# Stoa > Stoa is the multiplayer meeting room where software product teams build. It combines live video, an always-on in-room AI agent, Claude Code, decision capture, and runnable prototype generation in one place, so meetings produce artifacts (decisions, PRDs, user stories, shipped code), not just notes. Built on a local-first ethos: the context you accumulate is yours, queryable, and syncable to disk. Made by SpecStory, Inc. Company: SpecStory, Inc. Products: Stoa (the multiplayer meeting room where product teams build) and SpecStory (AI coding-session capture for developers). Pricing (Stoa): usage-based, 5 USD per hour. No seats, no tiers, everyone gets every feature. 10 USD free credit on sign-up, plus 50 USD when a card is added. Pricing (SpecStory): free extensions and CLI; paid Cloud sync. Unique vs. competitors: Stoa is the only product that pairs live video with an in-room AI agent that writes and runs code while the team talks. Local-first context ownership means your decision log and artifacts are never locked in. App: https://meet.withstoa.com ## Product - Stoa - [Stoa overview](https://withstoa.com/): What Stoa is, the multiplayer meeting room where product teams build. - [Pricing](https://withstoa.com/pricing): Usage-based 5 USD per hour, no seats or tiers, free credit to start. - [For teams](https://withstoa.com/teams): How small teams get big leverage with Stoa. - [FAQ](https://withstoa.com/faq): What Stoa is, the Space Agent, decision capture, artifacts, video, pricing. - [Local-first](https://withstoa.com/local-first): Our position on context ownership and no lock-in. - [Meeting templates](https://withstoa.com/templates): Outlines and facilitator guides for product meetings. ## Product - SpecStory - [SpecStory](https://withstoa.com/specstory): Auto-save AI coding sessions (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Droid CLIs) to searchable markdown. - [Agent Skills](https://withstoa.com/agent-skills): Installable skills for AI coding agents. - [SpecStory docs](https://docs.specstory.com): Getting-started guides and references. ## Guides & philosophy - [Founder's guide](https://withstoa.com/guides/founder): Stoa's philosophy of product meetings. - [Product practice guide](https://withstoa.com/guides/product): How to run meetings that produce artifacts. - [Intent lead time](https://withstoa.com/guides/intent-lead-time): The metric Stoa is built to reduce. ## Writing - [The jig is back](https://withstoa.com/blog/the-jig-is-back): Skilled craftspeople have always built jigs - small tools for one job in one shop. In software that cost a day or two, too much for a one-off. Agents change the math. - [Remote Collaboration is becoming Multiplayer: What AR VR teaches us about AI-Native Work](https://withstoa.com/blog/remote-collaboration-ar-vr): AR, VR, and MR research reframes remote collaboration as shared environments, presence, interaction, and now agency. - [Measuring Decision Lag, the New Long Pole](https://withstoa.com/blog/intent-lead-time-audit): When agents can ship in hours, the slow part is deciding what to build. Intent Lead Time measures the gap between a product decision and the first implementation commit. - [AI Broke the Spec Handoff](https://withstoa.com/blog/ai-broke-spec-handoff): AI makes implementation move faster than traditional spec handoffs can carry context. Teams need to build the spec and prototype together. - [Distance Still Matters: Why Context Slips Away in Remote Teams](https://withstoa.com/blog/distance-still-matters-why-context-slips-away-in-remote-teams): Why remote teams lose shared context faster, and how treating decisions as first-class artifacts can keep alignment intact. - [The PRFAQ Is Dead. Long Live the Product Landing Page.](https://withstoa.com/blog/the-prfaq-is-dead-long-live-the-product-landing-page): The PRFAQ was a breakthrough in working backwards from the customer. But plain documents drift toward internal language and feature lists. A Product Landing Page keeps you honest. - [Sharing the Thinking Behind the Thinking](https://withstoa.com/blog/sharing-the-thinking-behind-the-thinking): AI makes human reasoning invisible. Four practices to close the new communication gap. - [Turning a White-Glove Process Into a Self-Serve Workflow](https://withstoa.com/blog/turning-a-white-glove-process-into): Denise is CEO and co-founder of Variata, an AI-powered testing platform. Her product lets teams validate their websit... - [Solo AI Keeps Getting Better. Team AI Keeps Getting Worse.](https://withstoa.com/blog/solo-ai-keeps-getting-better-team-ai-keeps-getting-worse): The problem isn't the tools - it's context fragmentation. Solo productivity is up, team coherence is down. - [Please Review the Safety Card Before Airdropping Your Prototype](https://withstoa.com/blog/please-review-the-safety-card-before): At a recent product and engineering leadership roundtable, a PM director said: \"I built a prototype that shows exactl... - [Why Your Product Decisions Keep Getting Relitigated](https://withstoa.com/blog/why-your-product-decisions-keep-getting-relitigated): Relitigated decisions stem from mixing divergent and convergent thinking. Name the mode before you start. - [The Rise of the Producing Manager](https://withstoa.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-producing-manager): What cognitive science says about managing AI coding agents. Developers are becoming producing managers. - [Planning Work for Our Single-Threaded Brains](https://withstoa.com/blog/planning-work-for-our-single-threaded-brains): When dual-tasking works, when it doesn't, and why - what cognitive science tells us about managing AI coding agents. - [Conversation → Decisions → Strategy](https://withstoa.com/blog/conversation-decisions-strategy): Watch a live conversation become a strategy document. Decisions with context, not just notes. - [7 Lessons Learned From 25 Years of New Product Introduction](https://withstoa.com/blog/7-lessons-from-25-years-of-new-product-introduction): Find your vanguard. Find an excruciating pain. Define a platform mission. Deliver a specific solution. - [Mitchell Hashimoto on the AI-Assisted Future of Open Source](https://withstoa.com/blog/mitchell-hashimoto-on-the-ai-assisted): What the Ghostty creator learned reviewing hundreds of AI-generated pull requests - [SpecStory in Action: How a Deleted Repo Was Rebuilt from History](https://withstoa.com/blog/how-a-deleted-repo-was-rebuilt-from-history): A coding agent deleted an entire repository. SpecStory's preserved session histories made full recovery possible. - [How to be an Open Source Hero: Contributing AI-Generated Code with Care](https://withstoa.com/blog/how-to-be-an-opensource-hero): A guide for contributors and maintainers on responsible AI-assisted open source contributions. - [SpecStory in Action: From AI Session to Blog Post](https://withstoa.com/blog/from-ai-session-to-blogpost): How an early user turned a preserved AI coding session into a published blog post. - [Agile is a Sledgehammer: We Need a Toolbox](https://withstoa.com/blog/agile-is-a-sledgehammer-we-need-a): How teams can move faster using mixed methodologies ## Company - [Company](https://withstoa.com/company): Mission and team (SpecStory, Inc.). - [Privacy](https://withstoa.com/privacy) - [Terms](https://withstoa.com/terms) - [Trust Center](https://trust.specstory.com) ## Optional - [Blog index](https://withstoa.com/blog): All posts. - [Videos](https://withstoa.com/videos): Recorded sessions and talks. - [Brand assets](https://withstoa.com/brand): Logos and brand guidance.