Jared.so launched on Product Hunt on April 11 as a Slack-native AI agent designed to work like a proactive team member rather than a passive chatbot waiting for commands.
The product monitors Slack conversations in real time, identifies situations where it can contribute, and jumps in autonomously. It creates reports, drafts follow-ups, runs research, and executes tasks across more than 10,000 tool integrations, according to the company’s website.
How It Works
Jared installs into a Slack workspace and immediately begins reading channels. Rather than requiring slash commands or @-mentions, the agent uses conversational context to determine when intervention is useful. If someone asks about last quarter’s retro notes, Jared pulls them from Notion. If a follow-up needs scheduling, it handles the logistics.
The company describes it as “the first social AI employee,” according to its product listing. The pitch is that existing AI tools require explicit triggering, while Jared operates more like a coworker who’s paying attention to what’s happening and offers to help before being asked.
Agent-as-Coworker Pattern
Jared.so sits in a growing category of workplace agents that embed directly into existing communication tools rather than requiring teams to adopt new workflows. The approach bets that the fastest path to agent adoption is placing autonomous capabilities inside the tools teams already use, not asking them to context-switch to a separate agent interface.
Pricing details are limited on the company’s site, which lists the product as “a fraction of the cost of a human hire.”