How to create a team workspace in Fada: a step-by-step guide

To create a team workspace in Fada you sign up for a free workspace, create your first channels, and invite your team. The whole thing takes a few minutes, and below we walk through every step in order so you can have your team talking in one organized place by the end of this guide.

Fada is a work-chat app for teams in Algeria and the wider Arab world: as simple to use as WhatsApp, but with the structure of a proper team tool. It works in Arabic, French, and English, fully supports right-to-left Arabic, and is built mobile-first so it stays light on mobile data.

How do I create a workspace?

A workspace is your team's private home. Everyone you invite joins the same space, and all your channels, conversations, and files live inside it. You only need one workspace per team or company.

Creating it is free and takes about a minute. Here is the full step-by-step.

Step-by-step: set up your workspace

1. Sign up for a free workspace. Go to /signup and create your account. You will be asked for a name and an email or phone, then you confirm and you are in. No payment, no setup call.

1. Name your workspace. Give it your company or team name. This is what your teammates will see when they join, so keep it clear and recognizable, for example your business name rather than a personal nickname.

1. Create your first few channels. A channel is a dedicated room for one topic. Start with three or four, not twenty. Name each one for a project, a team, or a client so people instantly know where things belong (more on how to structure these below).

1. Use threads to keep channels tidy. Inside any channel, reply in a thread to keep a side discussion together instead of scattering it across the main flow. This is what lets a busy channel stay readable: each topic stays in its own thread, and people who do not care about it are not pinged.

1. Invite your teammates. Open the invite option and add people by email or phone, or share an invite link. As they join, assign roles so the right people get the right access. Start with a small group and grow from there.

1. Pin the essentials. In each channel, pin the few things people need most: the project brief, a key document, or the channel's purpose in one line. New members then orient themselves without asking "where is everything?".

1. Send your first message or voice note. Post a short welcome in your main channel so the space feels alive. Try a voice note too: Fada transcribes Arabic, French, and English voice notes to text automatically, so what you say becomes searchable for the whole team.

That is the core of it. Once these steps are done, your workspace is ready for real work.

How should I structure my first channels?

The most common mistake is creating too many channels too early. Keep it simple at first and add more only when a real need appears.

A structure that works for most small teams:

• One channel per active project. This is where the day-to-day work for that project lives.
• One channel per team or department if you have more than one, for example sales, support, or operations.
• One channel per major client if your work is client-based, so everything about that client stays in one place.
• One general channel for announcements and anything that touches everyone.

Then lean on threads inside each channel to separate the different conversations happening at once. Channels keep the big areas apart; threads keep each channel readable.

How do I bring my team in?

Invite people once your channels are set up, so they land in an organized space rather than an empty one. Add them by email or phone, or send an invite link to the group.

As you invite, think about roles. Role-based access lets you decide who can do what, so sensitive areas stay limited to the people who need them. You can start everyone the same and refine later.

One thing worth setting up early is the secrets vault. Fada includes a zero-knowledge vault for things like passwords and API keys, so your team stops pasting credentials into chat where they linger forever.

What if my team works in more than one language?

That is exactly the case Fada is built for. The app works in Arabic, French, and English, with full right-to-left support for Arabic, so mixed-language teams are not forced into one language. People can write in whichever language fits, and voice notes are transcribed automatically across all three.

It is also mobile-first and light on mobile data, which matters when part of your team is in the field or on a phone rather than a laptop. And as channels get busy, the built-in AI can summarize a channel or a long thread into a few lines, so anyone catching up sees the gist without reading everything.

If you ever need full control over your data, Fada also offers optional self-hosting and data residency, so your workspace can live where you need it to.

Ready to start?

You now have everything you need: sign up, name the workspace, create a few channels, set up threads, invite your team, pin the essentials, and send a first message. The fastest way to learn it is to do it with one real project before moving your whole team over.

Go ahead and create a free Fada workspace to get your team into one organized, searchable place today.