“Slack takes a different approach.”
“Build your own AI app.”
“Connect your own LLM or internal AI infrastructure.”
“Connect external AI tools through MCP.”
“Limitation: Slack itself isn't self-hosted.”
“Microsoft provides a Teams SDK specifically for building AI-powered agents.”
“Custom AI agents.”
“MCP support.”
“Agent-to-agent communication.”
“It is flexible, but more of a developer integration project than a ready-made BYOM feature.”
“Mattermost has an official Agents plugin.”
“Mattermost has an official Agents plugin.”
“Connect local models through Ollama or vLLM.”
“Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Gemini and other providers.”
“Give agents access to tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol).”
“Control agent permissions and tool approvals.”
“You can have multiple specialized agents participating in the same team workspace, while keeping the LLM infrastructure under your control.”
“Rocket.Chat has an AI application designed to connect to your own LLM deployment.”
“Supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints.”
“AI summaries of discussions and threads.”
“RAG-based knowledge retrieval.”
“One particularly interesting feature is its dedicated AI pipeline, which handles retrieval, permissions and agent orchestration.”
“Its AI app is documented as being in beta, and activation requires contacting Rocket.Chat.”
“Zulip is an open-source team chat platform with a strong bot and integration API.”
“Self-hosted deployment.”
“Zulip is an open-source team chat platform with a strong bot and integration API.”
“Python and JavaScript integrations.”
“It doesn't have the same turnkey BYOM experience as Mattermost, but it's flexible if you're comfortable developing your own agent infrastructure.”
“Matrix is particularly interesting because it's an open communication protocol rather than just another chat application.”
“Self-hosted Matrix servers.”
“Full control over your AI backend.”
“Potential for federated communication between organizations.”