Partnership: Buska x Eko

The social listening agent that works inside Slack

Eko is an AI social listening agent, not another dashboard. It watches more than 30 platforms, briefs your team in Slack, Teams or Discord, and drafts replies a human approves. Buska turns the commercial signals into qualified pipeline.

2,500 free credits on Eko, no credit card. 7-day free trial on Buska, no credit card.

Eko, the AI social listening agent, standing as a full-body mascot with an orange speech-bubble head
#market-watch
EkoApp9:12 AM

Morning. I read 213 conversations overnight. Three are worth your time.

Needs attention A thread on X about your onboarding is gaining replies, sentiment turning negative.

Review draft

Buying signal A Reddit post is asking for a tool that does exactly what you do, with a stated budget.

Send to Buska

Social listening does not fail on data. It fails on attention.

You buy a monitoring platform, configure your keywords, and check the dashboard religiously for two weeks. By week four it is another tab you never click. The mentions keep piling up, the alert emails go to a muted folder, and the tool stops changing any decision.

That matters because the value of a conversation decays fast. An unhappy customer is worth answering in the first hour and nearly worthless a week later. A prospect asking for a recommendation has usually chosen a tool within two days. Finding both in a Monday report means learning about things you can no longer act on.

What Eko actually does

Eko is hired for a job, not installed as software. Here is the job, in the order it happens during a normal day.

Watches 30+ platforms, around the clock

X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Quora, Trustpilot, G2, app stores, plus blogs and forums. Continuously, not on a schedule you have to set up.

Filters the noise down to what matters

A typical workspace matches around 200 conversations a day. Eko surfaces roughly 3% of them as genuinely actionable, so you read a short list instead of a feed.

Flags a crisis before it spreads

Negative sentiment gaining traction triggers a channel alert in under five minutes, which is the window where a public complaint can still be defused rather than managed.

Spots buying signals, not just mentions

Someone asking for a recommendation in your category is a lead, not a support ticket. Eko separates the two and forwards the commercial ones to Buska in one click.

Tracks competitors and switching intent

Complaints about a competitor, comparison threads and alternative-seeking posts are surfaced as openings, with the original thread attached.

Drafts the reply, you send it

Every actionable item comes with a suggested response written in your tone of voice. The agent never publishes anything on its own, in any scenario.

What lands in your channel every morning

No dashboard, no report to generate, no login. A short digest arrives where your team already talks, and urgent items interrupt it in real time.

#market-watch
EkoApp9:12 AM

Morning. I read 213 conversations overnight. Three are worth your time.

Needs attention A thread on X about your onboarding is gaining replies, sentiment turning negative.

Review draft

Buying signal A Reddit post is asking for a tool that does exactly what you do, with a stated budget.

Send to Buska

Worth amplifying A customer posted praise on LinkedIn with strong engagement.

Draft thank-you

Illustrative example. Three minutes of reading, and the rest of the day stays yours.

Try Eko free, with 2,500 credits on us

Credits meter listening volume, so 2,500 is enough to watch a real brand across real platforms and see what the agent actually catches. No credit card, no sales call.

  • 2,500 free credits to start listening
  • No credit card and no commitment
  • Installed in Slack, Teams or Discord in about two minutes
  • First signals before your coffee break ends
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Already using Buska? Adding Eko gives you the listening layer in chat, with a one-click path back into your existing lead pipeline.

An AI employee, not a platform

Eko is hired, not installed. You invite the agent into a channel, tell it your brand, competitors and keywords, and it starts working in the background. There is no interface for your team to learn and no seat to provision for each colleague.

It comes to you

The daily briefing lands in the channel your team already reads every morning. Nobody has to remember to go and look.

It triages before you read

Brand mentions, competitor moves, early crises and commercial signals are sorted and prioritised, so you get a short list and a recommendation instead of a raw feed.

It drafts, a human sends

Replies are written in your tone of voice, then wait for approval. The agent never publishes anything in your name on its own.

It works where the team already is

Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord. Billed per workspace rather than per seat, so the whole channel benefits without multiplying licences.

How it works

Setup takes a couple of minutes and no training.

  1. 1

    Invite the agent into a channel

    Connect Slack, Teams or Discord in one click. No account creation ritual, no onboarding call.

