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Supported Integrations

We’re just getting started on our journey, and our core system is built to easily expand and support new integrations. While we had to begin somewhere, we’re open to your feedback! If you'd like to see additional integrations, feel free to upvote them on our feedback page, accessible via your user dropdown.

Our initial integrations focus on tools frequently used by startups and open-source communities. Open-source work, in particular, is often done outside regular work hours and tends to be overlooked by organizations. Rekog helps ensure these contributions are recognized, allowing individuals to share their efforts with their teams and organizations.

We began with the following key integrations:

  • Slack: For capturing communication and collaboration events
  • GitHub: For capturing code contributions and project management events
  • StackOverflow: For capturing contributions and expertise through public Q&A

This is just the beginning! We are actively working on adding more integrations, including:

  • Asana
  • GitLab
  • Google Chat
  • Microsoft Teams

You can help guide the next integrations by providing feedback in our customer feedback section.

GitHub Integration

Importance: GitHub is central to source code management for most engineering teams and open-source projects, making it a vital integration for tracking technical contributions.

How it works:

  1. For Organizations:

    • Rekog listens to merged Pull Requests (PRs), detecting the skills demonstrated by contributors. These PRs then appear in the contributor's profile as verified skill facts, linking directly to the relevant GitHub activity.
    • Users within the organization are automatically synchronized for streamlined management.
    • Helpful reactions on GitHub comments (e.g., thumbs-up on a code review) register as recognitions on a user’s Rekog profile, showing how their contributions are valued by peers.

  2. For Users:

    • Users can grant Rekog permission to scrape their GitHub history, which pulls in their open-source contributions to recognize skills developed outside their primary organization. This ensures a more complete profile of the user’s technical abilities.

Why it matters: This integration ensures that both organizational and independent GitHub contributions are recognized, creating a full picture of a developer’s skill set based on their code contributions.

Slack Integration

Importance: Slack is the communication hub for many teams, making it an ideal place to capture collaboration and communication skills, as well as enabling feedback right where work happens.

How it works:

  1. In-thread Feedback: You can provide real-time feedback on skills demonstrated within Slack conversations, without leaving the app. Feedback can be tied directly to the conversation thread it pertains to, ensuring relevance and context.

  2. Listening to Reactions: Reactions like thumbs-up or emojis on messages are monitored, allowing Rekog to identify helpful or impactful communications and turn those into skill recognitions.

  3. Automatic User Sync: All workspace users are synchronized automatically with Rekog, so no manual effort is required to keep users up-to-date.

Expansion Plans:

  • We’re collaborating with organizations to deepen Slack integration, possibly adding more AI features to assess message helpfulness automatically.
  • We are also considering integration with Slack Lists (its project management feature), allowing project-based skills to be captured directly from ongoing Slack work.

Why it matters: This integration captures the softer, often invisible skills related to communication, leadership, and collaboration—essential but frequently overlooked abilities in modern work environments.

StackOverflow Integration

Importance: StackOverflow is the go-to platform for engineers to help each other by answering complex technical questions. However, contributions here are often invisible to employers or teams. Rekog bridges this gap.

How it works:

  • Rekog captures and analyzes your StackOverflow activity, including accepted answers and those with significant upvotes. These contributions are automatically translated into skill facts and appear on your Rekog profile.

Why it matters: By integrating with StackOverflow, Rekog ensures that your expertise and contributions in public technical forums are not only recognized but also visible to your team and organization. This is especially valuable for engineers who may contribute more in open communities than they do in their immediate work projects.

Note: If you’re new to Rekog and your profile looks empty, syncing your GitHub and StackOverflow profiles will populate it with your past contributions, instantly reflecting your technical strengths.

Future Integrations

While we started with GitHub, Slack, and StackOverflow, we’re actively developing additional integrations to expand Rekog’s reach into different workflows. Some of the upcoming integrations include:

  • Asana: For project management and task tracking, helping to capture project-based skills.
  • GitLab: A popular Git repository and DevOps platform, adding another layer of source code contributions to your profile.
  • Google Chat: Another key communication platform for organizations, similar in functionality to Slack.
  • Microsoft Teams: Widely used in enterprises, this integration will enable collaboration and feedback to flow seamlessly in larger organizations.

We will prioritize new integrations based on feedback from you, our users. Make sure to upvote the tools you rely on most through the feedback section under your user dropdown.