Corporate Demo
Your logo, locked on every bottle. Each employee designs the rest. You approve it, we engrave it and deliver.
Four steps. One link.
- 01
Design the base.
Northfall
Colors · Logo · Guardrails
- 02
Make it theirs.
Employee
Route · Map · Name
- 03
Review. Approve.
Northfall
One-click sign-off
- 04
Engrave. Deliver.
Lost Mountain
Steel · Packed · Shipped
Set the base once. Every new hire makes one their own.
Make appreciation personal.
Your brand, their design, a bottle made for them.
Let employees turn a company gift into something personally meaningful. You set the foundation. They add the places, pictures and words that make it theirs.
Employee satisfaction matters.
Feeling valued at work is associated with greater job satisfaction. Greater job satisfaction is associated with lower turnover.
See the studies
Personal gifts and participation
- Creating something yourself
Norton, Mochon & Ariely · The IKEA effect
2012 · Journal of Consumer Psychology · Four studies
People placed greater value on products they successfully helped make.
Experiments with assembled and crafted objects, not employee-designed bottles or job satisfaction. Successful completion mattered.
Read the self-creation study (opens in a new tab) - A say in the gift
Gino & Flynn · Give them what they want
2011 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · Five studies
Recipients appreciated explicitly requested gifts more than unsolicited gifts.
Requesting a gift is not the same as customizing one. This research did not measure employee retention.
Read the gift-preference study (opens in a new tab)
Employee satisfaction and retention
These are separate bodies of research, not evidence that a personalized bottle causes higher job satisfaction or lower turnover.
- Feeling valued at work
Rhoades & Eisenberger · perceived organizational support
2002 · Journal of Applied Psychology · Review of more than 70 studies
Employees who believe their organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being report greater job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
An association with overall organizational support, not a test of employee gifts or bottles.
Read the organizational support review (opens in a new tab) - Satisfaction vs quitting
Griffeth, Hom & Gaertner · meta-analysis of turnover
2000 · Journal of Management 26(3) · 67 studies · 24,566 employees
Overall job satisfaction correlates −0.19 with actually quitting, corrected for unreliability. Negative against quitting is positive toward staying: these are people who left, not people who said they might.
Correlational and modest. A population-level relationship, never a prediction about one person.
Journal of Management · doi 10.1177/014920630002600305 (opens in a new tab)
And they use it.
- Why it gets kept
PPAI Consumer Study
2023 · Promotional Products Association International · 5,674 end users surveyed
75.4% name usefulness in daily life as their top reason for keeping a promotional item: 75 of every 100.
What recipients report, not observed use. Promotional products in general, not employee gifts specifically.
ppai.org · 2023 Consumer Study (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
Employee Studio
Deep customization for each employee.
Check out our demo bottles
- Photo
- City scape
- Topo map
- Star map
- Graphic
Opens the real studio on a sandbox company of your own. It resets every night; nothing you make there ships or bills anyone.
Your brand. Your controls.
Set the base. Choose who gets access. Approve what gets engraved.
- 01 / BASE BOTTLE
Build Base Bottle
Your logo stays locked. Your people make the rest their own.
- 02 / PEOPLE
Give access. Take it back.
One link per employee. Create or revoke it from the same place.
- 03 / REVIEW
Approve Each Bottle
See the design. Give it the go-ahead, or send it back with a note.
Nothing gets engraved without your approval.
Your same sandbox, the admin's seat. Mint a link, open the queue, approve one.
Want one for your team?
Tell us roughly how many people and when you need them. We will stand your company up with a base bottle and a set of links to hand out.