Four things that happen on their own. Shoutouts, weekly nudges, real rewards, and birthday posts. All inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, with the same app on both.
Shoutouts
Great work gets seen, right where your team works.
Good work should not disappear in a busy week. With our employee recognition software, anyone can send a shoutout in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and the whole team sees it. That is how belonging and connection get built, one moment at a time.
Public employee recognition, not a private thank-you
Takes seconds, with no new app to open
Drives high participation, not a once-a-year survey
Search Culture Engine
Culture Engine
Find a conversation…
Threads
All DMs
Mentions & reactions
More
Channels
culture-engine
miscellaneous
Direct messages
Slackbot
Gabrielyou
culture-engine
28
MessagesFiles and linksPins
Culture EngineAPP8:41 PM
@Maya gave a shoutout to @Sam + 100 Coins
You jumped on the customer escalation Friday night without being asked and had it sorted before Monday. The client even wrote in to say thanks. You saved the week — appreciate you 🙌
Team FirstAbove & Beyond
Last reply today at 11:04 AM
Message #culture-engine
Automated nudges
Recognition keeps going, even when you're busy.
You run a company. You cannot thank everyone every week. So Culture Engine does it for you, in Slack and in Microsoft Teams. The habit keeps going on its own.
Friendly nudges keep recognition flowing every week
No dashboards to check, no reminders to set
The habit sticks, which is how you get adoption across the whole team
Search Culture Engine
Culture Engine
Find a conversation…
Threads
All DMs
Mentions & reactions
More
Channels
culture-engine
miscellaneous
Direct messages
Slackbot
Gabrielyou
culture-engine
28
MessagesFiles and linksPins
Culture EngineAPP9:00 AM
@here 🎉 It’s Friday — the week is yours to recognise. Who showed up for you?
Recognition takes a minute. It lasts a lot longer.
Message #culture-engine
Real rewards
Coins your team can actually use.
A thank-you feels good. A thank-you with a real reward sticks, and Coins go with every shoutout, so your team picks what they want. As an employee rewards and recognition platform, we fulfill in 200+ countries, so a teammate in Manila gets real rewards just like one in Miami.
Gift cards, prepaid cards, or donations
Coins never expire
Employee rewards, redeemed in a couple of taps
app.cultureengine.ai/rewards
Redeem your Coins124 Coins balance
2,500 options in 200+ countries
Automatic celebrations
Never miss a birthday or work anniversary again.
These moments matter most and get missed most. Culture Engine tracks them for you. Birthdays and work dates get posted on time, every time.
Birthdays and work anniversaries, celebrated on time
The bot posts it, the team joins in
Nothing in your calendar to track
Search Culture Engine
Culture Engine
Find a conversation…
Threads
All DMs
Mentions & reactions
More
Channels
culture-engine
miscellaneous
Direct messages
Slackbot
Gabrielyou
culture-engine
28
MessagesFiles and linksPins
Culture EngineAPP7:00 PM
@here 🎉 Big day today — it's @Danna's birthday!
🎂 Birthdays are better with the team behind you. Drop a note, a GIF, or a shoutout for @Danna and help make today a good one.
🌕 +80 Coins — redeemable for gift cards, prepaid cards, and donations.
Last reply 18 hours ago
Message #culture-engine
This is how culture gets built, a little every week.
A team that sees each other’s work, every week. Add Culture Engine to Slack or Microsoft Teams free, in about a minute.
Why most recognition tools fail, and what we do instead.
If you have tried a recognition tool before, this list will feel familiar. If you have not, it is what to watch for. Either way, here is what we do differently.
Ranking people turns recognition into a contest. The loudest win. The same names come up again and again. Everyone else stops trying. So we rank no one.
Rewards worth having
Points that buy nothing feel empty, and people notice. Coins turn into real gift cards from Amazon, Apple, Target and Starbucks. Or a prepaid Visa card. Or a donation to a cause they pick. That is 2,500 options in 200+ countries.
