Govern Slack Communications Without Slowing Collaboration

Keep teams collaborating in Slack while meeting evolving compliance, legal, and records management requirements. Capture, preserve, supervise, and archive supported Slack communications with complete conversational context throughone unified communications governance platform.

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Trusted at global scale by regulated teams

Smarsh Named Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DCGA

40+ million messages processed per day

Trusted by the globe's leading financial institutions

Built for SEC17a-4, FINRA 3110/4511, FCA &FOIA recordkeeping

Complete context for every  Slack conversation

Business decisions extend beyond individual Slack messages to conversations, threads, files, reactions, and other interactions. Smarsh preserves every supported interaction in its native format with the conversational context needed for compliance, supervision, investigations, records management, and eDiscovery.

Strengthen regulatory readiness

Support SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FCA, MiFID II, and public sector recordkeeping requirements with complete, searchable Slack communications for regulatory examinations, investigations, litigation, FOIA requests, and eDiscovery.

Reduce communications risk

Replace manual exports and fragmented collection with automated Slack capture that reduces compliance gaps, preserves complete business records, and strengthens oversight across your organization.

Extend your existing archive

Capture Slack communications once and securely deliver them to the Smarsh Platform, your existing archive, records management solution, or enterprise data lake, supporting Slack archiving without replacing your existing infrastructure.

How Slack capture & archiving works

Every supported Slack communication follows a secure, automated workflow from capture to archive, preserving complete business records with the context, integrity, and accessibility needed for Slack retention, compliance, supervision, investigations, legal discovery, and records management.

Capture communications at the source

Smarsh captures supported Slack communications directly through native integrations, automatically collecting channels, direct messages, group conversations, threads, files, images, reactions, and other supported content without interrupting employee workflows.

Preserve every interaction in context

Messages, files, media, participant information, timestamps, reactions, and metadata are preserved in their native format with complete conversational context, creating a complete record of every business communication, not fragmented JSON files that require reassembly during discovery.

Archive, supervise, and discover

Captured Slack communications are securely delivered to the Smarsh Platform or your existing archive, where compliance, legal, and records teams can search, supervise, retain, place legal holds, and produce communications from one centralized location.

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Slack governance capabilities

Purpose-built to capture, preserve, supervise, and archive business communications across supported Slack channels with complete conversational context, helping organizations simplify compliance, strengthen governance, and support long-term retention.

Native capture

Capture Slack communications directly through native integrations, automatically preserving channels, direct messages, group conversations, and other supported collaboration content without interrupting employee workflows.

Complete conversation context

Preserve threaded conversations, mentions, reactions, files, images, videos, participant information, timestamps, and metadata to maintain authentic, searchable, and complete business records.

Automated communications supervision

Apply configurable supervision policies to identify compliance concerns, policy violations, and business risks while streamlining review workflows and accelerating reviewer response.

Powerful search and eDiscovery

Search millions of communications in seconds using keywords, participants, date ranges, metadata, and other filters to support investigations, litigation, regulatory examinations, and public records requests.

Flexible retention policies

Apply centralized retention schedules and communications governance policies that support legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements while maintaining complete, defensible business records.

Archive your way

Capture communications once and securely deliver them to the Smarsh Platform, your existing archive, records management solution, or enterprise data lake while preserving your existing infrastructure.

Preserve every  Slack interaction

Keep every business conversation intact by preserving supported Slack communications, including:

Public and private channels

Direct and group messages

Threaded conversations

Files and attachments

Images, GIFs, and rich media

Reactions and mentions

Participant information

Message metadata

Message timestamps

Shared links

Built for Regulated Organizations

Purpose-built to help regulated organizations govern Slack communications while supporting industry-specific compliance, recordkeeping, legal, and information governance requirements.

Govern Slack communications to help meet SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA Rules 3110 and 4511, CFTC, FCA, and MiFID II recordkeeping requirements while reducing off-channel communication risk and supporting supervision, investigations, and eDiscovery.

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Preserve Slack communications to support the Federal Records Act, FOIA requests, NARA guidance, agency records schedules, congressional inquiries, and long-term records retention while maintaining complete, searchable public records.

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Preserve Slack communications to support records retention, legal discovery, internal investigations, information governance, and organizational policies while helping reduce communications risk and maintain defensible business records.

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Capture, preserve, and archive Slack communications to strengthen records management, support legal hold, investigations, and eDiscovery, simplify compliance, and maintain complete, searchable business records.

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Collaboration shouldn't come at the expense of compliance

Govern supported Slack communications with automated capture, supervision, retention, and archiving that help reduce communications risk while preserving complete business records.

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A single view that delivers consistency organization-wide

"With Smarsh, our team doesn't have to go into different systems to do monitoring and surveillance. It's helped ensure that we have consistent policies across our platforms. Smarsh is a large provider in the space, and we have comfort in knowing that they are giving us access to everything we need."
Chief Compliance Officer at a Financial Services Organization

Frequently asked questions

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What is Slack archiving, and why is it important?

Slack archiving is the process of capturing, preserving, and retaining business communications exchanged through Slack to support compliance, legal discovery, records management, and internal investigations. For regulated organizations, archiving helps create complete, searchable business records while reducing communications risk.

Smarsh captures supported Slack communications in their native format with complete conversational context, helping organizations simplify communications governance across Slack and more than 100 supported communication channels.

What Slack communications should organizations capture?

Organizations should capture all supported business communications that may be subject to regulatory, legal, or organizational recordkeeping requirements. Depending on the deployment, this can include public and private channels, direct messages, group conversations, threaded discussions, files, attachments, reactions, participant information, timestamps, and metadata.

Capturing complete business communications—not just message text—helps preserve the context needed for compliance, investigations, and eDiscovery.

How does Slack capture support compliance?

Slack capture helps organizations automatically preserve business communications in a complete, searchable format that supports SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FCA, MiFID II, public records, and other regulatory requirements. Automated capture also reduces manual collection, minimizes compliance gaps, and creates defensible business records for supervision, investigations, and legal discovery.

Organizations recognized by Gartner® as leaders in communications governance continue to prioritize automated capture and governance as digital collaboration expands. Smarsh was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions.

How long should Slack communications be retained?

Slack retention requirements vary by industry, jurisdiction, and organizational policy. Financial services firms, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and other regulated industries often have specific recordkeeping obligations that determine how long business communications must be preserved.

A centralized communications governance platform helps organizations apply consistent retention policies across Slack and other business communication channels while supporting legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements.

How does Slack fit into a communications governance strategy?

Slack is only one of many business communication channels used by today's organizations. Employees also communicate through Microsoft Teams, email, WhatsApp, SMS, voice, Zoom, social media, and other collaboration platforms.

A unified communications governance platform helps organizations capture, preserve, supervise, retain, search, and produce business communications across supported channels from one centralized solution, reducing operational complexity while strengthening compliance and records management.

Govern Slack Communications Without Slowing Collaboration