Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat in One Inbox: Bots, Workspaces and Your Own DMs

Work talks in four different apps, and you check all of them. Kanvo brings Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat into one inbox. Here is what a bot connection carries, what it doesn't, and when to connect your own Slack or Discord account instead.

Slack

As a bot: install the Kanvo app to your workspace. Kanvo receives the channels the bot is in and messages sent to the bot, and replies go back into those channels.

Discord

As a bot: add the Kanvo bot to a server. Kanvo receives the channels it can see in that server, and you reply from Kanvo.

Microsoft Teams

As a bot: chats and channels where the Kanvo bot is added arrive in Kanvo. Your own Teams chats are not carried; there is no personal-account connection for Teams.

Google Chat

As an app: spaces and direct messages with the Kanvo app arrive in Kanvo. Your own Google Chat conversations are not carried.

Bot or your own account?

A bot is official, uses the workspace's permissions, and only sees what it is added to. An admin can see it and remove it.Your own account sees what you see. It is unofficial: the network can sign the account out or limit it, Kanvo can't prevent that, and messages are decrypted on Kanvo's bridge server to reach your i…

What Kanvo adds

One list. A Discord channel and a client's Teams chat sit in the same inbox, with a filter per app.Who said what. In a channel with forty people, you can save the person behind a message as a contact, so the same client on Slack and WhatsApp is one person. How that works.Catch up, then reply. The agent summarises what…

Kanvo Team

Writes here about what Kanvo is building and why — the send path, the evidence it leaves, and the decisions behind both.

WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, Google Chat, Signal, LinkedIn, X and more can land in one Kanvo inbox. There are two very different ways in, and each has limits we would rather you read before you connect anything.

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