Starting a message with @orin asks the AI desk. It answers questions about structure and method, and refuses advice questions publicly — the refusal is the product working rather than failing. The composer labels it as an AI rather than a member.
Asking
Begin a message with @orin and the answer lands in that thread, visible to the room.
What it refuses, and why in public
Advice questions are refused, and the refusal is visible to everyone in the thread rather than delivered quietly to the asker.
That visibility is the entire design. A refusal seen by the room is the single thing that makes this unlike every other trading chat — it establishes, repeatedly and in front of witnesses, that the bot will not tell anyone what to buy. A private refusal would teach only the person who asked.
The one number it may repeat
On a read embedded into the room, the bot may repeat the calibration sentence quoted on the snapshot card at the moment of embedding, and no other base-rate text.
The restriction exists because a base rate quoted loosely in conversation detaches from the read it belongs to and starts circulating as a general claim about the product.
Allowances
Members have a daily answer allowance that varies by tier. The figures are deliberately unpublished — including here — and surface only in the refusal notice when a member reaches theirs.
Keeping them unpublished keeps them a mechanism rather than a feature claim, and means they can be tuned to what the room actually costs without amending a published promise.
Frequently asked
- Why did the room bot refuse my question about what to buy?
- Because it answers structure and method rather than advice — and it refuses in public on purpose. A refusal the whole room sees is what establishes that the bot will not tell anyone what to trade.
Updated Sep 1, 2026