About No Context Bot

No Context Bot is a Slack app that turns the funniest out-of-context lines your team posts into AI paintings, right in the thread. It is built and run by Parra, LLC, a small software company.

Who builds it

Ian MacCallum founded Parra, LLC and builds No Context Bot. He writes the code, answers the support inbox and writes the guides on this site. If you email us, he is who reads it.

Why it exists

Plenty of Slack workspaces have a #no-context channel: a place for the strange, funny things people say at work, posted with no explanation. Those lines scroll away in a day. No Context Bot gives each one a painting, so the best moments stick around in a gallery the whole team can browse.

How the paintings are made

• When someone posts in a connected channel, a language model (from OpenAI or Anthropic, depending on your plan) decides whether the message is a quote worth painting and writes an image prompt for it.
• An image model from OpenAI or Google renders the painting in one of the channel's art styles. Prompts are filtered for workplace safety.
• The image is stored privately and posted back to the Slack thread. It is only visible to members of your workspace.

We do not use your quotes or images to train AI models, and we don't publish them. See the security overview and sub-processors for the details.

Contact

Questions, ideas or bug reports go through the contact form. Help with setup is on the support page.