--- title: Features description: Every module shipped in Project NEXUS v1.5 (Generally Available). Honest maturity labels per module — including federation, which is live with external partners while protocols continue to harden. canonical: https://hour-timebank.ie/features generated: 2026-05-14T10:48:00.046Z ---# 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 - GAGenerally Available — stable, supported, used in production across pilot tenants. - BetaWorking in production today, but the public surface or wire protocol is still being hardened. - PreviewRecently 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 AppBeta — 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 FederationBeta — 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 AdaptersBeta — Two-way sync across 9 entity types: members, listings, events, groups, connections, volunteering, reviews, transfers, messages. - Federation NeighborhoodsBeta — Geographically grouped clusters of federated communities for regional coordination. - Credit AgreementsBeta — 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. - MarketplaceBeta — 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 VerificationBeta — 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. - StoriesBeta — 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 ChatBeta — 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 PrescribingPreview — 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 DigestPreview — Periodic summary of community activity and outcomes for stakeholders. - Success StoriesPreview — Curated case studies of member-led outcomes. - Feedback InboxPreview — Centralised pilot-feedback capture with admin triage. - Integration ShowcasePreview — Public surface for connected partners and integrations. - Lead NurturePreview — Workflow tooling for pilot-stakeholder follow-up. - CopilotPreview — 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. [Source repository](https://github.com/jasperfordesq-ai/nexus-v1) [Changelog](/changelog) [Report a bug](https://project-nexus.canny.io/) [About this tenant](/about) ## Security disclosure --- Found a security issue? Please report it privately to [jasper@hour-timebank.ie](mailto:jasper@hour-timebank.ie) rather than filing a public issue. Full vulnerability-disclosure policy in SECURITY.md on the source repository.