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How it works, step by step

From nothing to your team playing, and what happens after that.

Setting it up

1

Sign in with your work email

You type your work address. We email you a link. You click it. That is the whole sign-in, now and every time after.

A personal address will not work here, and that is deliberate: the address is what proves you belong to the company.

2

Name your company

One box and a button. Your web address and your email domain both come from what you have already proved, so there is nothing else to fill in and nothing to configure.

3

Put a link where your team already is

Pick a game and copy its link. Paste it into the Slack or Teams channel people already read. Anyone at your company who clicks it is in.

You do not have to announce anything or book anything. The link is the invitation, and it keeps working for as long as you have the space.

What a game actually looks like

  1. Someone opens the link. If a game is already running they join it. If not, one starts.
  2. Everyone answers on their own phone or laptop, at the same time. No camera, no microphone, nobody taking turns while the rest watch.
  3. The app keeps time and moves the game along by itself. Nobody is running it, and if the person who opened it closes the tab the game carries on without them.
  4. When it finishes, the scores go onto your company leaderboard under real names, and the game is added to your record.

You choose how fast it goes

Same game, same link. The only thing that changes is the clock.

Live

about 5 minutes

Everyone playing in the same moment. Good for a Friday afternoon, or the last ten minutes of an all-hands.

Relaxed

about half an hour

People drift in, answer, and get on with their day. Good for a normal working day where nobody can stop for long.

Slow

a day or two

A game that waits. This is how a team in London, New York and Singapore plays the same game without anyone getting up early.

Slow is the one worth trying if your team is spread out. Most tools treat a distributed team as a scheduling problem and make somebody lose an evening. Here the game simply waits for people, because nothing about it needs everyone present at once.

Playing in a smaller group

Sometimes a few people want their own game rather than the company one — a single team, or four people on a project. From the same link they can start a private room and share the code with only the people they want.

It still counts towards participation, and it is still only open to people at your company.

What an admin can do

  • See participation — how many people played this month, and exactly who has not.
  • Download the spreadsheet — the whole roster, played or not, ready to send on.
  • Manage who is in — add colleagues, remove people who have left, add a second email domain.
  • Add your own questions — to any game that uses them.
  • Turn games on and off — so the space only shows what you want it to.
  • Set your logo and colours — on every screen your team sees.
  • Handle billing — see the plan, change the card, cancel.

Common questions

Does everyone need to create an account?

They sign in with their work email and click a link. There is no password to choose and none to forget.

Does the whole team have to play at the same time?

No. On the slower settings a game runs over hours or days, and people join whenever they open the link.

What if nobody in our company organises it?

Nothing needs organising. The link works whether or not anyone is looking after it, and the app runs the game itself. That is the main thing that makes this different from booking a session.

Can someone outside the company get in?

Only if an admin lets them in. Addresses at the email domains your company has claimed get in; anybody else only when an admin invites them or approves their request. An admin can also switch the space to invite-only.

What happens when someone leaves the company?

An admin removes them from the roster and the space stops opening for them. Their past scores stay in the record.

Which games do we get?

All of them, and the ones added later. They are all free to play on the public site, so you can look before you decide. See every game

What does it cost?

From $99 a month for up to 250 people: one flat price for the whole company by its size, never per person or per host. Up to 1,000 people is $299 a month, and bigger companies pay yearly, from $6,000 a year. The space opens the moment the plan starts, and you can cancel whenever.

Set up your company space

About a minute, with your work email address.

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