The $99 HR Ops repo
Stop renting your employee recognition software.
Clone a production-ready HR Ops repo. Customize it with AI. Launch recognition, milestones and team celebrations built around how your company actually works.
Typical SaaS
$3,000+/year
TeamChapter
$99 once
- ✓Production-ready starting point
- ✓Your GitHub repo
- ✓Customize with Lovable, Cursor or your developers
- ✓No TeamChapter per-employee subscription
- ✓Deploy on your infrastructure
Hosting, AI/API usage and third-party services are separate and controlled by you.
your-company / teamchapter
privatesrc/routes/demo/
src/routes/contribute/
src/lib/memory-coach.functions.ts
src/components/branding/
src/lib/milestones.ts
supabase/migrations/
Working software, not a blank prompt.
Software you own
SaaS gave HR software. AI gives HR the source code.
Traditional HR software forces every company into roughly the same workflows. TeamChapter starts differently: you get a production-ready foundation, then your team changes the workflow, branding, questions, celebrations, integrations and employee experience around your company.
1. Clone
Get your TeamChapter repository.
2. Describe
Tell Lovable, Cursor or your developer what your company needs.
3. Customize
Change workflows, branding, milestones, integrations and experiences.
4. Deploy
Launch your company's version.
Start with working software, not a blank prompt.
Step by step
Watch the whole thing happen. Three screens.
This plays by itself. Hover to pause, or click a step to jump to it.
What a colleague sees when it's their turn
James Carter 10:02
Marco hits 3 months on Friday — I started a Chapter for him — 90 seconds each, no account needed. Add one thing you've noticed about him:
Marco's 3-month Chapter
6 of 24 have written · closes Thursday 18:00
Add your bitSofia Rossi 10:04
done, took less time than the coffee queue
Question 1 of 2
What's one thing Marco did in his first weeks that you didn't expect?
Not a compliment — a moment. One sentence is plenty.
He rewrote our onboarding doc in week two because he'd taken notes on everything that confused him.
That's the good stuff. One more: what does the team do differently now because of him?
What the repo already builds
The Memory Book, already working on day one.
Nordfold · 24 people
For Marco.
Software Engineer · Three months
First, a note from his manager
Mihai
Engineering Lead
“On your second day, you asked why Friday deploys needed a six-step checklist. By week eight, you had replaced it with a script. Last Friday we shipped at four and went home. You didn’t just learn how we work — you made it better.”
For Marco · Three months
— MihaiCost contrast
$99 once — instead of thousands every year.
Software license only. Your hosting, AI/API usage and third-party services are separate.
The business case
The expensive part isn't recognition software. It's losing good people.
45% less turnover
Gallup and Workhuman found well-recognized employees were 45% less likely to have changed organizations two years later.
Gallup + Workhuman
Up to 80% of salary
Gallup estimates replacing an employee in a technical role can cost around 80% of that employee's salary.
Gallup
9× engagement
Employees receiving recognition that meets at least four pillars of strategic recognition were nine times as likely to be engaged.
Gallup + Workhuman
23% higher profitability
Gallup reports teams in the top quartile of employee engagement achieve 23% higher profitability than bottom-quartile teams.
Gallup
If better recognition helps retain even one employee, the economics can dwarf the $99 starting cost.
Research shows high-quality recognition is associated with these outcomes. It is not a claim about results produced by TeamChapter.
A 50-person startup
Gallup estimated replacement cost: about 80% of salary.
Potential replacement cost
$64,000
TeamChapter repo
$99
Retaining one great employee can matter more than years of software fees.
Illustrative example only. Actual salaries, replacement costs and outcomes vary. TeamChapter does not prevent anyone from leaving.
Customization
HR asks. AI builds.
Prompts HR actually sends
Use our company colors.
✓Brand tokens updated
✓Covers re-rendered
✓Emails restyled
You don't wait for a vendor roadmap. Your prompt becomes your roadmap.
AI coding tools accelerate customization. Developers can change the code directly for anything deeper.
Use cases
Don't start from zero.
Your repo already knows how to turn employee moments into meaningful experiences.
Change them. Remove them. Create your own.
“We don't celebrate birthdays. Remove them. Add promotions, first customer wins and engineering launch anniversaries.”
✓Birthday milestone removed
✓Promotion chapter added
✓First-customer-win chapter added
✓Launch anniversary rule added
TeamChapter isn't another rigid HR workflow. It's the starting point for yours.
Why a repo?
Your company isn't standard. Why should your HR software be?
Traditional HR SaaS
- ✕Rent indefinitely
- ✕Pay per employee
- ✕Vendor controls the roadmap
- ✕Fixed workflows
- ✕Feature request → wait
- ✕Limited customization
- ✕Your processes adapt to the software
TeamChapter
- ✓Buy the starting repo
- ✓No TeamChapter per-seat subscription
- ✓You control the roadmap
- ✓Customize the workflow
- ✓Prompt AI to make changes
- ✓Deploy your version
- ✓Software adapts to your company
Comparison
Rent for years — or start with a $99 repo.
