imagine if notion had a powerful AI feature to ask questions to your knowledge base well this
is where an application we're going to review today called slight really benefits and we're
going to unpack some of the more document based features for knowledge base management for teams
that this application has this is an app called slight and we're reviewing it in today's video
Welcome everyone my name is Francesco I'm going to take you through slight today which is a team
Knowledge Management application and it's really designed for teams that are looking
for coordination of documents and this might come in the space of being able to organize
lighter based projects but also being able to manage things like onboarding things like team
information brand guidelines and much much more we're going to overview what this app
does how it works a little bit more and give you an idea on pricing and whether this is
valuable for teams that are looking for a notion alternative that might be out there we're gonna
unpack this video in a few sections so you can use the chapters if you do want to skip ahead
but I always like to start with pricing I think it's a really good important point that helps
you determine whether this application is right for you so here we are with the pricing and I've
gone to the monthly pricing this application has a free plan which includes 50 documents
questions and answers unlimited members AI editor in the blocks and also unlimited Integrations but
it does have a Pro Plan a standard plan it's called and the Premium plan with unlimited
documents unlimited question answers Advanced dot permissions read only dot permissions and
some more advanced stuff with the AI and SSO but there's also a premium that does include open ID
ssos and user provisioning as well as support priority and audit logging at fifteen dollars
ten dollars per user per month isn't unreasonable for this sort of application it's much more common
to be charged roughly between 8 twelve dollars for a document management application so the
pricing seems good in the middle basis and with the AI features I think it does take a little bit
further so here is what slight looks like and it's first of all a really nice design this application
has some fantastic onboarding that will help you get started with some of the documentation as well
as templates so that you don't have to do that hideous amount of setup and as a premise this
application wants you to manage your knowledge as a team so it's trying to reduce things like
trapped Silo information slack and has a bunch of Integrations that do help with that but as
a premise it does go a little bit more structured than applications like notion because what it does
really well is things like question and answer and Wiki based structures which notion has recently
released but slight has had it much longer and has in my opinion does it slightly better
so here we are on one of the pages and you can create everything with a new document so in this
case I've created a channel channels are basically spaces workspaces and you can see here I can start
writing straight away and I can use some of the formatting options like bullet points checklists
I can even make drafts as well as tables and I can go into more detail with for example databases too
now I can go down here and also insert dates um I can also go to set up things like directories
Dot cards and these are all micro templates a little bit like we have a notion for some of the
um the the components you're adding in here and as you can see here you can also create
table and board view as well as a new question and new document you can also
embed a range of applications as well and there's unlimited Integrations in the free plan as well
so let's go into brand guidelines one that is being created earlier and you can start to see how
this account is going to look you can personalize it with images create these Pages within pages so
here I went and edited in the tone you can modify the layout by adding a cover photo modifying
whether it has a table of contents Etc and you can go back and forth using the breadcrumbs here
now each page has comments so you can add comments but you can also add something called a question
now it's a little bit different because it's not just your posting comment or a question in the
doc you're actually posting it extensively to the question and answers area so let's say I have a
new question and I want to add something like what should will you discuss so the question could be
uh what's the best uh place to eat near the office obviously so totally unrelated to work but in this
case I can add other participants for example I don't have anyone but I can add some other people
and I can even set a due date too now I don't necessarily have to add any ideas here but I'm
going to go ahead and create this now this is a great place because it will pop up in questions
and answers and that's slightly different to for example uh when you've created a comment because a
comment can quickly be dissolved and disappeared inside of the account now comments will live
in the same place but finding them is difficult thing so what it's quite nice as well is with this
question and answer you can see anything that's currently open so you can go in and actually
see what's being discussed and who's posted in here but you can also see resolved ones so ones
that have been done in the past which is really helpful you can also see ones you own participate
in or all or go into a specific document that has questions and answers and this is really
nice because you can constantly refer back to it which will help you to build this really extensive
um the extensive place and you can go to the document that actually belongs in which is
really nice so here is the question that actually originally dates from and I can go back to it
which is great and open up and it can even resolve it if I do find that I've actually fixed that one
so this is something that's not too common um in these type of applications but actually lives in
other apps like I believe Tetra has this but it's a really nice feature because it centralizes your
Communications around a question and answer the next feature is really locked under Pro
but it's called Knowledge Management and here you'll be able to see all of the documents that
you've created and really narrow them down by all channels last month owned Etc but this will give
you more insights into who are the top writers who are the top readers and each page inside
of the account gets something called verification and this is something that we see in a notion but
we've seen other applications that essentially gives your team the ability to say this is the
most refreshed version of that and you can also flag it as outdated and you can even note as well
as well as verify it for a certain period of time this is a really good practice if you're
in a team to make your knowledge is up to date and once that verification is completely gone and you
are part of the administration team to sort out or onboarding or support or whatever you do to
keep your team's knowledge up to date then you can keep that flagged so that it's always up to date
and fresh so you can see more insights from here and obviously that's locked under the Pro Plan or
standard plan as they call it but it gives you a better idea of this experience now I sort of
skip past team templates but a template you can go ahead and create from scratch now there are
a range of slight templates like for example if I wanted a design critique I could see how that
looks and I can start using it so in this case let's see what a design critique looks like I can
go to use and I can add it into say marketing into a certain Channel like say projects that I might
have now you can start to add information like some of the pre-filled information so you could
add like today's date and add it there and that's great for being able to flag when something pops
up and that'll pop up here um and that's great for being to find stuff and you can as I said hook
