Voted by ₥AN$A, Air Planes, durdy, rookepoole, Smiley “MakeShif”, Wil

BRAID is a collaborative creative-writing room built around how groups actually make stories, scripts, lyrics, and worlds together. Writers join as persistent guest profiles with their own unique IDs, then co-author the same structured project in real time. Instead of one giant shared textarea, projects are organized into chapters, scenes, verses, beats, characters, and world notes. Collaborators can see who is present and where they are writing, leave inline comments and rewrite suggestions, accept changes, create version checkpoints, restore earlier states, and branch the entire manuscript to explore alternate directions without destroying the original. A built-in Muse system can also generate contextual brainstorming prompts. Room/project state and guest identity persist between visits, so it feels like an actual creative workspace rather than a temporary multiplayer demo.

Models

GPT-5.6 Sol for product design, implementation, debugging, and iteration. BRAID itself does not require a paid AI model/API to function; its current Muse brainstorming system runs locally in the app.

Cost

Built using my existing ChatGPT access. Exact session token usage/cost is not exposed to me. The deployed BRAID app itself currently has $0 required AI/API cost per user because its core collaboration and Muse features do not depend on paid model calls.