Your team's not
performing at their peak.
What are you doing about it?
Give River builds happy, healthy, high-performing teams through the gamified 5G Method — recognition, growth, team building, and impact in minutes a day.
Give River teams hit 90%+ Season participation. Most engagement platforms never get past 30%.
Designed with & trusted by teams at
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.
One framework. Five forces.
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 dedicated River Guide — your fractional culture strategist.
Ready in 2 weeks. Your choice of depth.
Start with a single 8-week Season, or deploy the full 5G platform. Both begin with a River Guide, both include the Game of Good Deeds.
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 moreFour moves. Zero friction.
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.
Every 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.
- →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
Given through Drops
Automation of routine admin
When the work feels good, the work gets done.
“We saw a 9% shift in isolation and overwhelm scores in eight weeks. That's not a platform result — that's a culture result.”
“First tool we've rolled out that didn't feel like more HR homework. Managers asked for the next Season before the first one ended.”
“Our pilot hit 98% — ninety-eight — feeling more appreciated and connected. I've run pilots for a decade. I've never seen that number.”
“17% increase in feelings of appreciation across three sites. The data paid for the platform by week six.”
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
$1M+ directed to causes your team chose. Not checkbook philanthropy.
Your brand
Public Benefit Corp, Add a Drop Foundation aligned. Purpose you own.
Model the math. Talk about the rest later.
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.
You've got reasonable doubts.
Six things prospects ask us before a demo. Honest answers, up front.
Those are recognition tools. Give River is a 5G platform — recognition, growth, team-building, impact, and a River Guide — built around Seasons so you never hit the Month 3 cliff. Teams that replaced Bonusly saw participation triple within one Season.
2–4 weeks end-to-end. 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.
Lite starts at $3/user/month, Core at $5, Growth is custom, Nonprofit is $5–9. Every plan includes a 30-day free trial and a River Guide. 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 managers don'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, Rippling, and Paylocity. 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 support from day one.