Cross-functional working groups
Strategy, Comms, and People co-author a partnership pitch in one thread, then promote the outcome to a Decision record the board can read in 90 seconds.
Discuss
Threaded conversations your team can find later
Discuss is the email thread you can actually search. Persistent, group-scoped threads with reactions, polls, and inline files, plus a one-click path from any thread to a decision record.
- Start a thread in any group; every reply stays threaded and searchable forever.
- Reactions, inline polls, and file attachments up to 25 MB live inside the thread.
- Promote a thread to a decision the moment it reaches resolution.
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Marcus Chen · Operations Director · 8h
Three intro meetings this week. Suggesting we narrow to two for proposal stage — the city council and the climate justice coalition.
👍 4🔥 2
Sarah Lawson · Executive Director · 7h
Strong agree on the council. Can you share the brief from Tuesday’s call before we commit?
How it works
Three things Discuss gets right.
Group-scoped, not channel-flood
Each thread lives inside a group (Leadership, Strategy, Board…). You see only what's yours. No global feed, no #general fatigue.
Marcus Chen · Operations Director · 8h
Three intro meetings this week. Suggesting we narrow to two for proposal stage — the city council and the climate justice coalition.
👍 4🔥 2
Sarah Lawson · Executive Director · 7h
Strong agree on the council. Can you share the brief from Tuesday’s call before we commit?
Reactions, polls, and dates live in-line
Quick polls for binary calls; scheduling polls for meetings. Important dates auto-archive once they pass, so the thread stays scannable.
Marcus Chen · Operations Director · 8h
Three intro meetings this week. Suggesting we narrow to two for proposal stage — the city council and the climate justice coalition.
👍 4🔥 2
Sarah Lawson · Executive Director · 7h
Strong agree on the council. Can you share the brief from Tuesday’s call before we commit?
Promote to decision in one click
When a thread reaches resolution, the Promote to decision button pre-fills the context from the thread and links the two records permanently.
DiscussImmutableUnanimous · 8-0
Adopt a 4-day work week pilot for Q2
Context
Q4 pulse showed persistent burnout. Output flat under compression.
Decision
12-week pilot from April 1. Fridays off + rotating on-call.
Action
Marcus drafts rota by Mar 7. Priya updates handbook.
At a glance
What’s built in.
Group-scoped, never global
Threads live inside the group that owns them. No #general fatigue, no missing context.
Files in the thread
Drop PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files straight into a reply. Preview without leaving the conversation.
Searchable forever
Every reply stays indexed. The conversation you had six months ago is still findable in seconds.
In practice
How teams use it.
Board offsites
Board members pre-discuss agenda items in dedicated threads. Polls lock dates. By the offsite, every prep question is already in writing.
FAQ
Questions about Discuss
How is OneSpot Discuss different from Slack?
Discuss is built for threads that resolve into decisions, not for chat. Threads are searchable forever, group-scoped, and one click away from becoming a Decide record. There's no @channel, no DMs, and no infinite feed.
Can I attach files to a thread?
Yes. PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files up to 25 MB attach inline. Files are previewable in-thread and indexed by the search.
Who can see a thread?
Only members of the thread's group. Group membership is set by an Executive Director or Moderator. Viewers can read but cannot reply.
How do polls work?
Two kinds. Quick polls for binary or short-list calls render inline in a thread. Scheduling polls take a list of date/time options and surface availability counts.
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