Recognition inside Slack, without the scoreboard.
Peer recognition in the Slack workspace you already use, with no points, streaks or leaderboards.
Big Ups lets people at a company thank each other for specific work, in the Slack workspace they already use. Someone types /bigup @colleague with a sentence about what that person actually did. It posts in the channel and becomes a permanent part of that person's record. Administrators can see who is being recognized and for what.
There are no points to spend, no streaks to protect and no leaderboards. Nobody is prompted, nudged or scored.
How it works
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Install it in your Slack workspace
One click from Slack. Your whole workspace is included to start, and an admin can narrow it to chosen channels later. There is no points budget to fund and no program to launch.
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People send big ups
A slash command in Slack, or the web app for anything longer. It lands in the channel, and in the recipient's feed.
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It stays somewhere useful
Every big up is kept and searchable. Useful in a one-to-one, and considerably more useful when someone has to write a review.
A record built for review time
Every big up someone has received stays on a page of their own: dated, grouped by month, and kept in the words whoever sent it actually wrote. A date range narrows the list to one review period.
Nothing here was written for a review. It is simply what already happened, filtered down to the weeks that matter for one conversation.
For your team
Peer recognition is unforced, genuine, and comes from somebody who knows your work best.
It comes from someone who was there.
"Nice work on that difficult PR" lands differently from "you've been doing great, keep it up." Your teammates saw the thing. They can name it, they say it while it still matters, and you know they meant it.
You get seen for who you are, not only what you shipped.
The way you handle a bad week. The person you are to work with. Not everything worth saying about somebody is on a roadmap.
The small stuff counts.
The Friday save. The doc nobody wanted to write. The answer in a thread that unblocked someone's whole afternoon. A yearly review catches the highlights. This catches the week.
It adds up to something.
One big up is a good afternoon. Thirty of them, written by different people across a year, say something about you that no single message does.
And it is still there when it counts.
You never have to sit down and try to remember what went well - the people you actually helped already wrote it down.
For the company
What a company gets is a record of the work its people actually noticed, written by the people who saw it happen, with nothing to run and nobody to chase.
The signal is clean, because nothing is compelled.
Nothing here is required, so what shows up is insight rather than compliance. Recognition is genuine, and gaps in the data are information.
Nothing to administer.
No points economy, no gift-card budget to fund, no quarterly reminder campaign, and it runs where people already work.
The record is yours.
On the Team plan, an administrator can export it from the Organization page as a CSV or an Excel file, every visible message in full, with names. It is your organization's data, and canceling deletes nothing.
Why there is nothing to game
Most tools in this category hand out points to spend before the quarter closes, a streak you are not supposed to break, or a leaderboard with your name partway down it. Predictably, people play - and a message sent to hold a place on a board is worth nothing to the person receiving it. Everybody involved knows it.
Big Ups has none of that. What arrives in your Slack arrived because somebody chose to send it. We bill for the people on your roster, not for the messages they send, so on a paid plan nothing anyone sends changes what you pay.
Why nobody is scored, ranked or nudgedWhy there are no rewards
Some recognition tools give points that people swap for gift cards. Big Ups doesn't, on purpose. When a thank you earns a reward, people start sending thanks for the reward. Rewards also cost money on top of your subscription, and someone has to spend time running them.
Pricing
Every organization starts free. On Team, charges are based on the number of people on your roster. An administrator decides who that is: everyone in your Slack workspace, or the members of the public channels they choose. When the number changes, the difference is prorated to the day and settled on your next invoice: added when somebody joins the roster, credited when somebody is removed. Removing somebody from the roster also ends their access. Payments are processed by Stripe, and we never see or store card details. There is no setup fee, no minimum term and no annual commitment.
Free
$0
- Everyone in your workspace
- Unlimited sending
- The last 90 days of history
Team
$3 per person / month
- Full control of what you pay. Include your whole workspace or just the channels you pick, and set a seat limit.
- Full history and exports
- Billed monthly in advance, in US dollars
Contact us
A real person reads every address. /support lists all of them - general support, security reports, privacy and data requests, and billing - with a phone number and our postal address.
Start in a few minutes.
No card, no sales call, no demo booked three weeks out.