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Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes

Fast Company Tech Doug Aamoth August 11, 2026
Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes
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# Custom AI Assistants Can Answer Your Team's Repetitive Questions in Minutes Instead of manually answering the same questions over and over in Slack or Teams, you can build a personalized AI assistant in about 10 minutes that pulls answers straight from your company's own documents, policies, and guides. You won't need any coding skills, and it works with whichever AI platform your company already uses—whether that's ChatGPT, Google's AI, Microsoft's tools, or others. The main trick is making sure your source documents are clean and up-to-date before you feed them to the AI, since feeding it messy or outdated information will just give your team bad answers.

Every team has that one Slack or Teams channel where the exact same questions get asked every single week. Where is the updated brand guide? What is our policy on expense receipts over $50? How do we handle customer returns outside the 30-day window? Instead of re-pasting links or typing out the

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