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Appreciation cards

The whole product is
a single object.

Everything in Halo exists to make one thing worth receiving: a card that says what someone actually did, signed by the people who saw it.

Halo

Happy birthday

Happy Birthday, Jamie!


Wishing you a day filled with joy and a year ahead full of amazing achievements.

PTPeople team3 Aug 2024
Halo

Great work

Outstanding impact.


Your ideas turned into real outcomes. Thank you for going above and beyond.

DKDrew Kramer2 Aug 2024
Halo

Appreciation

Great work, Alex.


You stayed late to walk me through the migration script. Couldn't have done it without you.

DFDerek Foster2 Aug 2024

Six decisions,
then it is gone.

A card is deliberately shallow. Every field earns its place, and none of them is a formality you can leave blank and still have it mean something.

  • Who

    One recipient. Cards are not broadcast to a group; a group can sign one.

  • The moment

    Great work, thank you, birthday, anniversary, promotion, welcome, farewell.

  • The words

    280 characters. Short enough to be specific, too short to be generic.

  • The design

    A template, not a colour picker. Someone else already made it look right.

  • The signatures

    Colleagues add their name before it sends. One card, many voices.

  • Who can see it

    Private, team, or company. Private is the default, always.

Halo

Appreciation

Great work, Alex.


Nobody asked you to rewrite the onboarding flow. You saw it was bad, you fixed it, and three hundred people have had a better first day.

MRMorgan Reyes2 Aug 2024

One structure.
Four finishes.

Every card carries the same six fields in the same order, so a card is always legible at a glance. What changes is the surface it is printed on.

Standard finishes ship on every plan. Textured and gradient faces are part of the premium set.

Write one. It takes ninety seconds.

This is the real composer, not a screenshot. Pick a moment, pick a face, say the thing.

Moment
Template

Halo AI can suggest a phrasing. You choose whether to use it.

98 / 280

Great work

You stayed late to walk me through the migration script. I would still be stuck on it. Thank you.

YouToday

Sent. It is on their profile now.

They accumulate.

A card does not expire when the project ends or the manager leaves. Scroll, and you are looking at what a recognition history actually is: a stack of specific moments that belongs to the person who earned it, not to the company.

When someone leaves, the workspace keeps the record and they keep a personal export of every card they received.

  1. March 2023 · Day one

    Welcome to the team

    Signed by everyone in Engineering before she had logged in for the first time.

  2. August 2023 · Great work

    The migration nobody saw

    Three weeks of quiet work that stopped an outage that never happened.

  3. March 2024 · Anniversary

    One year

    Prepared automatically by Halo, then written by hand before it was sent.

  4. November 2024 · Thank you

    You made it easy

    Sent by someone in another department she had never met.

  5. June 2025 · Promotion

    Senior Engineer

    The case for the promotion was already written. It was sitting in her profile.

Private until
somebody chooses otherwise.

Praise that is performed for an audience is worth less than praise that is meant. So the default is the quiet one.

Private by default

A new card is visible to the sender, the recipient and anyone who signed it. Nothing else, and no feed entry anywhere.

Team visible

Shared into one department, where the work actually happened.

Company visible

For milestones the whole organisation should see.

Workspace policy

An admin can set a default and cap the ceiling, so nobody accidentally publishes something that was meant to stay between two people.

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