Recognition that keeps its score.
Give a medal with a ++ or a 🏅 reaction, the moment someone earns it. Via banks it with the reason, files it under the attribute that fits, and keeps an honest leaderboard your channel will actually watch.
Shipped the checkout hotfix — annual plans are paying again ✅
Climbing the #product leaderboard.
A medal is one message away, and the board moves with it
Recognition happens in the channel, in the moment, with no new app or nomination form. Give, take, react, or file a medal under the attribute it earned, and watch the season's standings reorder as each one lands.
@via @kevin malone ++ clutch save on the checkout hotfix tonight 🙌
“clutch save on the checkout hotfix tonight”
- From
- @oscar
- Now at
- 52 medals · #2
Type @via @kevin ++ with a reason. Via banks the medal and repeats why, so the board keeps the story behind every point.
It runs in seasons, and crowns a champion
A leaderboard that never resets goes stale. Run yours in seasons, monthly, quarterly, or first to a medal target. The dashboard fills a bar toward the finish line, Via posts the heads-up before it ends, crowns the winner, and starts a fresh board. Standings are always kept in history.
Season ending soon. Via posts the heads-up 2 days out, so the reset is never a surprise. Last chance to climb.
The board fills toward the finish line, so the whole team can see who leads and how far there is left to run. Via posts a heads-up two days before the season ends, crowns the winner, and starts a fresh board at zero with the old standings kept in history.
Recognition that pays itself out
Pin a medal to a task when you create it, and the instant it's marked done Via awards the medal and announces it — no one runs a ceremony. The reward you set once closes its own loop.
Ship the Q3 investor deck
Owner: @kelly · Due today
Bounty: +1 🔨 Craft medal
Set when the task was created.
Via announces the medal — instantly.
Bounties live on the Tasks power — recognition and work, wired together.
The full board lives in the dashboard
Slack shows the top of the board and the latest movers; the command center holds the complete standings, every attribute, and the season history — the same honest numbers, in one place.
Questions, answered
How do I give someone a medal?
Can I recognize a specific skill rather than a generic +1?
Does the leaderboard ever reset?
What are bounties?
Where do I see the full standings?
Read how we use it
The five attributes we recognize work by
Supertype publishes eight values, but a person giving a point in Slack has about two seconds to choose. Here is how those eight values compress into the five medal attributes I import into every workspace I set up, and why the attribute list is capped at six.
Peer recognition dies the moment it needs its own app
Kudos channels and points programs quietly go quiet within a quarter, while the real thank yous keep happening in reactions nobody's counting. Here's why recognition only sticks when it lives inside the moment it's rewarding, and how Viably's medal leaderboard turns an existing habit into a running record.
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