AI for Microsoft Teams
AI for Microsoft Teams chat and channels
AI for Microsoft Teams without Copilot: fix grammar, change tone, translate and summarize chats and channel posts from the message box, on Windows and Mac. Free plan, no admin approval.
Teams is where company chat happens, often across countries and often with people whose first language is not yours. A message to your manager, a post to a channel of 200 people, a reply to a vendor: each one is a small writing task done at speed.
KeyShift works under the Teams message box on Windows and macOS. Fix, soften, shorten or translate what you wrote before you send it, and translate or summarize what others posted. No Copilot licence, no app for IT to approve.
What you can do with KeyShift in Microsoft Teams
A channel post for the whole department.
Do: Write it rough, type keyshift make this clear and professional, press space twice.
Get: A post people read to the end.
A colleague in Poland writes in Polish.
Do: Select the message, press Ctrl+Shift+A, choose Translate. Reply with Live translate on.
Get: A conversation in two languages, both of you in your own.
A long thread after a day of meetings.
Do: Select it, choose Summarize.
Get: The decisions and who owns what.
What Teams' own AI covers
Microsoft 365 Copilot summarizes meetings and chats and helps draft on licensed accounts. Teams can also translate incoming messages. KeyShift works on your outgoing text on any licence, and uses the same shortcut in Outlook, Word and your browser.
How KeyShift works, in any app
- Quick Actions: select text, press Ctrl+Shift+A (⌘⇧A on Mac), pick an action. The result replaces the selection.
- The typed trigger: write normally, add keyshift plus your instruction, press space twice. No selection, no shortcut.
- Voice (Ctrl+Shift+M), text from screen (Ctrl+Shift+O) and clipboard history (Ctrl+Shift+V) for the text you do not have yet.
- Undo any replacement with Ctrl+Shift+Z, up to 20 steps.
Windows 10 and later, macOS 11 and later, and Android. See the getting started guide.
Tips for Microsoft Teams
- Teams sends on Enter. The typed trigger ends with space twice, so the rewrite lands before you send.
- Use voice typing (Ctrl+Shift+M) for long status updates, then Make professional.
- Save a custom action with your company's tone rules so every message matches (Pro).
Questions people ask
Does IT need to approve KeyShift as a Teams app?
No. KeyShift is not a Teams app. It works on the text in the message box, like your keyboard, and needs no Teams permissions.
Does it work in the new Teams and the classic one?
Yes, in both, and in Teams in the browser.
Can company data stay on our network?
On Pro you can use your own API key or a local model through Ollama, so text never leaves your machine or your provider contract.
Try it in your own apps
Free plan, 25 AI actions a month, no card needed. Pro from €4 a month billed yearly.