  2. 2

    Give it your brand and market

    Your brand name, your competitors, the keywords that matter. This is the part that takes about a minute.

  3. 3

    Read the briefing, approve the replies

    A short digest every morning, urgent alerts in under five minutes, and commercial signals forwarded to Buska in one click.

Agent versus dashboard

The difference is not the data, it is the delivery. Here is what changes day to day.

What you needClassic dashboardEko plus Buska
Seeing today's mentionsLog in and remember to checkA briefing lands in your channel
Reacting to a crisisWhenever someone next opens the toolChannel alert in under 5 minutes
Involving the whole teamOne seat per person, most never log inEveryone in the channel already sees it
Answering a mentionCopy the link, switch tools, write from scratchA draft in your tone, a human sends it
Turning a signal into pipelineManual copy-paste into the CRMOne click to Buska, then scored and routed
Onboarding a colleagueAnother tool to train them onThey join the channel

In short: a dashboard asks your team for discipline every day, while an agent removes the requirement entirely. Reaction time drops from whenever-someone-logs-in to under five minutes, and a commercial signal reaches your CRM in one click instead of a copy-paste.

Where Eko stops and Buska starts

The two products overlap far less than people assume. Eko is the listening layer, Buska is the revenue layer, and a single click joins them.

Eko handles the listening

  • Monitoring 30+ platforms continuously
  • The daily briefing and urgent alerts in chat
  • Sorting mentions, competitor moves and early crises
  • Drafting a public reply in your tone of voice

Buska handles the revenue

  • Scoring each signal for buying intent
  • Matching prospects against your ICP
  • Enriching and qualifying the lead
  • Pushing to HubSpot, Lemlist, n8n, webhooks and the API

Teams that need brand visibility and crisis cover start with Eko. Teams whose first goal is pipeline start with Buska. Most B2B companies past their first customers end up running both.

Frequently asked questions

What is a social listening agent?
A social listening agent is an AI worker that monitors public conversations about your brand and market, then reports directly into the tool your team already uses. Unlike a social listening platform, there is no dashboard to log into: the agent posts what it finds into your Slack, Teams or Discord channel and waits for a human to decide what to do.
What is Eko?
Eko is an AI social listening agent that works inside Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord. It watches more than 30 platforms continuously, posts a short daily briefing in your channel, alerts in under five minutes on urgent signals, and drafts replies in your tone of voice for a human to review and send.
How is Eko different from a social listening platform?
A platform is something you have to remember to open. An agent comes to you. That is the entire difference, and it is the reason most monitoring tools stop being used around week three: not bad data, just nobody checking the dashboard. Eko delivers into the channel your team already reads every morning.
How is Eko different from Buska?
Eko is the listening layer and Buska is the revenue layer. Eko watches the market and briefs your team in chat. Buska scores signals for buying intent, matches them against your ICP, and pushes qualified leads to your CRM and outreach tools. Commercial signals move from Eko to Buska in one click.
Does Eko reply to people automatically?
No, never. It drafts a reply in your tone of voice and recommends an action, but a human always reviews and sends it. Nothing is ever published in your name without someone approving it first.
Does it work with Microsoft Teams and Discord, or only Slack?
Slack is the primary integration, and both Microsoft Teams and Discord are supported. The model is identical in all three: you invite the agent into a channel, and briefings and alerts appear there.
Which platforms does Eko monitor?
More than 30, including X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Quora, Trustpilot, G2 and app stores, plus blogs and forums across the wider web.
How much does it cost?
Eko starts at $49 per month, metered by listening volume and billed per workspace rather than per seat, up to $899 per month for agency volumes. There is a free tier to test it. Buska starts at $49 per month with a 7-day free trial and no credit card required.
Can the agent read my private internal messages?
No. It only posts into the channels you explicitly invite it to, and its job is monitoring public conversations on external platforms, not reading your team's internal messages.
Do I need both Eko and Buska?
They work independently. Use Eko alone if you mainly need brand visibility and crisis cover delivered in chat. Use Buska alone if your goal is lead generation. Run both when you want the commercial signals from your listening to become qualified pipeline automatically.

Stop checking dashboards. Start reading briefings.

Hire the agent for the listening, let Buska turn the commercial half into pipeline.