Choose this when...
- The work begins with a meaningful question
- You need many perspectives, not one owner
- The durable output is insight or synthesis
Different rooms for different ways of thinking together
Discussion Rooms help a group explore a question. Collaboration Rooms help a trusted team work towards a goal from shared knowledge. Both keep people, context, and outcomes in one place.
Choose this when...
- A trusted group shares an ongoing goal
- Working material should stay beside the conversation
- Decisions and current state must remain usable
One platform, two distinct kinds of room
Question-driven
Explore a question together.
Bring perspectives into focus, make disagreement useful, and leave a synthesis others can return to.
- 01QuestionA clear inquiry
- 02ContextSources and framing
- 03PerspectivesExperience and evidence
- 04SynthesisPatterns and open questions
Goal + knowledge
Build something from shared knowledge.
Give a trusted group one place for working material, discussion, decisions, and the current state of the work.
- 01GoalA shared outcome
- 02KnowledgeFiles, links, notes, images
- 03WorkDiscussion with citations
- 04OutcomeDecisions and reusable memory
Turn a question into shared understanding
A Discussion Room gives a meaningful question enough context, time, and difference to become clearer. Sources remain visible, participants contribute experience and evidence, and Roomie helps surface patterns without deciding what the group should think.
- Question and framingEveryone begins from the same inquiry and context.
- Perspectives with provenanceContributions remain connected to people and sources.
- Signals, polls, and patternsThe room can test assumptions and see where views meet or differ.
- Reviewed synthesisWhat the discussion clarified remains useful after it closes.
What would make public consultation genuinely useful?
Context
Briefing note · 8 min read
4 perspectives2 tensions1 open poll
Roomie noticed
Participants agree on earlier involvement, but differ on whether influence should be visible before a final decision.
Give ongoing work a shared knowledge home
A Collaboration Room starts with a goal and a trusted group. Members build a living knowledge base from notes, documents, links, and images, then discuss the work with Roomie grounded in the same material. Decisions and outcomes remain connected to their evidence.
Always privateInvite-onlyShared KnowledgeGrounded citations
DiscussionKnowledge 8
Discuss with the room...
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Choose the work first, then access and delivery
First choose the kind of work. Then choose who can participate and where the room should live. Collaboration Rooms are the one intentional exception: they are always private and invite-only.
Three layers. One coherent room.
Start with the work, then define who can enter and where the experience lives.
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Room typeHow people think together
DiscussionExplore a question
CollaborationWork towards a goal
02
AccessWho can participate
OpenPublic participation
PrivateInvite-only membership
03
DeliveryWhere the experience lives
InstanceA complete knowledge space
EmbeddedA discussion in your product
Collaboration rooms are private and invite-only by design. Embedded rooms are focused discussion rooms.
Start with the work your group needs to do.
Explore Collaboration Rooms in detail, or see how instances and embedded discussions deliver the experience.