Many recognition platforms charge per employee every month or require annual contracts. TeamChapter takes a different approach.
TeamChapter
$99 one time
- 50 employees
- $99 starting license cost
- After 3 years
- $99 starting license cost
- Customizable repo?
- YES
Bonusly Team
$30/employee/year without Bizy AI
- 50 employees
- $1,500/year
- After 3 years
- $4,500
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Bonusly Team + Bizy AI
$50/employee/year
- 50 employees
- $2,500/year
- After 3 years
- $7,500
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Thanks
$3–$4/employee/month
- 50 employees
- $1,800–$2,400/year
- After 3 years
- $5,400–$7,200
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Motivosity
$3,000 minimum annual investment
- 50 employees
- $3,000+/year
- After 3 years
- $9,000+
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Awardco
Packages for ≤100 employees starting at $3,000
- 50 employees
- $3,000+/year
- After 3 years
- $9,000+
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Kudoboard
Business $299/year; Pro $449/year
- 50 employees
- $299–$449/year
- After 3 years
- $897–$1,347
- Customizable repo?
- NO
Pricing model and product scope differ materially from a recognition platform.
Competitor pricing is based on publicly available pricing information checked in August 2026. Products, feature sets, reward costs, implementation, contracts and pricing models differ. Estimates exclude rewards and other variable costs. TeamChapter deployment may incur hosting, AI/API and third-party service costs. We do not claim feature parity with every platform.
Calculator
What does renting recognition software cost your team?
At $3/user/month
$1,800 / year
At $5/user/month
$3,000 / year
Over three years
$5,400–$9,000
Potential software-license difference over 3 years: $5,301–$8,901
Before your own hosting, AI/API and third-party service costs. Based on published per-user pricing of alternative platforms; your actual quotes may differ.
Built for modern people teams
Built for HR Ops teams that move fast.
From 20-person startups to growing scaleups and modern enterprises, TeamChapter is designed for teams that want control over their employee experience.
Questions
The obvious objections, answered.
It's employee-recognition software. Milestones, team messages, the AI Memory Coach and the Memory Book all work today. The unusual part is that you also receive the code, so nothing has to stay the way we built it.
Before you buy
Exactly what you get, and what you run.
What you receive
- Full TeamChapter repository (React, server functions, database migrations)
- Commercial licence for your company
- Buyer docs: quickstart, deployment, security, backup, data map
- Automated test suite
What you set up
- Your own hosting and Postgres/Auth/Storage project
- Email sending account (e.g. Resend) and domain records
- An AI provider key (Lovable, OpenAI or Anthropic)
- A daily scheduler that calls the automation endpoint
Running costs (yours)
- Hosting and database: your provider's plan
- Email: your provider's per-message pricing
- AI: a few short calls per contribution
- No TeamChapter per-employee fee
Integrations
- CSV import, BambooHR, HiBob, Personio
- Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications
- HiBob, Personio and Teams tested against mocked APIs; live-account checks pending
Known limitations
- No built-in billing or multi-company SaaS admin
- No printed books; digital Memory Books only
- Independent customer deployment: not yet verified end to end
- Purchase is by email enquiry, not an automated checkout
One price. Your software.
$99 once.
Get the TeamChapter repo and turn it into your company's employee recognition system.
TeamChapter Repo
$99
one-time purchase
- ✓Production-ready TeamChapter codebase
- ✓Employee milestone workflows
- ✓Birthdays and work anniversaries
- ✓Memory / Celebration Books
- ✓AI Memory Coach foundation
- ✓Contributor collection flow
- ✓Admin experience
- ✓Custom branding foundation
- ✓Source code access under the applicable TeamChapter license
- ✓Customize with Lovable, Cursor or developers
- ✓Deploy to your preferred infrastructure
No TeamChapter per-employee subscription. Purchase is by email enquiry today; we reply with the licence and repository access.
You control your running costs.
Hosting, database, email, AI model usage, Slack/Teams APIs and other third-party services may have their own costs depending on your deployment. Source-code access is governed by the TeamChapter commercial license.
Live today
Free Chapter
Free, no account
Start a Chapter for one colleague, share one link, and everyone adds a story, a thank-you or a quick congrats. Organiser tools and a delivery reveal are coming next.
Early access
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We run the full recognition workspace for your HR team: directory, milestones, automated invites and Memory Books. No self-serve billing yet.
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Source Code
$99 one-time, by email
The complete repository under a commercial licence. You host it and pay your own hosting, email and AI costs.
Your employee experience should belong to you.
Clone it. Make it yours. Ship it.
Start with a production-ready employee recognition system and turn it into the HR Ops software your company actually wants.
$99
one-time TeamChapter repo access
Request the source code by email →No TeamChapter per-employee subscription · Hosting, AI/API and third-party services separate