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One app for how your company talks.

Chat, calls, meetings with clients, whiteboards, file transfers and the admin tools to run them, in a single install on your own server.

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client-harbor

Harbor & Pine account

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Liam O’Connor14:02
Walkthrough with Rachel starts in 5. Recording goes to this channel.
Liam O’Connor started a meeting
4:07Recording
LORLMS
JoinChat

Message #client-harbor

Liam O’Connor started a meeting

4:07Recording

LORLMS

JoinChat

Talk

Chat that feels familiar on day one.

The Slack layout your team already knows: channels, DMs, threads, reactions, search. Running on your server.

Channels and messaging

Public and private channels, DMs, polls, read receipts.

design-review

Dashboards, empty states and anything with pixels

JWAOHK2

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Jonas Weber09:41
Apollo sensor dashboard is up on staging. @Mateo, can you sanity-check the empty states before Priya's 11:00?
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Mateo Silva09:44
On it. The ‘no readings yet’ card still uses the old illustration, I’ll swap it.
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Amara Okafor09:52
Ops note: Toronto installs ship Monday, so anything after Friday noon goes to v1.4.
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Message #design-review

Threads and mentions

Every thread and every @mention on its own page.

Files and search

Media, files, links and whiteboards per conversation.

Meet

Talk face to face, keep the record.

Calls from any chat, meetings with people outside the company, recordings that land in the conversation.

Calls and screen sharing

Voice, video and screens from any chat.

Recording

Recordings land in your storage, in the chat.

Whiteboards

Draw it together, save it to the conversation.

Meetings with guests

Client calls on your server, no account needed.

Share

Send gigabytes to clients with a password and an expiry, or move them desk to desk over the office network.

File transfers

Send big files from your own bucket.

LAN transfer

Desk to desk at network speed, no server.

Control

Run it like you run the company.

Your own sign-in IDs, roles that open channels, IP rules, and a log of every admin action.

Admin, roles and audit

Your IDs, your roles, a log of every change.

Time	Actor	Action	Target	Summary
2 Oct 2026, 10:22:41	SHSofia Haddad	IP policy updatedip_policy.updated	Remote engineering	Added 192.0.2.44 (VPN gateway)
2 Oct 2026, 10:19:03	SHSofia Haddad	Role assignedrole.assigned	Hana Kobayashi	Apollo team
2 Oct 2026, 10:02:55	LOLiam O’Connor	Transfer createdtransfer.created	Apollo field kit	12 files · 4.8 GB · 7 days

IP access policies

Decide where people can sign in from.

Deploy

Install once. Update when you choose.

A Docker Compose stack on your Linux server, and desktop apps that update from it.

Desktop apps and notifications

macOS and Windows, updated from your server.

Self-hosting

What you run, what you need, how updates work.

Security

Where every byte lives, and what Smack doesn’t do.

Time	Actor	Action	Target	Summary
2 Oct 2026, 10:22:41	SHSofia Haddad	IP policy updatedip_policy.updated	Remote engineering	Added 192.0.2.44 (VPN gateway)
2 Oct 2026, 10:19:03	SHSofia Haddad	Role assignedrole.assigned	Hana Kobayashi	Apollo team

And the small things.

Long pastes become a message.txt file
Drag channels into your own order
Away only after 20 minutes idle
Edit or delete within a window you set
Forward several messages at once
Bookmarks and notes to self
Link previews fetched by your server
Built-in stickers and GIF cards, no outside service
Copy button on every code block
Who’s viewing a channel right now
Polls with anonymous voting and a deadline
Incoming webhooks in Slack and Discord format

EVERY FEATURE. EVERY INSTALL.

No tiers, no add-ons, no seat count.

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