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Ooex for Veterans and Families
Life after service is not a single challenge. It is a continuous negotiation - with pain, identity, belonging, purpose, and the daily work of becoming a civilian. Ooex was built for that negotiation.
The gap no service fills
Veterans receive more support than ever before. And yet the gap between what services provide and what life after service actually requires remains wide.
That gap is not in the services themselves. It is in the space between them - the 8,700 hours a year that exist outside appointments, programmes, and formal support. The daily reality of managing pain while trying to hold down work. The identity fragility of no longer being defined by service. The social isolation that comes when the structure of military life is gone and civilian life has not yet filled its place. The quiet contraction of ambition and possibility that happens without anyone noticing - including sometimes the veteran themselves.
No clinical service, no app, and no charity programme currently reaches that space with any consistency or depth. Ooex was designed to.
What Ooex is
Ooex is a veteran wellbeing and transition platform - built to support the full reality of life after service, not just the clinical dimensions of it.
It is not a symptom tracker, a service directory or a mental health chatbot. It is a platform that helps veterans understand and express what is actually happening in their daily experience, connect with peers who genuinely share that experience, and find support that fits where they actually are rather than where a pathway assumes they should be.
The platform addresses the full range of veteran transition challenges chronic pain and physical health, mental health and PTSD, identity and purpose, employment and financial wellbeing, belonging and social connection, family and relationship strain. Not as separate problems to be routed to separate services, but as the entangled, simultaneous reality that veterans recognise from their own lives.
Where most tools ask veterans to rate and report, Ooex asks them to express. The difference is not cosmetic. It is the difference between a system that classifies experience and one that genuinely receives it.
How it Works
Express what is actually happening
A novel, visual experience expression interface - designed around how veterans actually experience and communicate their daily reality - helps veterans surface what is shifting across physical, emotional, social, environmental, and identity dimensions. Not as a clinical assessment but as a way of noticing, recording, and beginning to understand the patterns of daily life after service.
Connect with veterans who understand
Learn from your own patterns
Find helpful support that fits
Key app features
Novel Interface and Feed
Capture meaningful experiences for any kind of activity, event or occasion that you do, from gardening to a night at the cinema, from a gentle walk or fast run to a night in the pub, from cooking to just resting. Keep a record of your experiences on your personal feed and learn what works for you and what doesn't.
Peer-Peer Support System
Connect with your veteran friends and find mates you've lost touch with. Start sharing your experiences in your veteran group, and exchange support, ideas, and encouragement to push you all on. Just knowing a friend is there can make a big difference in itself.
Experience Learning Engine
Over time, discover hidden patterns and trends in your experiences. Share them and ask the Ooex learning engine for ideas to obtain personalised recommendations for activities, support and resources to help you do and achieve more in your life.
Activities, Events, Support
Find veteran support and things to do near where you live or are. Propose, create, add, organise, and promote your own support, activities and events. Review and record your experience of support, event or activity and share it into the whole Ooex veteran network for others to discover and do too.
Feedback
The platform was developed with veterans. Their voices are the clearest evidence of what it offers.
“I’m not a veteran that’s been out and done a lot of tours and got a lot of medals. It’s a strange feeling, like a bit lesser you know, but maybe sharing the experience could equalise that, you know, you’re the same.”
“If this app had been available, I’d have been all over it. I’d have been like, what else can I do that’s local to me? Who else can I chat to? What have they been doing that I could be doing? And what have I been doing that they could be doing?”
“If you get a little bit of a boost which something like this could create then that would help improve so many different elements of like your mental health, your well-being.”
“It’s good that other veterans can see if you’ve been doing something and you’re in absolute agony and it’s made your mental health worse. You know, they can give you a message and say, oh, you’re all right mate?”
“It would be good to see what’s available locally, services and activities and people with similar injuries, abilities and service background, where I’m not going to turn up and everyone’s a marathon runner you know?”
Developed with UK Armed Forces Veterans - proven in the UK
Ooex for veterans was developed through a twelve-month research and design project funded by the UK government's Office for Veterans' Affairs Health Innovation Fund - a competitive grant awarded to Umio and Ooex.
The project involved in-depth research with 35 veterans across all branches of the UK Armed Forces, and produced five distinct veteran outlooks on life after service - each with different implications for what kind of support works, through which channels, and at what point in a veteran's journey. The platform prototype was evaluated with veterans at the end of the project. Feedback was universally positive. Proof of concept was achieved.
The research and the platform are not UK-specific. The five veteran outlooks reflect experiential patterns that appear across any veteran population - in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and beyond. Ooex is built for any veteran community, anywhere.
For veterans
If you are a veteran or family member and want to be part of the next phase of the Ooex platform - register your interest below. We will keep you informed as the platform develops and let you know when it is available in your area.
For agencies, commissioners, and funders
If you work with veterans - whether as a charity, an NHS or VA provider, a government body, an employer, or a defence and transition organisation - we would welcome a conversation about partnership.
Ooex can be deployed within your existing veteran community as a configurable platform, giving your organisation a real-time window into the lived experience of the people you serve - and the infrastructure to respond to what is actually happening in their daily lives rather than what was anticipated at the point of service design.
The platform feeds the Large Experience Model - Ooex's proprietary AI trained on real lived experience data. Your deployment generates a ring-fenced model partition trained exclusively on your veteran community's data, growing more accurate and contextually specific over time and belonging entirely to your organisation.
We are actively seeking partnerships with veteran charities, NHS Op providers, US Veterans Affairs, Australian DVA, Canadian VAC, transition support organisations, large employers with veteran workforces, and government bodies working on veteran wellbeing and transition.