Taskriz
Ask Anyone a Question From Slack and Get the Answer There
A lot of work in Slack stops at a question. Someone needs a date, a price or a yes, so they ask in a thread, wait, and ask again. With Taskriz you can ask anyone from Slack, your team or people outside your business, and every answer comes back to you right in the chat.
Questions get lost in the scroll
Ask something in a channel and you get a thumbs up, two half answers and a reply tomorrow. Ask a supplier or a customer and the question leaves Slack altogether. It becomes an email or a phone call, and later someone pastes the answer into a thread, if they remember.
The work waits while all of that happens. What you wanted was simple: ask the right people the right questions, and have the answers arrive where you are already working.
Ask in one line, right in the chat
Type /taskriz ask, say who you want to ask, and say what you want to know in your own words. For example: /taskriz ask @Sam jo@example.com when can you start the Level 3 fit out?
Taskriz writes the questions and shows them only to you, with Send, Edit and Cancel. Nothing goes to anyone until you tap Send. Prefer to fill something in? Type /taskriz ask on its own and the Ask Someone form opens.
What arrives is a proper request, not a wall of text: a date picker for “when”, Yes and No for a yes or no question, and a box to type in for the rest. You ask up to 10 people at a time, and each request says who asked.
Your team answers without leaving Slack
Colleagues get the request as a direct message from Taskriz and answer it right there: choices, dates, a few words, files and photos. When they have answered, the message changes to say who answered and when, so nobody wonders whether it was done.
Only the business needs a Taskriz account, and it is made when you add Taskriz. Everyone else in your Slack asks and answers as themselves, with nothing to install.
People outside Slack can answer too
The answers that hold up your work often sit with people who will never be in your Slack: a customer, a supplier, a contractor. Add their email or mobile number to /taskriz ask, the same way you name a colleague.
They get the request by email, or by text message in Australia and the United States, and answer in their browser or the Taskriz app. They need no account and have nothing to install. You don’t have to bring them into your workspace first.
Their answers come back to you in Slack, each question with its answer, beside your team’s. If someone declines, or doesn’t answer before the invitation expires, Taskriz tells you that too.
Richer than what Slack gives you on its own
Slack has good tools of its own. Workflow Builder can collect answers with a form, but someone has to build that workflow before anyone can use it, and the people filling it in have to be in Slack, as members, guests or through Slack Connect. That suits a process you run every week. It doesn’t suit the question you have right now, for someone who isn’t in your Slack.
Taskriz is richer than what Slack offers by itself:
- No form to build. You say what you want to know and Taskriz writes the questions.
- The right control for each question. Dates, choices, Yes and No, files and photos, chosen for you.
- Anyone can answer. People in your Slack answer in Slack, and everyone else answers by email or text message.
- One place for the answers. They all come back to the person who asked, in the chat, including files and photos.
- Never half a form. Slack messages are built from a fixed set of simple parts. When a request holds something Slack can’t show, such as a slider or a video, it arrives as its title and an Open in Taskriz button, and one tap opens the whole thing.
- Requests your team can start. Type
/taskriz, or open the Home tab, to start what your business offers, such as Book a Van.
One honest limit: a request in Slack is a Slack message, so it isn’t end to end encrypted the way it is in the Taskriz app. For anything sensitive, ask for it in the app.
Usable today, and heading for the Slack Marketplace
Taskriz in Slack is usable today. Go to Taskriz for Slack, select Add to Slack, choose your workspace and allow what it asks for. Some workspaces need an admin to approve new apps first.
You won’t find it in the Slack Marketplace yet. We will submit it as soon as it qualifies: Slack reviews apps once they reach 10 active workspaces or 20 monthly active users, and an active workspace is one used in the past 28 days. Until then, adding it from our site is the way in.