FAQs

Stoa is a collaborative workspace where your team meets, AI builds, and makes decisions that actually stick. It combines video calls, a shared editor and filesystem, an AI agent, and automatic decision tracking in one workspace.

When you have a meeting in Stoa, it captures what was decided, links those decisions to the code they produced, and stores everything so you can search it later. 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 Space groups related projects together. The key thing: everyone in a Space shares one voice/video room. You can switch between projects without dropping the call, and decisions are captured across all of them.

$50 in welcome credit. That covers about 15 one-hour sessions for a team of 8, roughly a week at a normal pace. No card required to sign up and browse, you only need one to start sessions.

Same features, better rate. The Team plan gives you prepaid credit at a 31% discount, plus direct founder support, a priority onboarding call, and early access to new features. Billed annually at $1,500/yr ($125/mo), you also get $300 in free credits.

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. Unused credit stays in your account for as long as you need it.

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 before any overage kicks in.

It's yours. Every decision, 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: it extracts structured decisions (what was decided, why, who owns it, how confident the AI is), and links those decisions to the actual code and files they affected. You get provenance, not just a transcript.

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

Decisions the AI isn't sure about get flagged with a low confidence score. You can filter the Decisions panel to see everything that still needs a call.

Yes. Built-in voice and video with screen sharing, live transcription, recording, 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 decisions, 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, chat, 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.

Yes. Run intent init --git-mode to layer it on top of your Git repo. Git stays the source of truth for files. The CLI just watches and records provenance. You can push and pull provenance data alongside your code.

Locally, by default. Everything lives in the .intent/ 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.

During meetings, the AI listens to the conversation and watches what's happening in the workspace. When it identifies a decision, it creates a record with the title, rationale, owners, confidence score, and the original quotes that triggered the extraction. Decisions appear in the sidebar in real time and you can accept, reject, or edit them.

• Decision Topics grouping your conversation into high-level themes with structured meeting notes
• Decisions with title, rationale, owners, sources, and confidence scores
• Provenance maps linking code lines to conversation turns
• Session transcripts with speaker attribution
• Meeting notes with labeled items (decisions, intents, ideas, open questions)
• Decision enrichments (AI-generated summaries of intent, approach, and impact)

Not natively yet. You can copy decisions 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.