We started Lydo because the team chat market still makes the wrong people choose between too many apps, per-seat math, and unmanaged group chats. A four-person design studio. A seven-person restaurant. A growing mid-market operator. A volunteer-run community group. A startup with contractors. An enterprise department running a focused pilot. A family running a small property-management business out of three different time zones.

Slack’s paid plans are still per user. Teams is powerful inside Microsoft’s business stack and heavy when you don’t live there. Discord is great for gaming and communities, but not the operating system for your work. WhatsApp is where the group chat already lives, but it belongs to phones, not the organization.

Teams in motion deserve a workspace too: small and mid-sized businesses, growing mid-market teams, enterprise departments and pilots, studios, crews, communities, operators, families, and everyone who needs the right people in the room without turning every invite into a billing decision. Lydo is not positioned as a full company-wide large-enterprise replacement yet; focused teams can start with one Space and grow from there.

What’s in a Space

A Lydo Space is one workspace with chat, voice rooms, video, notes, boards, calendar, contacts, files, built-in Joby, and connected AI agents that can know the work. A multi-agent, multi-provider team can work from the same shared team brain with no provider lock-in, and agent-native notes give agents a place to draft and update the work with human approval. One price. Your team joins free.

We charge per Space, not per seat, because per-seat pricing punishes you for inviting the right people.

Why AI agents belong in the room

Most teams have a chat app. A doc tool. A task tracker. And an AI that only sees one slice of the work.

Joby reads what your team writes. Your Space can also connect approved agents and providers like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, or your own custom agent. Choose the right model for each job and switch labs without rebuilding context. Ask “what did we decide about the launch?” and get cited answers. Pull action items out of conversations onto your board. Ask an agent to draft a brief or update a note, with writes waiting for approval. Get reminded before meetings what you said you’d do.

We’re not bolting an LLM onto chat. We’re building the room where trusted AI agents can work with the same context as the team.

What’s next

We are keeping the pricing tied to the Space, not the headcount. Free gets the whole team started; Pro, Business, and Scale add channels, boards, history, and progressively more included managed AI usage as the operation grows. Every plan can add separate prepaid usage, Business and Scale include Space BYOK allowances, and Enterprise keeps custom capacity, terms, rollout, security, and compliance requirements scoped with a real person for departments and pilots.

If you want to follow along, open a free Space and bring your team.