Improve Team Communication (Without More Meetings)
Clear your calendar and clear your mind. Glue's outcome-oriented platform helps teams make decisions, preserve context, and stay focused.
Your team uses Slack for quick updates, email for important decisions, and Zoom for alignment meetings. You're communicating constantly, yet somehow critical information still gets lost. Important details disappear into channel noise. Simple decisions require yet another meeting.
The problem isn't that teams aren't communicating enough. It's that most tools weren't designed for how teams actually work today.
Glue offers something different: a platform built around structured, purposeful conversations. Here’s how our users are staying aligned and getting more done.
More efficient: make decisions without another meeting
How many meetings are on your calendar this week that could have been a chat thread? Status updates, quick syncs, project alignment. These meetings become the default because it feels like the only way to move forward together.
Glue’s thread-based conversations allow your team to make decisions without overloading your calendar. Each thread is a focused space oriented around a single topic, allowing your team to make decisions and move forward with clarity, not chaos. Or as one of our users told us, "Threads become actionable tasks, whereas in Slack many different kinds of tasks would spawn off a single channel."
That's the point. Conversations in Glue naturally surface what needs to happen next.
Instead of spinning your wheels with busywork, try these workflows:
❌ Scheduling a status update call
✅ Ask Glue AI to pull your project list from Linear or Asana and create a summary
❌ Calling a meeting, then writing the same update in three different places
✅ Post once in a thread and @mention relevant team members
❌ Pinging your coworker "what did we decide about X?"
✅ Ask Glue AI to search threads and surface the decision with context
All Glue workspaces have unlimited external users, so agency partners, contractors, and freelancers are kept in the loop at no extra cost (or strain on your schedule).
The outcome: Teams spend less time in meetings and more time executing.
More Organized: Context That Doesn't Disappear
In traditional chat tools, important information has a half-life of about 48 hours. After that it's buried under new messages, effectively lost unless someone remembers to search for it. This is one of the biggest pain points Glue users cite for making the switch from other platforms.
One of our customers who leads a fully remote team put it simply: "Threads as a primary feature are excellent. They don't get lost like in Slack."
Here's what makes Glue different for preserving context:
- Archived threads resurface when new messages are added
- Custom reminders for threads you want to come back to
- Closed threads remain searchable
- Personalized inbox keeps your workspace clear and manageable
If you want more tips for structuring your team chat for clarity, not channel chaos, check out this post.
The outcome: Shared knowledge is actually shared. Teams don't waste hours chasing down or rebuilding information that already exists.
More Focused: Communication Without the Noise
Async teams face a specific challenge. You want to stay connected and informed, but constant notifications make deep work impossible. Channels become dumping grounds for every update, question, and random thought.
A co-founder (and self-described Glue power user) identified where Slack falls short: "Slack had this great effect of creating immediacy in chat, but it became a nightmarish thing of being lost in chit-chatting and people misusing it."
The structural difference in platforms matters. In Slack, many different kinds of conversations spawn off a single channel, and they all create pings and unread badges.
How Glue's focused threads improve team collaboration:
- Separate casual chat from important decisions
- Reduce noise from unnecessary @mentions and notifications
- Keep project discussions in dedicated spaces
- Allow team members to follow only conversations that are relevant to them
This isn't just organizational preference. It's about creating boundaries that help teams focus on what's important right now. See the full platform comparison in our Glue vs Slack breakdown.
The outcome: Team members can work deeply without notification fatigue. Important conversations don't compete with casual chatter for attention.
More Natural: Conversations With Clear Endings
There's something exhausting about communication tools where conversations never truly end. Threads in Slack can go on for months – or even years. Email chains become overwhelming. The lack of closure creates a constant low-level anxiety about what you might be missing.
A Glue customer describes our platform as "a perfect hybrid between emails and Slack." As this startup co-founder says, "Email has the benefit of making things crystallized and set in stone, but then you get lost and lose immediacy." Traditional chat apps offer real-time communication but lack the structure.
Threads have the best of both: clarity and speed, plus a defined lifecycle.
Here's how to manage threads, from beginning to end:
- Start conversations with clear context and purpose (Glue AI will automatically help you with that)
- Contribute in real-time or async as information develops
- Star important threads for easy access
- Archive less important but still active threads to clear your inbox
- Close threads when decisions are made
The outcome: A workspace free of loose ends and clear understanding of outstanding tasks vs. what's been completed.
"A better foundation for internal communication"
That's what our users say about our thread-based platform. They see that effective team communication isn't about more messages or more tools. It's about the structure that supports how teams actually get things done.
When messages don't get lost, when conversations have clear outcomes, when you can stay focused without missing what matters, communication becomes what it should be: a way to move work forward together.
Ready to see the difference? Try Glue for free or schedule a demo.
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