I think a major omission from the authors' wishlist of BYOC-capable applications is chat. Maybe in their case they are lucky enough to have a choice in the matter, but I think overall the walled gardens and closed APIs for the major chat programs is a shame. Every day that I have to use Microsoft Teams in an attempt to communicate with coworkers is an exercise in patience. Basic chat functionality should be open and interoperable.

Maybe you should suggest to your company to set up a bridge[0] to mirror it to something like irc.

0: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge