Group retirement card
The group retirement card they'll actually keep.
Every office has done the paper card. It goes round for three days and comes back full of "Congrats!!" and "Enjoy!!", plus one person who wrote three paragraphs. The retiree smiles, puts it in a drawer, and never reads it again.
Send a link instead of a card
Send one link to the team. Everyone spends two minutes telling a memory out loud, with no writing, no app and no account. Each memory becomes an illustrated card with a voice message from the person who told it, so the retiree gets a board of real stories in the voices of the people who were there.
The paper card
Congrats!! 🎉
Enjoy retirement! – Tom
All the best!!
Don't be a stranger :)
A Story Den retirement board
Month end, midnight, and the numbers were off by forty thousand. "Everyone was panicking." Dana never raised her voice. She just pulled a chair over and said, "Okay, show me." Around one in the morning, "we found it together": a typo in a journal entry. The next day, Dana bought everyone breakfast.
Pat same team since 2019
How it works
- 1
Create the board, share one link
Say who's retiring and what to call the occasion. Send the link wherever the team talks: the team chat, an email thread, the group text.
- 2
Everyone talks for two minutes
They tap the link on their phone and tell one memory out loud. Athena, Story Den's interviewer, listens and asks a follow-up or two, the kind that gets the good stories out. Apart from their name, nobody types anything, and nobody has to perform.
- 3
Give them the board
Every memory as an illustrated watercolour card, the lines that say the most pulled to the top, and all the voice messages to play in a row. One link they keep.
Why it works better for a retirement
Remote people can join
Nobody has to be in the office to sign. The colleague who moved to another office, the contractor, the friend who retired last year: send them the link too.
No card to chase
The link does the collecting. You don't have to walk a card from desk to desk, and you can watch the memories come in.
Stories instead of signatures
Asked for one memory, people tell the story they'd never have fit on a card: the late night, the habit, the thing the retiree said once that stuck.
Ready in days
Two minutes per person means nobody puts it off for a quiet moment. Start it the week before the party and it's ready on the day.
One payment. No subscription.
The board, its pictures and every voice message are theirs to keep.
Started small and more people want in? Make room for 50 for the $10 difference, any time. Prices in US dollars.
Questions
How far ahead should I start?
A week is comfortable for most teams. Give it two weeks if the team is large or slow to check email.
Do contributors need an account or an app?
No. They tap the link, add their name and talk, right in their phone's browser.
What if someone doesn't know what to say?
Athena asks for one memory and follows up until the story comes out properly. If nothing comes to mind, she asks about something small the retiree always did. Shy people do fine.
Can I see the board before the retiree does?
Yes. Your board's private page shows the memories as they come in, and you choose when to give the finished board.
What if not everyone finishes in time?
The board works with however many stories you have. You choose when to give it, so you can include whoever's joined by the party and nothing stops you from adding more voices after.
Who can hear the voice recordings?
Each person's short voice message plays on the board, so anyone with the board's link can hear it. The rest of the interview recording is never played on the board. We use it to write that person's card and to improve Story Den, and we never sell it or let AI companies train on it.
What if I change my mind?
If nobody has added a memory yet, we'll refund you in full within 14 days of paying. Just email contact@storyden.io. The details are in our terms.
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