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An office you can walk across, from anywhere.

Remote work lost the thing an office was actually for: seeing who's around and being able to lean over. Fora's Presence Map gives it back — a floor of department islands, everyone an office card, and a door you can knock on.

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The Presence Map. Josh knocks on Marcus's door; the card rings amber; Marcus pulls him in.

Knock, don't schedule

The thirty-second question that becomes a calendar invite three days out is the single most expensive habit of remote work. Knocking costs nothing and interrupts nobody who isn't free — the card already told you.

  • Everyone has an office card with a live status and a “doing” line
  • Knock for a drop-in call — they accept, and you're talking
  • Department islands wear their tint, so the floor reads at a glance
  • A personal shelf: what they're reading, playing, and reviewing

Meetings that write themselves down

A meeting whose output is a paragraph in someone's notebook may as well not have happened. In Fora the notes are part of the meeting, the tasks come out of the notes, and all of it stays attached to the work — findable a quarter later by anyone.

  • An agenda before, doc-style notes during, action items after
  • Action items become real tasks with real owners
  • The meeting stays linked to the project and goal it served
  • Screen share, and a sticky-note whiteboard in the room
Launch Sync Thu 10:00
2 action items → tasks

Breakouts that merge back

This is the part that has no equivalent in a normal video call. A workshop splits into groups, each group actually writes things down, and when the room comes back together the notes are already in one place, attributed, with the tasks assigned.

  • Deal people into rooms — pick a person, click a room, or shuffle
  • Two to eight rooms, and people move between them once they're running
  • Each room keeps its own notes and its own action items
  • Merge, and every room's notes and tasks return to the main meeting

Everything in it

  • Presence Map with department islands and Floor View
  • Office cards with live status and a “doing” line
  • Personal shelf — books, music, open pull requests
  • Knock for a drop-in call
  • Office visits, visible on the floor
  • Video rooms with screen share
  • Sticky-note whiteboard
  • Breakout rooms, two to eight ways
  • Notes and tasks merged back on close
  • Agendas, doc-style notes and action items
  • Action item → task with an owner
  • Meetings linked to their project and goal

Questions

Do we need Zoom as well?
No. Video is built in — calls from a chat window, drop-ins from a knock, and full rooms with screen share and breakouts. The advantage of it being built in isn't the video; it's that the notes and tasks land in the same place as everything else.
Isn't a presence map just surveillance?
It shows what a person chooses to show: a status they set, a line about what they're doing, and whether their door is open. There's no activity tracking, no idle timer, and no green-dot policing. If a company wants to use it to monitor people, Fora is the wrong product.
What powers the video?
LiveKit. Rooms are per-workspace, and the whole thing runs inside your tenant like everything else.

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