Slack Privacy and Permissions

What Better Analyst reads in Slack, who can see Slack answers, which data Slack can use, and how admins stay in control.

What Better Analyst Reads

Better Analyst only reads:

  • Messages that mention @Better Analyst
  • Direct messages sent to it
  • Files attached to those messages

It never reads channel history or other conversations.

Who Can See Answers

  • In a channel, everyone in the channel sees the answer, charts, and files.
  • In Better Analyst, chats started from Slack, including DMs, are saved in your team's workspace and are visible to your team members.
  • Public sharing is off for chats that continue in Slack. They stay within your team.

A chat that continues in Slack shows a Slack thread or Slack DM badge, with a link back to the thread.

Which Data Slack Can Use

  • Channels: only team data sources that an admin enabled for Slack.
  • DMs: those team sources, plus your own personal data sources.
  • Never in Slack: sources that show each person different rows, such as sources with per-member rules or tables and columns limited by member, and Power BI connections. An answer posted in a channel is visible to everyone there, so it can't hold one person's rows.

Every question runs with the asking person's own Better Analyst access, and follow-ups in a thread can only come from the person who started it.

Teams That Require SSO or Two-Factor

If your team requires SSO or two-factor authentication, Better Analyst doesn't answer questions in Slack. Slack can't confirm how you signed in, so it replies:

Your team requires signing in with SSO or two-factor authentication, which I can’t confirm from Slack. Ask this in Better Analyst instead.

Private Projects

Items in a private project don't post to Slack channels, because Better Analyst can't check who is in a channel. Direct messages to people who can see the project still work. A chat that answers in a Slack channel can't be moved into a private project.

Admin Controls

  • Only a Better Analyst team owner or admin who is also a Slack workspace admin or owner can connect Slack.
  • Admins choose which data sources Slack may use, and the defaults for new Slack chats.
  • Admins can unlink anyone's Slack account or disconnect Slack for the whole team.

Shared Channels

Better Analyst doesn't answer in channels shared with other organizations (Slack Connect) yet, so your data isn't posted outside your company. Ask in a DM or an internal channel instead.