Secure Collaboration

Simply Collaborate

Work together. Keep control.

Collaborate brings conversations, files, meetings, requests, and external participants into one workspace. It supports secure external collaboration without exposing the wider internal environment. Messages stay connected to documents. Meetings stay connected to decisions. Guests stay inside clear boundaries. The work moves faster because nothing important gets left behind.

Simply Collaborate is secure collaboration software for internal teams and external participants. It is the collaboration layer for direct messages, channels, room-based workspaces, secure external participation, live meetings, shared documents, request tracking, and meeting intelligence. It supports everyday teamwork and structured deal-room style collaboration from the same platform.

Built for Internal teams, external participants, and structured room-based collaboration
Includes Chat, rooms, documents, requests, guest access, and meeting follow-through
Outcome Faster coordination, clearer decisions, and less work disappearing into side channels

What is Simply Collaborate?

Simply Collaborate is a unified collaboration layer for direct messages, channels, room-based workspaces, secure external participation, live meetings, shared documents, request tracking, and meeting intelligence. It keeps everyday teamwork and secure external collaboration in one operational workspace instead of scattering the work across chat, files, guest portals, meeting notes, and manual trackers.

Conversation that stays useful

  • Direct messages, public channels, private channels, and threaded replies
  • Attachments, reactions, code snippets, anchored comments, and trusted previews
  • Search across people, channels, messages, meetings, and meeting chat history

Rooms that give work structure

  • Dedicated room views for documents, requests, suggestions, governance, and activity
  • Curated room content instead of important files disappearing into chat history
  • Structured requests for asks, approvals, diligence items, and due-date coordination

External participation with boundaries

  • Controlled guest invites, approval requirements, and lifecycle controls
  • Policy-driven permissions for uploads, documents, meetings, and requests
  • Passkey or email verification options for secure guest sign-in

Who Simply Collaborate is for

  • Legal and compliance teams working with external parties
  • Corporate development and deal teams running diligence rooms
  • Operations teams coordinating internal and external workflows
  • Investigations teams managing sensitive collaboration
  • Any team that needs structured collaboration beyond chat

Why, what, and how

Collaborate is built for teams that need conversation, documents, external participation, and meeting follow-through to stay together instead of being reconstructed after the fact.

Why

Because chat alone does not hold the work together

Most collaboration tools are good at conversation, but the real work ends up scattered somewhere else. Files live in another system. Requests are tracked manually. Guest access becomes a compromise. Meetings finish, and the follow-up disappears into notes.

What

A unified collaboration layer

Collaborate keeps internal chat, external rooms, secure guest access, live meetings, shared documents, structured requests, and post-meeting action in one place, with the control serious work demands.

How

Move from conversation into structure without leaving the workflow

Start in chat. Move into a room when work needs structure. Share documents, track requests, invite outside participants securely, and launch meetings from the same conversation. When the meeting ends, transcripts, summaries, decisions, and action items flow back into the workspace ready to be reviewed and acted on.

Core collaboration

Everyday communication stays usable because the basics are there, but the record does not fall apart when the work gets more serious.

Everyday messaging that stays precise

  • Direct messages, public channels, private channels, pinned chats, unread counts, and presence indicators
  • Typing signals, read receipts, and delivery receipts for day-to-day coordination
  • Public channel discovery and join flows without admin-heavy setup

Rich message context

  • Attachments, threaded replies, emoji reactions, and trusted link previews
  • Code snippets and anchored code comments when conversations need more precision
  • Files can move from chat into room-managed content instead of staying buried in message history

Audit and version continuity

  • Auditable message editing with version history preserved
  • Controlled deletion instead of losing the record
  • Clearer continuity when messages, documents, and decisions matter later

Search across the workspace

  • Global search across people, channels, messages, meetings, and meeting chat history
  • Live conversations remain part of the broader record
  • Less time rebuilding context from side channels and meeting notes

Rooms for structured work

When collaboration needs more control than a channel can offer, rooms give the work a proper shape without forcing teams into a separate system.

Room-based workspaces

Use dedicated collaboration rooms and deal-room style spaces when work needs clearer ownership, visibility, and boundaries.

  • Built for more governed work than ordinary chat
  • Keeps the conversation, documents, and asks in one space

Purpose-built room views

Move through overview, documents, requests, suggestions, governance, and activity views from the same room.

  • Less jumping between tools just to understand status
  • Important work stays visible after the conversation moves on

Document curation inside the room

Curated room documents, pinned content, and room-managed files keep shared material under clearer control.

  • Turn shared files from chat into room-managed content
  • Keep the current working set easier to find and govern

Structured requests and due-date tracking

Track asks, approvals, diligence items, follow-up, and due dates without dropping back into manual trackers.

