Building Bridges | Strengthening Communities
Tell ORAN what is wrong.Find the right next step.
Explain your situation in plain language. ORAN narrows the need, searches stored service records, and shows how to contact or apply—without making you browse hundreds of listings.
ORAN is not emergency response, a government authority, or medical or legal advice. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. Call or text 988 for crisis support.
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What is happening?
ORAN will ask for more only when it can change the match.
One network, clear scopes
For individuals seeking help
Real answers, fast
When accuracy matters — and with services it always does — ORAN retrieves real, stored provider records and presents them clearly. No invented facts; missing or stale details stay visible.
Natural language search
Type what you need in plain words. ORAN maps your request to structured, publication-gated service records and says when coverage is missing.
Location-aware results
Results ranked by proximity. Your approximate location is never stored or shared without your explicit consent.
Publication-gated records
Every displayed resource must have positive publication authority from a stored source record. Confidence and freshness cues say what is known or still needs confirmation.
No account required
Start immediately. No sign-up, no paywall, no data collection beyond what helps you find services.
For service providers & nonprofits
Get discovered. Stay verified. Build trust.
ORAN gives organizations a dedicated portal to manage listings, build provenance-backed credibility, and reach people actively searching for their programs — without proprietary lock-in.
Self-service host portal
Create and manage your listings through a dedicated portal. Changes flow through a structured review process before going live.
Source provenance tracking
Published submissions retain their source, review decision, and freshness state so seekers can distinguish provider-confirmed details from unknowns.
Community-backed review
Service changes enter a workflow where community admins review the evidence and approve or reject updates before publication.
Multi-surface discoverability
Once published, listings are immediately reachable via search, guided chat, directory browse, and map — no extra integrations needed.
For community contributors & admins
Help build the civic data layer
ORAN is only as good as the people maintaining it. Community partners — volunteer admins, civic technologists, and local advocates — are how verified data stays accurate at scale.
Structured review queue
Volunteer admins work through a curated review queue of records flagged for confidence decay, unverified submissions, or local coverage gaps.
211 & HSDS data federation
ORAN supports 211-standard and HSDS feeds through a review-first source pipeline. A feed stays private until its publication authority is explicit.
Fully open platform
Built for transparency. Every scoring model, ingestion pipeline, and matching rule is documented and inspectable by the community that depends on it.
Dedicated admin tooling
Volunteer admins and community reviewers access a purpose-built portal for claims, submissions, flag review, and coverage management.
Why ORAN
Built for the gaps other tools leave open
Generic search returns pages, not answers. Unverified directories go stale. ORAN is purpose-built for the problem they all fall short on.
vs. generic chatbots
Reliable by design
ORAN only surfaces stored records that pass a positive publication gate. No invented contact details or fabricated service hours — ever.
vs. search engines
Structured & next-step focused
Search engines surface pages. ORAN presents the contact, location, eligibility, and intake facts a source actually provides—and labels missing details.
vs. stale 211 databases
Built for re-verification
Records can expire, accept user reports, and route source checks to reviewers. Stale or unproven imports do not earn publication by default.
vs. proprietary directories
Transparent & auditable
No black boxes. Anyone can inspect how records are scored, how data flows, and how the matching logic works.
Our commitment
Community-governed.
Free to use. Built to last.
ORAN is built on the principle that trustworthy resource access should not sit behind a paywall. WCAG 2.1 AA is the design target, records have explicit maintenance paths, seekers can use the navigator for free, and providers pay no listing fee.