The Roam Research alternative for teams, not just individuals
Roam Research is a personal thinking tool with bidirectional linking. Teams need more than linked notes. Trilo gives you shared knowledge pages, real-time chat, tasks, video calls, and AI coworkers that surface connections across your team's work.
TL;DR
Roam Research is designed for individual thinkers exploring ideas through linked notes. Team collaboration requires shared editing, chat, tasks, and meetings. Trilo is built for teams with shared docs, real-time chat, and AI coworkers. Choose Roam for personal idea exploration. Choose Trilo for team knowledge management.
Why teams leave Roam Research
Built for individual thought
Roam Research is a personal thinking tool. Its graph view and daily notes are designed for one person's ideas, not team collaboration.
No real-time team collaboration
Roam multiplayer is limited. There is no real-time co-editing, no team chat, no video calls.
Expensive for teams
Roam costs $15/user/month (Pro) with no team chat, video, or task management. Your team still needs Slack, Zoom, and Asana.
Steep learning curve
Block references, queries, and graph navigation have a significant learning curve. Onboarding new team members takes weeks.
What you get with Trilo
Team-first knowledge
Shared pages accessible to everyone instantly
Chat alongside notes
Discuss ideas in real-time, not in isolation
AI knowledge coworker
AI that surfaces connections across team content
Quick onboarding
New members contribute on day one, not week three
Quick comparison
How Trilo helps
Knowledge That Your Team Can Actually Share
Roam Research is a personal graph of ideas. Sharing that graph with teammates is awkward. Trilo knowledge pages are collaborative from the start. Your team reads, edits, and discusses shared documentation with AI helping surface relevant content.
From Ideas to Action in One Place
In Roam, ideas live as linked notes. Turning them into projects requires manually creating tasks in another tool. Trilo connects ideas to action: discuss concepts in chat, document decisions in shared pages, and create tasks on kanban boards.
AI That Understands Collective Knowledge
Roam queries search your personal database. Trilo AI coworkers have context from your entire team: conversations, meeting transcripts, documents, and task history.
Ready for team knowledge management that everyone can use?
Join teams who turned personal notes into shared knowledge with AI and real-time chat.