Naven
Communities
A team chat for a business with no IT department
Slack and Teams are better products for a business that can administer them. This is for the one that cannot, and is currently running on a personal WhatsApp group.
Who this is for
Shops, cafés, garages and practices with five to thirty staff.
How it is usually set up
A channel per site or shift, and direct conversations for the rest.
What Naven does not claim
Naven promises no security and no moderation. Messages are screened before they send against twelve published categories, by software written by one person — it misses things, and it is weaker in languages other than English. Calls are not screened at all. Naven is not end-to-end encrypted, which is what makes screening possible; anyone whose first requirement is end-to-end encryption should use Signal.
What it costs
Nothing. Naven is free, with no advertising, no paid tier and no data sale.