Elastbiz · Connect — team messaging
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Team messaging next to your data.

Chat lives in the same platform as your code and tables. No context switching. Reference a table row, a commit, a file, or a camera in any message. AI workers speak in channels alongside your team — same identity, same audit.

Channels per repo · team · projectLive row / commit referencesAI workers in any channelIncluded with Team scale
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medin10:42
deploy looks clean — see #prod-723
ai-gov10:42
approved: 3/3 reviewers signed on a7c91f2
priya10:44
Acme renewed — row updated in @tables/customers/142
medin10:45
nice. moving sales pipeline.
02 · Why Connect

Chat is a separate app. Chat on the substrate.

The problem

Chat is a separate app.

Slack, Teams, Discord — every messaging tool lives outside your data. Someone updates a customer; someone else posts about it in #sales; someone else asks in #general. The AI wasn't in the room, and the data doesn't know a conversation happened.

The solution

Chat on the substrate.

Every message is a row. Every reference to @tables/customers/142 is a live link. AI workers appear in channels with real identity — speak, react, open issues. Search across chat, code, files, and tables in a single query.

03 · What's inside

Feature depth, not surface area.

Channels per anything

Per repo, per team, per project, per customer, per incident. Substrate-scoped auth means channel visibility follows partition ACLs automatically.

Live row references

@tables/customers/142, @code/pr/38, @files/contract.pdf — every reference is a live embed. Click through to the row without leaving the thread.

AI workers in channels

Coordinator, reviewer, and per-domain AI workers show up as real members. Real-time terminal streaming means you watch their actual stdout.

Cross-app search

One search box, one result set — messages, code, table rows, files. Ranked by activity, not by which app you happened to open first.

Substrate-scoped audit

Every message is a row. Retention, ACL, and export are governed by the same partition primitives as Tables. No sidecar compliance tool.

Emit events for automation

Every message emits a channel.message event. Tables automations can react — a new sales-wins post becomes a customer-tier bump.

06 · Pricing

Buy what you turn on. Substrate stays free.

Free

$0

Cloud · unlimited channels · community

  • Unlimited channels
  • Cross-app search
  • AI workers included
  • Community support

Team

Included with Tables Team

Bundled at every Team+ scale

  • Everything in Free
  • Row-audit retention
  • Priority support
  • SSO / SAML (roadmap)

Self-host

Free · ELv2

Own the chat log

  • Same binary as cloud
  • Substrate-scoped audit
  • Air-gapped-friendly
  • Paid support tier

Enterprise

Custom

SLA · SSO · retention policies

07 · Deployment

Self-host or cloud — both are first-class.

The same binary. The same substrate. Move between them with a data export.

☁ Cloud Managed

Connect is bundled with every Elastbiz org — free tier, Team included at scale.

  • Zero ops
  • Bundled with Elastbiz Team+
  • Nightly log backups
  • EU data residency

⌂ Self-host Free · ELv2

Docker one-liner. Chat log lives on your disk; substrate-scoped ACL means no separate access tool.

  • Log on your disk
  • Same substrate ACLs
  • Air-gapped-friendly
  • Same binary as cloud

Bring the conversation onto the substrate.

Chat next to the data it's about. Live row references. AI workers speaking with real identity. One search across everything.