Questions about putting an AI in a group chat
Iri is a shared AI: one conversation, one memory, and one AI for a group of people rather than for one person. These are the questions people ask before they try it.
Can I add an AI to a group chat?
Yes. Iri joins a normal group message thread as one of the participants, alongside the people already in it. It reads what is said there, answers when it is asked, and stays quiet while you are talking to each other. There is no command or special syntax to learn: you address it the way you would address anyone else in the thread.
Does it work in iMessage, or only in an app?
Both. Iri sits in a regular iMessage thread on iPhone and over RCS or SMS on Android, so a mixed group works without anyone changing how they text. The group thread is the part a plan adds. The app shows the same space from the other side, with the lists, plans, photos and memory the conversation has produced laid out and searchable, and a free space has all of that.
Does everyone need to install something?
No. The group text works on the phone each person already has, whichever kind it is. The app is there for whoever wants to look at the lists, plans and memory directly, and it is optional for everybody else.
Can several people share one AI?
That is the whole design. Most AI is one person and one assistant, so it only knows your side of things and starts from whatever you can retell it. Iri is in the conversation with everyone, so it knows first-hand who said what, and what it remembers belongs to the group rather than to one account.
What does it remember, and who can see it?
Preferences, decisions, plans, routines and the things you have settled — the context that usually lives in six apps and several heads. Every item remembered is listed where everyone in the space can see it (in the web app), and any of them can edit or delete any of it at any time. Nothing is hidden from the people it is about.
Is it always listening and replying to everything?
No. It knows the difference between a conversation and a question, and stays out of member-to-member talk without needing a wake word or an @-mention. How much it joins in is a setting the group chooses together, from chatty to nearly silent.
What can it actually do, beyond answering?
The talking becomes structure. What you decide turns into lists, meal plans, trips, projects and reminders, kept current by the thread itself rather than by somebody transcribing it later. It can also look things up, and every action it takes is recorded in the thread and can be undone.
Can I be in more than one group?
Yes, and they stay separate on purpose. Each space has its own Iri and its own memory, so what your household knows is not what your travel group knows. Nothing carries across in either direction.
How is this different from a shared to-do or family calendar app?
Those give several people one place to type things into; somebody still has to do the typing. Iri is the thing that does it: the conversation is the input, and the list, the plan, and the reminder are what comes out of it. It can also answer questions and go and look things up, which a shared list cannot.
How is it different from using ChatGPT with my partner?
A personal assistant answers one person at a time and has no memory of the other people in your life beyond what you tell it about them. Iri is a participant in the shared thread, so it hears both sides directly, and its memory is a shared, editable record rather than one person's chat history.
Is there a free version?
Yes, and it needs no card. You get a real space with Iri in it, room for six people, and five messages to try it with. After that, Iri goes quiet and everything the space has saved stays yours and stays usable: the lists, the plans, the photos and what Iri already remembers. A plan brings Iri back and adds the group text.
Who pays, and what does it cost?
You can start for free with no card: one space, up to six people, and five messages to try Iri. After that, one person subscribes and everyone they invite joins for free with exactly the same product. Pricing is by group size rather than per seat, and the paid plans differ only in how many people and spaces they hold, never in features. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Is it private?
Each space is isolated at the database by row-level security, not just in application code, and each space has its own Iri with its own memory that never sees another. The AI works through a fixed set of typed tools rather than raw access to your data, and everything it does is visible in the thread.
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