Tiger Data Open-Sources Eon AI Assistant as Nearly 50% of Company Adopts Slack-Native Tool Within Six Weeks
Summary
Tiger Data open-sources Eon, a Slack-native AI assistant that achieves 50% company adoption in just six weeks by solving key production challenges through conversational memory, focused context delivery, and reliable event processing.
Key Points
- Tiger Data builds Eon, a Slack-native AI assistant that provides instant answers from institutional knowledge, with nearly 50% of the company now using it daily within 6 weeks of deployment
- The team solves three core challenges for production AI agents: building conversational memory using TimescaleDB for time-series data, providing focused context through custom MCP servers for GitHub/Linear/docs, and ensuring reliability with durable event processing and automatic retries
- Tiger Data open-sources all components including the complete Eon reference implementation, production-ready Slack agent framework, real-time ingestion system, and focused MCP servers that teams can deploy together or separately