A work offsite the team will not dread.
The plan on everybody's phone, nudges when it is time to move, the bill split as you go, and — if it suits — something to win. Nothing that scores has to be switched on at all.
Most of the offsite is logistics, and the plan is the part everybody actually opens: what is on, when, where, and a nudge on the phone ten minutes before it starts.
The bill is the other half. Who paid for what, who owes whom, in more than one currency, summed every time somebody looks. No spreadsheet goes round afterwards.
How it goes
Build it in an evening
Pick the kind of event and take what suits from a catalogue of challenges, games, secret missions and trophies that are already written. Set the plan, and the shopping list writes itself. An evening on the sofa, not a spreadsheet.
Send one link
One link into the group chat. Everybody taps their name and they are in — no account, no password, nothing to install. The one thing that needs proving, a secret mission, proves itself with a link of its own.
Run it from your phone
Release a challenge when it suits the room, award the points, spin the wheel, settle the bill. Close it out on the drive home and everyone gets the record of it.
What a work offsite starts with
Every one of these is a switch, and this is where a work offsite starts. Throw any of them the other way and the product is still the product.
The basics
Who is coming, their links, the look and the words.
The plan
Days, times, places, and a nudge when it is time.
Prep and shopping
What to bring, what to buy, what the venue already has.
Nudges
Web push to every phone that opted in.
Faces
A photo of each person beside their name.
Photo uploadsparty
Proof on a challenge, a photo on a memory, receipts on the bill, a gallery in the wrap.
Memories
Everyone writes what they will remember.
The wrap
Close it out: the record, the stats, an export, an optional story.
The bill
Who paid, who owes, in more than one currency.
Get the first invitation
It opens to strangers before the summer. Leave an address and you will hear once, the day it does.