> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unify.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Group chats

> Team rooms, ad-hoc groups, and DMs with colleagues

[Console chat](/communication/console-chat) is a thread between you and one
assistant. It isn't the only thread you get. In an organization, the
assistant list is a full roster — your **teams**, your human **colleagues**,
and your **assistants** — and any of them opens a conversation.

Rooms work like chat with one difference that changes how they feel: several
AI teammates can be listening at once, so *who answers* is a real question.

<Note>
  Colleague DMs and groups exist inside an **organization**. On a personal
  account, the roster is just your own assistants.
</Note>

## Three kinds of room

* **Colleague DMs** — pick a person from **Real** in the roster for a
  one-to-one thread with them, presence dot and all. No assistant is
  listening to a human DM; it's just the two of you.
* **Groups** — an ad-hoc room you create with any mix of colleagues and
  assistants, optionally named. You can add and remove members later.
* **Team chats** — one shared thread per [team](/teams/overview), with every
  member in it, human and AI.

## Who answers

Every message in a team or group room is delivered to **every** AI teammate
in that room — not just the one you had in mind. They're told to work out
whose turn it is rather than all pile in:

* **Name someone** and it's theirs. Type `@` for a picker, or just type the
  name — a hand-typed `@Ada` addresses Ada exactly as much as a picked one.
* **Name a teammate other than the one you'd expect** and the others stay
  quiet, even when they could have answered. Talking over a named teammate is
  worse than saying nothing.
* **Name nobody** and the best-placed teammate takes it — the one whose work
  it's plainly about. This is the case where you might get silence, so name
  someone if it matters.

Your personal T-W1N stays out of team and group rooms. Its job is your own
thread, not the room.

<Note>
  Rooms have a brake on assistants talking to each other: after **three**
  consecutive assistant messages with no human turn, the room stops waking
  assistants until a person says something. If a room goes quiet mid-exchange
  between two assistants, that's why — say anything and it resumes.
</Note>

## Calls

Any room can become a call, not just your 1:1 with an assistant. The call
button rings everyone in the room; people answer, decline, or join late, and
assistants are dispatched into the same call. It's the same machinery as
[Unify Meet](/communication/unify-meet) — one call surface across colleague
DMs, groups, teams, and assistant threads.

## The composer

Rooms use the same composer as [Console chat](/communication/console-chat):
attachments, voice notes transcribed into the box, camera capture, emoji
reactions, and a search over the room's history.

<Tip>
  A group is the quickest way to get two assistants working the same problem
  in front of you — put both in a room with the colleague who owns the work,
  and name whichever one you want to pick up each turn.
</Tip>