We design two- and three-day offsites for engineering teams of 8–40. You get a sharp agenda, a facilitator guide, and the small rituals that turn a calendar block into a thing your team actually remembers. No trust falls. No vision quests.
Why this exists
We flew 24 people to a beach house and somehow only made one decision. It was about lunch.
— Eng Manager, Series B SaaS
The agenda was a Notion doc that someone wrote at 11pm the night before. We winged it.
— Director of Engineering, fintech
Two icebreakers, four panels, zero follow-through. Three months later nothing had changed.
— Staff Engineer, healthtech
The pattern is depressingly consistent. Someone good at their actual job ends up moonlighting as an event planner. The schedule gets thin. The conversations stay shallow. The follow-through dies in a Slack thread by Wednesday. Then everyone agrees it was "a good time" and books the next one for Q4.
Three things, done well
Before we book a single hour, we get sharp on what the offsite is for. One outcome, written down. If we can't name it, we don't run it.
Engineers respond to good architecture. We block time the way you'd design a system: explicit interfaces, clean handoffs, room to breathe.
The week after is where most offsites die. We design the artifacts, the owners, and the 30-day check-in before anyone gets on a plane home.
What you actually get
The why, the who, the one outcome. The thing you forward to your VP so they stop asking.
Hour by hour. Goals, owners, materials, transitions. Printed and pinned to the wall.
What to say, when to interrupt, how to land each session. Designed for someone on your team to run it.
Worksheets, board layouts, decision frameworks. Sized for whiteboards, FigJam, or paper.
Decisions log template, action-tracker, 30-day async retro script. The part that prevents amnesia.
How it works
30-minute call. We ask about the team, the moment, and what would make this offsite worth the airfare. You leave with a one-pager you can react to.
One week later, you get the full blueprint: agenda, facilitator guide, activities, the lot. We iterate over async comments — not meetings.
Your team runs it. We're on Slack the whole time for live questions, and we ship the follow-through kit within 48 hours of close.
One scope, one price
An offsite blueprint covers a team of up to 40 for a 1–3 day program. Travel, venues, and catering are on you — we don't markup logistics.
For the first three teams. We're sharpening the process and we want feedback more than margin.
For everyone after. Same deliverables, same timeline.
Don't see your shape? Custom programs (50+ engineers, multi-track, leadership-only) — email and we'll quote it honestly or tell you we're not the right fit.
Reasonable questions