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Chats, groups & experiences.

What the Seven O Experiences are — and what you can do in the app today.

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What are the Seven O Experiences?
OChat (messaging), OCall (voice & video), OMeet (structured meetings), OMoments (contextual social content), OTask (shared responsibility), ODrive (encrypted files) and OCircle (channels & audiences) — seven experiences on one shared identity, permission and trust architecture. Connect with someone once, and every appropriate experience is available.
What can I do in chats today?
One-to-one and group messaging with media and file sharing, replies, reactions, message edit and delete, and disappearing messages with configurable time limits.
How do disappearing messages work?
Set a time limit on a conversation and messages remove themselves after it passes — useful for anything that shouldn’t live forever. Time limits are configurable per conversation.
What can groups do?
Group chats support multiple participants, polls and surveys, sub-groups within a main group, and a roles model: Group Admins manage members, settings, polls and sub-groups, while members chat, share and vote. Anyone can leave a group at any time.
What are sub-groups for?
Structure. A housing society can have one main group with sub-groups per wing; a wedding can split logistics from the fun. Members stay organised without forwarding chaos.
Where do I find everything that’s been shared?
Each conversation has a centralised media view — photos, files and attachments in one place, so nothing gets lost in the scroll.
What is OCircle, and how is it different from a group?
A group is a conversation among members. An OCircle is a channel with an audience — subscribers, publisher roles and moderation — built for creators, communities, companies and brands publishing to many. OMoments is what gets published; OCircle is where, and to whom.
What are OMoments?
Contextual social content: posts, memories, announcements and offers — each published to exactly the audience you choose, every time. Audiences never blur.
When do calls, meetings, tasks and files arrive?
The Seven O Experiences roll out progressively on the same identity foundation you join today. We label capability honestly — what’s available now versus what’s arriving — rather than blurring the two.
Can I use OBolo for my team or community right now?
Yes — groups with polls, sub-groups and admin roles were built exactly for structured teams, societies and communities. Larger organisations can also talk to us about governed Company Spaces.
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