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Ooex for Former Service Personnel / Veterans and Families

Ooex is a unique peer-to-peer lived experience app and platform designed for UK veterans and their families. It supports the transition from military to civilian life by helping navigate challenges like isolation, pain, trauma, work, identity shifts, and life after service - fostering connection, confidence, and a more fulfilling future.

How it Works

Ultimately, such technology created a more meaningful, human-enabling, -connecting and -fulfilling form of artificial intelligence? One we call, Experiential Cognition®?
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Rethink and do more

Moving forward after service often means rethinking how you see yourself and what’s possible. Ooex supports this shift by helping you tune into your real experience, release old struggles, and take meaningful steps toward the life you want to lead. When you do, fresh opportunities for purpose, connection, and contribution begin to emerge.

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Find, meet and help fellow veterans

Ooex connects you with other veterans having similar experiences. By encouraging, helping, and collaborating together, your team of veteran buddies becomes a valuable support system, offering listening ears and encouragement, no matter how long it's been since you left the service.
 
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Help others to better understand you

Ooex contains a unique interface and supporting analysis tools that help you to record, recall and understand your everyday experiences. This allows you to discover previously hidden patterns and trends, set goals, take impactful actions, and find and access the help and resources you need.
 
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Find and access relevant support

As well as innovative experience tools, Ooex contains an evolving directory of veteran-friendly content, events, services and resources which you request, control and choose to participate in. You can also create your own activities or ideas and add them into Ooex too. 
 
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Go beyond your service self

Ooex helps you reconnect with what matters to you - your values, strengths, and potential. It opens up new ways to contribute, connect, and make a difference, not just for yourself, but for others too. Whether it’s through shared experience, local action, or simply showing up for someone else, Ooex supports your journey into purposeful, engaged living.
 

 

Developed with UK Armed Forces Veterans

Ooex’s prototype, developed with UK Armed Forces veterans, highlights the platform’s transformative potential. Funded by the UK government’s Office for Veterans’ Affairs, this initiative demonstrated how authentic lived experiences can inspire solutions tailored to specific needs, creating real and lasting impact.

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Key app features

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

“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.”

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John, ex-Navy, 44

“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?”

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Nadine, ex-RAF, 41

“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.”

 

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Dave, ex-RAF, 38

“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?”

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Mike, ex-Army, 57

“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?”

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Stuart, ex-Army, 62

 

How Ooex for Veterans helps - at a glance

Feature

Summary

Express your real experience
Use a simple, visual tool to reflect on how you're doing -physically, emotionally, socially.
Capture the moments that matter
Capture daily highs, lows, or shifts to build insight into what’s helping or draining.
Connect with others (if you choose)
Share or browse moments with others - build quiet encouragement without pressure.
Get thoughtful ideas
Obtain thoughtful suggestions based on your patterns - to gently support movement or rest.
Find and explore services and activities nearby
Find and share local opportunities to connect, move, or engage - curated by other veterans.
Move at your own pace
No goals, scores, or pressure - just space to notice and respond at your own pace.

 

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