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What Project NEXUS does

Generally Available (v1.5)

Project NEXUS is an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant community platform. Every module below ships in v1.5 today. We label modules honestly: unmarked items are Generally Available; newer or actively-hardening surfaces carry a Beta or Preview chip.

How we label maturity

  • GA
    Generally Available — stable, supported, used in production across pilot tenants.
  • Beta
    Working in production today, but the public surface or wire protocol is still being hardened.
  • Preview
    Recently shipped and available to opt in. Expect rapid iteration — the API and UX may change.

Core Platform

  • Timebanking Engine — Full credit exchange system with wallet, transactions, and broker controls.
  • Multi-Tenancy — Host unlimited communities on a single platform, each with their own branding, configuration, and feature set.
  • Tenant Hierarchy — Parent–child tenant relationships with feature toggling and federation scoping.
  • Smart Matching — AI-powered matching with semantic embeddings, collaborative filtering, availability scheduling, and learned preferences.
  • Real-Time Messaging — Private conversations with Pusher WebSocket integration and real-time presence.
  • Progressive Web App — Install as a PWA on any device — offline shell, push notifications, NetworkFirst update flow.
  • Native Mobile App
    Beta
    — iOS and Android builds from the same React codebase via Capacitor.

    Web is the primary distribution channel; native builds are tested but not yet under continuous release.

Federation

A four-protocol federation layer for cross-community exchange — Nexus (native), Komunitin (15 endpoints), Credit Commons Protocol (11 endpoints, CEN-compatible), and TimeOverflow.

  • Federation Network — Connect multiple NEXUS communities into a network for cross-community discovery, listings, events, and messaging.
  • External Partner Federation
    Beta
    — Live with external timebanking platforms — partnerships established, messages flowing, credit exchange under active testing.

    Real partnerships exist and exchange data daily. The wire protocols are still being hardened against edge cases — treat external credit transfers as supervised, not automated.

  • Multi-Protocol Adapters
    Beta
    — Two-way sync across 9 entity types: members, listings, events, groups, connections, volunteering, reviews, transfers, messages.
  • Federation Neighborhoods
    Beta
    — Geographically grouped clusters of federated communities for regional coordination.
  • Credit Agreements
    Beta
    — Negotiated exchange-rate terms between federated communities.
  • Federation Analytics — Live admin dashboards for partner activity, sync health, and federated transaction volume.

Member Experience

  • Service Listings — Post offers and requests, browse and smart-match listings.
  • Marketplace
    Beta
    — Standalone classifieds module with Stripe Connect payouts, orders, seller profiles, and AI-powered reply suggestions.
  • Donations — One-off and recurring donations via Stripe with full dashboards and receipts for organisations.
  • Identity Verification
    Beta
    — Optional Stripe Identity flow (document + selfie + name/DOB matching) with a verified-member badge.
  • Exchange Workflow — Structured service-exchange lifecycle with broker approval and dispute handling.
  • Group Exchanges — Bulk community service exchanges across multiple members.
  • Social Feed — Posts, comments, likes, polls, hashtags, voice messages, media attachments, link previews, and @mentions.
  • Stories
    Beta
    — Ephemeral 24-hour photo and video stories with reactions, polls, and highlights.
  • Presence System — Real-time online/offline status with privacy controls and custom status messages.
  • Events & Groups — Community gatherings, interest-based groups, and event reminders.
  • Connections — Follow and connect with other community members.
  • Members Directory — Browse, filter, and discover people in your community.
  • Gamification — Verification badges, journeys, XP, leaderboards, achievements, challenges, streaks, XP shop rewards, community dashboard, and seasonal competitions.
  • Goals & Impact — Track personal goals and community impact with mentoring and deliverables tracking.
  • Ideation Challenges — Innovation hub with campaigns, ideas, voting, and outcomes tracking.
  • Volunteering — Volunteer opportunities, hours tracking, check-ins, expenses, certificates, wellbeing monitoring, emergency alerts, and a volunteer-organisation wallet that pays out time credits on approved hours.
  • Job Vacancies — Full recruitment module with alerts, analytics, and a public RSS/JSON job feed for aggregators.
  • Organisations — Company and employer profiles with sub-accounts and a dedicated organisation wallet.
  • Sub-Accounts / Family Accounts — Parent–child account relationships for household and family management.
  • Reviews & Ratings — Build trust through structured member feedback.
  • Endorsements — Peer skill and experience endorsements.
  • Polls — Community voting and surveys with multiple question types.
  • Skills Browse — Explore the skill taxonomy and discover expertise.
  • Availability Scheduling — Timezone-aware time-slot scheduling for smart matching and bookings.

