The connection layer your engagement budget can finally prove.
AKWA turns your team's real interests into recurring groups inside Slack or Teams — and shows HR exactly how those relationships move engagement, retention and Gallup's “best friend at work” score.
You're already spending on connection. You just can't prove it works.
Hybrid broke the hallway
The weak ties that used to form by accident now don't. Belonging is falling — and nobody is rebuilding it on purpose.
A budget you can't defend
ERGs, offsites, random-coffee bots. Every cycle the line item gets questioned, because no one measures what actually moved the needle.
Activity isn't connection
Tools count intros, kudos and events. None of them tell you whether a single lasting relationship actually formed.
A friend at work isn't a perk. It's one of your strongest business metrics.
Gallup's research is blunt: people with a best friend at work are dramatically more engaged, more loyal and more profitable. Yet only ~25% of employees have one — the upside is almost entirely untapped.
Not random pairs. Communities that keep meeting — and we measure them.
Employees tell the AKWA bot what they'd enjoy — e.g. ping-pong.
AKWA matches by office and real availability — not random.
Personal invites go out, and a first session actually happens.
Afterwards: “Make this a regular thing?” — a recurring group is born.
HR watches it form, grow and persist — live in the dashboard.
A dashboard that measures connection — not activity.
Baseline & track the “best friend at work” score
Set a Gallup Q12 baseline and eNPS for your pilot group, then watch them move over six weeks — on your real data, not a vendor benchmark.
Recurrence, not just sign-ups
See which groups actually keep meeting. Recurrence is the signal that a relationship formed — and the one every other tool ignores.
Your company's connection graph
Who connects with whom, around what, across teams and offices. A data asset that compounds as participation grows.
A board-ready ROI case at week 6
Walk into your next budget review with a defensible result built on your own numbers — not promises from a slide deck.
Every other tool optimises for activity. AKWA optimises for recurrence.
Donut, Mystery
One-off introductions with no shared context. Nothing gives people a reason to meet again — so nothing persists.
Bonusly, HeyTaco
Counts kudos sent. Measures the gesture, never the relationship behind it.
Culture Amp, Lattice
Surveys and events. Broad but shallow, slow to launch, built for measurement after the fact — not for building connection.
Recurrence + proof
Recurring interest-based groups in Slack/Teams, plus measurement of the relationships that actually result. The layer no one else owns.
Run a free 6-week calibration pilot.
We instrument everything on your real data and hand you a defensible result — at zero cost and minimal lift from your team.
What you get
- A Gallup Q12 + eNPS baseline for your pilot group, measured at start and end.
- Recurring interest groups live in Slack or Teams within days.
- A board-ready ROI case at week 6, built on your own data.
- We draft your HR-award submission (HR Executive / HR.com) — recognition you can publish.
Minimal lift
- Installs in your existing Slack or Teams.
- No new tool for employees to learn.
- GDPR-native, EU-hosted by default.
- We run the setup and the reporting.
Built for EU & UK scaleups that already have the problem — and the budget.
See your team's connection — measured in 6 weeks.
Pick a 20-minute slot. We'll walk through the bot, the dashboard and how a pilot would run inside your workspace.
Book a pilot call