Group
"Send this to the group chat."
Group Lens analyses the whole group. It treats the chat as a small society, names every participant, maps roles and alliances, and presents the result as something between a personality report and an end-of-season awards show. It is the most shareable lens — and the one your group will quote back at each other for weeks.
Try Group Lens freeWho this lens is for
Built for the group chat, by the group chat.
The bridesmaid chat
You need the wedding chat to laugh at itself. Run Group Lens and let the Awards Ceremony do it for you.
The fantasy-league boys
You've all known each other since school. Group Lens has the receipts on who is, in fact, the dad of the group.
The book club / running club / dinner club
The chat that's bigger than the activity. Group Lens names the alliances and the glue holding it together.
The Modules
What's inside a Group reading.
Eleven modules — but the one everyone screenshots is at the bottom. Skip down if you want to.
- Cast of CharactersEvery member of the group gets a one-line characterisation and a named archetype.
- Power MapWho drives the conversation, who steers it, who fades. Visual, named, gentle.
- Alliance TheoryThe hidden sub-groups inside the bigger one. The two-person side chat that runs the main chat.
- The GlueThe one (or two) members who keep the chat alive. The receipt for why the rest of you still show up.
- The GhostThe lurker. Named without judgement — sometimes ghosts are the safety net.
- Group VibeBanter / philosophical / logistics-heavy / loving / chaotic. With the percentage split.
- Inside Jokes IndexHow many in-jokes are alive, and who keeps them alive.
- Patterns & LoopsThe conversations the group has had four times this year. With different names.
- TrajectoryIs this chat growing, steady, or quietly slowing? With one move that would change it.
- Roles & ScriptsThe mum, the planner, the ghost, the chaos agent, the late-night philosopher, the catalyst.
- The Awards CeremonyThe signature output. Every member gets a personalised award. Built for screenshot. (Examples below.)
Sample
Imagine you ran the lens on this chat.
Here's a small slice of a fictional bridesmaid group chat. Below the chat is what Group Lens would say about the cast — and the awards it would give out.
Group chat: "Sara's August Wedding 💒"
7 members · Wednesday evening · slice of one thread
What Group Lens returns · Part 1
Cast of Characters.
Group Lens names each member of the chat. Not by their handle — by their role.
- Pia · The Chaos AgentDrives the chat at full speed and is, somehow, almost always right. Decisions get made because she refuses to let them sit. Has typed "I am buying flights at midnight" at least three times this year.
- Marta · The LogisticianThe reason this group has not yet missed a flight. Translates feelings into spreadsheets. Will gently re-share the link if you didn't read it the first time.
- Sara · The HeartThe emotional centre. Says "I love you" in the chat more than the rest of the group combined. Cries with affection.
- Léa · The CloserComes in late, ends the debate in one line. Soft on people, hard on bad ideas. Has veto power and uses it sparingly.
- Yara · The RealistThe one who remembers that the rest of you have jobs. The grounding wire. Annoyed and beloved in equal measure.
- Camille · The Catch-Up QueenReads 200 messages at 11 PM and replies with one perfectly compressed summary. Always agrees with the right person.
What Group Lens returns · Part 2
The Awards Ceremony.
The signature output. Every member of the group gets a personalised award — funny, specific, occasionally heartfelt, always quotable. This is the section your group will screenshot.
"Awarded for 19 voice memos after midnight in the last 30 days, with a 100% delivery rate and a 0% reply rate. Persistence pays."
"For making three tabs we didn't ask for and one we genuinely needed. Logistics is love."
"Said it 14 times this month, meant it 14 times. The chat is warm because she keeps it warm."
"For ending the bachelorette debate with 'Lisbon obviously.' Decisions move when she arrives."
"For being the lowest-volume member of this chat and the first one to call when someone has news. The opposite of attention is sometimes the deepest kind of love."
"For consistently catching up on 200 messages in one sentence. The newsroom would hire her."
"For setting the emotional weather. When the chat feels safe, this is who is making it feel safe."
"For pushing back exactly twice this month and being correct exactly twice. The hit rate is suspicious."
Group Lens generates a unique award for every member of the chat — these are six of eight, from one sample reading.
Useful to know
What Group Lens does — and doesn't.
What Group Lens does
- Names every participant in the chat with their own archetype
- Maps power, alliances, and group vibe
- Produces a personalised Award for each member
- Builds shareable cards explicitly designed for the group's own chat
- Works on chats of 3 to ~25 members
What Group Lens doesn't
- It does not pick a "best member" — there are no rankings
- It does not produce content meant to hurt anyone
- It does not name the people by their phone numbers — only by the names already in the chat
- It does not work well on chats under ~50 messages
- It is the lens that takes the longest to generate — give it ~90 seconds
Guides for this lens
If you want to dig deeper.
These guides walk through the patterns this lens reads — written longer-form, for the people who want the framework before they run their own reading.
The lens engineered for screenshots.
Run Group Lens once on your chat. Then watch how fast it ends up pinned in the group.
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