Say hello to your happy, healthy, high-performing team
Give River builds happy, healthy, high-performing teams through the gamified 5G Method in minutes a day.
Give River teams hit 90%+ Season participation. Most engagement platforms never get past 30%.
Informed by research and practice across Fortune 500 tech, finance, healthcare, and nonprofit teams.
Most engagement platforms hit a cliff at Month 3.
Novelty fades. Participation drops. Give River's seasonal model is engineered to prevent this — each Season resets the story, the goals, and the energy.
Launch → novelty → silence.
Launch hype carries platforms for 6–8 weeks. Then managers forget. Employees stop checking. By Month 3, participation is below the baseline that made you shop in the first place.
New Season, new story, same goals.
30–90 day Seasons give the platform a fresh narrative every quarter. Leaderboards reset. Rewards restock. Your River Guide designs each Season around a real goal on your team's actual to-do list.
Five key drivers of championship winning teams
Sports psychology — the stuff that turns pickup teams into championship squads — distilled into a workplace gamification framework that actually sticks.
Gratitude
Peer-to-peer recognition tied to the core values you already have.
Gamification
Seasons, challenges, and leaderboards that make work feel worth playing.
Growth
River Runs: 5-minute learning modules with 80%+ completion rates.
Generosity
Game of Good Deeds — employee-directed giving to causes they choose.
Guidance
A River Guide — your fractional culture strategist. Shared on Core, dedicated on Growth.
Customized to fit your needs
Start with a single 8-week Season, or deploy the full 5G platform. Both include the Game of Good Deeds. Core and Growth ship with a River Guide to design the Season around your team's goals.
Pathway 01 · The Season
An 8-week engagement sprint kicked off by invitation. You only pay when your team plays — and every Season ships the Game of Good Deeds baked in.
Learn morePathway 02 · The Platform
The full 5G stack: HRIS/Slack/Teams integration, Insights Dashboard, eNPS, River Runs, and a dedicated River Guide partnering with People Ops every quarter.
Learn moreThe future of work is performance in play
Recognition, Seasons, Impact, Guidance — the Give River flywheel. Each piece reinforces the next.
Drops that actually land.
Peer-to-peer recognition tied to your core values, celebrated publicly, rewarded meaningfully — and visible right inside Slack or Teams.
- →Tag recognitions to your values with Team Tags
- →Redeem points for gift cards, custom rewards, or charitable donations
- →See exactly who's recognized and who's getting overlooked
Time-boxed. Results-driven.
30–90 day performance Seasons with clear goals, team leaderboards, and rewards worth chasing. Because 'ongoing initiative' is where good ideas go to die.
- →Define success metrics with your River Guide
- →Team leaderboards with real-time standings
- →Before/after data on engagement, retention, productivity
The Game of Good Deeds.
Employees direct corporate giving to causes they choose. Recognition creates ripples — in your culture, in your brand, in the world.
- →Employee-directed donations to verified 501(c)(3)s
- →Team giving challenges tied to Seasons
- →Automated distribution + tax compliance handled
Your fractional culture strategist.
On Core and up, your account gets a River Guide: a former HR or culture expert who designs your Seasons, interprets your data, and partners with People Ops as a strategic extension of the team. Shared on Core, dedicated on Growth and Nonprofit.
- →Custom Season design tied to real business goals
- →Monthly data review + health-score interpretation
- →Change management, launch playbooks, manager training
Targets based on top-decile customer outcomes.
vs. 20–30% industry standard
River Runs micro-learning
CADC · across 326 employees
Automation of routine admin
When the work feels good, the work gets done.
“Give River has been an incredible blessing to our organization. It saved us time and made rolling out our recognition program effortless, helping us launch it in record time. I love seeing the appreciation spread across our teams, it's truly shifting our culture to be more positive and supportive of everyone's well being. With our organization spread across 25 sites, Give River shout-outs help me see who's working well together and feel genuinely more connected to all the teams.”
“Give River was the catalyst for a real culture shift. Our team became more open, collaborative, and willing to pitch in — and it even raised the passion for our mission, which was already high. We had 100% participation in our first Give River season, and the impact was undeniable. The experience sparked lasting culture change and inspired us to launch a second season.”
“The platform is truly exceptional! It offers a much-needed pause during the day, providing tools that are beneficial not only in a professional setting but also in managing personal life. I find the platform incredibly valuable, especially the module on trust in the workplace.”
When you care about your team, your customers, and your community —
Give River is for you. Fulfilled people. Thriving business. A community that's better for it. Everyone plays. Everyone wins.
Your people
Fulfillment > engagement. Recognition they can feel, growth they opt into.
Your business
Performance in Play — measurable retention, productivity, and culture lift.
Your community
Employees direct their recognition points to verified 501(c)(3)s they care about. Not checkbook philanthropy.
Your brand
Public Benefit Corp, Add a Drop Foundation aligned. Purpose you own.
Create a ripple effect to transform your team
Plug in your team size and turnover — we'll show you the annual cost of churn and what a 25% reduction would save.
Estimates assume typical top-decile outcomes. Your mileage may vary — see the methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions
Six things prospects ask us before a demo. Honest answers, up front.
Yes — Give River works for teams of 20–500 across tech, healthcare, nonprofits, professional services, and any team that wants culture to scale. The 5G platform — recognition, growth, team-building, impact, and a River Guide — runs on Seasons so you never hit the Month 3 cliff. Customers average 90% adoption.
2–4 weeks end-to-end to launch. Your River Guide designs the first Season with you, handles Slack/Teams/HRIS integration, and trains managers. Most teams run their first Season within a month of signing and see meaningful engagement lift in the first 2–4 weeks.
Free, Core $5, Growth custom. Every paid plan includes a 30-day free trial. River Guide (a fractional culture strategist) is included on Core (shared) and Growth (dedicated). If you bring us a competitor quote, we'll match or beat it.
Adoption is the #1 thing we optimize for. Gamified Seasons, mobile apps, and in-Slack/Teams Drops mean your team doesn't have to leave the tools they already live in. 90% adoption is the result, not an aspiration.
No. We integrate with ADP, Workday, BambooHR, and Rippling. Your HRIS stays the system of record. Give River handles recognition, learning, performance, and impact — the things most HRIS platforms do poorly.
Industry-standard encryption at rest and in transit, SSO/SAML on Core and up, configurable visibility, GDPR/CCPA-ready. SOC 2 Type II is on our 2026 roadmap.
Build a team worth playing for.
30-day free trial. No credit card. River Guide included on Core and Growth.