Born out of one too many chaotic WhatsApp threads.
TotumTeams exists because organising a group shouldn't be this hard.
Anyone who has ever been in a band, a sports team, or any kind of regular group knows the drill. An event comes up. Someone — usually the same poor soul every time — starts contacting everyone individually. First it was phone calls. Then texts. Now it's WhatsApp. The medium changes, but the chaos stays the same.
That one person holds it all in their head: who said yes, who's away that weekend, who needs a reminder, who will probably just not show up without one. They become the unofficial secretary, the group memory, the single point of failure. And they do it for free, out of love for the group — while everyone else just waits to be told when to turn up.
"Technology should be making things easier — but only if it's used in the right way."
TotumTeams was built to spread that load. To give every member a role in organising the group, without turning the whole thing into an administrative nightmare. One place for events, RSVP, availability, and communication — so no one person has to carry it all, and nothing falls through the cracks.
And because groups aren't one-size-fits-all — a brass band and a football squad are very different things — TotumTeams was built to understand both. Sports teams get a formation editor. Music groups get a seating planner. Everyone gets an AI assistant they can actually talk to.