Introducing Rooms: group chats with Mark in them
Rooms are shared spaces — a study group, a team, a few friends — with Mark in the conversation. Ask him together, share a library he reads, take quizzes with a leaderboard, and catch up on what you missed. Six letters to join.
Every conversation with an AI assistant is private. That is usually the point — and it is also why the assistant is missing from the places where the actual work happens: the study group's chat, the team's channel, the thread where three friends are planning something. You ask Mark, you get a good answer, and then you paste it somewhere for everyone else. Rooms close that gap. A room is a shared space with people in it and Mark in it too, on the same footing: anyone can ask, everyone sees the answer, and the room keeps what it learns.
Rooms are live on saanora.com today. They are built the way a group chat should be — full-width messages, replies, reactions, @mentions, search, an unread line — and then given the things only an assistant can add: a library it reads, notes it keeps, quizzes it runs, and a summary of what you missed while you were away.
- Ask Mark together — @Mark or the Ask Mark chip, and the answer lands in the thread for everyone.
- One shared library, up to 40 files, that Mark reads when asked.
- Notes Mark keeps as the conversation moves, and a private Catch me up when you come back.
- Quizzes anyone can take, marked on your own screen, scored on a shared leaderboard.
- Up to 15 people and 30 chats per room. Join by link, by six-letter code, or by QR.
Ask Mark, together
Type @Mark, or tap the Ask Mark chip in the message bar, and the question goes to Mark with the room's recent conversation behind it. The answer appears in the thread as a message from Mark, addressed to whoever asked, and everyone reads the same thing — the 3D scene, the chart, the worked derivation, the code — with no copying and no forwarding. Reply to Mark's message to quote it back into the discussion; follow up to keep the thread of thought going.
Every room has a brief: a few lines about what the room is for and how Mark should behave in it. "Third-year physics, Unit 4, show working" is enough. Mark reads it before every answer, so a room for a client project and a room for a pub quiz get different assistants without anyone re-explaining themselves.
Only asking Mark counts toward usage, and it counts for the person who asked. Chatting with each other, the notes, the catch-up — none of it costs anything.
One library, shared
Drop the tutorial sheet, the lecture notes, the brief, the spreadsheet — PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, code or images — into the room's Library, or attach them to a message, and they belong to the room. Mark reads each one on the way in and writes a one-line summary so the list stays legible; when someone asks a question, the library is what he answers from. The 40-page PDF you shared on Monday is still what Mark is reading on Friday.
Files attached to messages you edit later are handled the same way, and mentions work inside an edit exactly as they do in a new message — nothing about a room asks you to learn a second set of habits.
Notes, and a catch-up for whoever was away
As the conversation moves, Mark keeps the room's Notes: the decisions, the open questions, the things people agreed on, rewritten every few messages so they read as minutes rather than a transcript. They live beside the chats, and they are the same for everyone.
Catch me up is the private version. Come back after a day away and there is a line at your unread mark; one tap gives you a short summary of exactly what happened since you last looked — who solved what, what was shared, what is waiting for you — and nobody else sees it. It is free, it is yours, and it means a busy room never turns into homework.
Quizzes everyone can take
Ask Mark for a quiz and he posts one into the room: five questions on pulleys and tension, or the Q3 numbers, or whatever the room is about. Everyone takes it on their own screen — one question at a time, marked as you go — and nobody sees anyone else's answers. What the room sees is the leaderboard: score, time, and who finished. The first attempt is the one that counts, so it stays a fair game rather than a guessing contest.
It works as revision, as a warm-up before a meeting, or simply as the fastest way to find out whether the group actually understood the thing it just discussed.
Everything a good group chat needs
The rest is what you would expect, done properly. Reactions with a real emoji picker. Replies that quote. @mentions that open a person's card. Editing and deleting your own messages, with the same @ autocomplete and attachments as a fresh one. Search inside the room. A NEW line at your unread mark and a jump back to where you were. Typing indicators, a Here / Away rail, desktop notifications for mentions and for Mark's answers to you — on only if you turn them on.
A room can hold up to 30 chats, so a study group keeps #general and #problem-sets apart, and a team keeps the launch thread away from the lunch thread. Mark and the library are shared across all of them.
Six letters to join
Every room has a link, a six-letter code, and a QR. Send the link, read the code out across a table, or put the QR on a slide — anyone with a free Saanora account joins as a member. Rooms hold up to 15 people. Nobody joins anonymously: everyone in a room is a real account with a name, which is what makes the leaderboard, the mentions and the notes mean something.
Who Rooms are for
We built the first one for a physics study group, and the shape held up everywhere we tried it: a small team drafting a launch with the brief and the numbers in the library; three friends planning a trip with Mark doing the research; a book club with a quiz at the end of each chapter; a family sorting out a move. Anywhere a group already talks, Rooms give that group an assistant that knows what they are talking about.
What it costs, and what stays private
Opening a room, chatting, sharing files, reading the notes and catching up are all free on every plan. Asking Mark uses the asker's usage, exactly as a question in a private chat would — nobody pays for anyone else's questions. Quiz answers are never shown to other members; only scores go on the board. Rooms are on the web today, at saanora.com/rooms.