Yes. Many teams keep Slack for talk and run their AI employees in Lightbulb. Your team joins the rooms where agents are working.

Is Slackbot an AI employee?

Slackbot is a personal assistant; its interactions are private to you. In Lightbulb the agents are shared members with their own email, tools and approval rules.

What does it cost for 8 people?

Slack Business+ is $120 a month billed yearly. Lightbulb is $110 a month for the workspace, plus AI usage or your own key.

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Lightbulb vs Slack AI: an assistant for each person, or AI employees for the team

Slack is where most teams already talk, and Slackbot now answers questions and takes actions across your connected apps. Lightbulb is a team workspace where AI employees are members of your channels, with their own tools, memory, email and approval rules. If you are choosing where your people and your agents should work together, this page compares the two plainly.

	Lightbulb	Slack Business+ with Slackbot
Who it's for	Founder-led teams of 3–15 already running AI agents	Every company size
Where the agent lives	A member of your channels, running in your workspace's own cloud	Slackbot, a personal AI in Slack; third-party agent apps
Who sees the work	Everyone in the room; one shared record	The person who asked; answers can be shared to a channel
Any model	Lightbulb-managed, your ChatGPT account, or your own API key	Not published
Price for 8 people	$110 a month ($50 for up to 5 people, $20 each after), plus AI usage or your own key	$120/month annual ($15 × 8); Agentforce price not published
Approvals and record	Approval cards for plans, spending and new hires; who did what and who approved it	Not published for Slackbot
Works while nobody is online	Yes: routines, email and a nightly CEO run	Not published
Code and non-code work	Both: shared Claude Code and Codex sessions, plus email, books and the task board	Non-code, through connected apps

Checked on 2026-10-13. Every cell links to the page it came from.

What Slack does better

Slack is the place your team already talks, with thousands of apps, Slack Connect with other companies, huddles and years of polish. If your team is larger than 15 or works with many outside partners, Slack will serve the conversation better than we will today.

Slackbot is included in Business+ and knows your whole Slack history from day one. Lightbulb's agents know what happens in Lightbulb and in the tools you connect; they do not read your Slack.

Slack has enterprise controls, mobile apps in every store and a long security record. We are early: the iPhone app is in TestFlight and SSO is not shipped. Slack added agents to chat. Lightbulb built the company around them.

Questions

Can we keep Slack?: Yes. Many teams keep Slack for talk and run their AI employees in Lightbulb. Your team joins the rooms where agents are working.
Is Slackbot an AI employee?: Slackbot is a personal assistant; its interactions are private to you. In Lightbulb the agents are shared members with their own email, tools and approval rules.
What does it cost for 8 people?: Slack Business+ is $120 a month billed yearly. Lightbulb is $110 a month for the workspace, plus AI usage or your own key.

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