We gave up the commute and accidentally gave up the office
Samantrix started from a simple observation: the tools that replaced the office replaced the meetings, not the room. Everything else — the hallway, the ambient hum, the two-minute question, the sense of being somewhere with people — was quietly written off as a cost of flexibility. We did not think it had to be.
What we are actually building
A virtual office is easy to describe and hard to justify. The fair question is always the same: why does a company need a 3D floor plan when it already has a chat tool and a video tool that work fine?
The answer is that those tools are addressed by name. You have to decide to contact a specific person about a specific thing. An office is addressed by place — you find out things you did not know to ask about, because you were standing near where they happened.
That is the whole thesis. Everything else in Samantrix follows from it: proximity voice because distance should carry meaning, walk-in rooms because a meeting should be somewhere rather than a link, attendance because being present is already the signal, and a red postal box in the lobby because a workplace should have some character.
Our position
Remote work does not need more communication. It needs a place — and the paperwork of employment should happen as a side effect of being in it.
- Founded
- 2025
- Model
- B2B SaaS, per company
- Team
- Remote-first
- Based
- Bengaluru, India
Six commitments we hold ourselves to
These are not values on a wall. Each one has cost us a feature we could have shipped or a customer we could have signed.
A place beats a feature list
We could have shipped another integration layer. Instead we started from the thing every remote tool skipped: somewhere to be. Every feature we add has to earn its place in that room.
Awareness, never surveillance
We will not build keystroke logging, screenshot capture or productivity scoring. Presence in a shared space is the only signal we collect, because it is the only one that does not cost trust.
Adoption over spectacle
A workplace only works if everyone can use it. That means browser first, no headsets, honest hardware requirements, and a 2D mode that is a real product rather than an apology.
Fewer tools, told plainly
We are trying to remove line items from your stack, not add one. When something is not ready, we say so — including on this website, where the roadmap lists what does not exist yet.
Built with design partners
The postal box, the focus zones and the honest idle handling all came from companies running early builds. We would rather ship what a real team asked for than what a persona might want.
Infrastructure discipline
A virtual office holds conversations, recordings and attendance records. It gets built like infrastructure — encryption, role-based access, audit logs and retention from the first workspace.
What exists, what is next, what is honestly still a plan
We publish the roadmap because buying a platform means buying its direction. Dates are targets, not contractual commitments — and we will tell you if one slips.
- Shipped
- 3D and 2D office with multi-floor layouts and the drag-and-drop editor
- Proximity voice, walk-in meeting rooms, recordings and transcripts
- Automatic attendance, leave management and the lobby postal box
- Task board, code sync and the admin console
- Q4 2026in build
- Native iOS and Android clients with touch controls
- Avatar marketplace and branded company avatar sets
- Enterprise identity provider integrations and directory provisioning
- Advanced workplace analytics and scheduled report delivery
- 2027 H1
- Meeting summaries and action items generated from transcripts
- Deeper integrations with project and knowledge tools
- Optional headset mode for teams that want it
- 2027 H2
- White-label offering for partners and resellers
- Global content delivery expansion for lower-latency floors
- Independent compliance certification programme
Boring infrastructure under an interesting product
The office should feel like a game. Everything behind it is deliberately conventional, because a workplace platform that goes down is not charming.
- Real-time 3D client
- Unity, WebGL and native desktop builds
- Application layer
- Next.js and React across web and desktop
- Desktop shell
- Electron with native tray, notifications and auto-update
- Backend services
- NestJS with a documented REST and realtime API
- Realtime
- WebSocket presence with a distributed pub/sub layer
- Voice and video
- WebRTC over a scalable selective forwarding unit
- Data
- PostgreSQL for records, Redis for live state, object storage for media
- Delivery
- Containerised services with multi-region options for Enterprise
Who we want to hear from
Design partners
Companies of 50 to 500 people willing to run Samantrix as their real office and tell us bluntly what is wrong with it. You get direct roadmap influence and preferential terms.