Content & Communication

  • Blog — Tenant-managed content management and community news.
  • Resources & Knowledge Base — Structured articles and a shared resource library.
  • Help Center — Documentation hub and FAQ.
  • Custom Pages — Tenant-managed CMS pages for community content.
  • Newsletter System — Email campaign manager with A/B testing, smart segments, geo targeting, recurring sends, templates, send-time optimisation, and full open/click analytics.
  • AI Chat
    Beta
    — OpenAI-powered assistant for platform guidance.
  • Legal Hub — Versioned legal documents with acceptance gates and audit trail.
  • Impact Reports — SROI analysis, member outcome reports, and social impact case studies.
  • Social Prescribing
    Preview
    — Information and tooling for community health integration workflows.

Trust, Reputation & Safety

  • Member Verification Badges — Verified status indicators on member profiles.
  • NexusScore — Proprietary reputation and trustworthiness scoring.
  • Streaks — Consecutive activity tracking to reward consistent engagement.
  • Personal Insights Dashboard — Individual engagement metrics, hours given/received, skills breakdown, monthly charts, and personalised recommendations.
  • Safeguarding Module — Flagged content review workflow, incident reporting, safeguarding assignment tracking, and a community safety dashboard.
  • CRM — Admin contact management with notes, tasks, tags, activity timelines, and export.

AI & Recommendation Engine

  • Semantic Search — Meilisearch-powered full-text search across listings, members, events, and groups with typo tolerance, synonyms, and per-tenant isolation.
  • Collaborative Filtering — Item-based recommendations from real community interaction data.
  • Semantic Embeddings — OpenAI-powered content matching for listings, members, and requests.
  • EdgeRank Feed — Time-decay, affinity, and engagement-weighted feed ranking.
  • MatchRank & CommunityRank — Bayesian quality scoring with Wilson confidence intervals.
  • Group Recommendations — Trending and affinity-based group discovery.
  • Match Learning — Feedback loop that improves recommendations from user interactions.
  • Algorithm Health Dashboard — Live admin monitoring and tuning of all ranking systems.

Caring Community Layer

A pilot-readiness governance layer for civic and caring-community deployments — most modules shipped April–May 2026.

  • Civic Digest
    Preview
    — Periodic summary of community activity and outcomes for stakeholders.
  • Success Stories
    Preview
    — Curated case studies of member-led outcomes.
  • Feedback Inbox
    Preview
    — Centralised pilot-feedback capture with admin triage.
  • Integration Showcase
    Preview
    — Public surface for connected partners and integrations.
  • Lead Nurture
    Preview
    — Workflow tooling for pilot-stakeholder follow-up.
  • Copilot
    Preview
    — In-context AI helper for community administrators.

Built for Production

  • Enterprise Security — CSRF, rate limiting, TOTP 2FA, WebAuthn passkeys, CSP nonces, a CORS allowlist, Form Request validation, email verification gates, and invite-code registration.
  • Stripe Payments Layer — Subscriptions, donations, marketplace (Connect), and identity verification, with idempotent webhook handling and deep money-flow test coverage.
  • GDPR Compliance Suite — Data requests, consent management, cookie consent, breach tracking, and a full audit log.
  • Fraud & Abuse Detection — Automated suspicious-activity alerts and content moderation.
  • Insurance Certificate Tracking — Volunteer insurance management and verification.
  • Enterprise RBAC — Role-based access control across 13+ modules with a full permission matrix.
  • WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility — Audited accessibility compliance across the user-facing surface.
  • Multi-Language Support — 11 languages: English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, and Arabic (full RTL).
  • Self-Hosted Prerendering — Bot-only Playwright snapshots served to SEO crawlers; users always get the live SPA.
  • Guided Onboarding — Wizard for new members with smart defaults.
  • Admin Panel — Algorithm controls, diagnostics, cron-job monitoring, and email-deliverability monitoring.
  • Email Webhook Processing — SendGrid bounce, complaint, and delivery event handling.
  • 500+ PHPUnit Tests — Money flow, webhooks, federation, groups, marketplace — plus Vitest frontend suites.
  • OpenAPI 3.0 Specification — Full API spec with Swagger UI docs.
  • Fully Dockerized — Production and development run from the same Docker Compose foundations.

Modern Tech Stack

  • Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript + HeroUI + Tailwind CSS 4
  • Backend: Laravel 12 + PHP 8.2+
  • Database: MariaDB 10.11
  • Search: Meilisearch v1.7
  • AI: OpenAI text-embedding-3-small
  • Real-Time: Pusher WebSockets, Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • Mobile: Capacitor (iOS + Android)
  • Infrastructure: Docker, Redis, full PWA

Open Source — AGPL-3.0

Project NEXUS is fully open source under AGPL-3.0. Every line of code is auditable, forkable, and self-hostable. Federation protocols are documented as open standards so no single platform controls the global timebanking network.

Security disclosure

Found a security issue? Please report it privately to jasper@hour-timebank.ie rather than filing a public issue. Full vulnerability-disclosure policy in SECURITY.md on the source repository.