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Getting started

Your first decision in the Playground Call the API from your code Save, share and reuse queries

Financial decisions

Decide on a stock with just its symbol Read probabilities and choose thresholds

Automation

Send a Slack alert when a rule fires Send decisions to your own system Run a watchlist every day after the close

Production

Handle errors, rate limits and retries

Use cases

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Guides / Automation

Automation · about 10 min

Send a Slack alert when a rule fires

Answer the questions, test a rule on the answers, and post to a Slack channel only when it is true.

You'll need
  • A Slack workspace where you can add an app.
  • Admin role in your organization here (to add a connection).

  1. Create a Slack incoming webhook

    In Slack: api.slack.com/apps → Create New App → From scratch, pick your workspace, then Incoming Webhooks → turn it on → Add New Webhook to Workspace → choose the channel. Copy the URL (it starts with https://hooks.slack.com/services/).

  2. Add it as a connection

    Go to Settings → Connections, pick Slack, name it trading-desk, paste the URL and press Add connection. Press Send test and check the channel. The URL is stored encrypted and never shown again; requests only use the name.

  3. Add an action to the request

    An action has an id, a rule (when), what to do (do), the connection's name and a message. {{drop5|pct}} fills in the answer as a percentage.

    {
  "model": "ora1",
  "state": {
    "symbol": "TSLA"
  },
  "questions": {
    "up_week": {
      "type": "yes_no",
      "instructions": "Will the stock be higher in a week?"
    },
    "drop5": {
      "type": "yes_no",
      "instructions": "Will it drop at least 5% at some point in the next month?"
    }
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "id": "desk_alert",
      "when": "drop5 >= 0.6",
      "do": "slack",
      "connection": "trading-desk",
      "message": "{{symbol}} ({{as_of}}): {{drop5|pct}} chance of a 5% drawdown within a month. Consider sizing down."
    }
  ],
  "dry_run": true
}
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  4. Dry run first

    With Dry run ticked, the response shows each action as would send (dry run) or rule false: skipped, with the exact message, and nothing is posted. Lower the threshold (for example drop5 >= 0.1) to see it fire.

  5. Send it for real

    Untick Dry run and run again. The action shows queued to send; follow it under Actions (delivered, retrying or failed). From code, send the same body with "dry_run": false.

  6. Run it on a schedule

    To check a whole watchlist every day, put the same questions and action in a workflow: Run a watchlist every day.

What's next

Create an account Open the Playground Everything here also lives in the console, next to your keys and usage.