Tetherly vs Make.com for Slack + Notion integration: Real-Time, Contextual, AI-assisted | Tetherly.ai

Tetherly.ai vs Make.com: do you want a workflow… or a weekend project?

Make.com is a visual automation platform with serious flexibility. It also happily lets you build a beautiful machine that breaks the moment Notion updates twice in the same minute.

And yes, that’s a real complaint.

Quick verdict

• Choose Make if you want a powerful scenario builder and you’re fine owning complexity.

• Choose Tetherly if you want Slack↔Notion to behave like one system: AI summaries, auto-filled fields, routing rules, continuous thread sync, and in-Slack search.

At a glance: Tetherly.ai vs Make (Slack + Notion)

How Make connects Slack and Notion (what it can do)

Make has dedicated Notion↔Slack integration pages and templates, including scenarios that “regularly check” Notion and send Slack messages.

Scenario 1: Notion item update → Slack alert

• Watch database items

• Filter on status/assignee

• Post message to Slack

Scenario 2: Slack message/reaction → Create Notion database item

• Watch Slack channel messages

• Create item in Notion

• Confirm in Slack

Make can build these. The question is: how reliable and maintainable is it at Slack volume?

Where Make breaks (and what users complain about)

1) Polling is normal (and “instant trigger” isn’t guaranteed)

In Make community support, users are told to use scheduled polling when they want updates.
Also: Make Free plan explicitly lists a 15-minute minimum interval between runs.

2) Missed updates due to “same minute” edits

A Make community thread reports Watch Database Items only triggering for the first change if updates happen within the same minute.
That’s brutal for real workflows (tickets, incidents, escalations).

3) Delays can feel random

Another Make community thread describes needing to wait 30 seconds to a few minutes for modifications to be recorded.

4) Rate limits and operational babysitting

Make documents 429/rate limit handling and scenario behavior—something you’ll hit faster when you’re doing multi-module Notion flows.

5) Cost scales with credits

Make’s pricing is credit-based; their help docs explain credits/operations.
Complex Slack↔Notion logic = more modules = more credit burn.

Why Tetherly.ai wins (because it’s not trying to be everything)

Make is a general-purpose automation tool. Tetherly is Slack↔Notion infrastructure.

1) AI summaries: instant “story so far” for any pushed thread

Tetherly’s AI generates a usable summary on page creation and keeps the full thread as the source of truth.

2) AI slot-filling: structured fields without humans doing data entry

It extracts key fields into Notion (severity, impact, owner, etc.) and pre-fills them in the modal flow.

3) Mapping rules: prevent junk and route data correctly

Channel mapping makes sure #incidents goes to the Incidents DB, #cs-escalations goes to Escalations, etc.

4) Continuous thread reply sync until you stop it

New replies mirror into Notion comments and can be pushed back—Tetherly calls out “replies show up almost immediately.”

5) Search Notion from Slack

Stop context switching. Search, preview, and share Notion docs from Slack.

Who should choose what?

Choose Make if: you have automation ownership, you want deep branching logic, and you accept polling + maintenance.
Choose Tetherly if: you want Slack↔Notion to work instantly with context and structure, without building a scenario spiderweb.