Introducing Lua Workspaces - and why we think the next era of AI at work is multiplayer.
Why
Every CEO I speak to is under pressure to "get AI right." Pick the model, pick the vendor, pick the flagship use case, show the board there's a strategy.
The more companies we see from the inside, the more convinced I am that this is backwards.
Here's what's actually happening in most companies: nearly everyone is already using AI. A salesperson has worked out a better follow-up flow - it lives in their chat history. An analyst has a research method that gets them to answers twice as fast — it lives in a Claude tab. A team asks the same question every week, and the company never learns the answer.
Everyone is getting individually faster. The company learns nothing. Context does not travel. Learning does not compound. And when your best people leave, their entire AI playbook walks out the door in a browser profile.
That's the problem we built Workspaces for. Not "your company needs more AI" - it already has plenty. It's that all of it is single-player.
Why now
Three things are converging, and they're why this couldn't have waited.
The model race has made betting impossible. The best model for a given task changes quarter to quarter. Legal teams tend to prefer one vendor, engineers another, and both are right. Committing your company to a single AI vendor right now is the hardest bet in tech - and the projects we watch fail usually didn't pick the wrong model anyway. They picked the wrong use case, in a boardroom, in advance.
Adoption has outrun visibility. Around 78% of people using AI at work are bringing their own tools. Whatever your official AI strategy says, your real one is scattered across personal subscriptions and private chat histories, invisible to the company paying for the productivity.
The knowledge is leaking. Every prompt someone perfects, every workflow someone invents, every answer someone digs out of a model - right now it accrues to the individual and to the model vendor. Not to the company. The longer that runs, the bigger the asset you're not building.
Our vision
We think the next era of AI at work is multiplayer.
Not a chatbot for every employee. Not an agent platform that skips the people. A workspace where your team and its AI work in the same threads, on the same memory - the way work actually happens.
That memory changes what AI can be for a company. When the workspace remembers, it learns. It notices the Monday report that gets rebuilt every week, the customer follow-up that keeps slipping, the question that gets asked every Thursday. And over time, it proposes the digital employees your company should run next - grown from how your team actually works, not guessed at in a strategy offsite.
And through all of it, one principle: what your team builds with AI should belong to your company. The memory, the workflows, the learning - an asset that survives every model change, every vendor shift, every departure. The companies that win this transition won't be the ones that guessed the perfect use case. They'll be the ones that turned shadow AI into company AI.
What's in Workspaces today
Lua Workspaces is a native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. From day one:
- Every frontier model, one workspace. Claude, GPT, Gemini and more - pick the right model for the task, or let Lua route it. No vendor to marry, and you swap the moment the leaderboard changes.
- Work together. Shared threads and @mentions. Your teammate joins the conversation - not a screenshot of it.
- An assistant from day one. Every seat starts with a personal assistant that learns how you work and starts taking the tedious parts.
- One company memory. Conversations, decisions, and documents compound into a shared memory the whole workspace draws on - so nobody explains anything twice.
- Bring your history. Import your ChatGPT and Claude conversations in minutes. Nothing starts from zero.
- Visibility and ceilings. See what's actually being used, and cap spend per seat. The monthly number is a ceiling, not a surprise.
- "Auto Recruit". Automatically build new digital employees inside your business as Workspaces learns about your business.
It auto-updates, and it will be updating a lot - this is the fastest-moving thing we've ever shipped, and multiplayer gets major work over the coming weeks. Early access comes with two months unmetered, and you can invite three teammates straight from the app. It's built for teams; you feel it the moment a second person joins.
Welcome to the multiplayer AI era.
