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Meet Ask Ellie: The AI Assistant That Finally Makes Slack Work for Engineers

There’s a special kind of frustration that every engineer knows: you’re in the middle of a Slack conversation about a production issue, and suddenly you need to check which PR caused it. So you open GitHub. Then someone asks about the ticket status, so you tab over to Jira. Wait, did that error spike in Sentry? Better check that too. Before you know it, your browser has twenty tabs open and you’ve completely lost your train of thought.

Ask Ellie, which just launched on Product Hunt in Week 6 of 2026 and is already turning heads with over 10,000 upvotes, is here to put an end to that chaos.

So what exactly is Ask Ellie? Think of it as that senior engineer on your team who somehow knows where everything is and can answer any question without breaking a sweat. Except this one lives directly in your Slack workspace and has instant access to your entire engineering stack.

The concept is beautifully simple. Once connected, Ask Ellie can pull information from GitHub, Jira, Linear, Sentry, PostHog, and other tools your team already uses. But here’s the key difference from yet another dashboard: you don’t go to it. It comes to you. Stuck in a Slack thread trying to figure out what’s blocking the release? Just ask Ellie. Wondering what broke production last night? Ask Ellie. Need to create a ticket from that Sentry error someone just pasted? You guessed it—ask Ellie.

The founders at Entelligence AI built this tool out of pure necessity. Their own engineering team was spending hours each week just switching between dashboards to answer basic questions. As they put it, dashboards are great for displaying data, but they don’t answer questions, and they definitely don’t meet you where you’re already working. That insight led them to create something that feels less like a tool and more like a team member who happens to have perfect memory of everything happening across your codebase.

What makes Ask Ellie particularly interesting is how it changes the rhythm of engineering work. Instead of that familiar pattern of “let me check real quick” followed by three minutes of tab-hopping during standups, conversations can flow naturally. The context you need arrives instantly, right in the chat where the discussion is happening. Teams report spending significantly less time reconstructing what happened before conversations can move forward.

The tool also handles the grunt work that usually interrupts deep focus. Creating tickets from Slack messages, checking PR review status, pulling analytics for a specific feature—Ellie handles these mundane tasks so engineers can stay in their flow state.

For teams drowning in context switching and alert fatigue, Ask Ellie represents a shift in how AI agents integrate into workplace tools. It’s not trying to replace your existing stack. It’s making that stack actually usable without constant dashboard hopping. In a world where engineering teams are overwhelmed with data but starved for answers, that’s a refreshingly practical approach.

If your team lives in Slack but your work lives everywhere else, Ask Ellie might be the bridge you’ve been waiting for.


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