Bizy is Bonusly's AI assistant for proactive recognition and insights. It helps teams notice and celebrate great work as it happens, so a quick "nice job" becomes a specific, genuine thank-you your teammates remember. When you connect Slack, Bizy can read activity in the public channels you already have access to. It uses that context to surface recognition opportunities and write more specific recognition. You still chat with Bizy in Bonusly, on web or mobile. Slack is where Bizy learns about great work, not where the conversation happens.
Good to know: The Slack connector is separate from the Bonusly app for Slack that admins install for your workspace. The Bonusly app lets people give recognition from Slack. The Bizy connector is something each person turns on from Bizy's Connectors panel so Bizy can read context. Connecting one doesn't connect the other.
The problem Bizy solves
Great work happens every day, and most of it goes unrecognized because it is easy to miss and hard to find time to write about. Recognition is most effective when it is timely and specific, yet the details often live scattered across conversations. Bizy brings that context to you, spots moments worth celebrating, and drafts recognition grounded in what actually happened, so recognizing your teammates becomes a habit instead of an afterthought.
What the Slack connector adds to Bizy
Once Slack is connected, you can do these things in your Bizy chat in Bonusly:
Ask what a teammate has been working on lately, or who has been especially helpful on a project, and get an answer grounded in public Slack activity
Get recognition drafts that reference specific contributions from Slack
Receive recognition suggestions based on real collaboration signals
Understand collaboration patterns that help managers and peers recognize more fairly and consistently
When you're ready, you review, edit, and send recognition through your Bonusly program.
After you connect Slack, Bizy uses Slack's Real-Time Search to understand recent work on your behalf. When you ask Bizy in Bonusly about a colleague's recent activity, Bizy searches the public channels you already have access to, reads the relevant context, and returns a clear, grounded summary along with a recognition draft you can edit and send.
Bizy also works quietly in the background. It observes patterns of collaboration over time, learns who works closely with whom, and surfaces recognition opportunities when it finds something genuinely worth celebrating. Bizy is deliberately conservative about interrupting you: it speaks up when there is a strong reason and stays quiet otherwise.
You stay in control at every step. Bizy suggests and drafts; you decide what to send.
Please note: Bizy's summaries and recognition drafts are AI-generated, so they may occasionally be inaccurate or incomplete. Always review and edit anything Bizy drafts before you send it.
How Bizy uses your Slack data
When you connect Slack, Bizy reads workspace activity on your behalf to understand recent work and find recognition opportunities. Using Slack's Real-Time Search, Bizy looks across the public channels that you already have access to, and it can read message history, reactions, user profiles, and custom emoji to add context to recognition.
Bizy reads public channels only. It does not read your direct messages, it does not read your group messages, and it does not read messages in private channels. That limit is enforced in Bonusly's own code, on every read, so it holds regardless of what your Slack permissions would otherwise allow, and it applies to connections that were authorized before we made the change.
Within those public channels, Bizy searches Slack as the signed-in user, so it can only ever see what that user is already permitted to see. Bizy does not post, edit, or delete anything in your Slack workspace, and it does not require a bot presence in your channels. Slack access is read-only for the purpose of understanding work and generating recognition.
Bizy is part of Bonusly and is enabled by a Bonusly administrator. Once Bizy is available to your organization, each member connects their own Slack account in a few clicks:
Sign in to Bonusly and open Bizy.
Next to Slack, select Connect and approve the requested permissions through Slack's standard authorization flow.
Your Slack workspace administrator approves the Bizy connector through Slack's normal app-approval process. This is a separate approval from the Bonusly app for Slack.
After you connect
Once Slack is connected, Bizy confirms the connection and is ready to help right away. From there you can:
Open Bizy in Bonusly and ask what a teammate has been working on, then review and send the recognition it drafts.
Watch for Bizy's proactive suggestions as it begins surfacing recognition opportunities from recent collaboration.
Adjust your preferences at any time, and disconnect Slack from Bizy whenever you choose.
Privacy, permissions, and security
Every member connects Slack individually through Slack's standard OAuth flow, and each connection is scoped to that member's own access. Bizy reads public channels only: your direct messages, group messages, and private channels stay out of reach, and that limit lives in Bonusly's code rather than in a setting someone could flip. approve the Bizy connector and can review and revoke access at any time. Members can disconnect Slack from Bizy whenever they choose. Bizy is designed around your organization's existing Slack governance, so access always respects Slack's permission model.
For a detailed look at how connectors authenticate and what Bizy stores, see Bizy Security and Data Handling: A Guide for IT Teams.
Support
Questions or need a hand? Contact the Bonusly team at [email protected] or visit the Bonusly Help Center.
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