diff --git a/lib/shared/thread-utils.test.js b/lib/shared/thread-utils.test.js
--- a/lib/shared/thread-utils.test.js
+++ b/lib/shared/thread-utils.test.js
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 // @flow
 
-import { parsePendingThreadID } from './thread-utils.js';
+import {
+  parsePendingThreadID,
+  threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo,
+} from './thread-utils.js';
+import { threadInfoValidator } from '../permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-validators.js';
+import type { RawThreadInfo } from '../types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js';
 import { threadTypes } from '../types/thread-types-enum.js';
+import type { UserInfos } from '../types/user-types.js';
 
 describe('parsePendingThreadID(pendingThreadID: string)', () => {
   it('should return correct data for real pending sidebar ID', () => {
@@ -65,3 +71,131 @@
     );
   });
 });
+
+const rawThreadInfo: RawThreadInfo = {
+  id: '1',
+  type: 12,
+  name: 'GENESIS',
+  description:
+    'This is the first community on Comm. In the future it will be possible to create chats outside of a community, but for now all of these chats get set with GENESIS as their parent. GENESIS is hosted on Ashoat’s keyserver.',
+  color: 'c85000',
+  creationTime: 1702415956354,
+  parentThreadID: null,
+  repliesCount: 0,
+  containingThreadID: null,
+  community: null,
+  pinnedCount: 0,
+  minimallyEncoded: true,
+  members: [
+    {
+      id: '256',
+      role: '83796',
+      permissions: '3f73ff',
+      isSender: false,
+      minimallyEncoded: true,
+    },
+    {
+      id: '83809',
+      role: '83795',
+      permissions: '3',
+      isSender: false,
+      minimallyEncoded: true,
+    },
+  ],
+  roles: {
+    '83795': {
+      id: '83795',
+      name: 'Members',
+      permissions: ['000', '010', '005', '015', '0a7'],
+      isDefault: true,
+      minimallyEncoded: true,
+    },
+    '83796': {
+      id: '83796',
+      name: 'Admins',
+      permissions: [
+        '000',
+        '010',
+        '020',
+        '100',
+        '110',
+        '030',
+        '040',
+        '060',
+        '050',
+        '120',
+        '080',
+        '090',
+        '0c0',
+        '070',
+        '0d0',
+        '0e0',
+        '130',
+        '140',
+        '150',
+        '004',
+        '014',
+        '0a6',
+        '0a8',
+        '024',
+        '034',
+        '044',
+        '064',
+        '054',
+        '124',
+        '086',
+        '096',
+        '0c4',
+        '074',
+        '0b4',
+        '0d4',
+        '0e4',
+        '134',
+        '156',
+      ],
+      isDefault: false,
+      minimallyEncoded: true,
+    },
+  },
+  currentUser: {
+    role: '83795',
+    permissions: '3',
+    subscription: {
+      home: true,
+      pushNotifs: true,
+    },
+    unread: false,
+    minimallyEncoded: true,
+  },
+};
+const userInfos: UserInfos = {
+  '5': {
+    id: '5',
+    username: 'commbot',
+  },
+  '256': {
+    id: '256',
+    username: 'ashoat',
+  },
+  '83809': {
+    id: '83809',
+    username: 'atul',
+    avatar: {
+      type: 'emoji',
+      emoji: '😲',
+      color: '4b87aa',
+    },
+  },
+};
+
+describe('threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo', () => {
+  it('should return correctly formed ThreadInfo from RawThreadInfo', () => {
+    const threadInfo = threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo(
+      rawThreadInfo,
+      null,
+      userInfos,
+    );
+
+    expect(threadInfoValidator.is(threadInfo)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});