IT Help Desk

Your company runs on Slack. Now your help desk can too.

Foqal captures every request, routes it automatically to the right person or workflow, and gives your team the visibility - without asking anyone to change how they work.

From 3-person IT teams to global enterprises
volume increase handled by a 3-person team
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Where it runs

Works inside the tools your team already uses every day.

No new portal. No new behavior. Employees keep messaging in Slack. Your IT team finally has the structure to handle it.

Slack

Foqal for Slack

Any message becomes a tracked, routed request with one click. Manage your entire IT queue, run automated provisioning workflows, and handle approvals across multiple workspaces - without leaving Slack.

Microsoft Teams

Foqal for Microsoft Teams

The same intake centralization, routing automation, and SLA reporting - built natively for Microsoft Teams. Same outcomes. No behavior change required from employees.

Why IT teams come to Foqal

Three problems that eat your team's day.

If you manage IT, at least one of these is why you're here.

Provisioning and access requests are a bottleneck

Device enrollment, software access, account setup - most of your backlog is routine requests that require manager approvals and coordination across tools. Each one takes too many steps and too much chasing.

Requests arrive everywhere - and get lost

A request sent to someone's personal DM is invisible to the rest of the team. When that person is out, it disappears. When it needs reassigning, the history goes with it.

Your team keeps doing the same work manually

Limited automation and an unmanaged knowledge base means agents manually handle the same tasks every day - approvals, lookups, ticket creation. More complex work waits while your team burns out.

Capabilities

Everything IT needs to run Slack as a real service channel.

Built for IT teams that handle high request volume, complex workflows, or both.

Stop requests from falling through the cracks

Requests fly in from everywhere - Slack DMs, Teams messages, email, shared channels - and your team is playing whack-a-mole just trying to remember what's been handled and what hasn't. Foqal converts any message from any source into a tracked ticket with one click - so nothing disappears, everything has an owner, and your team can actually keep up.

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How Foqal works

Structure without friction. For your team and theirs.

For employees, nothing changes. They keep using Slack and Teams the way they already do. For your IT team, everything changes.

No more requests disappearing into DMs

Every Slack message, Teams message, or DM becomes a structured, tracked request - automatically. One place for everything coming in, regardless of where it started.

  • Capture requests from any channel or DM
  • Automatic conversion to structured tickets
  • Full conversation history preserved
  • Nothing gets lost when someone is OOO
Routing and approvals workflow

Foqal routes requests by type, urgency, or requester - triggers approvals, fires actions in Okta, Jamf, Jira, and more - and closes the workflow without anyone chasing anyone.

  • Automatic routing based on request type
  • Manager lookups from your IDP
  • One-click approvals in chat
  • Actions fire automatically on approval
AI deflection - laptop replacement conversation

Password resets, access questions, onboarding FAQs - AI answers these instantly from your connected knowledge sources. Your team handles the work that actually needs them.

  • AI answers from your knowledge base
  • Deflection rates tracked automatically
  • One-click fallback to human support
  • Continuous improvement insights
Metrics and reporting

Every request is timestamped, tagged, and reportable from day one. At the end of the quarter, you're not building a report - you're sharing one.

  • Volume, response time, resolution tracking
  • Team workload distribution
  • Trend analysis and forecasting
  • Export-ready reports for leadership
Common use cases

The requests your IT team handles every day - running themselves.

Each workflow connects to the tools you already use and runs inside the channels your team is already in.

User Provisioning

A new access request routes to the right manager in Slack, triggers provisioning in Okta, Google Workspace, or Jamf, and closes with a full completion log - without IT manually coordinating any step.

Access Management

Every access decision - who requested it, who approved it, when it was provisioned - is logged automatically and exportable on demand. When compliance asks for a record, it already exists.

Employee Onboarding

One request triggers tasks simultaneously across IT, HR, legal, and facilities. New hires have accounts, devices, and access on day one - not three days later.

Incident Management

Foqal detects urgency signals, routes to the right responders, and keeps stakeholders updated - so your team is actually resolving the incident, not coordinating the response.

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Real outcomes

What it looks like when your IT operations actually run.

Works natively with your stack

Your existing tools stay. Foqal adds the layer they're missing.

Foqal connects bi-directionally to the tools your IT team already runs. Nothing gets ripped out. Every existing tool gets more useful.

Related solutions

Every team that handles requests can run on Foqal.

IT is where most teams start. But the same platform handles HR, customer support, and cross-functional operations - without any structural changes.

Common questions

Things IT teams usually ask us.

Set up a standardized onboarding request that collects role, manager, start date, and required apps. Foqal triggers an automated workflow that provisions accounts in your IDP, assigns the right groups, schedules device enrollment via your MDM, and sends credentials to the manager or new hire on the start date. Manager sign-off happens in a single Slack message. Every action is logged in the request for audit.
Foqal centralizes intake through a unified triage queue that converts messages from every source into structured requests with required fields. Automated routing rules based on request type, keywords, requester attributes, or SLA tier assign requests to the right queue or engineer - so your team is resolving, not triaging.
Enable Foqal's AI deflection on your highest-volume request types. The AI answers common queries from your connected knowledge sources - Notion, Confluence, Guru - before a request is created. If deflection fails, a one-click fallback creates a pre-populated request. Foqal tracks deflection rates by question type so you can continuously improve coverage.
Create request types with embedded approval steps - Foqal looks up the requester's manager from your IDP automatically. Add conditional logic for things like cost thresholds routing to finance. Approvers get a single Slack message with one-click approve or deny. Once approved, Foqal continues provisioning without anyone following up.
Foqal adds a persistent "Create request" mechanism - a channel menu, button, or bot - so any Slack message becomes a tracked request with full conversation history attached. Private DMs still work for sensitive requests, but every request links back to the triage system for visibility, ownership, and reporting.
Foqal has native bi-directional connectors for all of these. Map your request fields to the target system, choose sync direction, and use a service account for the integration. For systems like Jira or ServiceNow, you decide whether Foqal is the primary interface - most teams prefer it, since it eliminates duplicate notifications and keeps everything in Slack.
Most teams start by running Foqal alongside their existing tools - Zendesk stays the system of record and Foqal adds the Slack-native layer it was never built to provide. Over time, many teams find Foqal handles enough of their workflow that they consolidate. We support both paths - there's no pressure to rip anything out on day one.

Stop managing requests. Start running operations.

See how IT teams use Foqal to handle more volume, justify headcount, and get back to the work that actually matters.