Create a Space

1. Open Spaces

From any page on app.ellivate.ai/dashboard, click the chat-bubble icon in the top nav — it sits right next to the gold “Publish” button. On mobile, tap the “Spaces” tab between “My Tools” and “Profile.”

First time you visit, the list is empty. Click + New Space (or the floating + button on mobile).

2. Name it

Give it a name your group will recognize at a glance — Smith family, Reading club, Dinner crew. A description is optional and lives under the name; you can leave it blank.

3. Add a tool

You land on the Space's detail page with an empty chat and an empty “Tools” rail. Click the small + in the Tools card header (or the larger + Add button at the top of the screen). A dialog opens; pick a tool you own from the list and tap Add.

A few rules on what you can share:

• You need to own the tool. You can't share someone else's tool into your Space — only the original publisher can.
• The tool needs to be live (published successfully). Tools still building or in a failed state won't show up in the picker.
• A single tool can sit in multiple Spaces. Today the tool's data uses its existing scopes; per-Space data isolation lands in a future release.

4. Invite your people

Click the + in the Members card header (or switch to the “Invite someone” tab if you already have the dialog open). Type the recipient's email and tap Send invite.

What they get:

• If they already have an Ellivate account with that email, they pick up membership next time they open the app — no extra click.
• If they don't, they get an email with a link to a Space landing page. Signing up with the invited email auto-joins them, and every tool currently attached to the Space lands in their account.

You can also invite someone as a co-owner. Co-owners can do everything you can — invite, attach tools, transfer ownership, delete the Space. Use it for a partner / spouse / co-organizer; don't give it out casually.

5. Chat

Click into the chat pane and start typing. Messages send on Enter (Shift-Enter for a newline on web). The other side sees your message within ~5 seconds — Spaces uses polling, not push, for the v1 chat surface, so there's a small lag and that's by design.

The polling pauses when you switch tabs or background the app — push notifications carry urgency when you're away.

Owner-only chores

The owner is the only person who can:

• Edit the Space's name and description.
• Invite someone as a co-owner.
• Delete the Space. The trash icon in the header opens a dialog: if you have other members, you can transfer ownership instead or delete anyway.
• Transfer ownership. Pick a member to promote; you become a regular member. Useful when the natural “owner” of the group changes (someone else organizes meal planning now, etc).

Any member can leave at any time. If you're the only member, leaving deletes the Space.

Removing a tool

From the Tools rail (web) or the Tools sheet (mobile), tap the × next to any tool to remove it from the Space. The tool itself isn't deleted — it stays in your dashboard. Space members just lose access through this Space.

What's next

Phase 1 is intentionally just chat plus a list of tools. The next pieces of the arc — tool events streaming into chat as cards, @toolname mentions, and an @assistant that can see the Space's data — are documented in the Spaces concept page and ship behind their own usage gates.