations drive engagement, retention, and acquisition. Crappy Slack integrations waste your limited resources while frustrating your users.
Quorum1 is a Slack certified Salesforce partner. We can help you launch your first Slack integration better, faster, and cheaper than you could possibly do on your own.
Are your SaaS customers asking for a Slack integration? Could you use some help?
Launching a great Slack app can be way more than just checking a feature box. It can have a huge impact on your company.
Is your app suffering from social friction?
Non-power users show low engagement
Many users forget about your app, rarely login to the web UI
User flows requiring multi-user collaboration get stuck
Expanding user base within customer companies is slow & tough
A great Slack app can bring 5-10x reductions in social friction, but it’s not easy.
Steep Learning Curve: Slack’s dev platform is 10+ years old, with lots of opinions and specialized expertise
Strategic Cross-App Product Design: Designing features with Slack’s architecture in mind while thinking strategically about your app’s user experience as your users and non-users collaborate across multiple platforms is non-trivial
Architecting for Stability & Maintainability: You have to weave a new app into your codebase and cloud infrastructure and refactor parts of your existing apps in a way that’s usable, scalable and easy to maintain
Mitigating Blind Spots: Without proper support, you risk launching a poorly designed Slack integration which gives you more surface area to support without resolving your business objectives
We’ll help you accelerate your launch, de-risk your design, and maximize ROI
Get there faster & cheaper…
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We can help you get from idea to launch in 2 to 3 months instead of 6 to 9 months or longer
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The biggest risk you face is building the wrong thing. We can help you aim your efforts in the right direction.
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Our Slack integration team specializes in this work. We can plan & execute Slack apps cheaper and more efficiently than you can on your own.
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Training or hiring world-class Slack architectural expertise is expensive and time-consuming. Don’t waste your time for a one-off effort.
…while driving more value
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Well-designed Slack apps can triple the engagement of your non-power-users by creating more interaction points and streamlining social workflows
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Expand your footprint within existing client companies by providing free features which draw in and convert non-users into paying users over time, and which increase the visibility of your app.
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Well-designed Slack apps make your product stickier by weaving it more deeply into the social architecture of your client companies
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Getting listed in the Slack app store can drive significant levels of organic inbound interest
You get expert support every step of the way, from idea to launch
Project Phases
Here’s what a standard project looks like from beginning to end. You can choose to engage with us for any or all of these phases.
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If you’re just beginning the process this is the place to start.
Timeline: 2 - 3 weeks
Standard Deliverables: Vision & Goals Doc, Prioritized List of Potential Features, Draft System Architecture Diagrams, List of Key User Flows to Design, Draft Project Plan for Remaining Phases
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This is the core of what we offer. We’ll guide you through our Slack App Design Workshop, which focuses on identifying and meticulously designing a set of 3 to 5 Core User Flows with high-value and the potential to drive engagement and user expansion.
Timeline: 4 weeks
Standard Deliverables: User Flow Specs, Interactive Figma Mocks, Flow-Centric Feature Roadmap, Final Technical Design Doc, Final Project Plan for Remaining Phases, Presentation Slides to use Pitching & Socializing
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If you want support with building the integration itself, we offer three levels of engagement to choose from:
Level 1 - Build Support: You build everything, we support your engineers
Level 2 - Co-Build: You update your app, we build the Slack app (based on [Bolt JS](https://slack.dev/bolt-js))
Level 3 - Full Service Build: We build everything
Timeline: 2 - 8 weeks
Standard Deliverables: Functioning Slack App Backend Server (Staging), Slack Functionality Integrated into Core App Frontend & Backend (Staging), Dev & Admin DocsItem description
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We can help you get from code complete to launched and live on the Slack app store. We offer two levels of engagement to choose from:
Level 1 - Launch Support: You handle the heavy lifting, we provide guidance & support
Level 2 - Full Service Launch: We handle everything except for announcing things to your customers
Timeline: 2 - 4 weeks
Standard Deliverables: Private Beta Testing & Iteration Complete, Functioning Slack App Backend Server (Production), Slack Functionality Integrated into Core App Frontend & Backend (Production), Manual Data Migration Tasks Complete, Customer & Marketing Launch Complete, Live in the Slack App Store
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Our team can optionally remain on-call after launch to help with:
- Triaging bugs & customer support issues related to the integration
- Slack App roadmap management
- Bug fixes & testing
- Development & testing of new features / iterations
Timeline: As Needed
What your project team will look like
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1 Slack Architect Entrepreneur
Experienced Slack Architect with Startup CEO/CTO experience
Our unique community of entrepreneurially-minded technical architects can help you not just design a Slack App, but position it competitively in the market and align everything with your company’s long-term vision.
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1 - 3 Senior Full Stack Engineers
Senior-level engineer(s) with expertise matched to your tech stack
We have a deep bench of engineers with expertise in every major web app language and technology, including all layers of the stack from backend and frontend coding to dev ops and cloud infrastructure management.
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1 Technical Project Manager
Senior TPM to take personal accountability for project success
We manage everything perfectly so you don’t have to. Our TPMs can operate within whatever scope you give us, managing just our own work or helping to manage yours as well.
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Optional: 1 UI/UX Designer
SaaS-focused user interaction designer experienced with multi-app user flows
An optional addition to the project team, based on your needs. We can either support your internal UI/UX resources or mock the core flows for you.
We’ve got a growing team of specialists who focus on this work because we truly love it. Slack is an amazing platform and we are passionate about helping our clients use it to its fullest. We are official partners of Salesforce and Slack, with hundreds of certifications across our team.
Through the experience of building dozens of Slack apps, the Quorum1 team has amassed a collection of best practices, templates, and workflows which help us streamline every step of the process.
We’re excited to help tackle your Slack integration project! Getting started only takes one call.
