● 30-MINUTE CHAOS CHALLENGE ENTRY

THE WRONG CHANNEL
BOT 🤖

We deliberately send your question to the wrong person.
● THE PROBLEM

The answer is already
somewhere in this company.

But we only ask the people we already know.
Questions stay in team channels. Same people answer. Same ideas come back.

Serendipity can't happen if the right people never see the question.

● THE IDEA

Once a day, a bot takes one real question
and sends it to someone who'd never see it.

PICKS A QUESTIONFrom a team channel: anything tagged with ❓ or that's gone unanswered for 24h.
PICKS A "WRONG" PERSONRandom colleague from a different team, practice or office.
ONE GENTLE NUDGE"You probably don't know this… but what if you do?" No pressure, one click to help or pass.
● WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Chat · Wrong Channel Bot
🤖
Wrong Channel Bot 9:02 AM

Hey Yang 👋 This question is definitely not meant for you…

#crystalbrook-delivery · Sam:
"Has anyone migrated a CMS with 5 locales before? Looking for gotchas."

…but happy accidents happen. Know something, or know someone who might?

💡 I can help👉 Try someone else🤷 Pass
● HOW IT WORKS

Built with tools we already have.

01Teams messages with ❓ or 24h unanswered are collected
→
02Power Automate picks 1 question + 1 random person from another team
→
03Sends an Adaptive Card DM with 3 buttons
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04"I can help" posts a reply in the original thread and tags both people

No new licences. No new app. ~1 day to build a pilot.

● WHY IT WORKS

Serendipity = random collisions × prepared minds

RandomBreaks the "same 5 people answer everything" loop
UsefulIt's a real problem someone has right now, not small talk
LightOne message a day, one click to pass. Nobody gets spammed
MeasurableCount the "I can help" clicks = happy accidents made
● THE PILOT

4 WEEKS.
3 CHANNELS. 1 BOT.

Success = 10 questions answered by someone outside the team
who would never have seen them otherwise.

Vote Wrong Channel Bot 🤖 — the right answer from the wrong person.
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