Introducing Windy

Windy is your AI agent in Slack and the Windmill Dashboard. Windy can ask your team questions, answer questions about your team, help with feedback, collect agenda items, and give you a summary of missed work. To start a conversation in Slack, open your direct message with Windy and mention @Windy. You can also open a chat in the Windmill Dashboard.

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Where you can talk to Windy

You always talk to the same Windy, independent of where you start the conversation. Windy is available in these locations:

• Slack — DM Windy directly
• The Windmill homepage — Use the Ask Windy a question box at the top of your homepage
• Ask Windy — Start a new chat or open your chat history from the left navigation
• Employee profiles — Chat with Windy in context about a specific teammate
• Pulse pages — Ask Windy about pulse results and trends

Adding the Windmill Slack app to a channel gives Windmill access to that channel as context. Windy does not respond to @mentions or questions in public or private channels. Windy has the same product knowledge and connected-system access in each chat surface. Your permissions and your company’s enabled features control the information and actions that are available.

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What Windy does

Windy helps you stay connected to your team without continuous check-ins or manual status updates. Collects feedback based on recent work Windy uses collaboration signals to identify people who have worked together. Windy can then ask for relevant feedback in Slack. Helps with self, peer, and upward reviews If you run performance reviews in Windmill, Windy helps collect feedback from the team through a conversational flow. Helps run your 1:1s Windy can help collect agenda items, catch you up on previous action items or offer suggestions about what to cover. Generates weekly recaps If your company enables Recaps, Windy creates a weekly recap of each team member’s activities from connected tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Google Drive. Follows up automatically When a workflow includes reminders, Windy can contact a person again if they do not respond.

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Who interacts with Windy

All invited members can interact with Windy. Windy makes permitted information from the platform available through Slack and the Windmill Dashboard. Everyone on your team Windy reaches out to individual contributors for feedback on teammates, responses to pulse surveys, and updates on their work. Members can interact with Windy in Slack and in the Windmill Dashboard. Managers Windy shows permitted information about team member activities, feedback, and check-in responses. Managers can view this information in the Windmill Dashboard and interact with Windy in Slack. Admins Admins configure Windy’s settings, control which Slack channels Windmill can use as context, and manage integrations. Like managers, admins can view reports in the Windmill Dashboard and interact with Windy in Slack.

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Replying to Windy in Slack

When Windy sends you a Slack message, reply in the message thread. A top-level message in your Windy direct message does not answer the earlier request. Windy will ask you to return to the correct thread.

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Windy learns over time

The more systems you connect and the more Windy interacts with your team, the better Windy becomes at identifying the right moments to reach out and the right people to ask.

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Next steps

Ready to start interacting with Windy? Learn how to talk to Windy and how to add Slack channels as context.