Meet professionals you can help—and who can help you.
Orbira suggests a few professionals worth meeting, based on what you offer and what you need, and shows you both why. If you both say yes, messaging opens and you can meet locally or over video.
- Live on the web now
- On the App Store and Google Play
- You’re looking for
- A bookkeeper who knows restaurants
- Priya offers
- Monthly books for restaurants and cafés
- Marcus is looking for
- A private room for a client dinner
- You offer
- A private room for team dinners of up to 40
- Elena opened her second location last spring. You’re planning yours.
- You’re looking at a second location. James leases restaurant space downtown.
Illustrative profiles, shown as they appear in the web app.
One sentence each. Orbira finds the fit.
Every introduction starts with what someone offers and what someone needs. Examples:
- AskA bookkeeper who knows restaurants
- AskSomeone who has opened a second location
- AskA commercial realtor downtown
- AskA mentor who has raised a seed round
- AskA referral partner for estate planning
- AskA designer for a menu refresh
- AskAn HR consultant for a first hire
- AskCoffee with someone new to town
- AskA fractional CFO for a 20-person firm
- AskA co-host for a quarterly mixer
- OfferMonthly books for restaurants and cafés
- OfferA private room for team dinners of up to 40
- OfferSBA loan guidance for first-time owners
- OfferTen years of grant writing for nonprofits
- OfferBrand photography for small teams
- OfferPeer advice on hiring your first manager
- OfferLeasing advice for retail space
- OfferWebsite fixes for local shops
- OfferSpanish–English contract translation
- OfferLessons from closing a business, and starting again
Dana runs a restaurant and needs a bookkeeper. Priya handles books for restaurants.
Orbira suggests the introduction and shows them both why.
“Dana needs a bookkeeper who knows restaurants. Priya is one.”
The reason both of them see.
Peer advice: Elena and Dana
Elena opened her bakery’s second location last spring. Dana is planning her restaurant’s. Nobody is selling anything: Dana wants to hear what Elena wishes she’d known, and Elena is glad to tell her.
Introductions are also for referral partners, collaborators, people new to town, and someone you can help.
A few suggestions like this, each week.
Over time, Dana’s network fills with people she has a reason to know: a banker who finances second locations, a designer who does menus. Each one started the same way.
Illustrative people.
DanaPriyaNew this weekMarcusBusiness bankerElenaBakery owner
SofiaMenu designerJamesCommercial realtorFrom a good introduction to a real conversation.
Tell Orbira what you offer and what you need.
One sentence each. This is what your introductions are based on.
Get suggested introductions, each with a reason.
Orbira starts looking once your profile is confirmed and suggests someone only when there’s a real fit, so your first may come with the next Monday batch. Then more each Monday, up to the number you choose.
Bookkeeper
Both say yes, then talk and arrange to meet.
You can send a connection request with a short note. Ongoing messaging opens only after acceptance. Then meet for coffee or on Orbira’s private video call.
How a relationship grows after you meet
You both confirm each step. It isn’t a score, and nobody sees a ranking.
No feed. No followers. Just a few people worth meeting, and the reason why.
Fewer, better introductions.
A clear reason for every introduction
You see why you should meet before you decide anything.
Messaging only after acceptance
A request carries one short note. Ongoing messaging opens only after the other person accepts.
Meet locally or over video
Coffee in your city, or Orbira’s private video call when you’re far apart.
Control over your profile and connections
You choose who can see your profile. Nobody sees your connection list.
What Orbira leaves out: feeds, followers, likes, swiping and paying to reach people.
Join today, wherever you live. Your city’s chapter grows from there.
A chapter is Orbira’s local community in one metro area. Each one is either open or forming.
What you get today
- Suggested introductions, each with a reason
- Messaging once you’ve both said yes
- Meetings in person or on a private video call
You still get introductions
- Introductions to members of the nearest open chapter, in person or over video
- Invites help your city open sooner
Your city’s chapter opens
- Local introductions: people in your own metro area
- The first 100 are its Founding Members
Don’t see your city? Join and choose it, or suggest it in the app.
