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Mattermost

Mattermost

Founded by Ian Tien in 2015

Coordinate team communication and incident response on self-hosted or air-gapped networks

Pricing model

Free, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Mattermost to collaborate securely through channels, direct messages, and voice calls within your own infrastructure. It lets technical and operations teams run automated incident playbooks, manage projects on Kanban boards, and trigger workflows from external systems. Teams in regulated environments can deploy it in private clouds or fully air-gapped setups while controlling data retention, access rules, and compliance audits. It also integrates sovereign AI models to summarize threads and triage incoming operational alerts.

What Mattermost does

Send encrypted direct messages and organize group conversations into channelsExecute automated incident playbooks with conditional checklistsHost private voice calls and share screens with channel membersTrack tasks and issues using integrated Kanban boardsSummarize long conversation threads using local AI modelsExport audit logs and message archives for legal discoveryReceive and triage alerts from external monitoring and SIEM toolsRuns completely self-hosted, private cloud, or in fully air-gapped networksRepeatable incident response playbooks with automated checklists and timersEmbedded Kanban boards and table views for project tracking alongside chatVoice calls and screen sharing hosted on your own infrastructureSovereign AI agent integrations with self-hosted language modelsClassification banners, dynamic attribute-based access control, and burn-on-read messagesBuilt-in compliance tools including retention policies, legal hold, and eDiscovery exportsCross-network federation supporting real-time interoperability with Teams and Matrix

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free, Paid

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