At Skio, Slack isn't just a chat tool. It's where work actually happens.
So when their team needed to collect information from employees — feedback after meetings, trip details before offsites, questions before all-hands — they didn't want to send people somewhere else to do it. No Google Forms. No Typeform links that get ignored. No "fill this out and send it back to me."
They wanted it to happen right where people already were. That's where Threadly Forms came in.
The Problem with Links
Here's the uncomfortable truth about "just fill out this form" messages: most people don't.
You send a Slack message. You paste a link. You wait. You follow up. You wait more. You manually chase people down.
The friction isn't the form itself — it's the context switch. Clicking a link, opening a browser tab, loading a page, filling something out, submitting, closing the tab, finding your way back to Slack. That's six steps before someone even starts answering your first question.
Skio needed a better way.
Three Things Skio Built With Threadly Forms
1. Post-Meeting Feedback
Getting honest feedback after a meeting or event is notoriously hard. Surveys get ignored. Anonymous forms feel detached. People forget by the time they see the email.
Skio solved this by embedding feedback forms directly in Slack messages sent right after meetings. The form appears in the thread, in the same place the conversation already happened. Team members fill it out in seconds — no tab switching, no remembering a link.
The result: dramatically higher completion rates, and feedback that actually shows up in time to be useful.
2. Trip Info Collection (Check-In / Check-Out)
Planning a team offsite or company event means collecting a lot of logistical data from a lot of people. Arrival times. Departure times. Room preferences. Dietary restrictions. Flight numbers.
Skio used Threadly Forms to send a single Slack message with a built-in form to collect all of it. Fields for check-in date, check-out date, any special needs — all structured, all validated, all in one place.
No spreadsheet juggling. No chasing people through DMs. No "wait, did you already send me your dates?" Everything centralized, clean, and easy to act on.
3. Anonymous Q&A
This one's the most powerful use case.
Before company all-hands or leadership AMAs, you want real questions — not just the ones people feel safe asking out loud. Threadly Forms let Skio collect anonymous questions directly in Slack. Anyone could submit, nothing was attributed, and leadership got the real stuff: the things people actually wanted to know.
The form lives in the message itself. The anonymity is built in. And because it's already in Slack, participation is high.
No third-party tools. No awkward "type your question into this separate app." Just a form, right there, that works.
Why This Works
Threadly Forms are native to Slack. They don't open a browser. They don't redirect anywhere. The person filling out the form never leaves the conversation.
That changes everything about completion rates.
When you send a Threadly message with a form attached, the form opens in Slack's sidebar. People fill it out exactly where they are. You can add required fields, conditional logic, and validation — so you get clean data, not partial responses and missing information.
And when responses come in, they sync automatically. No manual compilation. No copy-pasting answers from emails.
What You Can Build
Skio's three use cases are just the start. Teams are using Threadly Forms for:
- Event RSVPs with dietary restrictions and t-shirt sizes
- New hire onboarding checklists
- Customer feature request collection from partner channels
- IT support intake that gathers all the info upfront
- Pulse surveys after company announcements
- Sales qualification forms during initial outreach
Anywhere you're currently asking people to "fill out this form" — that's a Threadly Form waiting to happen.
Try It
Threadly Forms are live and available on all Pro plans.
If you're already using Threadly, you have access today. Head to your dashboard to start building your first form — it takes about two minutes.
Not on Threadly yet? Start free at trythreadly.com and see how your team communicates when the friction is gone.
