Smithy is a Slack app that automatically converts channel messages into managed threads, keeping conversations organized and decisions clear. It offers a dashboard for configuring auto-close and thread resolution, tagging threads, tracking thread statistics, and searching thread content via semantic search. It is designed to reduce Slack channel clutter and make team decisions easier to find.
What it's for
Features 16
- Attachment thread handling
- Auto-close and thread resolution configuration
- Autoclose notifications to thread owners
- Automatic conversion of channel messages into threads
- Cross-workspace admin roles
- Managed threads with subject, content, and tags
- Message cleanup with authorization
- Multi-workspace dashboard switching
- Open thread detection
- Related thread search to avoid duplicates
- Semantic search across thread content using embeddings
- Slash commands for thread management
- Stale thread detection
- Suggested tags during thread creation
- Thread closing with recorded decisions
- Thread statistics and tag tracking dashboard
Pricing
Professional plan is $32/month or $320/year (2 months free). Educational discounts available on request.
Free-forever plan for a few users and one channel; if used beyond this, a 30-day trial starts automatically.
Up to 3 users, 1 channel
Annual price is $320/year (2 months free, ~17% off monthly rate).
Unlimited users, unlimited channels
2 months free with annual billing (~17% off).
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