A wellness program your team will actually use
Private company leaderboards, daily quests with prizes we fund, and live wellness classes: guided meditation, yoga, personal finance. It all runs itself. Hand out a work code and you’re done.
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Extra steps a day from competition, in a 602-person trial
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Fewer workdays missed per year by active employees
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Less likely to report burnout when wellbeing feels supported
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Of U.S. health spending tied to too little activity
Sources cited in full below.
What the program includes
A wellness benefit you set up once. Then it runs without you.
A program that's only yours — Private to your company.
Nobody has to run it — No admin work, ever.
The incentive is yours to set — You decide what's at stake.
Prizes we pay for — A monthly drawing, funded by us.
Live wellness classes — Meditation, yoga, personal finance. Live.
A newsletter nobody has to write — Recipes, tips and mental health, weekly.
A program that's only yours
Your company gets a private group with its own weekly leaderboard. Only people who redeem your work code can see it or appear on it. Names, faces, weekly totals, and who moved up since yesterday.
Nobody has to run it
The week opens Monday and closes Sunday, results post themselves, and the next one starts. There's no dashboard to check, no reminders to send, and no coordinator to appoint.
The incentive is yours to set
We rank everyone honestly and publish the results. What the weekly winner gets is entirely your call — a half-day, a gift card, a charity donation, or nothing but the top spot.
Prizes we pay for
Daily quests put every employee into a monthly prize drawing. We fund the prize and we run the draw — it costs you nothing, nobody on your side administers it, and it's on top of whatever you put up yourself.
Live wellness classes
Guided meditation, yoga, credit and personal finance, and more — live, instructor-led, and open to everyone on your board. You don't book instructors or send calendar invites. The sessions are part of the program.
A newsletter nobody has to write
Every week, everyone on your board gets a short email: a healthy recipe, an activity idea, a wellness tip, and a note on mental health. Written for people with a job, and sent without anyone at your company touching it.
New — daily quests
Walk the day. Win the month.
Every morning StepRank sets two or three quests. Finish them and the day puts one entry into that month’s drawing for a chance to win a prize. One winner, every month, drawn from everyone who walked.
Do the day’s quests. Get entered to win.
- Two or three quests a day
- A step target, plus a couple of small ones: vegetables with a meal, five minutes of stretching, three flights of stairs. Things a person can actually do on a Tuesday.
- Finish the day, earn an entry
- Every day you complete goes into that month's prize drawing. Miss a day and nothing is lost — the next one counts just the same.
- One winner every month
- Drawn from everyone who walked. The prize is named in the app from the first of the month — something like a $100 gift card.
Inside the app
It looks like a game, not an HR portal
That difference is most of why people keep opening it.
Your company board
Everyone can see where they stand
A weekly podium at the top, then the full ranked list. Each person's own row stays pinned to the bottom of the screen wherever they are on it, with an arrow showing whether they moved up or down since yesterday.
The daily screen
Steps today, and how far off the goal
This is the screen most people open and close in four seconds. Today's count, what's left to hit the goal, current streak, and a shortcut into every group they're in — including yours.
The monthly route
Every month is a different walk
Everyday steps move a pin along a real route — Boston up to Acadia, Route 66, the California coast. Twelve of them, one a month, each with its own stops to reach along the way. It gives the daily count somewhere to go that isn't a leaderboard.
Personal history
Thirty days, one glance
Every day of the last month, with the days they hit goal marked in green. Total, daily average, best day, days on goal. It's the part that turns one good week into a habit worth defending.
The world board
There's always someone ahead
Alongside the company board, everyone competes on a worldwide leaderboard. It keeps the people who won't win at work engaged anyway — and anyone who'd rather not appear on it can switch it off.
Launching the program
Three steps, and none of them are yours to repeat.
01
Tell us who's in
One conversation about your company name and roughly how many people. We build your private group and issue a work code. Nothing to install on your end.
02
Send one email
Employees download StepRank, type the work code, and allow Apple Health or Google Fit. It takes about a minute, and the code is the only thing they need from you.
03
Let Monday do the rest
The week opens on its own and closes Sunday night with a ranked result. Then a new one starts. The prize drawing, the live classes, and the newsletter are already running. If you want to attach a prize of your own, that's the only decision left.
