Tonight, a World forms.Tomorrow, it's gone.
ECOU is a night out where a bracelet sends you to meet someone new, and the whole room watches itself become one network.
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How the night works
You get a bracelet with a number
At the door. Tonight, that number is who you are to everyone else in the room.
You tap it and answer a few questions
Your phone opens a page. No app. What you can help with, what you'd love to learn about. About a minute.
ECOU sends you to meet someone
Your phone shows a place in the room and a number. The person with that number is told the same thing, at the same moment.
You meet, tap, connect
You find each other and talk. One of you taps the other's bracelet, the other says yes on their phone, and a line appears between you on the big screen. Then the next Signal comes.
The room becomes one network
Group by group, the room joins up. By the end, there is a path from you to everyone.
At the end, you choose who to remember
Up to three people. If they chose you too, you see each other. That is an Echo.
Why it works
Most of us expect a conversation with a stranger to go worse than it does. So we stand with the people we came with, and go home having met no one.
ECOU gives you a reason to say hello. You are not interrupting anyone: the other person knows you're coming, because they were sent to find you too.
And you don't start from nothing. Every meeting begins with something one of you knows and the other wants to learn, or something you share, and a first question to open with.
Tonight you're a number
You can be fully here without handing yourself over.
- Other guests see a number.
- Not your name, not your answers. The hosts running the night can see first names, so they can look after the room.
- Only mutual choices are revealed.
- At the end you choose who to remember, and what to share with each: your first name, one contact, both or neither.
- A choice that isn't returned disappears.
- It is deleted when the night closes. Nobody is ever told, and nobody can find out. Not them, not us.
- We keep as little as we can.
- What you shared is erased after a week, your answers after a month. We never know where you are in the room. An account is optional, and only if you ask for one.
Echo
The music drops. The screen holds the shape the room made: every line a conversation that happened.
On your phone are the people you met. You choose the ones you want to remember. Somewhere in the room, they are choosing too.
Then the World closes, and what was mutual lights up.
The next World
The next World is coming.
Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment it opens.
Host a World
For venues and organizers. ECOU turns a room of people who don't know each other into one that does.
- A full experience for 30 to 150 people
- From the first bracelet to the last Echo, the night has a shape. Your guests are not left to find their own way in.
- ECOU staff and technology
- We bring the bracelets, the screen, the hosts and the people who run it. You bring the room.
- A night guests talk about
- People leave having met someone, with a bracelet on their wrist that still opens the memory of your night.
- Pricing
- [PRICING]
- What's included
- [WHAT'S INCLUDED]
Tell us about your night
Questions
Do I need an app?
No. You tap your bracelet with your phone and a page opens in your browser. Nothing to install, no password.
Do I need to bring someone?
No. You can come alone: ECOU introduces you. Come with a friend if you like; you'll each get your own Signals.
What happens to my data?
Other guests only ever see your number. Names and contacts you share in a mutual Echo are erased after a week, your answers after a month. A choice that wasn't returned is deleted the moment the night closes.
What if I'm shy?
Then this was made for you. You never walk up to someone cold: you are both sent to the same place, and you both get a first question. You can skip a Signal, and leave any meeting, without explaining.
Can I take a break?
Yes. Press "Take a break" and no Signals come until you're ready. Hosts are in the room all night if you need anything.
What do I keep at the end?
Your bracelet, which opens a memory of the night whenever you tap it, and your mutual Echoes.
How much does it cost?
[PRICE]
How long does a night last?
[DURATION]