Self-hosted Live Communication for Technical Teams

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RustChat is the live signal layer for teams that want internal communication, threaded discussions, code-aware messaging, and operational control under their own infrastructure.

Persistent internal logs

Keep project conversations, release notes, and operational decisions visible over time.

Native Markdown and code

Support technical discussions with Markdown, code snippets, links, and file context.

Channels and direct messages

Organize communication around teams, projects, incidents, releases, and private follow-up.

Infrastructure Control

Keep your communication stack under your own operational control. Deploy on-premise or inside your private cloud.

Sensible Workflow

Group context with channels, threaded discussions, files, and technical follow-up that stays visible over time.

Open Source Foundation

Inspect the source, evaluate the deployment model, and verify the infrastructure your team depends on.

STEP 1

Discuss the issue

Keep build failures, release checks, and operational questions inside the project channel.

STEP 2

Attach the evidence

Share logs, build reports, and release notes directly where the conversation happens.

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STEP 3

Preserve the fix

Keep the reason behind fixes visible after the immediate problem is resolved.

Live Signal Layer

RustChat

Live communication, channels, direct messages, replies, and operational discussions.

Durable Artifacts

RustShare

Durable company artifacts: files, notes, meetings, decisions, and shared workspace context.

Future AI Memory

Future Company RAG

Future commercial AI memory layer designed around permissions, ownership, and context.

RUST

Technical Foundation

RustChat leverages modern asynchronous I/O to handle team messages with a predictable memory footprint.

System Efficiency

Written in Rust to provide reliable backend performance and lower resource overhead without garbage collection pauses.

Open Architecture

The core platform is open source. You can inspect the networking code and compile the binary independently.

Lightweight Client

The browser interface is built to load efficiently, execute quickly, and respect your machine's system resources.

Structured Integrations

Build straightforward bots and internal workflow scripts against our documented, typed API surface.

Run your own team workspace

Deploy RustChat on your infrastructure to keep internal communication private and explicitly under your control.