--- title: "Viktor: AI Coworker That Lives in Slack — Fryderyk Wiatrowski" url: https://daily.dev/posts/viktor-ai-coworker-that-lives-in-slack-fryderyk-wiatrowski-pdasrzlxj source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKt066uFhg type: video:youtube source: "AI Engineer" published: 2026-05-11T15:05:01.468Z updated: 2026-05-11T15:31:03.612Z tags: ["automation", "ai-agents", "slack"] reading_time: 19 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Viktor: AI Coworker That Lives in Slack — Fryderyk Wiatrowski **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 19 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Viktor is an AI coworker that lives natively in Slack, acting as a company-wide agent with access to 3,000 integrations. Unlike personal agents, Viktor operates at the team level — one integration connection grants access to the whole company. The talk covers the product's evolution from a browser-based web agent to an email agent to a Slack-native AI employee, key technical challenges like multi-user memory management and context isolation across channels, and why Slack's async nature makes long-running agent tasks feel fast rather than frustrating. The founder also discusses model personality (preferring Claude Opus over GPT for tone), proactive workflow suggestions, and the three pillars of a great AI coworker: getting work done, knowing the company context, and being friendly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams](https://daily.dev/posts/viktor-takes-75m-from-accel-to-put-an-ai-coworker-inside-slack-and-teams-nb0q70edi) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#slack](https://daily.dev/tags/slack) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/viktor-ai-coworker-that-lives-in-slack-fryderyk-wiatrowski-pdasrzlxj)