The Slack Decision Bottleneck: Why Discussions Start But Never Conclude
Jari Mattlar•7 days ago•3 min read•
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Threads sprawl. Opinions scatter. Decisions vanish. Slack discussions that never end are killing team velocity.
The endless thread problem
Discussion starts Monday. By Friday, 200 messages later, no decision. The thread continues next week. Sound familiar?
Why decisions don't stick
Even when decisions happen, they're buried in message 147 of a thread. Two weeks later, everyone forgot what was decided.
The accountability gap
No clear owner. No deadline. No follow-up. Slack makes starting discussions easy and finishing them nearly impossible.
Building decision velocity
Set thread expiration dates. Assign decision owners. Summarize outcomes. Pin decisions. Stop the sprawl.
Float AI helps by automatically summarizing long threads and highlighting key decisions that need to be made or were already decided.