# Uber's Finch: A Slack AI Agent for Finance Data Access

DevFeed: [Uber's Finch: A Slack AI Agent for Finance Data Access](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-uber-s-slackbot-taught-me-about-building-smart-ai-assistants-17964.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.systemdesignclassroom.com/p/what-ubers-slackbot-taught-me-about-smart-ai-assistants>)

Author: System Design Classroom

Published: 2025-09-30T11:45:58Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [System Design Classroom](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/system-design-classroom.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [slackbot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slackbot.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes Uber's Finch, an AI agent in Slack that lets finance teams ask questions in plain English. It maps finance terminology to data, generates and runs SQL, and uses semantic data layers, curated marts, access controls, and specialized agents to return results.

## Source excerpt

Forget dashboards. The fastest path to insight is an agent that speaks your data's language.