SoWork

SoWork is a virtual office for remote teams that combines presence, instant meetings, topic based chat, AI meeting memory and weekly collaboration insights in one space. AI agents get desks alongside human teammates, and an MCP and API link lets external assistants query what is happening in the office.

SoWork is a virtual office built for remote and hybrid teams, with a distinctive twist: AI agents are treated as coworkers with a place in the same office as the humans. Instead of trading calendar invites and video links, teammates move an avatar around a shared floor plan, see who is at their desk, and start a conversation or a call in seconds. Chat, meetings and AI meeting memory sit inside that single space rather than in separate apps. The AI layer is called SoWork AI. Every meeting can be recorded, transcribed in real time, summarized and saved so the team keeps a searchable record of decisions and action items. A weekly insights report shows meeting time, focus time and who collaborates with whom. An MCP and API connection lets external assistants such as Claude query what is happening in the office, who is around and what a meeting concluded, which addresses a real weakness of general purpose AI: it knows what you typed, not who is in the room. The product is aimed at distributed companies of small to mid size, plus growing teams that want presence without micromanagement. Managers get an at a glance view of availability, while individual contributors can switch to Simple or Mini Mode for deep work, set a status, and let calendar sync mark them as in a meeting automatically. Offices and avatars are customizable in a way that resembles building in The Sims, which teams use to express culture. SoWork positions itself against generic collaboration suites and against virtual office rivals such as Gather, where walking over to a colleague replaces scheduling. Agents are listed as coming soon on the homepage, so the agent desk concept should be treated as a roadmap item rather than a shipped capability. Buyers comparing tools should weigh the fuller meeting memory and analytics against the overhead of a spatial interface that some teams never adopt.