Founder build · Live
Employee recognition platform
Valori turns peer and manager recognition into lasting career currency: portable portfolios, shareable certificates, and team insight in one production SaaS.
- Client
- Valori — founder build
- Team
- 1 — solo build
- Timeline
- 2 weeks, site + web app
- Stack
- Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Vercel
- Status
- Live · paying customers
- Outcome
- First revenue in 21 days. Team size: 1.
The brief
Stand up a real employee-recognition product — not a prototype — and prove it in the market. The product needed to make recognition meaningful to the employee receiving it, useful to managers and leadership, and valuable beyond a moment in an internal company feed.
What I built
- Marketing and activation — positioning, pricing, trial paths, and onboarding for teams of different sizes.
- Recognition system — recognition cards, a team feed, company values, custom awards, tags, and points.
- VALOR portfolios — a permanent record of recognition and achievements that employees can use in promotion, performance-review, and career conversations.
- Certificates and sharing — auto-generated achievement certificates designed for export and LinkedIn sharing.
- Manager and leadership views — dashboards and insights for participation, recognition trends, team culture, and performance visibility.
- Slack integration — recognition inside the place teams already communicate, without forcing a separate workflow.
How Valori is different
Traditional recognition software often ends with points, gift cards, or a message that disappears into an internal feed. Valori treats recognition as career currency: proof of impact that compounds over time and belongs to the employee.
Each recognition can flow into a professional portfolio and a shareable certificate. Employees build a durable record of their work, while managers and leadership get a clearer view of contribution, participation, and culture across the team.
The product is designed around four outcomes:
- Recognition that feels immediate and meaningful
- Achievements that remain portable instead of disappearing when someone changes jobs
- Professional proof employees can use internally and externally
- Authentic employee advocacy when career wins are shared
Go-to-market with AI
Once the product was live, I built AI-assisted outbound workflows to find and reach the right buyers. The point was not volume — it was relevance: the right message to the right person, faster than a team could do by hand.
Outcome
First revenue in 21 days. Team size: 1. Valori is live at valoriapp.io, built solo on Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and Vercel.
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