Deck of Us is a live team event built around custom cards of the people in the room. Fixed price from $7,500, eight weeks from kickoff to event day, designed and run by the founder.
Every person becomes a card: custom chibi art, five stats drawn from their real work, two signature powers, and a fun fact. Printed on trading card stock, the same 2.5 by 3.5 inches as the cards people already collect.
At the live event, players pair up and combine their cards against scenarios projected on screen. When a scenario matches a power on the table, bonus points fire. To win, you have to know what your teammates are good at. That is the point.
A 20-person corporate analytics team was working through the SERVE leadership model, and one principle kept surfacing: engage and develop others. How do you develop people you barely know?
Eight weeks later, every person on the team was a trading card. A short survey became five stats per person. Each card got two signature powers, a fun fact, and custom art. Twenty people, twenty cards, one deck that could only belong to this team.
Within minutes of the first round, people were trading.
Everyone wanted their own card, and some campaigned hard for specific teammates.
"I just need to trade for a Janet!"
The next day, people were still trading, trying to assemble their full teams. One player quietly swapped his ID badge photo for his player card.
Heard at the event and the morning after
How are you going to top this one?
That was so fun. Can you make cards for my family?
I had no idea what to expect, but it definitely wasn't this.
The assignment was engage and develop others. That is hard with someone you barely know, and much easier once you have campaigned to trade for her card because you know exactly what she is good at. The badge photo says the rest.
30 minutes: fit, roster size, date.
A 20 minute survey per person. We handle the art, the cards, and the printing, with a preview for your host before event day.
We run the room for about two hours. Everyone keeps their cards.
Both Deck of Us prices include game design, custom art for every card, printing on trading card stock, live facilitation by the founder who designed it, and a debrief writeup for your sponsor. At 20 people, the standard package works out to $375 a person, and everyone keeps the deck. Travel billed at cost. Everything else is the number above.
A roster, about 20 minutes per person for the survey, and one preview meeting with your host.
Eight weeks from kickoff to event day.
The rules are deliberately simple: pair up, play your cards, match powers to the scenario on screen. Nobody needs to have touched a trading card since middle school. The cards do the heavy lifting, because the subject of the game is the people in the room.
The event is designed for a room, which is why offsites and kickoffs are the natural fit. If your team is distributed, raise it on the discovery call and we will talk through options.
A 20 minute survey about their work and a photo for the art. Stats are drawn from what each person is actually good at, and your host previews the full deck before anything is printed.
A room, a screen or projector, and about two hours of the agenda. We bring everything else.
Yes. Travel is billed at cost, on top of the fixed price.
Game design, custom art, printing on trading card stock, live facilitation by the founder who designed it, and a debrief writeup your sponsor can circulate afterward.
Sales kickoffs, onboarding, offsites that need a centerpiece, and team integration after reorgs.
Send your team size and a rough date. You will hear back from the founder who designs and runs the event, not a sales team. The first step is a 30 minute call about fit.