"Currently Bizy is live for Free & Teams plan"
What Bizy is
Every team has more going on than any one person can track. Recognition patterns that reveal who's thriving. Check-in trends that signal when someone needs support. 1:1 histories that hold context you've forgotten since last week. Goal progress that should be celebrated but often isn't.
Bizy is the AI that makes all of that accessible without you having to dig for it. It's built into Bonusly, not bolted on. Bizy works across the features you already use to recognition, 1:1s, check-ins, feedback, analytics surfacing the right information at the right moment.
It doesn't replace your judgment. It gives you better material to work with so the decisions you make and the words you choose are sharper, more timely, and more grounded in what's actually happening on your team.
The name is intentional. Bizy is meant to feel like a helpful colleague approachable, always available, and never trying to take over. Bonusly's approach to AI is simple: AI first. Human always. The technology handles the heavy lifting of synthesis, pattern recognition, and preparation. The human brings empathy, context, and authenticity. Bizy is designed so those two things work together, not in tension.
Understand your people
The hardest part of managing people isn't making decisions it's having the information you need to make good ones. Who on your team has been consistently recognized by peers this quarter? Who hasn't received any recognition in weeks? Which team members are collaborating across functions, and which are working in isolation?
Bizy surfaces these patterns from your team's recognition data, check-in trends, and engagement signals. Instead of scrolling through a feed or building a spreadsheet, you get a clear picture of your team's dynamics who's thriving, who might be struggling, and where the energy is.
This isn't surveillance. It's visibility. The same kind of awareness a great manager develops naturally over time, just faster and without the blind spots that come from only seeing what's right in front of you.
For managers, this means walking into every conversation with context you didn't have to assemble yourself. You know who deserves a shout-out. You know where to check in. You have a sense of the team's momentum before anyone tells you about it.
For employees, Bizy helps you see your own recognition history and contributions in one place -- useful for self-reflections, career conversations, and knowing where your impact has been most visible.
Recognize people thoughtfully
Most people want to recognize their colleagues more often. The barrier isn't motivation it's finding the words, making the time, and being specific enough that the recognition actually lands. Bizy helps at every step.
Gratitude Gauge. As you write a recognition message, Bizy coaches you in real time nudging you toward greater specificity, stronger values alignment, and a tone that feels genuine rather than generic. Think of it as a writing partner that helps you say what you already mean, just better. "Great job this week" becomes "The way you restructured the onboarding flow based on customer feedback cut our support tickets in half -- that's exactly the kind of #customer-obsession we need more of."
Recognition nudges. Bizy notices when someone on your team has done something worth recognizing based on recognition they've received from others, goals they've hit, or milestones they've reached. It suggests who to recognize and why, so the right people get acknowledged at the right time. You still choose whether and how to recognize them. The nudge just makes sure the moment doesn't pass unnoticed.
Better messages, not automated ones. Bizy will never write your recognition for you. That would defeat the purpose. Recognition matters because it comes from a person who noticed, cared, and took the time. What Bizy does is lower the friction so that more people give recognition more often -- and the recognition they give is more meaningful when they do.
Prepare for 1:1s
Every manager knows the feeling. Your 1:1 is in ten minutes. You haven't had time to prep. You open the meeting and default to "So... what's going on?" -- which puts the burden on the other person and wastes an opportunity for a genuinely useful conversation.
Bizy changes that by pulling together context for your 1:1 in seconds. Before your meeting, you get a snapshot that includes:
Recognition activity -- what the other person has been recognized for recently, and by whom.
Check-in trends -- how they've been feeling over the past few weeks, so you can ask better questions.
Goal progress -- where they stand on their goals, so you can celebrate progress or offer support.
Prior meeting context -- what you discussed last time, what action items came out of it, and what deserves a follow-up.
After the meeting, Bizy can generate a summary with proposed follow-ups, so the conversation doesn't evaporate the moment the calendar event ends.
The result: your 1:1s build on each other instead of starting from scratch every time. Feedback happens regularly, not annually. And the relationship not just the task list it gets real attention.
This isn't just for managers and direct reports, either. Anyone who has a recurring 1:1 in Bonusly: a peer, an onboarding buddy, a cross-functional partner benefits from the same preparation.
Stay in the loop
In any organization larger than a handful of people, it's impossible to see everything that matters.
"A team member gets recognized by three different people in the same week that's a signal."
"A direct report's check-in scores have been trending down that's a different signal."
"A cross-functional project just hit a milestone and nobody on your team mentioned it that's a missed opportunity."
Bizy helps you stay connected to what's happening across your team without requiring you to monitor everything yourself.
Manager notifications. Bizy delivers actionable insights to where you already work Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email. When something noteworthy happens on your team a recognition spike, a sentiment shift, a coaching opportunity you hear about it in the flow of your day, not buried in a dashboard you check once a month.
Recognition trends. Bizy surfaces patterns in how recognition flows across your team: who's giving and receiving, which values are being reinforced, and where recognition might be missing. These trends tell a story that individual posts can't.
Engagement shifts. When something changes a team's energy drops, participation dips, or a group suddenly lights up Bizy flags it so you can respond while the moment is still relevant.
The goal isn't to overwhelm you with notifications. It's to make sure the signals that matter most reach you when you can still act on them.
Get answers about Bonusly
Sometimes you just need to know how something works. How do I set up a custom celebration? Can I change my check-in cadence? What happens when a feedback request expires?
Bizy can answer questions about Bonusly's features, settings, and workflows directly inside the product. Instead of searching through help articles or waiting for a response from support, you can ask Bizy and get an answer in seconds.
This is especially useful for:
New users getting oriented in the product for the first time.
Managers who want to understand a feature before rolling it out to their team.
Admins looking for quick guidance on configuration or setup.
