I’ve worked as a consultant for the self-proclaimed “#1 workplace app”, Surprise.com.

Surprise is a startup that had two main products.

First was their self-proclaimed “#1 workplace app”, which was positioned more as a workplace OS. It was setup as a product aimed at companies to assist with their workforce motivation and efficiency, offering employees tangible prizes based upon their completion of “missions” that were essentially worklife hacks. Our task was to pull apart every single part of someone’s workday and give them a tip on how to improve themselves, their performance, their leadership, etc. In addition to writing these missions (and short storyboards for their artists to animate for illustration), we also wrote blog posts, email copy, marketing concepts, fortune cookies, video storyboards, and many more brainstormed ideas that the marketing team used to promote and support the product.

Here are a few blog post examples that I wrote for them from their site:

• Why Traditional Bonus Structures Don’t Work
• Battling an Invisible Enemy: Workplace Complacency
• Communication Isn’t For Everybody. Oh Wait – It is.
• Something Has Gone Wrong At Work. Now What?
• Reigniting the Spark: How to Find Purpose & Passion in your Job Again
• Chatting with AliceAi About Automated Accountability: A Conversation

The second product that’s been launched by Surprise is a gamified trivia app which also offers prizes based upon answering questions across a multitude of categories. I’d written hundreds of trivia questions for them, as well as editing thousands more. There are many examples of my original and edited work on their Surprise.com app. But be forewarned – it’s become a paid app, so unless it’s worth your while to pay to see examples of trivia questions, they’re just trivia questions. There’s not much beauty to be seen there.