Exists
mbio Connect
Real-time, activity-based connection matching for people who want to do something together now, today or at a scheduled time.
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Connection, durable groups and mutual care are different jobs.
mbio is the Family Dinner Foundation technology family. mbio Connect helps people find one another in real time. 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.
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.
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mbio Mutual Care
A mutual care and service exchange design for coordinating needs, offers and completed acts of care inside a trusted community.
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One family, three 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 Connect answers: who can connect around an activity soon?
Real-Time Matching
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.