Coins never expire
Points that expire cause a rush at the end of the month. Then they vanish, and people feel bad. Coins never expire. There is no deadline, so thanks happens when it is earned.
You never run out of ways to say thanks
Shoutouts are unlimited. A shoutout on its own still counts, and it costs you nothing. Coins sit on top, with a weekly allowance you set.
Recognition stays in Slack and Microsoft Teams
There is no other site to log into. That is the point. Recognition in another tab never happens. No second login. No app to install. Shoutouts, nudges and the Weekly Recap all stay where your team already works.
Recognition comes from everyone, not just the org chart
Praise from the top runs dry, because one manager cannot see it all. Manager recognition still matters. It just should not be the only source. Here anyone can recognize anyone, in one channel the whole team sees.
Who it’s for
Built for teams that run on Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Usually it is the person who ended up owning culture by accident. Three roles bring Culture Engine in. Here is what each one gets.
Recognition is a thank you, not a substitute for pay. It works best on top of a salary that is already fair.
Culture you can point to, for the price of a coffee per seat. Live before lunch.
01
Ops managers
Who own culture by default. One channel and one weekly habit. Nothing new to manage.
02
HR & People leads
A program that runs itself. No plan to write. No training to book.
03
Who we serve
Reward and recognition software that grows with your team
Culture Engine works the same way whether your people are in one office or eleven countries. Rewards fulfill in 200+ countries, nothing depends on everyone being in a room at the same time, and there is no minimum seat count, so you pay only for the people in your channel.
Remote and distributed teams use it because the overheard thank-you disappeared when the office did.
Agencies use it because client work is visible to the client and invisible to everyone else.
Software teams use it because the work that prevents problems is the work nobody sees.
Operations and support teams use it because recognition otherwise flows to whoever is in meetings.
Getting started
Set up employee recognition in Slack or Microsoft Teams in under a minute.
No rollout plan, no training session, nothing for your team to install. Add the app, and the recognition habit starts building on its own.
1
Add the app to Slack or Microsoft TeamsAbout a minute, for a workspace admin.
2
Put your team in one channelNothing for them to install.
3
Set a weekly Coin allowanceYou only pay for what’s redeemed.
4
Let the first week happen on its ownThe bot nudges; the habit builds.
1
Add the app to Slack or Microsoft TeamsAbout a minute, for a workspace admin.
2
Put your team in one channelNothing for them to install.
3
Set a weekly Coin allowanceYou only pay for what’s redeemed.
4
Let the first week happen on its ownThe bot nudges; the habit builds.
Make it easy. Make it seen. Make it weekly. That’s the whole plan.
Pricing
Simple pricing. Real recognition.
Start free for 14 days. Then $3 per seat/month, billed annually. No contracts, no minimums, cancel anytime.
Shared channel support with dedicated team and priority support
People stay for many reasons. Fair pay. Room to grow. And knowing their work gets seen. We do that last part.
Prices in USD, per seat, per month. Coins (the rewards teammates send each other) are funded separately and billed only when redeemed.
Measurement
Employee engagement you can see without running a survey.
You do not need a survey to know if this is working. The Weekly Recap posts right in your channel, on Slack or Microsoft Teams. It shows how many people gave or got recognition that week.
Always the whole team, never a per-person ranking
We never publish who got nothing
A dip shows up the same week, not eleven months later
If the rate goes up, the habit is taking hold. A survey tells you how last quarter felt. Recognition data tells you what happened this week.
This is the same habit our founder Liziana Carter ran at her first company, GROW AI, from five people to forty and eight figures. Every top performer stayed. Culture Engine is that habit, built as software.
Joined in this week: @Liz@Abdel@Stef@Jean@Elbano@Frank@Ron@Gabriel
Last reply 5 minutes ago
Security
What your admin will want to know
Most trials stall in the same place, which is a workspace admin or an IT reviewer asking what the app can see. Here is the short version, and the Trust Center has the full detail.