How chapters work
Chapters aren’t created by headquarters. Two or more members volunteer as City Organizers, sign a short charter and get support from the Orbira team.
It’s a volunteer role. Organizers can’t charge members, take money in Orbira’s name, see member lists, or use the role to prospect for their own business.
While your city is forming, you meet members of the nearest open chapter: in person if it’s within 150 miles, otherwise over video.
- Open to everyone. No exclusive seats or favored titles.
- Consent first. Ongoing messaging opens only after acceptance.
- Privacy belongs to the member. Organizers get no member lists.
- Stewards, not owners. Leadership is shared and rotates.
Want to help lead your city? Join, then choose “Help form your chapter” in the app.
You decide who sees you.
Orbira only knows the metro area you choose. It never collects your device’s location.
By default, only people you’re introduced to or connected with can see your profile.
Nobody sees your connection list, and your notes after a meeting are only for you.
Video calls are only for the two of you and are never recorded.
Orbira never sells your information.
Report or block from any profile, and delete your account in Settings.
Run a chamber, coworking space or association?
Orbira helps your members get to know one another between events. It’s free for them, you never receive member lists, and a partnership never changes who gets introduced.
“The people who actually helped my career were people I’d had coffee with, worked beside, or been introduced to by someone we both trusted.”
Orbira is built to make those introductions on purpose. — Bryan, founder
Before you join
What does it cost?
Nothing. Orbira is free to join, with no dues, and the core network is never behind a paywall: your profile, introductions, messages and meetings are free. If paid features are ever added, members hear first, and being introduced will never require payment.
Can I use it where I live?
Yes. Orbira works on the web, the App Store and Google Play, wherever you live. Chapters are open in Middle Georgia, Atlanta and Southwest Florida. Elsewhere, your city’s chapter is forming: you’re introduced to members in the nearest open chapter until yours reaches 100 confirmed members.
When do introductions arrive, and how many?
Orbira starts looking as soon as your profile is confirmed: right away with a work or school email, or after a review by the Orbira team, usually within a day (the app shows “Confirmation pending” until then). Your first suggestions appear once there’s a good fit, sometimes right away and sometimes with the next Monday batch. After that, new ones arrive every Monday morning. You choose how many you want, from 1 to 5 a week (3 by default). Orbira only suggests someone when there’s a real reason to meet, so some weeks may bring fewer, especially while a city is small.
Will people try to sell to me?
Asking for something isn’t the same as inviting pitches. When you say you need a bookkeeper, Orbira suggests bookkeepers to you, and you decide whether to send a request. It doesn’t hand your Ask to sellers: Orbira won’t suggest you to someone offering paid services such as IT, marketing or accounting unless you’ve turned on sales or vendor outreach, and sales, recruiter, vendor and investor outreach stay off until you turn them on in Settings. Your own Ask still works with them off: you’re introduced to people whose Offer meets it, and you choose whether to reach out. Doing business together is welcome; anyone selling has to say so up front, and a pitch disguised as networking can be reported.
How does Orbira decide who to introduce?
From what you offer and what you’re looking for, one sentence each, matched against other members’. Each Ask lasts 30 days so it stays current, and you can renew it. In open chapters, early introductions are picked by hand. Paying, titles and popularity never affect who you’re introduced to.
What if I travel or move?
Your network map shows who you already know in each city. If you move, change your city in the app (once every 30 days) and your introductions move with you. Travel Mode, with introductions lined up for a trip, is coming later.
Who can see my profile?
By default, only people you’re introduced to, people you’ve exchanged a request with, and your connections. You can widen that to any confirmed member in Settings.
Start with one good introduction.
Tell Orbira what you offer and what you need. It starts looking for your first introductions once your profile is confirmed.
Free. On the web, the App Store and Google Play. See the roadmap