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Warn me the new flight clashes with a recording that is only in Slack

Every CEO Dan Shipper was changing a flight out of San Francisco with his Dot when the agent interrupted its own flight research with a warning: the option might overlap with head of video Randy Counsman's Wednesday morning recording. There was no such recording on Shipper's calendar — the Dot had read a Slack discussion he had never seen, clocked the proposed schedule, and connected it to the flight he was about to pick.

How it works

  1. Shipper asks his Dot to help change the flight
  2. Dot researches options
  3. Dot warns an option may overlap with Randy's Wednesday morning video recording
  4. No recording exists on his calendar
  5. The commitment turns out to have been proposed in a Slack thread he had not seen

Why it’s worth knowing

The conflict was not on any calendar — the agent found a colleague's proposed recording buried in a Slack thread its owner had never opened, and raised it at the exact moment the flight choice made it matter.

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