Employee Recognition Platform

Celebrate wins. Build culture. Every day.

Kudos is a peer-to-peer recognition platform that turns everyday appreciation into a powerful engine for engagement, retention, and performance.

30 daysFull-feature trial
4 tiersFlexible licensing
AZNTransparent pricing
2,450
Kudos Points Remaining
87
Kudos Received
AH
Aysel recognized you+50
MK
Murad thanked the team+25
LN
Leyla shared kudos+100

Everything you need to drive recognition

Built for modern organizations, from startups to enterprise, with role-based permissions, multi-tenant architecture, and real-time insights.

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Peer-to-Peer Kudos

Empower everyone to recognize great work instantly with customizable point values and categories.

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Live Dashboards

Track points given, received, and served across individuals, teams, streams, divisions, or your whole organization.

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Leaderboards

Spotlight top contributors with filterable leaderboards across teams, grades, and timeframes.

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Granular Roles

From Superuser to Team Owner: precise permissions for Administrators, Billing Admins, and every level in between.

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Smart Budgeting

Allocate budgets organization-wide or drill down to department, division, stream, and team level.

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Fraud Detection

Automated detection rules flag suspicious transactions and keep your recognition program trustworthy.

Ownership Approvals

Approvals route to the right Team, Stream, Division, or Department Owner. No more bottlenecks.

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Flexible Policies

Create policies at the organization or division level to match how your business actually operates.

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Integrations

Connect with MS Teams and Power Automate (Ultimate tier) to bring recognition into the flow of work.

A closer look

Signature features that set Kudos apart.

Shameboard

Playful accountability, not punishment

Let teams call out the small things with good humor. Nominate, suggest a fun "serve", and watch culture lighten up instead of getting tense.

  • ✓ Anonymous or signed nominations
  • ✓ Approval workflow by team ownership
  • ✓ Automatic expiry and cool-downs
  • ✓ Minimum-grade guardrails
TS
Tural S.
2 days ago
PENDING
"Microwaved fish in the office kitchen. Again."
Serve: Buy the team coffee tomorrow.
KA
Kamran A.
5 days ago
SERVED
"Used Comic Sans in a client-facing deck. We saw it."
Serve: Redesigned the team wiki header.
LN
Leyla N.
1 day ago
PENDING
"Sent a calendar invite at 16:59 on a Friday. Legend, but rude."
Serve: Host a show-and-tell next Friday.
EM
Elvin M.
3 days ago
NEW
"Wrote a commit message that just says 'stuff'. History will judge."
Serve: Review five PRs with extra love.
Finance & Budgeting

Allocate smartly, spend transparently

Set the recognition budget at the top, let it cascade down to departments, divisions, streams, and teams. Owners can adjust their slice; finance keeps the cap.

  • ✓ Organization-wide AZN cap
  • ✓ Auto-cascade or custom allocation
  • ✓ Live utilization per team
  • ✓ Month-end carry-over rules
Org Budget
50,000 AZN
Used
62%
Advisory
18,200
Audit
9,500
Tax
3,300
Remaining
19,000
Fraud Detection

Keep recognition honest

Pattern-based rules spot reciprocal loops, burst giving, self-team clustering, and suspicious bursts before they dilute trust in the program.

  • ✓ Repeat-pair and reciprocal detection
  • ✓ Self-team concentration threshold
  • ✓ Same-grade approval requirements
  • ✓ Flagged transaction queue for review
Flagged this week
Reciprocal pair
Murad ↔ Leyla, 4 exchanges
MEDIUM
Burst giving
Kamran, 12 kudos in 5 min
HIGH
Self-team check
All within policy
OK
Leaderboard & Insights

See the culture in motion

Filter by team, stream, or grade. Track givers, receivers, shames served, and points moved. Spot quiet heroes your reviews miss.

  • ✓ Daily, monthly, yearly views
  • ✓ Hide zero-point accounts automatically
  • ✓ Scoped to org, division, or team
  • ✓ Exportable for performance reviews
Top Recognizers
This month
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AH
Aysel Hasanova
1,240
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SI
Sevda Ismayilova
980
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MK
Murad Karimov
760
4
NA
Nigar Aliyeva
620
Approvals

Ownership-based routing

High-value or sensitive kudos route to the right Team, Stream, Division, or Department owner automatically. No bottlenecks, no missed approvals, no guesswork.

  • ✓ Automatic routing by team hierarchy
  • ✓ Minimum-grade approval thresholds
  • ✓ One-click approve or request changes
  • ✓ Full audit trail per transaction
Pending your approval
LN
Leyla → Murad
Client Excellence • 300 pts
EM
Elvin → Kamran
Above & Beyond • 400 pts
Routed to:Advisory › Tech Consulting › Cloud Transform
Organization

Model your real org, to the team

Departments, divisions, streams, teams, mapped in minutes. Every policy, budget, approval, and report can scope to exactly the slice of the org that matters.

