Group projects Share a project with your study group.
Normi lets you share a project with up to 25 people — the files, notes, reminders and chat for one module or one group assignment — and everyone in it can ask the AI about the shared material and get answers with the source attached.
Be clear about what this is not: it is not a messenger, and it will not replace your WhatsApp group. It is for the coursework layer that group chats are bad at, where the reading list scrolls away by Tuesday and three people separately ask which lecture the deadline was in.
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What a group chat is bad at
Group chats are excellent at coordination and terrible at retention. The brief gets posted in week one and is unreachable by week four. The reading list is a screenshot. The deadline is in a message somebody deleted. Nobody is at fault for this; a chat is a stream, and a stream is the wrong shape for reference material.
A shared Normi project is the other shape. The files stay put, the deadlines are objects rather than sentences, and the material is answerable — so "which lecture was the seminar question from" is a question you ask the project, not the group.
Setting one up
Make a project for the module
One project per module or per assignment. Projects are private by default, so nothing is shared until you say so.
Put the material in it
The brief, the reading list, the slides, the deadline. Files are text-extracted on arrival, so they are answerable straight away.
Invite up to 25 people
Owners can edit everything, viewers can only see. Chat is built into the project, next to the material it is about.
What Normi is for, and what it is not
We would rather be placed correctly than broadly, so here is the honest split.
| What you want | Normi | Use instead |
|---|---|---|
| Chat with friends | Not for this | WhatsApp or Snapchat — instant, universal, everyone already has it |
| Voice rooms, big communities | Not for this | Discord — built for always-on voice and servers of hundreds |
| Institution coursework, video calls | Not for this | Microsoft Teams — it is what your university administers |
| Meeting new people | Not for this | Discord or Bumble For Friends — Normi is private and project-based, with no discovery |
| A small group working off the same material | Yes | Nothing else does this — shared files and deadlines, and an AI everyone can ask, with sources |
That last row is the only one we are claiming. If your problem is any of the other four, the other four answers are better and you should use them.
Twenty-five people, on purpose
The cap is a design decision. Shared projects are meant for a seminar group, a project team, a society committee, or a flat — units small enough that everyone in them has a reason to be there. Tools that scale to hundreds end up needing moderation, roles, and channel hygiene, and the thing they were originally good at gets buried under the administration of being large.
The same shared material can be turned into a quiz the whole group takes off identical sources, and anything in the project is answerable with the source attached. Projects stay private by default; sharing is something you do deliberately, per project.
Questions, answered.
How many people can I share a project with?
Up to 25. That is a deliberate ceiling rather than a technical one: the feature is built for a seminar group, a project team, or a flat, not for a server of strangers.
Is this a replacement for WhatsApp or Discord?
No, and you should not treat it as one. Normi has messaging, but only inside a shared project, and it is built around the material rather than around the conversation. Keep your group chat where it is. Use Normi for the files, notes, deadlines, and questions that get lost in a group chat.
Can everyone in the group use the AI on the shared files?
Yes. Once a file is in a shared project, anyone in that project can ask questions about it and gets the same cited answers, so nobody has to be the person who read the brief.
Can I control what people can do?
Yes. Permissions are per project: owners can edit everything, viewers can only see. Any project can stay private to you instead, which is the default.
Does everyone need a paid plan?
Everyone needs an account. Each person's own plan governs their own AI usage and uploads, so a group is not billed collectively and one person's heavy use does not consume anyone else's.
What happens to a shared project when someone leaves?
The project and its contents stay with the remaining members. Leaving a shared project does not delete the material for anyone else.
Related reading
Share one module with your group.
Put the reading list, the brief and the deadline in one project, invite the group, and see whether the questions stop getting asked three times.