Timezone Cat

Timezone Cat is a Slack bot for teams whose channels mix languages. Instead of pasting messages into a generic translator, you connect the workspace and the bot posts translations directly in the thread, keeping the conversation readable for everyone regardless of the language they actually speak.

The distinguishing idea is context. Timezone Cat reads the surrounding messages before translating, so it can resolve the things word-for-word translation mishandles: a polite Japanese reply that is really a soft decline, a one-syllable Korean answer that means the opposite of 'yes' because the question was negative, a dropped object that only makes sense next to the two options listed above, or irony that reads as praise. It surfaces those judgments as inline nuance tags with a short note rather than silently rewriting the message.

It also handles the practical arithmetic of distributed work. Times are converted with the reader's city named, and money appears in the original currency first with the reader's currency after. Because the bot keeps daily, weekly and monthly summaries of each channel along with the decisions made in them, vague references to 'what we agreed last time' can be answered with the actual date and outcome. Setup requires a connected Slack workspace and an active subscription, plus a short description of your company's tone and a glossary so output matches your house style.