Employee recognition you own
Your employees deserve more than a Slack message.
TeamChapter turns birthdays, work anniversaries and career milestones into celebrations the team actually writes. Get the complete employee-recognition product — and its code — for $99 once. Deploy it as it is, or customize it for your company.
Nordfold · 24 people
For Marco.
Software Engineer · Three months
First, a note from his manager
Mihai
Engineering Lead
“On your second day, you asked why Friday deploys needed a six-step checklist. By week eight, you had replaced it with a script. Last Friday we shipped at four and went home. You didn’t just learn how we work — you made it better.”
For Marco · Three months
— MihaiThis is what your employee opens on the day.
The difference
Celebrations your team actually remembers.
Recognition only lands when it is personal and specific — and when it comes from more than one person. In TeamChapter, most of the team writes something, not just the manager.
HR bot 🎉 Today Sofia celebrates 1 year with us!
Eight kind people. Nothing Sofia can point to. Scrolled past by tomorrow morning.
Sofia's first year
14 of 22 wrote
The week the migration broke, you stayed on the call until 1am and then wrote the runbook so nobody would ever have to do that again. That runbook is still what we hand new engineers.
You noticed I was drowning in my first month and quietly took two of my tickets without telling anyone. I've copied that from you ever since.
You are the only engineer who answers support questions like the customer is in the room. Three of them have asked for you by name.
Read on the day. Read again a year later. Shown to people at home.
Will your employee remember a thread full of "Congrats!" tomorrow — or an album they'll still read three years from now?
That's the whole difference. A few specific sentences from the people they actually work with beats fifty emoji, and it keeps mattering long after the day is over.
The gap
2,000 hours of work shouldn't end with "Congrats! 🎉"
Someone gives your company thousands of hours a year. When their birthday or work anniversary arrives, the moment usually turns into one line in a channel — because nobody has time to gather what the team would actually say.
TeamChapter helps the team make something far more personal, in about 90 seconds each.
With TeamChapter
A Memory Book written by the people they work with every day.
Recognition isn't just a nice gesture. Your best people need to know their work matters.
29%
Receive recent recognition
As of May 2026, only 29% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they received recognition or praise for doing good work in the previous seven days.
Source: Gallup
45%
Lower observed turnover among well-recognized employees
Gallup and Workhuman research tracking employees over two years found that well-recognized employees were 45% less likely to have changed organizations.
Source: Gallup / Workhuman
Employees who do not feel adequately recognized are twice as likely to say they will quit in the next year.
Source: Gallup
Recognition is one of the simplest ways to show employees: we see your work, we remember your contribution, you matter here.
How it works
Turn a milestone into something worth remembering.
01
A milestone is coming up.
TeamChapter knows when a birthday, work anniversary or milestone is approaching. Add your people in the app today — and because you own the code, your team can connect it to your HRIS or employee database later.
02
The team contributes.
Coworkers privately add memories, messages, stories, appreciation and photos. The AI Memory Coach helps them think of something meaningful instead of staring at an empty box.
03
TeamChapter creates the celebration.
Everything becomes one beautiful Memory Book — a celebration page your colleague opens, reads and keeps.
Step by step
Watch the whole thing happen. Three screens.
This plays by itself. Hover to pause, or click a step to jump to it.
What a colleague sees when it's their turn
James Carter 10:02
Marco hits 3 months on Friday — I started a Chapter for him — 90 seconds each, no account needed. Add one thing you've noticed about him:
Marco's 3-month Chapter
6 of 24 have written · closes Thursday 18:00
Add your bitSofia Rossi 10:04
done, took less time than the coffee queue
Question 1 of 2
What's one thing Marco did in his first weeks that you didn't expect?
Not a compliment — a moment. One sentence is plenty.
He rewrote our onboarding doc in week two because he'd taken notes on everything that confused him.
That's the good stuff. One more: what does the team do differently now because of him?
What the repo already builds
The Memory Book, already working on day one.
Nordfold · 24 people
For Marco.
Software Engineer · Three months
First, a note from his manager
Mihai
Engineering Lead
“On your second day, you asked why Friday deploys needed a six-step checklist. By week eight, you had replaced it with a script. Last Friday we shipped at four and went home. You didn’t just learn how we work — you made it better.”
For Marco · Three months
— MihaiSee it on your team
"Great teammate" is not recognition. This is.
Pick a real team size. See the throwaway message someone nearly sent, then the specific memory they found in 90 seconds.
Happy 3 months Marco! Great to have you on the team — keep it up!
Read once. Forgotten by lunch.
“You wrote a script nobody asked you to write, and we got our Fridays back. Three months in, and this team already works differently because of you.”
Kept. Printed. Read again in five years.
Marco · Software Engineer · 3 months at Nordfold
How it got there
Your turn — answer that first question about someone on your team.
The chapter
9 people. 9 stories. One Marco.
“Three months in and already deleting our worst habits.”
“Asked "why do we do it like this?" on day two.”
“Gave us our Fridays back.”
“Fits like he's been here for years.”
