How to use Perplexity Computer to build a custom slack inbox (full tutorial)

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 8, 2026

Duration

44m

Channel

How I AI

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Yash Tekriwal is the head of education at Clay. A self-described hyper-optimizer, Yash has built multiple custom productivity applications using Perplexity Computer and OpenClaw to manage his overwhelming daily workflow—including a Slack digest system that categorizes over 150 daily notifications into actionable priorities, and a consolidated news/email/Slack dashboard that serves as his personal command center. *What you’ll learn:*

1. How Yash built a custom Slack digest that categorizes 150+ daily notifications into action-required, need-to-read, and FYI buckets
2. Why Perplexity Computer beats Claude Code and Codex for building personal productivity apps
3. His “anti-to-do list” framework: spending an hour daily automating tasks you never want to do again
4. How to use AI for deterministic tasks (APIs, structured data) vs. subjective tasks (categorization, summarization)
5. Why the SaaS apocalypse narrative is wrong—and why we’re about to see an explosion of micro-software
6. How his team uses Perplexity Computer to prototype design systems and communicate with cross-functional partners

*Brought to you by:* Guru—The AI layer of truth: http://getguru.com/ ThoughtSpot—Build AI-powered analytics into your product: http://go.thoughtspot.com/howIAI *In this episode, we cover:* (00:00) Introduction to Yash (02:38) The burden of 150 daily Slack notifications (05:45) When to use AI for tasks vs. building deterministic code (06:38) Building the Slack digest with OpenClaw (11:33) Introducing Perplexity Computer and the visual dashboard (14:28) Three reasons Perplexity Computer beats Claude Code (16:14) Using connectors to automate meeting follow-ups across Notion and Asana (18:21) The Kanban-style Slack dashboard (20:15) The long tail of customer requests and the future of micro-software (24:09) The anti-to-do list framework (26:21) Building a consolidated news, email, and Slack digest (29:48) How Perplexity Computer handles authentication and deployment (31:46) Team use case: Prototyping persona-based learning journeys for Clay University (35:49) Lightning round and final thoughts *Tools referenced:*

• Perplexity Computer: https://www.perplexity.ai/computer/new
• OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/
• Discord: https://discord.com/
• Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code
• Codex: https://openai.com/codex/
• Asana: https://asana.com/
• Airtable: https://airtable.com/
• Figma: https://www.figma.com/
• Vercel: https://vercel.com/
• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/

*Other references:*

• Slack: https://slack.com/
• Notion: https://www.notion.so/
• Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/
• Clay University: https://www.clay.com/university
• Kanban boards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board

*Where to find Yash Tekriwal:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashtekriwal/ X: https://x.com/yash_tek Company: https://www.clay.com/ *Where to find Claire Vo:* ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo _Production and marketing by https://penname.co/._ _For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co._

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Yash Tekriwal

  guest

  Head of Education at Clay, sharing workflows and tutorials using Perplexity Computer and automation tools.

• Claire Vo

  host

  Product leader and host of How I AI, interviewing builders about practical AI workflows and tools.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of How I AI, featuring Yash Tekriwal and Claire Vo, How to use Perplexity Computer to build a custom slack inbox (full tutorial) explores build a custom Slack inbox using Perplexity Computer and connectors Yash explains how 100–150 daily Slack notifications create anxiety even though most are low-priority FYIs, motivating a system to classify messages by urgency and type.

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