Teams

Your Pally works with theirs.

A team is a standing trust relationship between several Pally users' Pallys. You task your own Pally in your normal chat. Your Pally coordinates with your teammates' Pallys. Each teammate's Pally acts only within what its owner chose to share with that team, and every Pally reports back to its own owner.

You never talk to another person's Pally. The coordination is Pally-to-Pally.

Ski trip

Priya

Sam

Maya

You

The relay

One task, two chats

You task your own Pally. Priya's Pally asks Priya. Each person stays in their own chat.

Your chat

Monday 9:41
9:41
Pally
iMessage

Priya's chat

Monday 9:42
9:41
Pally
iMessage

How it works

Create, invite, task, report back

  1. Create a team by texting Pally, for example "make a team called ski trip" or "make a team with Priya and Sam".
  2. Any member asks their Pally to invite a person by phone number. The invite lands in the invitee's own Pally chat as a question. They reply "yes" and they are in. There is no link, no web step, and no separate approval when the creator invited them.
  3. Someone who is not on Pally yet gets a held seat. The first message you send them arrives as a text from your own number with the team link attached.
  4. You task your own Pally. It works with the other Pallys and reports the outcome back to you in your own chat.

Sharing

What you can share

Each member picks what their Pally may share with the team, one capability at a time, on the dashboard at my.pally.com/teams or by telling their Pally. A new member and the creator start by sharing nothing.

Calendar

Free and busy by default. You can also share titles and times, or let a teammate's Pally book time.

Email

Separate scopes for reading your mail and for sending mail.

Slack

Separate scopes for reading messages and for posting.

Linear

Read scope for issues, write scope for changes.

Google Drive

Find files and share links only. File contents stay private.

Notion

Read, write, or only the pages you select.

Contact card

The name and handles you choose to give the team.

Shared profile

Facts your Pally may state freely in that team, like dietary needs or your neighborhood.

Anything you do not share is not readable. A teammate's Pally cannot read your private tools, like your calendar, without your permission.

Control

You stay in control

  • Nothing is shared by default.
  • When a team task needs something you have not shared, your own Pally asks you once. You can allow it once, allow it always, or decline. "Yes, always" saves a standing permission.
  • Outward writes under a standing permission, like sending email or Slack messages and booking calendar time, notify you after they run.
  • You can watch the Pallys work in a transcript on the dashboard team page. Declined requests never appear in the transcript.
  • Leaving a team, or removal from it, removes you from every teammate's sharing list.
  • Team memory only holds what was said in the team or explicitly contributed. Personal memory never syncs into a team.

Ask once

sam's pally wants your free/busy for thursday. ok?
yes

Allow always

always
saved for this team

Notify after

booked thursday 7pm at lupa for the ski trip team

Messages

Team messages and hand-offs

Tell your Pally something for a teammate and it delivers the message over a private thread to that teammate's Pally.

You can also hand a teammate's Pally a to-do. It runs in their own chat under their rules, and you get a one-line outcome back. You choose which teammates may send you instructions.

Automations

Team automations

Any member can propose a scheduled team task. The creator approves it. Any member can mute it.

Limits

What a team does not do

  • A team holds up to 10 people.
  • Text data from iMessage and WhatsApp is never shareable with a team.
  • Each person's Pally turns count against that person's own plan.

Get started

Three texts to send Pally

Create a team
make a team called ski trip
Invite someone
invite +1 415 555 0134 to the ski trip team
Give the team a task
find a dinner night for the four of us

Teams are on every plan.

Privacy

Sharing is per person and per capability

A team never widens what your Pally may read or do on its own. Read the Pally privacy policy.