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Products that do what The Elephant does

Safely surface the unspoken issue in team conversations

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Slack▲2,713
Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.
2013 · slack.com
2
Vowel (Beta)▲696
A video conferencing tool that makes meetings better.
2020
3
Slite Discussions▲419
Docs + decision making for remote teams
2022
4
Slite▲876
One combined workspace. All of your team documentation.
2017 · slite.com
5
Vowel 2.0▲516
Turn your meetings into searchable, shareable knowledge
2022
6
Tanka▲1,410
AI Messenger with smart reply & long term memory for teams
2025 · tanka.ai
7
Meeting Recorder for Product Teams▲374
AI transcript, no call bots - works on Zoom, Teams & Meet
2024
8
Conversations by Thursday▲470
Time for new social rituals for your remote team
2022
9
Vowel 1.0▲487
The easiest way to have productive meetings
2022
10
Lyra▲583
Record, transcribe + auto‑create action items for every call
Oct 2025
11
Shadow▲547
Your personal bot-free AI meeting assistant
2024
12
Shadow▲520
Meet once, stay ahead—Shadow helps you follow through
2025
13
Anytype Chats▲393
A privacy focused team workspace
Dec 2025
14
Spoke.ai▲403
Summarize Slack with powerful & secure AI
2023
15
Fireflies.ai for Meetings▲388
Record, transcribe and search your calls
2018
16
CoChat▲261
Openclaw for Teams that is secure, collaborative, autonomous
Mar 2026
17
Glue▲291
Agentic, MCP-powered team chat turns talk into action
Oct 2025
18
Wudpecker▲299
Talk to your meetings - powered by GPT-4
2023
19
Mantle Chat▲315
Collaboration platform where teams work with AI together
May 2026 · mantle.chat
20
Roundup▲435
Start a discussion forum for your team
2023
21
Shadow▲265
AI that sees, listens, and understands every meeting
Dec 2025
22
Bloc▲357
Turn your knowledge base to AI chat in 2 minutes and share
2023
23
Teameet▲273
Video calls with interpretation in the speaker‘s own voice
2024
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Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative▲124
Hi HN! I'm Kam, the founder and one of the authors of Linen. Today, we are launching Linen.team (https://linen.team/), a lightweight threaded messaging app for your team. Modern workplace messaging apps (like Slack) are based on IRC, which is great for small groups, but as it scales, breaks down quickly: you either get overwhelmed by notifications or you have to turn them all off. Most chat apps have threads tacked on but aren't built from the ground up with this design in mind. We wanted to create a thread-first experience where you can organize and prioritize conversations…
2024

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