Talkr
One platform for team messaging, calls, remote support and everything in between.
Talkr replaces the usual stack — chat, video, remote desktop, notes, files, password manager, timesheets — with a single self-hosted binary and one database. Channels, threads and calls sit alongside TeamViewer-class remote control, an encrypted credential vault and AI-compiled meeting recaps.
1Binary to deploy
482REST endpoints
0Cloud dependencies
5,956Automated tests
The problem
Six subscriptions, six data controllers, one conversation split across all of them.
A forty-person company typically pays for chat, video conferencing, remote support, a wiki, a password manager and a timesheet tool. Six vendors, six per-seat bills that scale with headcount, six privacy assessments, and a working day spent switching between them, with the context of any given piece of work scattered across all six.
01
Per-seat creep
Six subscriptions at €8–20 per user each — growth makes the tooling bill grow faster than the team.
02
Context loss
The decision was in a call, the file in a drive, the reason in a wiki, and the follow-up nowhere.
03
Data residency
Every message, recording and credential sits in someone else's jurisdiction.
04
Support friction
Helping a colleague or customer means a separate remote tool with separate credentials.
The solution
One deployable. Everything inside it.
01
Architecturally simple
One compiled binary and one PostgreSQL database — no message broker, cache server, object storage, media server or external processes. Runs on a single Linux host or as two containers.
02
Nothing leaves
Files stay on your disk, calls run peer-to-peer through an embedded relay, and the assistant can point at a local model. No cloud storage, no content delivery network, no telemetry.
03
Whole-day coverage
Chat, calls, screen share, remote control, files, notes, whiteboards, calendar, meetings, tasks, time tracking, punch clock and a password vault — designed together rather than integrated afterwards.
Remote desktop control, built in
01
Full control, four platforms
Signed companion agents give screen capture, mouse and keyboard injection, and unattended saved connections for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android machines.
02
Governed by design
A consent prompt on the host, an un-hideable on-screen banner for the whole session, a local keyboard kill switch, and a maximum session duration with a warning.
03
One audit trail
Tenant scoping, administrator force-end, and an audit row per session recording both IP addresses and the number of input events.
04
Built for MSPs
A single capability that removes a per-technician subscription and keeps every support session in the same audit trail as everything else.
Capabilities
01Messaging & Channels
- Public, private and direct channels, plus embedded web channels that put an external tool in a channel pane
- Threads, reactions, edits within a configurable window, pins, mentions and attachments
- Read receipts, per-channel unread counts and mark-all-read
- Personal colour-coded labels on messages with multi-tag filtering
- Presence, typing indicators, custom status and a per-channel notification level
- Link previews through a request-guarded proxy; optional message translation
02Calls, Screen Share & Recording
- Audio and video calls for up to eight participants, one active call per channel, with ringing and decline tracking
- Screen sharing with a laser pointer overlay; guests may watch but not initiate
- Capture a screenshot of a remote tile and post it to the channel
- Recording of audio or screen-with-audio, transcoded server-side with thumbnails and streamed playback
- Live transcription with speaker attribution, optional summary and action items, saved as a linked meeting note
- An embedded relay so calls traverse corporate firewalls without deploying a separate server
- Mobile call parity: wake lock, lock-screen ringing, answer and decline from the notification
03Files, Notes, Boards & Vault
- Folder tree with per-folder access levels, drag-and-drop upload, thumbnails and search
- File versioning — replace creates a new version, with history, download and restore
- Markdown notes with autosave, notebooks, sharing with read or write rights and revocable public links
- Whiteboards and diagram editor with import from common formats, plus sequence and entity-relationship editors
- Password vault with personal and team scopes, tags, categories and favourites
- AES-256-GCM encryption; list views never carry the secret
- Unlock with a short-lived vault token, held only in memory, or via SSO — with attempt throttling
04Tasks, Time & Meetings
- Task lists with owner, assignee, due dates and an assigned-to-me view
- Start/stop time tracking with manual entries and a timesheet view
- Punch clock with shifts, manual entries and an audited correction trail
- Team calendar with attendees, RSVP, all-day events and two-way sync with Google Calendar and Microsoft 365
- Ordered meeting agendas with presenter and duration, carried into the calendar invite
- Attendance stored as real join/leave segments; AI-compiled recap posted to the channel and emailed
- Time-off tracking with vacation, sick, personal, parental and unpaid types, including half days
05AI Assistant & Administration
- Eleven AI providers — five cloud, six local or self-hosted
- Summarise, draft a reply, extract action items into real tasks, or translate
- Select text anywhere to improve, shorten or change the register
- Per-organisation quotas on requests and tokens, with a usage log
- Tenant administration: users, invitations, channels, retention, branding, SSO, mail and assistant configuration
- GDPR tooling: per-user anonymise and purge, bulk message and file purge
- Platform administration: tenants, impersonation, deployment node registry, self-update and migration console
06Security & governance
- Five roles with guest containment enforced on two independent axes
- TOTP multi-factor with backup codes, replay protection and an organisation-wide enforcement policy
- Single sign-on per tenant via Google or Microsoft Entra ID, resolved by e-mail domain
- AES-256-GCM at rest for vault entries, machine passwords, authenticator secrets and every stored credential and API key
- Passwords hashed with bcrypt; session and refresh tokens stored hashed, with reuse detection
- Rate limiting across login, password reset, multi-factor, messaging, uploads, remote connect and vault unlock
- Content Security Policy, strict transport security, frame denial, restrictive permissions policy, hardened cookies
- Files never served from disk — always proxied, path-sanitised, symlinks never followed
- Append-only audit log by construction, with actor, action, resource, metadata, tenant, IP and agent
- GDPR anonymise and purge tooling, with configurable retention across files, recordings and versions
■Java 25 compiled to a native binary, on Spring Boot 4 with Spring Security 7
■PostgreSQL 16 or later, with 71 versioned migrations
■482 REST endpoints plus 16 real-time destinations, documented with OpenAPI
■Server-rendered front end with hand-written ES modules — no Node, no bundler, no build step
■Peer-to-peer calls through an embedded relay; deploys on a single Linux host or as two containers
■5,956 automated tests — more test code than production code
Industries
Who it works for
Managed service providers
Chat, calls and full remote support for many client organisations in one tenanted platform, with every support session audited.
