One-tap-like-a-post, value-tagged.
Inside Connect, recognition is a first-class action. Type `/recognize ＠colleague for #integrity` in any thread, or use the wizard. Four fields, structured the same way every time.
- 01Choose a colleaguePick the person whose effort deserves to be seen.
- 02Select a Company ValueTie the recognition to one of your defined Values. The tag is what feeds the live KPI.
- 03Write a short noteA personal line that stays in the feed. Optional, but it raises the signal.
- 04Attach pointsA point value usable in the Rewards Store. Bounded by the cap stack at submit time.
"Sara, your coordination during the Q1 launch was exceptional. You kept the team aligned under pressure."
Five-layer cap stack, at write time.
Every recognition is a write into the recognition graph. Wudd applies five fairness checks before the row is persisted. A breach returns `abort(422)` to the caller, the recognition is rejected at the request layer, not reconciled later. Caps are how points stay precious like money.
- 01Per-giver weekly capA finite weekly recognition budget per sender, so the act of recognizing carries a real opportunity cost.
- 02Per-receiver monthly capA monthly ceiling on what any one employee can accumulate, so a single favored receiver cannot saturate the signal.
- 03Per-value monthly cap (overridable)A ceiling on how much can be loaded onto a single Company Value in a month, keeps every value alive in the data.
- 04Per-receiver daily cap on manual recognitionA daily floor against same-day burst behavior.
- 05Value-level period caps with per-receiver sub-capsPer-Value, per-period limits with sub-caps per receiver so cross-team patterns are detectable in the data.
On top of the five layers, the Gini-coefficient concentration check across Recognition Equity, Culture Momentum, and Team Stability widgets watches for the patterns the per-row caps cannot catch.
Precious recognition becomes management data.
A recognition that costs nothing to give produces noise. A recognition that names a Company Value, carries a message, attaches a finite reward, and is rejected at the cap layer when the budget is gone, that produces structured data. The same data the Strategy module reads to advance Key Results, the same data the Promotion Engine pillar review reads, the same data the Recognition Equity widget reads to flag concentration.
Recognition that holds its weight.
Create Recognition is included in every Wudd plan, starting at Silver.