The Blog
Stories from real retreats — what worked, what flopped, and the tools we lean on to make team events actually land.
Catering retreats with a local meal service
Why we ditched the catering tray for a local weekly meal service — and how it changed the way the team ate, talked, and remembered the trip.
Gifting attendees an AI assistant as the welcome gift
The Patagonia vest is dead. Here's the welcome gift retreat attendees actually use a year later — a personal AI assistant on Telegram.
Pooling vendor pricing across HR teams
Retreat vendor quotes are wild. The fix isn't haggling harder — it's pooling demand with other HR teams. Here's how we do it.
The retreat recap video that actually gets watched
Most recap videos die in the company drive. Here's how we make ones the team actually replays — and the AI tool we use to cut them in an afternoon.
Tax treatment of company offsites in 2026
A plain-English walk-through of how the 2026 IRS rules treat retreats, offsites, and team experiences — and the receipts you should be keeping.
Reach attendees over email — even your retreat agent
Why your retreat needs its own email address (and why your AI coordinator needs one too) — plus the tool we use to set it up in five minutes.
Build an event-coordinator AI agent for HR
What we'd hand to a People team that wants an AI teammate handling RSVPs, dietary tracking, and run-of-show — and where to start building one.