# Who Owns This? Get the Answer in Slack

Source: https://maito.app/workflows/answer-who-owns-this

Ask Maito who owns a page, process or decision. It answers from what your team has said, names the right person per area and can email them for you.

Find the right person or team for any system, process or question.

[Operations](https://maito.app/workflows/team/operations) · When you ask · Updated October 19, 2026

Works with

-   Slack
-   Email

## How do you find out who owns something?

To find out who owns something, mention Maito in Slack and name it, such as the pricing page. Maito answers from what your team has told it, splits ownership by area, shows where each rule came from, flags past exceptions, and can email the owners on your behalf.

## How it's done today

People ask around in several channels.

## What Maito does

1.  Search docs, ownership lists and history
2.  Name the owner and how to reach them

## Example

**Tom** (2:05 PM):

who owns the pricing page?

**Maito** (2:06 PM):

It depends what you want to change.

• **Copy and layout:** Priya, marketing. Kate named her owner in a thread on Aug 14.  
• **Prices and discounts:** Dana. Any price change needs her OK, a rule from a Mar 2 thread.  
• **Checkout and the code behind it:** Leo's team.

Reach Priya in #marketing, or email priya@northstar.example.

Catch: Sam edited the Enterprise price on May 9 without Dana's OK. It was fixed two days later, so I'd go through Dana for any number.

**Tom** (2:09 PM):

thanks. Email Priya and Dana that we're updating the Enterprise tier next week.

**Maito** (2:10 PM):

Sent to both, from maito@northstar.example, with you copied. I'll post their replies here.

## How to set it up

When you ask Answer "who owns this?"

Set up

Nothing to set up. Ask in Slack or by email whenever you need it.

## What it won't do

It only knows what it has been told, so ownership that was never discussed in a shared conversation is invisible to it. Keep owners up to date by telling it when they change.

## Questions

### Where does the ownership come from?

From shared conversations, where someone named an owner or set a rule. Maito cites the thread, so you can see where it learned it.

### What if nobody has said who owns it?

It says it doesn't know and suggests who to ask. It does not guess an owner.

### Can it contact the owner?

Yes. It emails from the workspace address with you copied, and posts replies in your thread.

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