  • ✓ 4-level hierarchy out of the box
  • ✓ Role inheritance with overrides
  • ✓ Drag-and-drop setup wizard
  • ✓ Import from CSV or HRIS
▸ Advisory
├─ Technology Consulting
│ ├─ Cyber Security 8 users
│ ├─ Data & Analytics 12 users
│ └─ Cloud Transform 6 users
└─ Risk Consulting
   └─ Internal Audit 9 users
▸ Audit
▸ Tax
Criteria & Policies

Recognize what your culture values

Start with a curated catalog of recognition criteria or build your own. Apply division-specific policies so each business unit can reflect its own priorities.

  • ✓ 18 starter criteria across 6 categories
  • ✓ Grade-weighted point coefficients
  • ✓ Divisional policy overrides
  • ✓ Icons and colors for instant recognition
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Innovation
100 pts
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Teamwork
75 pts
Client Excellence
150 pts
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Above & Beyond
200 pts
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Mentorship
125 pts
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Integrity
100 pts
Integrations

Meet your team where they work

Give and receive kudos from Microsoft Teams. Trigger Power Automate flows when points cross thresholds. Recognition stops being a separate tab.

  • ✓ Native Microsoft Teams app
  • ✓ Power Automate triggers & actions
  • ✓ Slack notifications (Ultimate tier)
  • ✓ REST API for custom integrations
T
Microsoft Teams · Kudos channel
AH
Aysel recognized Leyla
🎯 Strategic Thinking · 150 pts
"Brilliant insight that unblocked the whole workstream."
Rewards Marketplace

Points that actually go somewhere

Turn earned kudos into real rewards: gift cards, charity donations, extra days off, or custom experiences your company defines. Redemptions flow through approvals and finance.

  • ✓ Curated partner catalog
  • ✓ Custom internal rewards
  • ✓ Charity donation pool
  • ✓ Full redemption history
Coffee Card
500 pts
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Headphones
4,500 pts
🌴
Extra Day Off
8,000 pts
❤️
Charity (50 AZN)
500 pts
Dashboard & Analytics

One screen, every metric

Points remaining, kudos given, kudos received, shames served, all sliced by team, stream, division, department, or your whole organization. A personal scope selector puts you in control.

  • ✓ Dynamic scope: me, team, org
  • ✓ Real-time activity feed
  • ✓ Quick-give and quick-shame actions
  • ✓ Downloadable monthly summary
Dashboard
Points Left
2,450
Given
1,550
Received
820
This month
Social Layer

Recognition, amplified

Like, comment, and boost a teammate's kudos to add extra points and visibility. Great work gets a second wind, and the whole team sees it happen.

  • ✓ Boost points to double recognition
  • ✓ Threaded comments on every kudo
  • ✓ Reactions (👍 🎉 🔥 ❤️)
  • ✓ Mention teammates to pull them in
SI
Sevda recognized Elvin · 2h
🔧 Technical Leadership · 150 pts
"Led the migration with calm and clarity, a proper masterclass."
👍 12 🎉 7 🔥 4 +50 BOOST
NA
Nigar: Seconded, genuinely impressive under pressure.
Onboarding

From signup to first kudos in under ten minutes

A guided wizard walks the first Superuser through org setup, criteria, grades, and budgets. Everyone else signs in with SSO and lands straight on their dashboard.

  • ✓ Drag-and-drop org builder
  • ✓ SSO (Azure AD, Google, Okta)
  • ✓ Smart defaults you can tweak later
  • ✓ 30-day full-tier evaluation
Sign in with Microsoft
Done
Set up departments & teams
Done
3
Pick recognition criteria
In progress
4
Allocate monthly budget
5
Invite your team

Up and running in minutes

A frictionless onboarding experience for admins and employees alike.

1

Activate

Enter your product key to unlock your tier, or start with a 30-day full-feature evaluation.

2

Configure

Set up departments, divisions, streams, and teams. Allocate budgets top-down or customize per group.

3

Recognize

Employees start giving kudos immediately. Track impact through live dashboards and leaderboards.

Pricing that scales with you

Transparent plans in AZN, billed monthly or annually. Apply licenses at the organization, department, or division level.

Starter

For small teams getting started with recognition.

  • Peer-to-peer Kudos
  • Basic dashboard
  • Leaderboards
  • Shameboard & policies
  • Fraud detection
  • Integrations

Growth

For growing teams that need structure and insight.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Divisional policies
  • Approvals workflows
  • Budget allocation
  • Fraud detection
  • Integrations

Ultimate

Enterprise-grade with custom integrations.

  • Everything in Professional
  • MS Teams integration
  • Power Automate flows
  • Custom development
  • Priority support
  • Master licensing

Ready to transform your culture?

Join teams building stronger, more engaged workplaces with Kudos. Start your 30-day trial. No credit card required.