  • Supports approvals, diligence, and coordinated follow-through
  • Room activity trails keep movement and decisions visible

Secure external collaboration without opening the whole environment

Guests can work in the room, but only inside the boundaries you define. External participation stops being a compromise between usability and control.

Controlled guest entry

  • Secure guest invites delivered through controlled access links
  • Invite lifecycle controls for resend, extension, and revocation
  • Clearer control over who still has room access and why

Role-based participation

  • Policy-driven access for uploads, document visibility, contribution, meetings, and requests
  • Read-only modes and approval requirements where needed
  • Guest activity stays scoped to the room rather than the wider workspace

Guest-safe collaboration boundary

  • Outside parties can contribute without seeing the broader internal collaboration environment
  • Supports more serious work than ad hoc file sharing or guest chat
  • Keeps the room usable for diligence, approvals, and follow-up

Secure sign-in options

  • Passkey or WebAuthn flows for stronger guest access
  • Email verification paths when appropriate for the workflow
  • Useful when trust, control, and participant identity all matter

Meetings and follow-through

Meetings stay connected to the room instead of ending as disconnected notes. The live session, the transcript, and the action that follows all stay attached to the same workspace.

Launch meetings from collaboration

Meeting creation and launch starts directly from collaboration chats, with linked meeting history and dedicated meeting conversations.

Live controls that support real sessions

Waiting-room style admission, participant moderation, hand raising, mute and remove controls, device selection, screen sharing, reactions, subtitles, recording, transcription, flexible layouts, and background effects.

Searchable meeting record

Search across meetings and meeting chats so live conversations remain part of the broader collaboration record.

Summaries, decisions, and action

Automatic transcript processing can produce structured summaries covering overview, key points, decisions, action items, risks, and follow-up.

Task suggestions carried forward

Suggested next steps can move from meeting intelligence into tracked room requests, keeping follow-through visible instead of hiding in notes.

Apps across devices

Collaborate works across devices, but the experience is deeper on macOS and iPhone, with a lighter Windows desktop shell.

macOS

A native desktop workspace

macOS offers a native Collaborate workspace with realtime chat, presence, notifications, room management, documents, requests, suggestions, and resilient local message handling when connectivity drops.

iPhone

Mobile collaboration that survives unreliable networks

iPhone extends Collaborate into a true mobile experience with encrypted local storage, offline outbox behaviour, reconnect retry, resume recovery, and relaunch-safe message persistence.

Windows

A lighter desktop shell

Windows provides a desktop Collaborate app for persistent signed-in access, native download handling, in-app popup support, and collaboration and meeting launch flows in a desktop shell.

Where Collaborate fits in the wider platform

Collaborate keeps conversation, documents, guests, requests, and meetings together. When the work needs secure delivery, execution, or downstream review, it can sit alongside the rest of the Simply Discover platform.

Secure delivery when the room needs handoff

Use Simply Send when content needs encrypted delivery with stronger access control and audit trails outside the room.

Approvals when the work needs execution

Use Simply Sign when room-based approvals need a governed signing flow and defensible evidence trail.

Evidence-bearing follow-through

Rooms can also sit alongside eDiscovery and compliance work when collaboration needs to stay close to the wider record.

Simply Collaborate FAQs

Straight answers for teams evaluating secure internal and external collaboration.

What is Simply Collaborate?

Simply Collaborate is secure collaboration software for internal teams and external participants, with direct messages, channels, room-based workspaces, live meetings, shared documents, request tracking, and meeting follow-through inside one workspace.

Can external guests collaborate without seeing the wider internal environment?

Yes. Guests can work inside controlled rooms with policy-driven permissions and invite lifecycle controls without exposing the broader internal collaboration environment.

Does Collaborate support rooms and deal-room style workspaces?

Yes. Rooms provide dedicated views for documents, requests, suggestions, governance, and activity so teams can run more structured collaboration than a normal chat channel supports.

Can documents and requests stay attached to the same workspace?

Yes. Shared files can become room-managed content, and structured request workflows keep asks, approvals, diligence items, and follow-up in the same room.

What happens after meetings end?

Meeting history remains linked to the workspace, and transcript processing can produce summaries, decisions, risks, action items, and suggested next steps that can feed back into room requests.

How do external participants authenticate?

Collaborate supports secure sign-in options for external participants, including passkey or WebAuthn flows and email verification paths.

Is the Windows client the same as macOS and iPhone?

No. macOS and iPhone go deeper into local resilience and message persistence. Windows provides a lighter desktop shell for persistent access, downloads, popup support, and collaboration or meeting launch flows.

Need collaboration that keeps the work and the follow-through together?

Book a demo to see how Simply Collaborate handles rooms, secure guests, shared documents, requests, meetings, and post-meeting action without pushing the real work into side systems.