IT support & helpdesks
Internal service desks that pay separately for a chat tool and a remote tool today, and reconcile the two by hand when something is questioned.
Small & mid-size companies
Built around teams of up to fifty per tenant: one host, one bill, no platform team required and no per-seat escalation as you hire.
Regulated & sovereignty-bound
Public sector, defence-adjacent, healthcare and finance back offices, where the deciding question is which jurisdiction the message sits in.
Professional services
Consultancies and agencies billing by the hour: meetings with agendas and attendance, punch clock, timesheets and exports that survive an audit.
Teams with contractors
A guest role built for containment: allow-listed channels, read-only or read-write, upload gating and no access to files, notes, calls or the assistant.
Engineering & product teams
Whiteboards, diagram and sequence editors, markdown notes with publishing and code-friendly channels, without a second wiki subscription.
Manufacturing & field operations
Punch clock and shift tracking alongside the communication tool, with remote control of machines and terminals in the same product.
Use cases
Example scenarios
01 · Managed service providers
Client support and remote control in one audited place
- Challenge
- Technicians talk to clients in one chat tool and take over machines with a separate remote-control subscription per technician. When a client questions an intervention, the chat history and the remote-session log have to be matched up by hand.
- Approach
- Each client organisation gets its own channels in Talkr, and its machines run the signed companion agent for Windows, macOS, Linux or Android with unattended saved connections. Sessions show a consent prompt and an un-hideable banner, and each one writes an audit row with both IP addresses and the number of input events.
- Result
- The conversation and the remote session sit in the same audit trail, and there is no per-technician remote-control subscription left to renew.
02 · Professional services
From meeting to timesheet without switching tools
- Challenge
- A consultancy holds client meetings in a video tool, keeps notes in a wiki and records hours in a separate timesheet application. At the end of the month, consultants reconstruct who attended what and how long it took.
- Approach
- Meetings are planned in Talkr with an ordered agenda that is carried into the calendar invite, synchronised with Microsoft 365 or Google Calendar. Attendance is stored as real join and leave segments, an AI-compiled recap is posted to the channel, and consultants log hours with start/stop tracking in the timesheet view.
- Result
- Agenda, attendance, recap and hours come from the same system, and the exports are ready when a client asks how a bill was built up.
03 · Regulated & sovereignty-bound
Messages, recordings and passwords kept in your own jurisdiction
- Challenge
- A healthcare back office uses a foreign chat service, records calls in a video platform and shares system passwords in a spreadsheet. Every GDPR assessment has to cover several processors, and nobody can say with certainty where a given recording is stored.
- Approach
- Talkr runs as one binary with one PostgreSQL database on the organisation's own Linux host, with files on local disk, calls through the embedded relay and the assistant pointed at a local model. Shared credentials move into the team vault with AES-256-GCM encryption, and the GDPR tooling handles per-user anonymisation and purges.
- Result
- Messages, recordings and credentials stay on infrastructure the organisation controls, and the question of where the data sits has a single answer.
Licence
Per deployment. Never per seat.
Talkr is licensed per deployment or tenant, not per seat, with unlimited internal users, on-premise or hosted. The annual fee is based on your own turnover on a marginal schedule, starting at a €900 minimum with any yearly increase capped at 25%. Hosting, hardware and AI provider costs are your own; consultancy, setup, migration and training are quoted separately.
Annual licence by turnover, ex VAT
| Turnover | Per year |
|---|
| Up to €500k | €900 |
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| €1M | €1,500 |
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| €5M | €2,500 |
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| €25M | €5,500 |
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| €100M | €13,000 |
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| €500M | €37,000 |
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| €1B | €52,000 |
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Illustrative: six subscriptions at €10 per user a month bill a three-hundred-person company €36,000 a year; at €5M turnover this is €2,500.
What it does
- 01Replaces six per-seat subscriptions — chat, video, remote support, wiki, password manager and time tracking — with one self-hosted binary.
- 02TeamViewer-class remote desktop control built in, fully governed and audited, with no per-technician subscription.
- 03Licensed per deployment with unlimited users — not per seat.
At a glance
CategoryCollaboration Platform
LicencePer deployment, unlimited users, from €900 a year
For whomMSPs · IT support · Professional services · Regulated teams