I built a custom Slack inbox. It was easier than you’d think. | Yash Tekriwal (Clay)

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Apr 8, 2026

Yash Tekriwal, Head of Education at Clay and a hyper-optimizer, shares how he built an AI-powered Slack inbox and personal work command center. They talk about taming 150+ notifications, turning digests into a Kanban dashboard, why Perplexity Computer clicked for him, the rise of micro-software, and his anti-to-do approach to automating annoying work.

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Perplexity Computer Turned A Digest Into A Real Inbox

After a week with a giant text digest, Yash wanted a cleaner interface that felt more like Superhuman than a Slack thread.
He used Perplexity Computer to inspect the digest channel and build most of a working dashboard in the first four messages.

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Why Perplexity Computer Beats Single Agent Coding Tools

Yash prefers Perplexity Computer because it runs tasks in parallel, uses multiple models, and lives in the cloud with native connectors.
He can mine Notion meeting transcripts, sort action items, push long-term work to Asana, and draft follow-ups without redoing setup each time.

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The Slack Dashboard Behaves Like A Kanban Inbox

Yash's dashboard turns Slack into a Kanban board with red action required, yellow need to read, and green FYI columns.
The key move is Archive All for FYIs, which clears them from both the dashboard and Slack instead of forcing all-or-nothing mark as read.

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