Eko is the employee. Buska is her engine.
Eko is not Buska squeezed into Slack, and she is not a lead-gen bot. She is a social listening employee built on Buska’s social intelligence engine, and the moment a conversation turns commercial, she hands it to Buska with the intent score attached. Two products, one pipeline, one clean boundary.
This page explains what Buska actually does, why we deliberately built Eko as a separate chat-native employee, and exactly where one stops and the other starts.
The platform underneath
What Buska does, in full
Buska is a social intelligence and lead generation platform used by hundreds of teams to turn online conversations into pipeline. It is a complete revenue machine: detection, qualification, outreach and follow-through, all in one place.
Coverage
30+ platforms, watched in real time
X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Hacker News, G2, Product Hunt, YouTube, Quora, plus forums and blogs. Buska catches mentions of your brand, your competitors and your market keywords the moment they appear, not days later.
Qualification
Intent detection and lead scoring
Buska reads buying signals written in plain language ('looking for an alternative to...', 'any tool that can...') and scores every lead from 0 to 100 on ICP fit and buying intent, so sales time goes to the conversations most likely to convert.
Revenue
Outreach, CRM and pipeline
Reply Studio drafts context-aware responses, enriched contacts flow into the CRM, and sequences run through to close. From a public mention to a signed deal, everything after the signal lives in Buska.
Funded, growing, and trusted by hundreds of companies to find their next customers before the competition does.Explore the full platform on buska.io ↗
The strategic choice
Why Eko exists at all
If Buska already does all of that, why build Eko? Because listening and selling are two different jobs, done by different people, in different places. We unbundled them on purpose.
01
Chat beats dashboards
Your team already lives in Slack and Discord (Teams soon). A dashboard you have to remember to open loses, every time, to an employee who speaks up in your channel when something matters. Eko brings the signal to where decisions actually get made.
02
One job, done perfectly
Listening serves the whole company: marketing, product, support, founders. Revenue serves sales. Bundling both into one tool serves neither well. Eko does social listening only, and she does it like a full-time employee.
03
A hard product boundary
Eko never does lead gen, outreach or CRM. Buska never posts briefs in your chat. When a signal turns commercial, Eko offers exactly one button: Send to Buska. One pipeline, two specialists, zero overlap.
Shared engine
Hiring Eko means getting Buska’s engine in your chat
Eko does not run her own crawler. Every mention she reports comes from Buska’s social intelligence engine: the same 30+ platform coverage, the same real-time detection, the same signal quality that hundreds of revenue teams already rely on. What Eko adds on top is judgment, context and a voice in your channel.
Same engine, different desk. Buska powers the listening; Eko decides what deserves your attention.
The pipeline, end to end
1
The web gets scanned
Buska’s social intelligence engine monitors 30+ platforms (X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Hacker News, G2, Product Hunt and more) for your brand, your competitors and your market keywords, in real time.
2
Eko applies judgment
She classifies each mention (brand, competitor, risk, feature request, trend, opportunity), scores urgency and sentiment, filters roughly 97% as noise, and decides what deserves your team’s attention.
3
Your team gets briefed in chat
Signal cards with 'why it matters' and a recommended action, right in Slack or Discord. Daily digest at 9:00, weekly market memo on Friday. Track, assign, draft: humans stay in control.
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Revenue goes to Buska
When a signal is commercial, one button, Send to Buska, hands it over with full context. Buska scores buying intent from 0 to 100, matches your ICP, enriches the contact and runs outreach from Reply Studio to your CRM.
Who does what: the exact boundary
Eko · listening
Buska · revenue
Watches brand, competitors, market
Finds buyers and leads
Briefs, digests, market memos
ICP and intent scoring (0 to 100)
Alerts on reputation risks
Reply Studio and outreach
Tracks threads, assigns, drafts
CRM and pipeline
Humans review and send
Sequences run through to revenue
Eko never re-implements Buska. She consumes the Buska API, and sends revenue back.
When listening turns commercial
The handoff: one button, full context
Eko will never chase a lead; that is not her job. When she spots buying intent (someone asking for a tool like yours, venting about a competitor, requesting recommendations), she flags it in your channel with a Send to Buska button. Press it, and Buska takes over the commercial side.
The intent score travels
The signal lands in Buska already scored from 0 to 100 for ICP fit and buying intent, ready to be prioritized.
So does the context
The full thread, the sentiment history and Eko’s analysis go along with it, so outreach from Reply Studio lands informed, never cold.
A human always presses the button
Nothing is forwarded automatically. Your team decides which conversations become pipeline; Eko just makes the decision obvious.
Three rules keep the boundary clean
Eko listens, Buska sells.
If a signal is about awareness, reputation or product, Eko handles it. If it is about pipeline, it goes to Buska. No overlap, no double work, no second tool doing half the same job.
Humans stay between detection and action.
Eko drafts and recommends; your team decides. Even the Buska handoff is a button a human presses.
Context travels with the signal.
When Eko sends an opportunity to Buska, the full thread, sentiment history and her analysis go with it, so outreach lands informed, not cold.
One pipeline, two specialists
Hire Eko to listen where your team already works. Use Buska to turn the commercial signals into revenue.