Nectar One

Stop running your employee experience in pieces

by Nectar · Employee Engagement & Culture

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Executive Summary

Nectar One is an employee experience platform that brings recognition, internal communications, employee listening and performance together in one place. It combines the Nectar Recognize, Comms and Engage products with Flows for workflow automation and Signals for engagement and retention-risk indicators. It connects to HRIS, payroll and messaging tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, UKG, ADP and Workday. Performance reviews (Nectar Perform) and AI agents (Nectar Agents) are listed as coming soon.

Use Cases

  • Peer recognition and rewards with team and department budgets
  • Sending internal communications by email, Slack, Teams, SMS, WhatsApp and digital signage
  • Running employee surveys and summarizing open-ended comments
  • Spotting engagement and retention risk
  • Automating employee journeys such as onboarding, milestones, open enrollment and offboarding
  • Reaching frontline and deskless employees

Features

Visibility

  • Analytics Dashboard: Analytics Dashboard
  • Real-time Activity Feed: Real-time feed
  • Proprietary Engagement Surveys: Nectar Engagement Surveys
  • Personalized home feed: Sort your feed by relevance and see the recognition that matters most to you first, from your teammates, your reports, and the people you work with every day

Intelligence

  • Automated Milestone Celebrations: Automated Milestone Celebrations
  • AI Sentiment Analysis: AI Sentiment Analysis
  • Automated award rules: Set a rule once and awards send themselves, triggered by custom properties like department, location, or tenure

Support

  • Workday payroll sync: Reward spend flows to Workday payroll automatically on your pay schedule, with terminated employees excluded and every submission logged
  • Personalized reward picks: Every employee sees top picks chosen for them and can tune their preferences so the rewards on offer actually fit what they want
  • SMS-only employees: Employees without a work email still get every company update by text, so frontline and deskless teams see the same message as everyone at a desk

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS, built with fault tolerance and high availability, with services distributed across multiple GCP availability zones.
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SAML, OpenID, PingIdentity, Azure

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloudflare

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • Clara AI

Integrations

  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • UKG
  • ADP
  • Rippling
  • Paycor
  • Workday
  • Okta

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II

Encryption: TLS 1.2+ in transit; AES-256 at rest

Data Residency: Cloud-based

Pricing

Model
Per employee per month
Target Customer
SMB to Mid-Market

About Nectar

Nectar is a culture platform specializing in employee recognition and rewards, internal communication, and employee listening. It helps organizations improve employee engagement, foster connection, boost morale, and reduce turnover by enabling peer-to-peer and manager-to-employee recognition, automated milestone tracking, and customizable reward programs.

Founded: 2016 · Headquarters: Lehi, Utah, USA · Employees: 51-200 · Private

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