up the slack channel to it as well you can add attendees you can start writing out this agenda
and all the feedback in here now the tasks appear here as well and of course if they're assigned
to you you'll get sort of a knowledge of them in the um in the abilities to go into notifications
and you can see that there so what's really nice about this application as well is you can
import from other popular applications like notion Confluence quip which is a Salesforce application
and Evernote as well and that gets you started if you've already got a base on other applications
now other elements of this is more around the AI that I would say go a little bit further
um before we do go into the AI stuff there is updates where it gives you an idea of any new
comments questions and answers and things that pop up in your timeline you can search across
all of your account in this really nice view here and inside Pages you can go into quite a
high level of detail see history see insights follow updates protect editing is locked under
the standard account but naturally that does lock each page that you do create you can save this to
the templates automate the sub documents so that it sets up automatically and that basically means
if you're reproducing a page it will automatically help you do that as well as some other stuff about
exporting copying archiving deleting but it's a really nice structure and it's quite easy to use
when you're actually typing stuff away like for example if I wanted to summarize that document
using AI I could start doing that straight away if I want to slash command and use some
of the table abilities this is really really nice now before we actually move on one of the
important abilities in it is actually being able to create tables and you can for example
um hook up a table that is associated to projects so in this case I've got a table that allows me to
see all the projects I'm part of and I can modify whether it's a board or a table and see the owner
sizing needs Etc now let's be clear this isn't going to be the databases that notion offer that
is way more advanced I would say but in in terms of like generalized use this is nice like it's
basic but it's nice it gives you the premise of boards and tasks and table sorry but it gives you
an idea of how things work and you can create new views for certain team members and you can still
use this page like you would below it and embed them on that page so it's really a basic version
of databases but it gives you that Insight that you and your team will need it's not going to be
doing a hideous amount of stuff um in terms of a project management system this probably isn't your
project management system but it's your knowledge management system and it does connect with other
apps with Integrations like Asana airtable and many many more so I don't think they want to be
that so that's what it looks like with projects not a hideous amount not something they're
going to flag as main feature but something that's very helpful just to get you started
so let's show you this AI now this is really cool so what it does is this is called ask and ask is
developed around asking your knowledge based questions so I don't know if you've ever been
in a team and you're asking silly questions like where is the where is the printer stored and you
have that in your knowledge base and you'd want to go and find it but this is like asking team member
where something is so in this case I might say what are our principal values for tone of voice
in branding and it basically will scan through what it has inside of the account so in this
case I've actually it's actually picked out this based on what I added informative and friendly
about what I want the brand values to be and you can give it a good the answer is good so you can
help improve it but you can actually go to the document in in this case and find it so the AI
ability here is really nice because it actually takes uh sometimes a lot of the essence out of
it so that's really helpful I wonder whether it actually does it for Q a I don't know so I don't
know what this is a cool feature I'm sure slight might reach out and say Francesco this is a cool
feature but say I was like going back to that office questions um best place to eat near office
I wonder whether it does scan um there we go it doesn't actually do it so you can it does prompt
you to give you a uh a teammate to ask a question I wonder if I filled it in um and just put Nando's
let's see whether Nando's is the correct answer
no okay so I don't know whether I'm doing it wrong or whether it's just something um is something
that I I do but it would be nice to have that connection between questions and answers if it
does work so that gave you the basics of slight as you can see this is part of their uh free plan so
I'm not showcasing the entirety of the features but if you did want to go a little bit deeper
they do have a standard Premium plan and here are the limitations when it comes to attachment sizes
much much bigger uh 200 megabytes per file and 10 gigabytes per user instead of two gigabytes per
team if you're using the free plan the ask feature that I just demonstrated has 10 questions per user
per month which isn't bad if you wanted to get started on it and the AI powered editor that I
demonstrated earlier would like to summarize and content and things like that it's a bit
like chatgibility inside of your Communications then 20 runs per user per month is the limit but
you get unlimited with all of the pro plans I believe and then it starts getting more about
priority service with premium and more access I guess so that's a little bit of an idea of what
everything looks like if you're wanting in a bit of an insight into the team activity you
can go here Integrations can be managed here and there's a wide range of them which is really good
um other stuff you can modify details see the user groups you set up and invite members
from here so you can start seeing what the AI functions go like and you can actually hook up
um your openai key so I believe that's actually so here we go so once you've
got your AI on standard it actually allows you to hook up your openai key to it which
I believe will be a lot more cost effective than actually using their limitations on their quota
so you can actually set up um branding and things like that actually it hooked up my branding quite
nicely because I actually just hooked up um the regular um Google account and it did it pretty
well so you can download their mobile application this is their macup they do have a web app as well
but if you're looking for more insight on that you can go to tool finder to find out which platforms
are available on that's probably the most update debate place to find that as time goes on
anyway I've talked for too long I hope this was a really insightful overview of slight and it gave
you more insight into whether this is an app for you these sort of applications as a whole
like Tetra slab slight all the more document based Management Systems Almanac is another
one of them all really centered around you um having documents not necessarily databases and
having that knowledge more structured notion is good has some good Wiki abilities has some good
structure but not as structured as apps like this in my opinion these help you to really structure
your knowledge and with AI based features like slight having I think it does nip a couple of
them in the bud more recently than it does say with others but Almanac has some pretty powerful
abilities when it comes to tracking a workflow and modifying processes and changes um slab I
know also does question answer quite well and so does tetra so there's fewer Farm between these
this is the best looking one in my opinion if you're really just knocking the differences out
the part but I'll check out some more of these if you're interested in checking out more of these
you can jump over on keep productive do subscribe to the channel and I'm sure we'll cover plenty
plenty more so thank you very much and I'll see you all very soon I'm sure Cheerio folks
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