The team verdict
Three months in, one fewer ritual we hated. Belongs here already.
A newcomer finds out he already belongs.
Answer one for realThe Memory Coach asks for one real moment, then stays out of the writing.
Try it yourself
Don't take our word for it. Click through the real thing.
Four doors into the working product — exactly as it comes, with nothing customized.
Now for the unusual part
$99.Once.
Most employee-recognition software charges your company every month or every year — often based on how many employees you have. TeamChapter works differently. Pay $99 once and get the complete TeamChapter employee-recognition product, with its source code.
No TeamChapter subscription
No TeamChapter per-employee fee
To be straight with you: the $99 pays for the TeamChapter product, code and license. Hosting, database, AI/API usage, third-party services and any AI coding tools you choose to use remain your own costs, and you control them.
Be specific
What do I actually get for $99?
A working employee-recognition product — and the code behind it.
Employee directory
People, roles, departments, managers, start dates and birthdays. CSV import and export built in.
Employee profiles
Photo, tenure, every milestone and every shout-out they have received, in one page.
Birthdays, tenure & anniversaries
3 months, 6 months, 1 year and work anniversaries, tracked from dates you already have.
Automatic scheduling
A nightly job opens each celebration, invites colleagues, reminds them and delivers on the day.
Milestone dashboard
What is opening, collecting, ready and delivered — and who has not written yet.
Memory Books
Build, reorder, edit, preview, approve, schedule and deliver a book per milestone.
Contribution collection
One private link per colleague. No account, no password, works on a phone.
AI Memory Coach
Adaptive questions, an editable draft, and warmer/funnier/shorter rewrites.
Peer recognition
Value-based shout-outs with a company feed and reactions.
Insights
Participation and coverage by person, department and milestone.
Setup Center & Launch Checklist
Real readiness from live data, plus a one-button system check.
Connections
Email with a real test send, an AI test call, BambooHR, HiBob and Personio sync, your own Slack and Teams notifications.
Branding & configuration
Logo, colours, timezone, sender name, milestone timing, values, your recognition wording.
Private media storage
Photos and logos in a private bucket, served only through short-lived links.
Buyer documentation
Quickstart, deployment, integrations, architecture, data model, security and customization docs.
GitHub source code
The repository, so your team can change anything.
What it is not
- Not a Figma template.
- Not a PDF.
- Not a collection of prompts.
- Not a demo.
What it is
A working employee-recognition application, with the source code.
You don't have to build anything new.
TeamChapter already works as an employee-recognition product. Deploy it, add your employees, set up your company and start celebrating milestones. Or make it completely yours.
Option A
Use TeamChapter
- Deploy the existing recognition system.
- Add your people.
- Configure your company, milestones and values.
- Connect email, Slack or Teams, and BambooHR, HiBob or Personio from the app.
- Start celebrating milestones.
Option B
Make it yours
- Change workflows and how milestones work.
- Go further than the branding settings allow.
- Add an HRIS beyond the BambooHR, HiBob and Personio syncs we ship.
- Add your authentication requirements.
- Build new recognition programmes.
- Add Teams, or go past the Slack notifications included.
- Add functionality specific to your company.
A complete employee-recognition system you can deploy today — with the code to change anything tomorrow.
Rent recognition software — or own it.
Working recognition product
SaaS
YesScratch
NoTeamChapter
YesSource code
SaaS
NoScratch
YesTeamChapter
YesOne-time TeamChapter price
SaaS
NoScratch
N/ATeamChapter
$99Per-employee TeamChapter subscription
SaaS
Usually subscription pricingScratch
NoTeamChapter
NoCustomize workflows
SaaS
Typically limitedScratch
YesTeamChapter
YesConnect your own systems
SaaS
Depends on vendorScratch
YesTeamChapter
Yes / customizableUse immediately
SaaS
YesScratch
NoTeamChapter
YesUse AI coding tools to modify
SaaS
No access to sourceScratch
YesTeamChapter
YesOwnership / control
SaaS
Vendor-controlled applicationScratch
YouTeamChapter
Your licensed codebaseTraditional model
Employees ↑ Subscription ↑
TeamChapter
Employees ↑ License = still $99 once
Your own hosting, database and AI usage costs can grow with usage. What doesn't grow is what TeamChapter charges you per employee.
One product. One price. Your code.
$99
One-time
- ✓Complete TeamChapter employee-recognition repo
- ✓Working application
- ✓Full source code
- ✓Use it for your organization according to the license
- ✓Customize it
- ✓Host it
- ✓Connect your systems
- ✓No TeamChapter per-employee subscription
You control any hosting, database, AI and third-party tool costs. Source-code use is governed by the TeamChapter commercial license — ask us for the current license text before you buy.
Questions
The obvious objections, answered.
It's employee-recognition software. Milestones, team messages, the AI Memory Coach and the Memory Book all work today. The unusual part is that you also receive the code, so nothing has to stay the way we built it.
Your people are already creating the stories. TeamChapter helps you remember them.
Get a complete employee-recognition system your company can actually own. $99 once.
Deploy it as-is. Or make it completely yours.