Amara Chen
Co-founder & CEO
Previously led remote ops for a 400-person team. Has opinions about lunch tables.
Remote work gave us our lives back, then quietly took the office's best feature: each other. Remote Desk is our answer — a floor your team can actually stand on.
Remote Desk started with a question we couldn't shake: remote work gave us our lives back — so why does collaborating remotely still feel like queueing for a meeting?
We had the tools. Video that never dropped, chat that never slept. What we'd lost was the geometry of an office: the desk you wander past, the conversation you half-hear and join, the door you knock on. Place, it turns out, was doing invisible work.
So we built place as software. A floor plan instead of a contact list. Seats instead of join links. Audio that behaves like air. Remote Desk is the office, distilled to the parts that mattered — and none of the parts that didn't.
Then we noticed what offices were never good at: keeping what was said. Today the floor carries the whole arc of a working day — meet in a room, let AI notes capture the decisions, and act on them with built-in tasks and team chat. From meeting to task to thread without leaving the room. We call it Meet → Capture → Act.
How we got here
Early 2024
Two avatars on a grey rectangle and one rule: audio fades with distance. The first unscheduled conversation happened eleven minutes after deploy.
Mid 2024
We deleted the “join call” button. Sitting down became the only way to talk — and suddenly the floor explained itself.
Early 2025
Teams kept asking for different layouts, so we gave them the furniture. Floors became data anyone could rearrange.
Late 2025
Private rooms, knocking, moderation, statuses. The social physics of an office, encoded one polite rule at a time.
2026
AI transcription and summaries for meeting rooms enter beta — because the best note-taker is the one nobody had to assign.
What we believe
01
If a feature adds a step between “I have a question” and “we're talking”, it doesn't ship.
02
No red badges, no urgency theatre. The floor should lower your heart rate, not raise it.
03
Self-hosting is a first-class citizen, not an enterprise upsell. Your conversations belong to you.
04
Stereo pan on a passing hello. The knock animation. Hundreds of details nobody lists, everybody feels.
The people
We work inside Remote Desk every day — our office is the staging environment.
Co-founder & CEO
Previously led remote ops for a 400-person team. Has opinions about lunch tables.
Co-founder & CTO
Spent a decade in real-time media. Wrote the first proximity-audio prototype on a flight.
Head of Design
Believes software should feel like furniture: useful, quiet, and pleasant to be around.
Founding Engineer
Owns the floor editor. Measures success in how few clicks it takes to move a wall.
Free for up to 8 seats. Set up a floor in ten minutes — your first spontaneous conversation will happen before lunch.