FAQs

Stoa is a collaborative workspace where your team meets, AI builds, and keeps your documentation up to date. It combines video calls, a shared editor and filesystem, an AI agent, and an automatic Notetaker in one workspace.

When you have a meeting in Stoa, the Notetaker captures topics from your conversation, compares them against your project docs, and applies new information directly. Six months from now, you can click on any line and see why it was written.

Product-oriented founders and PMs who want meetings that produce something. Engineers who want to understand the full flow of the product and decisions. Teams who are tired of switching between Zoom, Cursor, and Notion.

PMs use it for kickoffs, scoping, and design handoffs. Engineers use it for provenance tracking and collaborative coding. Teams use it because everything stays in one place.

A Stoa Space is where a team comes together to meet around a set of projects. Spaces combine voice/video, a shared code editor, and an AI agent into one workspace. The Notetaker captures topics automatically across all projects in the Space.

$50 in welcome credit when you add a payment method. At $5/hour, that covers 10 hours of sessions for a team of any size. A payment method is required for abuse prevention, but you won't be charged while you use your credits.

A 10% discount. Prepay any amount and get 10% more in credits than you paid. No subscriptions, no commitments — just more value when you pay upfront.

Nothing interrupts. Your sessions keep going. Usage beyond your credit continues at standard rates. Your balance is always visible, and we'll let you know when it's running low.

No. You can set a monthly budget in your team settings. We'll pause new sessions when you hit it. Your balance is always visible, and we'll notify you when it's running low.

It's yours. Every topic, transcript, and artifact your team produced is exportable and portable. Nothing disappears, nothing gets locked behind a paywall.

It joins your session and can write code, run it, and show live previews while your team talks. It's powered by Claude and runs in a sandboxed environment, so it has a full development stack to work with. Everything it builds syncs to all participants in real time.

Transcription gives you a dump of what was said. Stoa goes further: the Notetaker detects topics from your conversation, checks them against your project documentation, and applies new information directly to your docs. You get provenance and living documentation, not just a transcript.

Yes. It can create files, install packages, run code, and give you a live preview URL. All during your meeting.

Yes. Built-in voice and video with screen sharing, live transcription, noise cancellation, and picture-in-picture. You don't need Zoom or Meet alongside it.

Yes. Stoa uses conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) for real-time editing. You'll see each other's cursors, and changes merge automatically. No conflicts, ever.

Yes. Projects and files persist between sessions. Your teammates can open the workspace anytime to review topics, edit files, or browse provenance. Not everyone needs to be online at the same time.

Yes. Create a guest invite link from the session menu during a session. Guests can join the call, view files, and talk to the AI agent. They don't need a Stoa account. Guest access is scoped to a single session.

Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. The CLI watches for sessions from these tools automatically and extracts the exchanges, file operations, and prompts.

Locally, by default. Everything lives in the .stoa/ directory inside your project. Nothing leaves your machine unless you choose to sync it to the cloud or register it with the web platform.

About 1 to 5 MB per month of active development. It uses incremental snapshots and content deduplication, so it stays small.

The Notetaker captures topics and action items from your meetings automatically. As your team talks, topics appear in the Notetaker in real time. When you're ready, click "Apply" on any topic and the AI agent writes the updates directly into your docs. You can always see the full running notes under Meeting → Notes in the left Space sidebar.

Right-click any file in the sidebar and select "Add to Notetaker." These become your Notetaker Docs — the files that get updated with meeting topics. Then just start or join a meeting. Topics appear automatically as action items and key points come up in conversation.

Not natively yet. You can copy topics to clipboard and paste them into other tools. Native integrations are planned.

Yes, for macOS. It's the same as the web app but with native touches: menu bar with live session indicators, Keychain authentication, a native file sidebar, drag-and-drop from Finder, and macOS notifications.

There is a Windows desktop app built alongside the macOS app, with parity as the goal. If you don't have access yet, the full web app works in any modern browser.