Live classes
open to everyone on your team’s board
- Mind
Guided meditation: a ten-minute reset in the middle of the workday
Live · 20 min
- Move
Yoga for people who sit all day
Live · 30 min
- Money
Credit scores, explained by someone who isn't selling you a card
Live · 45 min
- Money
Personal finance: a plan for the paycheck you already have
Live · 45 min
Example lineup. Sessions change every month.
Join live →Live, for everyone on the board
The classes companies usually buy separately.
Alongside the walking, StepRank runs live, instructor-led wellness classes for everyone on your board: guided meditation, yoga, credit and personal finance, and other topics that change month to month. You don’t find the instructors, book the rooms, or send the invites. It’s part of the program, the same as the prizes and the newsletter.
- Guided meditation
- Yoga
- Credit & personal finance
- New topics monthly
The research
Somebody already ran the study.
Workplace walking programs have been measured properly, repeatedly, in randomized trials and in rollouts with tens of thousands of employees. The findings on steps, stress, sick days and cost are below, and every one opens the source.
Competition beat encouragement, and it beat teamwork
602 adults, 24 weeks, four groups. The head-to-head leaderboard added the most steps — and was the only format still clearly ahead three months after the game ended.
- +920 steps/day vs. control
- +569 still holding at 12 weeks
Four weeks of a workplace challenge moved stress, not just steps
2,042 employees took part. Daily steps rose by a third, self-rated productivity went up, and perceived stress fell on a validated scale.
- 9.7K → 13.1K steps/day
- Stress 16.7 → 15.3 (p < 0.0001)
It holds up across 10,183 people and four straight years
The same national workplace challenge, measured every year from 2015 to 2018. Steps rose against week one in every single year of delivery.
- +906 steps/day by week 8
- ≈63 extra active minutes a week
A year later, the people who needed it most were still better off
716 employees in sedentary jobs across ten workplaces, followed for twelve months. The gains concentrated in the group that started most distressed.
- −6.5 K10 points at 12 months
- −1.8 for those hitting 10K a day
Active employees simply miss fewer days
The CDC's guide for employers puts the gap at just over four workdays a year, and notes that inactive employees take more sick leave on top of it.
- 4.1 fewer workdays missed per year
One in nine health care dollars traces back to inactivity
A CDC-led analysis that merged national physical activity data with national spending data. For a self-insured employer, that share stops being abstract.
- 11.1% of U.S. health spending (95% CI 7.3–14.9)
Why it works as a benefit
A wellness program people keep using.
Most wellness benefits fail on participation, not on intent. StepRank gives your team a reason to move that resets every Monday and asks nothing of them beyond the phone they already carry. Nobody has to be talked into checking a leaderboard.
- People actually open it
- A rank that changes every day is its own reminder.
- Setup is about a minute
- Download, enter the work code, allow health access. Done.
- You can see it working
- Participation shows up on the board from day one.
- Prizes and classes are on us
- A monthly drawing we fund, live classes we run, a newsletter we write.
- Add a prize of your own, or don't
- The ranking does the work either way.
Every week, in the inbox
The part that isn’t about steps.
Every week StepRank sends everyone on your team a short newsletter: a healthy recipe, an activity idea, a wellness tip, and a note on mental health. It’s the part of a wellness program companies usually pay a separate vendor for, and it arrives on its own.
- Healthy recipes
- Activity ideas
- Wellness tips
- Mental health
StepRank Weekly
to everyone on your team’s board
This week: a ten-minute lunch walk, one-pan salmon, and the case for a real break
- Recipe
Sheet-pan salmon with lemon and greens
Twenty-five minutes, one pan, and dinner for the week's worst evening.
- Move
The ten-minute lunch walk, and why it beats a longer one you skip
A short loop you'll actually take, plus where it lands on the board.
- Mind
A real break is not the same as a different screen
What the research says about stepping away, and how to do it on a busy day.
- Wellness
Sleep first, steps second
One small change to the evening that shows up in tomorrow's count.
Example issue. Stories change every week.
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What companies ask us first
See it with your company’s name on it.
Tell us roughly how many people you have and we’ll show you what the program looks like with your team on the board. It’s a short conversation.
Or just email contact@risodevelopment.com