Bizy is available around the clock so whether you're setting things up at 7am or exploring a new feature at 10pm, you don't have to wait.
For admins: dig into your data
Admins have questions that live a layer deeper than what's visible in the feed. Is recognition distributed evenly across the organization, or are some teams thriving while others go quiet? How does participation look by department, location, or manager? Is the quality of recognition improving over time, or are messages getting shorter and less specific?
Bizy helps admins answer these questions without exporting CSVs or building pivot tables.
Participation summaries. See recognition activity sliced by org, team, or manager. Spot which groups are highly engaged and which might need a nudge without manual data work.
Recognition quality scores. Bizy evaluates recognition posts for richness specificity, tone, and values alignment giving you a way to assess engagement quality, not just quantity. This helps you identify standout examples to showcase and areas where a little coaching could raise the bar.
Engagement analytics. Track trends over time to understand whether your recognition culture is growing, plateauing, or shifting. Bizy surfaces the patterns so you can make informed decisions about your program -- what to amplify, what to adjust, and where to invest attention.
These insights turn recognition from a feel-good initiative into a strategic tool. You can demonstrate ROI, inform people strategy, and connect recognition data to business outcomes with confidence.
What Bizy won't do
Being clear about what Bizy doesn't do is just as important as what it does. Transparency builds trust, and trust is what makes an AI assistant useful rather than unsettling.
Bizy won't write your recognition for you. It will coach you, suggest improvements, and nudge you at the right time -- but the words are yours. Recognition that comes from a person matters in a way that AI-generated messages never will. Bizy keeps you in the driver's seat.
Bizy won't replace your judgment. It surfaces patterns, trends, and context -- but it doesn't tell you what to do. Whether it's a coaching conversation, a performance decision, or a simple thank-you, the call is always yours.
Bizy won't share private information across boundaries. Feedback conversations stay between the people involved. Check-in details are visible only to the people who should see them. Bizy respects the same privacy rules as the rest of Bonusly -- it doesn't create new access to information you're not already entitled to see.
Bizy won't make decisions about your people. It won't flag someone as "at risk" or assign a performance label. It gives you better information so you can have better conversations. The interpretation and the action are human -- always.
Bizy won't pretend to be human. It's an AI, and it's designed to feel like one -- helpful, fast, and straightforward, but never pretending to be something it's not.
Getting the most out of Bizy
Bizy is designed to be useful from the moment you start using Bonusly. But like any tool, you get more out of it when you know what it's good at.
For employees
Use the Gratitude Gauge when writing recognition. It only takes a few extra seconds, and the difference between vague praise and specific recognition is enormous -- both for the person receiving it and for the data that powers Bizy's insights.
Check your own recognition history before career conversations. Bizy can surface what you've been recognized for over time, giving you concrete examples to bring into self-reflections and reviews.
Ask Bizy when you're stuck. Not sure how a feature works? Wondering how to request feedback? Ask Bizy before searching -- it's usually faster.
For managers
Let Bizy prep your 1:1s. Even two minutes of AI-generated context is better than walking in cold. You'll ask better questions and catch things you would have missed.
Act on nudges promptly. Recognition is most powerful when it's timely. When Bizy suggests someone deserves a shout-out, that's your cue -- the moment is now, not next week.
Watch the trends, not just the posts. Individual recognition moments are valuable. But the patterns Bizy surfaces -- who's being recognized, by whom, how often, and for what -- tell you more about your team's health than any single post can.
For admins
Use participation summaries to guide program strategy. If a department's recognition activity is low, that's a conversation worth having with its leaders and Bizy gives you the data to start it.
Showcase high-quality recognition. Bizy's quality scores help you find standout examples to share with the organization. Great recognition is contagious when people see what good looks like, they raise their game.
Connect recognition data to business outcomes. When you can show that teams with high recognition engagement also have better retention, higher pulse-check scores, and stronger goal completion, recognition stops being a "nice to have" and becomes a strategic lever.
FAQs
What exactly is Bizy? Bizy is Bonusly's built-in AI assistant. It helps employees, managers, and admins get more out of Bonusly by surfacing insights, coaching recognition quality, preparing for 1:1s, and answering questions about the product.
Is Bizy a chatbot? Bizy can answer questions conversationally, but it's more than a chatbot. It's embedded throughout Bonusly -- coaching your recognition as you write it, preparing context before your 1:1s, surfacing trends in your analytics, and sending you relevant notifications. It meets you where you're already working.
Does Bizy write my recognition messages? No. Bizy coaches you to write better recognition helping with specificity, tone, and values alignment but the message is always yours. Recognition matters because it comes from a real person who noticed and cared.
Can Bizy see my private feedback? No. Bizy respects the same privacy boundaries as the rest of Bonusly. Feedback conversations are visible only to the people involved (and, if the receiver chooses, their manager). Bizy doesn't create new access to private information.
Is Bizy available 24/7? Yes. Bizy is available whenever you use Bonusly day or night, any timezone. For product questions it can't fully answer, it connects you to a human support engineer.
How does Bizy know what to surface in my 1:1 prep? Bizy pulls from data already in Bonusly: recognition activity, check-in trends, goal progress, and prior meeting notes. It synthesizes what's there and presents it in a format that's easy to act on.
Does Bizy work in Slack and Microsoft Teams? Yes. Bizy delivers manager notifications and insights directly in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email so you get timely information where you already work.
What plan do I need to use Bizy? Bizy's capabilities vary by plan. Core AI features like the Gratitude Gauge and product Q&A are available broadly.
Where does Bizy fit alongside Bonusly's other features? Bizy isn't a separate feature it's the intelligence layer that runs through everything. Recognition, 1:1s, check-ins, feedback, analytics Bizy makes each of these smarter by adding context, coaching, and synthesis.