Steps to make Asante Bot work

Once Asante Bot is installed in your Slack workspace, there are a few small steps that turn it from "just another app" into the way your team celebrates each other. This page walks through all of them — adding teammates, sending kudos in every supported way, and switching on automatic birthday and anniversary messages.

Step 1. Invite team members to the Asante Bot channel

Asante Bot only tracks kudos for people who share a channel with it. After adding the bot to a channel, the next thing to do is invite your teammates in.

In any channel where Asante Bot lives, type /invite and pick the teammates you want to add. From that moment on, every kudos those people send or receive will be counted.

You can add Asante Bot to as many channels as you like — #general, #wins, team-specific channels, anywhere recognition happens.

Step 2. Send your first kudos

The core pattern is simple: @teammate + a short message + the kudos emoji.

For example:

@maria great work on the launch 🏆

That's one kudos point for Maria. Each extra emoji in the same message adds another point, so 🏆🏆🏆 sends three.

Not sure which emoji your team uses? See Pick your recognition emoji.

Step 3. Send kudos to multiple people at once

Want to recognize the whole squad after a big release or a great sprint? Mention everyone in a single message and add the kudos emoji once — Asante Bot splits the recognition across each person you mentioned.

@maria @james @priya nailed the migration this week 🏆

Each of them gets the same number of points as emojis in the message. Great for team wins, project completions, and end-of-week shoutouts.

Step 4. Send a private kudos

Some recognition is better one-on-one. Private kudos let you send a teammate points directly, without posting anything in a public channel — useful for personal thank-yous, sensitive feedback, or quiet wins that don't need an audience.

Open a direct message with Asante Bot and follow the prompt to pick a teammate, a point amount, and an optional note. They'll get a DM letting them know — and the points still count toward leaderboards and rewards.

Step 5. Give kudos with a reaction

You don't always have to write a new message. If a teammate posts something worth celebrating, just react to it with your kudos emoji — Asante Bot picks that up the same way it picks up a message.

This works in any channel Asante Bot is in. Each reaction counts as one kudos point for the message's author, which makes it the fastest way to recognize someone in the flow of normal conversation.

Step 6. Turn on birthday and work anniversary shoutouts

Asante Bot can post an automatic celebration message on each teammate's birthday and work anniversary, nudging the rest of the team to send kudos.

To enable it, every teammate adds their own dates from the Asante Bot home tab in Slack — under Profile → Important dates. Once a date is saved, Asante Bot handles the rest: a short, upbeat message in the channel you've configured, with the celebrant tagged so kudos start flowing.

See Birthday and anniversary announcements for the channel setup.

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That's the whole day-one playbook. Share this page with your team so everyone knows the four ways to send kudos — typed message, group mention, private DM, and reaction — and recognition starts flowing on its own.