Public Beta
mbio
An activity-first social matching app. Choose an activity, match with someone nearby, mutually accept and meet in public. Share a meal, watch a game, work out, see a movie, worship, walk or pray.
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Connection, durable groups and mutual care are different jobs.
mbio is the Family Dinner Foundation app for meeting real people nearby, in real time, around an activity. mbio Connect lets teams, venues, theaters and ticketing platforms match their fans with trust-checked company for the same game, show or movie, and carries every match into mbio. mbio Groups forms durable small groups from a complete member pool. mbio Mutual Care is being designed to help trusted communities coordinate practical care.
Our Family Dinner is the first operating context for mbio Groups and mbio Mutual Care. The products are designed to stand on their own for other organizations.
Launch Partners Onboarding
mbio Connect
For teams, venues, movie theaters and ticketing partners. Fans opt in while buying a ticket and are matched with trust-checked company for the same game, show or movie, to meet up before it starts or sit together. Delivered as one script tag in checkout, post-purchase surfaces on platforms like Ticketmaster and SeatGeek, a WebView in partner apps, and a browser extension. Every match carries into mbio.
Visit mbio Connect →Built and Running
mbio Groups
Forms small groups from the whole member pool, explains each proposal and stops for a human leader to review and approve it.
Explore mbio Groups →Designed, Not Yet Launched
mbio Mutual Care
A mutual care and service exchange design for coordinating needs, offers and completed acts of care inside a trusted community.
Explore mbio Mutual Care →Product Boundaries
One family, four separate products.
A shared mbio identity does not mean a shared product promise. Each product has a different time horizon, operating model and measure of success.
mbio answers: who nearby wants to do this activity now?
Real-Time Matching
mbio Connect answers: which fans at this event want company, and how does a venue offer it?
Live Ticketing
mbio Groups answers: how should this complete pool become durable groups?
Group Formation
mbio Mutual Care answers: how can a trusted community coordinate practical care safely?
Mutual Care
mbio Groups
The system proposes the group. A human approves it.
Most group directories hold a list and ask each member or staff person to do the matching. mbio Groups evaluates the whole pool, applies the organization’s rules, proposes groups with understandable reasons and keeps every unplaced person visible with a reason.
Constraints such as exclusions, travel distance and shared availability must hold.
Explainable Rules
Leaders review, adjust and approve every proposal before members are notified.
Human Approval
People who do not fit remain a worklist with a reason, not a silent loss in a spreadsheet.
Unplaced People
mbio Groups is not a church management system or a replacement for an organization’s system of record. It is the formation and review layer that can work alongside those systems.
mbio Mutual Care
Care is not a marketplace transaction.
The current design coordinates needs, offers, fulfillment and a non-transferable care ledger inside bounded communities. Credits never gate whether someone receives care. There are no public leaderboards, and the receiver confirms that care was completed.
Status: designed and verified at the schema level, not yet launched as a product. This page does not represent it as generally available.
Relationship to Our Family Dinner
A founding use case, not the market boundary.
Our Family Dinner uses technology to help people move from an initial gathering into reliable relationships and practical care. mbio Groups and mbio Mutual Care are being shaped in that operating context, while remaining distinct products that can serve churches, universities, employers, nonprofits and other communities.