Permissions
We request only the Slack or Microsoft Teams permissions each feature needs. We cannot read direct messages or private channels we have not been added to.
Data
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Hosted on AWS in the United States. We never sell your data, and we never use it to train AI models without your permission.
Paperwork
Our DPA is pre-signed and available for self-serve customers. The Privacy Policy and DPA are public.
Compliance
SOC 2 is in progress. We will not claim a certification we do not hold yet. If your procurement process needs a finished report, we will tell you to wait.
Rewards
Rewards are fulfilled through our rewards partner. No card data touches Culture Engine.
Answers to your questions below — and a real human at the other end if anything is still unclear.
One minute. In Slack, a workspace admin adds the app, then adds your team to the #culture-engine channel. In Microsoft Teams, a team owner adds the app and picks a channel, and everyone on the team is already in it. Your team can send shoutouts before lunch. After that, the bot posts the Weekly Recap and sends friendly nudges each week. Recognition keeps going on its own.
No. Culture Engine is a Slack app. An admin adds it once, and the whole team uses it inside Slack. No second login. No mobile app. No browser extension.
One plan at $3 per seat per month, billed annually, with every feature included. Seats are the people in your recognition channel on each billing day, so the count updates on its own when people join or leave. Coins are funded separately and billed only when someone redeems them. The trial is 14 days with no card.
Every shoutout can carry Coins. The person who gets them picks a real reward: gift cards like Amazon, Apple, Target, and Starbucks, a prepaid Visa card, or a gift to a cause they choose. There are 2,500 options in 200+ countries.
Recognition tools fail when they feel like extra work. Culture Engine lives inside Slack, where your team already is. The bot sends the reminders, so you don't have to. That's what keeps people using it.
Start with a 14-day free trial. No credit card needed. Pro is $3 per seat, per month, billed annually. Coins are funded separately. You set a weekly allowance per person, so you control the spend. And you only pay for Coins that get redeemed.
Yes — cancel anytime from the admin dashboard. Your plan stays active until the end of your current billing term, and you won’t be charged again. No contracts, no early termination fees.
Yes. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We only ask Slack for the permissions each feature needs. We never sell your data or train AI on it. The full details are on our Privacy Policy and DPA pages.
Yes. Culture Engine runs natively in Microsoft Teams and in Slack, with the same app, the same channel model, the same Coins and the same Weekly Recap on both. A Teams admin installs it in about a minute and teammates install nothing. Companies running both platforms install it on each.
Employee recognition software helps teams notice and reward good work. Culture Engine does this inside Slack. Teammates send shoutouts with Coins attached. Coins turn into real rewards: gift cards, prepaid cards, and donations. It becomes a weekly habit, not a once-a-year event.
Culture Engine lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. There is no separate app or login. Anyone can send a shoutout in seconds and attach Coins. It posts in your shared channel, and the whole team can see it and react. Recognition happens where your team already works.
The best employee recognition software is the one your team actually uses. Culture Engine is built for Slack. No new app to open. Real rewards, not points that expire. And no leaderboards, so it never turns into a contest.
Culture is built in small moments, over and over. Culture Engine makes saying thanks a weekly habit: shoutouts, real rewards, and birthdays posted on time. Bit by bit, it becomes part of how your team works.
A recognition tool does one thing, which is helping people notice and reward each other’s work. An engagement suite bundles recognition with surveys, performance reviews, communications and analytics. Suites cost more, take longer to roll out, and are usually quote-only. If recognition is the problem you have, a recognition tool is the right fit.
Coins a teammate receives never expire. On the giving side, you set a weekly allowance, and you choose in the admin settings whether unspent giving Coins roll over. Shoutouts themselves are unlimited and free, so recognition never stops because a balance reaches zero.
Because ranking people turns recognition into a contest that has a small number of repeat winners. The most visible people accumulate and everyone else stops trying. We do not offer leaderboards and we will not add them as a setting. The Weekly Recap reports the whole team’s activity instead, and it never publishes who received nothing.
28
