The AI-Powered Gather Alternative for Remote Teams

Gather gives your team a virtual world. Roam gives them a virtual HQ.

Stop navigating avatars and virtual maps just to reach a coworker. Roam gives remote teams a faster way to see who’s available, knock, talk, meet, message, and use AI to keep work moving.

  • Stop navigating a virtual map to reach coworkers — See who’s available and connect in seconds
  • Skip the avatar-based interface — Talk to real people directly instead of moving a character around a digital office
  • Get to the conversation faster — Knock and start talking without “walking” across a virtual space first
  • Keep the work moving after the conversation — Meet, message, and collaborate in one connected workspace
  • Don’t lose what was decided — Use AI-powered recaps to capture key takeaways and next steps

15 min. Not a slide deck – you’ll use Roam live. Join 2,000+ teams who’ve switched.

“Recently we moved from Gather to @roam. What an incredible experience!!!”
“Bringing a hybrid remote team together into a shared space is important to me, but most of the other virtual offices felt like they were more for office socials and not work. Roam has a simple interface and powerful features that my team uses daily to create that ‘in-office’ feel!”

A virtual office built for work

Go beyond moving avatars. Move work forward.

A virtual office should be more than a place to move an avatar around.

Roam gives your distributed team a shared digital headquarters where people can see each other, communicate, meet, and move work forward throughout the day.

  • See your team — Know who’s available, who’s meeting, and where collaboration is happening.
  • Reach people instantly — Knock on a teammate’s virtual office and start a quick conversation without coordinating calendars.
  • Work together naturally — Move from focused work to a quick conversation, team meeting, or collaborative session without leaving your virtual HQ.
“We have just switched to Roam which combines slack, zoom, calendly and loom in one tool… In addition to chat, video and calendar, it also gathers our entire team in a virtual office where we can see who is present, who is at the meeting and who is off… it removes a lot of friction about who uses which tools, because now we all use the same thing.”

Stop navigating. Start talking.

See who’s available. Knock. Talk. Get back to work.

Not every conversation needs another message thread, meeting invitation, or trip across a virtual map.

Roam is a virtual office built for speed. See who’s available, knock, talk face-to-face or audio-only, resolve the question, and get back to work.

Quick questions become quick answers.

“The thing I’ve liked the most is how ‘walking over to someone’s desk’ is back—just in a virtual way. Instead of sending 10 Slack messages trying to explain a weird bug, I just knock on a teammate’s office, and we jump into a quick call, share screens, and solve it together.”

Your team is online. Make them feel present.

Bring back the everyday awareness remote teams lose.

Remote teams don’t just lose an office. They lose the everyday awareness that comes from working around other people.

  • Who’s around?
  • Who’s free?
  • Who’s already talking?
  • Is now a good time to ask?

Roam brings that context back.

See your company in one shared virtual HQ. Know who’s available. Drop by for a quick conversation. Say good morning. Collaborate when the moment is right.

No calendar coordination required.

“Our team is truly global, with colleagues spread across countries and often working as the only person in their location. Until now, that made it hard to feel connected. With Roam, we can suddenly see one another ‘in the office,’ say good morning, drop by for a quick word, or just know that someone is there.”

Stop scheduling every conversation

A two-minute question shouldn’t need a 30-minute meeting.

Roam makes spontaneous conversations easy, so your team can connect when questions arise instead of filling the calendar with calls.

  • See who’s available
  • Knock for a quick conversation
  • Get the answer you need
  • Get back to focused work
“Roam helps us stay connected and aligned, cutting out unnecessary 30-minute meeting blocks for just 1-2 quick questions. It’s lightweight, presence-based, and reinforces the kind of spontaneous collaboration we used to rely on in an office.”

More than a virtual office

One virtual headquarters for how remote teams actually work.

Your virtual office shouldn’t become another tab alongside the rest of your remote-work stack.

Roam brings essential communication and collaboration tools into one virtual headquarters.

Virtual office

See your company and who’s available.

Drop-in meetings

Start spontaneous conversations in seconds.

Video meetings

Meet without jumping into another platform.

Messaging

Keep conversations inside your shared workspace.

AI meeting summaries

Capture key discussions and next steps.

Meeting scheduling

Make it easy for people to find time with you.

Screen recording

Share updates without scheduling another call.

AI assistance

Turn conversations and information into action.

One place to meet, chat, collaborate, and stay connected.

AI-powered meetings, built into your virtual HQ

The conversation shouldn’t disappear when the meeting ends.

Roam brings AI-powered meeting summaries and assistance into the same place your team already meets and collaborates.

Capture important discussions. Recall what happened. Turn conversations into clear next steps.

Less time taking notes. More time being present.

“If you run a remote team, Roam is a must! … AI call transcription and agents that help me recall my action items from the week.”

Make remote work feel more human

Bring back the small interactions that make teamwork feel natural.

The best parts of an office aren’t the commute or the conference rooms. They’re the small interactions.

  • “Got a sec?”
  • “Can I show you something?”
  • “What do you think about this?”

Roam makes those moments possible again.

Your team can see one another, knock on doors, jump into quick conversations, collaborate in shared rooms, and feel like they’re working together—even when they’re miles apart.

“No more back-to-back Google Meets. No chasing messages in a sea of Slack threads. Just effortless syncs, casual drop-ins, and those spontaneous ‘got a sec?’ moments that are usually impossible to recreate remotely.”

From virtual office to virtual headquarters

Go beyond the map.

Your team doesn’t need another virtual environment that sits alongside the tools where work actually happens.

Roam gives your team a shared virtual headquarters built around presence, immediate access to coworkers, meetings, messaging, and AI-powered follow-up.

See someone → Knock → Talk → Solve → Get back to work.

Roam doesn’t just recreate the look of an office.

It brings back the speed, presence, and natural communication of working together.

“Our average meeting time at Myko is 6.9min. Our virtual HQ Roam, makes it easy to have quick conversations. Even though the team is remote, we have multiple conversations per day. We can always see who is available and it makes it more natural to pop-in and check on someone.”

Compare the cost of your meeting stack

Meet, chat, collaborate, and stay connected through one virtual office platform.

Roam Product
Functionality
Legacy Tool
Legacy Price(Monthly/User)
Virtual Office
Presence & Map
Gather / SoWork
$15 – $20
Drop-In Meetings
Instant Video
Zoom (Pro)
$13 – $16
AInbox
Team Messaging
Slack (Business+)
$15 – $18
Magic Minutes
AI Note Taker
Otter / Fireflies
$17 – $18
Lobby
Scheduling
Calendly (Teams)
$16
Magicast
Screen Recording
Loom (Business)
$12.50 – $15
Theater
Webinars
Zoom Webinars
$79 (base)
On-It
AI Agent
ChatGPT Plus / Copilot
$20
On-Air
Immersive Events
Hopin / Goldcast
$25+
Total
Standalone Stack
~$215+/mo
Roam
All-in-One
$19.50/mo

Ready for a Gather alternative built for the workday?

Go beyond avatars. Give your team a virtual HQ.

See who’s available. Knock and talk. Meet face-to-face. Message coworkers. Capture conversations with AI. Keep your remote team connected throughout the day.

Work from anywhere without feeling apart.

15 min. Not a slide deck – you’ll use Roam live. Join 2,000+ teams who’ve switched.