Overview
Legal work happens in Slack — so Aline works there too. @mention Aline in any Slack channel to ask questions about your contracts, do legal research, draft documents, or launch agentic workflow processes.
With Aline AI in Slack, you can:
Ask questions about your contracts and get instant, sourced answers
Launch full agentic workflows — like vendor onboarding — from a single message or a slash command
Fill out your team's intake form without leaving Slack
Let Aline's agents run privacy and security reviews automatically
Route the request for legal review and get AI-proposed redlines on the incoming contract
Reply to workflow activity from Aline and have it post into the Slack thread under your own name
Step 1: Start a Workflow from Slack
There are two ways to start a process from Slack:
@mention Aline in any channel and describe what you need — for example, "I need to onboard a new vendor. Can you help me out?"
Use the slash command and say what you want to launch — for example, "I need to launch template" — then click Continue and submit.
Aline picks up the request right where a legal or business user submits it — in Slack — and builds a plan to launch the right process from within Aline.
💡 If someone does not use Slack at all, share a public launch page instead: open the template, click the settings icon at the top right and enable the public launch page. That URL can be shared with anyone, including people without an Aline account.
Step 2: Pick a Template and Fill Out the Intake
Aline searches the available templates in your Aline instance and asks which onboarding path fits. In a vendor onboarding scenario, Aline will typically identify Vendor Review as the best match.
Once you select a template, Aline asks you to fill out the intake form your legal team has configured — directly in Slack. Whatever is configured on the intake form in Aline is exactly what appears in the Slack launch form, so there is nothing separate to maintain. For example, when onboarding a new customer success tool, you might provide a few details about the software and then upload the vendor's Terms of Service for review.
Submit the intake from Slack, and Aline launches the process. You'll approve the launch inside the Aline application.
Step 3: Let Aline's Agents Run the Process
Once launched, you can open the workflow in Aline and see everything running — including that it was launched from Slack, with the completed intake form attached and the Slack connection visible on the process.
From here, Aline's agents get to work on the tasks your team has configured in the template:
Privacy review — Aline reviews the incoming document and the intake form to determine whether personal information is being shared. If a privacy review is needed, it's assigned to the right person. If not — for example, if Aline determines the vendor's Terms of Service doesn't involve personal information sharing — the task auto-completes.
Security review — Because onboarding involves access to your systems, Aline reads the task and assigns it to the teammate tagged for security review.
Legal review — After the privacy and security tasks complete, the process routes to legal, where Aline runs your AI playbook to check terms and conditions and proposes redlines on the incoming contract.
💡 A business user can kick off a vendor review in about thirty seconds — your legal team then receives a fully-triaged, playbook-reviewed workflow waiting for them.
Step 4: Keep the Conversation in the Thread
The Slack thread that launched a process stays attached to it. Every message posted in that thread is logged against the workflow, so the Slack conversation and the Aline record do not drift apart.
It works in the other direction too: when you reply from the Activity tab in Aline, the reply posts into the Slack thread as you — your name and your photo — rather than as a generic Aline bot message.
Step 5: Ask Questions About Your Contracts
You can also mention @Aline to ask questions about your existing agreements, for example:
"When does the Intercom agreement expire?"
Aline searches your entire contract corpus, identifies the correct document, and answers directly in Slack — tagging the source file so you can verify it without leaving the channel.
⚠️ Asking a question this way does not create a workflow or a ticket. Only launching a template does, unless you explicitly ask Aline to open one. If you want the exchange tracked, launch the process rather than just asking the question.
Who Can Use It
Launching a workflow from Slack requires at least a Basic seat, the same as launching in Aline, because workflows use AI. The same restriction applies in Microsoft Teams. See Account Types in Aline (Admin, Full, Basic, Viewer).
Beyond Slack
Microsoft Teams — the Teams assistant is available. It installs workspace-wide, and everyone in the workspace can use it straight away.
Public launch page — a shareable URL for requesters with no Aline account.
Email intake — not yet available.
💡 Best Practices
Use the slash command when you already know which template you want; @mention Aline when you want it to pick one for you.
Launch from a channel rather than a DM, so the thread — and the audit trail — is visible to the team.
Keep intake questions the same in Aline and Slack by editing the template's intake form; there is no separate Slack form.
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🎯 Summary
Launch agentic processes — like vendor onboarding — right from Slack, by @mention or slash command
Run AI playbooks and automatic privacy and security reviews
Get instant, sourced answers about your contracts
Keep the Slack thread and the Aline workflow in sync, with replies posting as you
❓ Need Help?
Click the Support button in Aline to reach our team.