Virtual HQ for Companies of Tomorrow
Unleash Your Company Culture & Productivity with a live Company Visualization, Presence, Drop-In Meetings, & much, much more.
Live Company Visualization
The Roam HQ Environment gives everyone a full bird’s eye visualization of everything happening at the company right now.
SysAdmins love Roam. CEOs love Roam. Companies love Roam.
| Roam | Cisco Webex |
| AI-Powered Virtual HQ with a live company visualization, presence, drop-in meetings, group chat, AI meeting summaries, video conferencing, scheduling, & much more for just $19.50/month. | Legacy Video Conferencing Major Usability Issues |
3D Chat on the Map
See live typing indicators and chats from all people typing messages to you at the same time, not just the channel you’ve selected.
Shelf
Companies thrive when team connections are stronger. Build a better culture by uncovering unexpected links with your colleagues through your virtual shelf. Share your favorite photos, books, music, and more!
All-Hands Theater
Purpose built for delivering your All-Hands presentations in a unique theater environment. Complete with backstage, rows, audience microphone, walk–on music and more.
AI Meeting Summaries
Get AI summaries of all of your meetings in a friendly, promptable group chat UX.
Physical Office Tags
For hybrid companies, automatically show which people are in which physical offices right on the map.
Build team culture with fun sounds and individual reactions like waving, bowing and even some hidden easter eggs.
Soundboard & Entrance Music
Showcase your unique persona with your own entrance music. Experience better presentations with stereo applause, laughing, and even booing.
Integrations on the Map
Easily see which GitHub PRs are out, which Figma designs are being worked on, which Jira tasks are outstanding, and more.
Microsoft 365 Calendar Integration
Roam seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Calendar. Book meetings in your Virtual HQ right from your Microsoft Outlook calendar.
Seamlessly Integrate with Google Workspace
Roam also seamlessly integrates with Google Calendar. Book meetings in your Virtual HQ right from GCal.
Fast, Slick & Snappy Desktop and Mobile Apps on All Platforms
The Roam HQ apps work fast everywhere - including on Mac and iOS.
Stories
Share instant stories with your company - a video from a work trip, a photo with a customer, a screenshot of a deal that just closed, right on the map. Stories disappear after 24 hours.
Lobby
Allow customers, prospects, or anyone to book time with you or just drop-in instantly in your custom branded Lobby.
Why Roam over Webex?
Why Roam over Webex?
- Live Company Visualization. The Roam interface is a skeuomorphic, intuitive office where the whole company can see what’s going on, knock on each others office doors, and drop in on rooms. The Webex interface is centered on video conferencing first.
- Quick Drop-Ins. Roam facilitates quick drop-in meetings, which average just 8 minutes and majorly speed up company productivity. Make things happen NOW, not next week. When was the last time you had a fast Webex meeting?
- Better Connection. Companies working from Roam are instantly connected by the map, through live presence, and faster conversations. Webex has none of that.
- Better Culture. An HQ environment with the map, theater, virtual shelf, and stories and more brings your distributed company closer together than ever.
- Better for Hybrid, Distributed or Remote Teams. Office Tags and the Virtual HQ bring companies from around the world together. If your company has people and offices everywhere, a live visualization of your HQ beats group chat every time.
- Better for Non-Microsoft Shops. Roam integrates seamlessly with Google and has snappy, slick native apps for Mac and iOS.
- Be a Hero to your Company. Everyone loves working from Roam, nobody loves working from Webex.
Technical & Usability Issues with Webex
- The Webex desktop app is slow, clunky and slows down everyone’s machines. It is built on legacy technology.
- Webex does not have a user friendly experience.
- Flaky Calendar Integration. Your calendar is your operating system. Your team will not tolerate disappearing meetings, start buttons floating, and strange behavior with hybrid meetings
- Lots of work for SysAdmins! Webex adds itself into startup automatically and requires sysinternals to stop this behavior!
| Roam | Webex | |
| Company Visualization | Yes | No |
| Presence | Yes | No |
| Spotify, GitHub on the Map | Yes | No |
| Drop-In Meetings | Yes | No |
| Video Conferencing | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Shelf | Yes | No |
| Average Meeting Time | 8 Minutes | 30 minutes |
| Stories | Yes | No |
| AI Meeting Summaries | Magic Minutes (included) | Yes (additional charge) |
| Whiteboard | Yes | Yes |
| Meeting Record | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Group Chat | Included | Yes |
| External Guests | Yes | Yes |
| Lobby with Drop-Ins | Yes | No |
| Theater | Yes | No |
| Pricing | $19.50/month Monthly Billed Active Users Only No Commitment | Expensive |
Cisco WebEx. Just Kill Me Now. My users hate it. I hate it. I can't help feeling that its ongoing failure reflects poorly on me, and it annoys the heck out of me
r/sysadminMorse_PacificLove having team meetings with everyone, only possible to make our distributed team feel like they are in one place in our cloud HQ with Roam
Mo IqbalTech CriticMy chuckle of the day about Webex
r/sysadminplazman30With the ability to “drop in” to your virtual @roam office @howard and team just bridged real world connections to digital connections in a way never been done before.
Thomas Cornelius@graph8tcHoly crap Webex, why so many clicks?! … tell if I am missing something here, but using Webex is a complete PITA
r/sysadminplazman30Cisco WebEx. Just Kill Me Now. My users hate it. I hate it. I can't help feeling that its ongoing failure reflects poorly on me, and it annoys the heck out of me
r/sysadminMorse_PacificLove having team meetings with everyone, only possible to make our distributed team feel like they are in one place in our cloud HQ with Roam
Mo IqbalTech CriticMy chuckle of the day about Webex
r/sysadminplazman30With the ability to “drop in” to your virtual @roam office @howard and team just bridged real world connections to digital connections in a way never been done before.
Thomas Cornelius@graph8tcHoly crap Webex, why so many clicks?! … tell if I am missing something here, but using Webex is a complete PITA
r/sysadminplazman30Cisco WebEx. Just Kill Me Now. My users hate it. I hate it. I can't help feeling that its ongoing failure reflects poorly on me, and it annoys the heck out of me
r/sysadminMorse_PacificLove having team meetings with everyone, only possible to make our distributed team feel like they are in one place in our cloud HQ with Roam
Mo IqbalTech CriticMy chuckle of the day about Webex
r/sysadminplazman30With the ability to “drop in” to your virtual @roam office @howard and team just bridged real world connections to digital connections in a way never been done before.
Thomas Cornelius@graph8tcHoly crap Webex, why so many clicks?! … tell if I am missing something here, but using Webex is a complete PITA
r/sysadminplazman30