We Were Losing Hours Every Week to Slack. So We Built DailyExtract.

It was 9:47 AM on a Tuesday and I still hadn't started my actual work.

I'd been scrolling through Slack for almost an hour across multiple workspaces, dozens of channels, and hundreds of unread messages where critical project updates were mixed with client requests and random memes and everything else.

And I still wasn't sure if I'd missed something important.

This was my morning routine: coffee, Slack scroll, anxiety, more scrolling, and eventually work.

We work with clients across different time zones, so while we're asleep decisions are being made, action items are getting assigned, and deadlines are being set. All of it is buried somewhere in threads we'd have to dig through the next morning.

I did the math: 30-45 minutes a day times 5 days times 50 weeks equals 125+ hours a year, which is over three full work weeks annually just catching up on messages.

Something had to change.

Slack Is Brilliant. Just Not for This.

The thing is that Slack is great for real-time communication, but that's not how most of us actually use it. We scroll, we search, we skim, and we hope we didn't miss anything important.

And we're failing at it:

• 59% of employees have missed important messages because of communication overload (High5Test, 2024)
• 47% say they can't get a clear picture of where projects stand (Tallyfy)
• 43% say important decisions get delayed because of information overload (LumApps/Coveo, 2024)
• 86% of workplace failures trace back to poor communication (Apollo Technical)

The average Slack user sends and receives 92 messages per day (SQ Magazine, 2025), and when you multiply that across your team, across multiple channels, and across different time zones you get a tsunami of information that no human can reasonably process.

The problem isn't laziness. The problem is that critical information like decisions, action items, and deadlines gets buried under noise.

Extract What Matters

So we built DailyExtract.

The idea was simple: what if AI could read your Slack channels overnight and just tell you what actually matters?

No scrolling, no searching, and no anxiety about what you missed.

Just a clean email waiting in your inbox every morning at 8 AM.

Here's how it works:

1. Install DailyExtract and invite the bot to the channels you want to monitor
2. Set your email address
3. Every morning at 8 AM you get a summary of what happened while you were away

What's in your daily digest:

• Key Decisions which are important choices made by your team with context
• Action Items which are tasks assigned with names and deadlines
• Upcoming Deadlines which are important dates mentioned in conversations
• Channel Summary which is a brief overview of activity across monitored channels

The important stuff gets extracted and the noise gets filtered out.

What It Doesn't Replace

DailyExtract won't replace Slack because you'll still need to jump in for real-time discussions, respond to urgent messages, and participate in threads.

What it replaces is the anxiety-driven morning scroll, which is the 30 minutes spent making sure you didn't miss anything important overnight.

From 45 Minutes to 2

We've been using DailyExtract internally for 6 weeks and tested it with a dozen early adopters.

Before: 30-45 minutes every morning scrolling through Slack.

After: 2 minutes reading a single email.

No more opening Slack with dread, no more "just quickly checking" that turns into an hour, and no more discovering on Thursday that something important was decided on Monday.

You read your digest, you know what happened, and you get to work.

Who This Is For

Anyone who uses Slack daily and feels the weight of information overload:

• Startup teams who are juggling multiple projects across limited people
• Marketing teams who are coordinating campaigns, content, and client feedback
• Remote teams who are spread across time zones and miss real-time discussions
• Sales teams who are tracking deals, updates, and client communications
• Tech teams who are managing sprints, deployments, and cross-functional updates
• Team leads and managers who need visibility without living in Slack

If you've ever opened Slack on a Monday morning and felt a wave of anxiety then this is for you.

If you've ever missed a deadline because the message was buried in a thread then this is for you.

If you've ever asked "wait, when was this decided?" then this is for you.

What's Next

We started with Slack because that's where our pain was sharpest, but Slack isn't the only place where important information gets lost.

We're building integrations for:

• Discord for communities and teams who've moved beyond Slack
• Microsoft Teams for enterprise and corporate teams
• Email because inboxes are just as chaotic
• Notion for teams who live in docs and databases

One daily digest that captures what matters across all your communication tools with no more jumping between platforms, just clarity delivered every morning.

Try It Free

DailyExtract is live and ready with a 7-day free trial and then $8 per month after that.

That's less than two coffees for a tool that saves you 2+ hours every week.

The Real Cost

Still on the fence? Consider this:

• Poor communication costs businesses $12,506 per employee per year (aaask, 2024)
• US businesses lose an estimated $1.2 trillion annually to miscommunication (Sociabble, 2025)
• 63% of employees say they waste time at work due to communication issues (High5Test, 2024)

For an 8-person startup poor communication could be costing you $100,000+ per year in lost productivity, and DailyExtract costs $8 per month per user.

The ROI is just math.

Why We Built It

We didn't build DailyExtract because we wanted to build a SaaS product.

We built it because we were drowning. Important client messages were getting missed, decisions were being made while we slept and we didn't find out until days later, and we were tired of starting every day behind.

Now we start every day knowing what happened, and that's it, that's the pitch.