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DisConnect for business

Earn back your team's time, and your bottom line.

Tap in, and the hours come back. A phone-free tool your people actually want: half focus blocker, half rewards card. Zero surveillance.

The DisConnect card
Why listen

Built on a proven insight.

"I founded Before The Internet, by far the largest phone-free experiential brand in North America. Now we've built the platform version of the same insight: phones are the problem, and people want a better way."

— Max Ward, Founder

Before The Internet has hosted phone-free events with artists, labels and brands at the highest level. DisConnect brings that to the workday.

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The problem

The problem every workplace feels.

85%

of employees are not engaged at work.

Gallup, 2023
$8.8T

lost in global productivity to disengagement.

Gallup, 2023
2,617

times a day the average person touches their phone.

Dscout Research
The hidden cost

Now put a dollar figure on it.

Employees lose somewhere between 56 minutes and 2.5 hours a day to unproductive phone use. That's 12% to 31% of an 8-hour workday. Nearly a full working day, every week, per person.

The 8-hour workday
12% floor · 56 min31% high end · 2.5 hr
Per employee, per year
$9.3K
floor · 56 min/day
 
$25K
high end · 2.5 hr/day
At an $80K salary · 250 working days
The calculator

What's your phone costing your team?

Move the sliders. Everything recalculates live. Start conservative; the floor alone usually does the convincing.

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$80,000
56 min
25%

Based on a 250-day, 8-hour working year. Hourly rate = salary ÷ 2,000 hours. Sources: Gallup 2023, Dscout Research; time-lost range from DisConnect estimates.

At risk · per employee / yr
$9,333
At risk · company / yr
$1.87M
Recovered · per employee / yr
$2,333
58 hours back each
Recovered · company / yr
$466,667
11,667 hours company-wide
Return on DisConnect
58 : 1
You'd pay
$8,000
$40 × employees, per year
Top: what you payBottom: what you get back
Lock in early-client pricing
200 employees · $80,000 · 56 min · 25%Early-client pricing
The fix

How DisConnect works at work.

A hybrid of a focus blocker and a rewards card. Not surveillance.

The card
The DisConnect card

Tap on. Tap off. The hours come back, and employees get rewards for it.

1

Tap to disconnect

Tap a physical card to start a phone-free session. Hold to end. One gesture, phone down.

2

Focus modes & schedules

Custom app blocking and automatic weekday schedules that run themselves.

3

Zero surveillance

We never see or store employee screen-time data. No dashboards of who scrolled. Nobody gets "caught".

4

Non-punitive by design

A benefit for staff, not a policy imposed on them. It enables focus instead of policing it.

What am I getting?

Either way, it's a perk, not a punishment.

'Just the card'$30 / employee, once*Membership$40 / employee, per year
Physical DisConnect card
Local suggestions
Member rewards & perks
Unlimited in-app modes & schedules
Zero IT setup
Anonymous, aggregate company reporting

*Comes with one free month of Membership. Card and app blocking keep working without an active Membership.

Why employees want it

A perk, not a policy.

When people get their time back, DisConnect fills it. The lifestyle layer is what makes rollout easy: staff opt in because it feels like a gift, and the company still gets the productive hours.

Rewards for disconnecting

Points and perks every time they put the phone down. The habit pays them back.

Your city, mapped

Local restaurants, activities and experiences in-app. A newcomer's guide and a team-activity hub.

Things to do

Real-world alternatives to the feed: a run, a call with a friend, the neighbourhood they haven't explored.

Easy to roll out

Optional opt-in, free to staff when the company covers it. Most people say yes to free.

Lead with productivity. Let the lifestyle layer win the hearts.

The offer

The math that makes it a no-brainer.

Early-client pricing · for a limited time
$40per employee, per year
$3.33per employee, per month. Less than a coffee.
$0.02per employee, per working hour
$8,000a year for 200 employees. The full company investment.
$1.9M–$5Mthe problem you're solving at 200 people, conservative to full.
Also on the table: company trips, gifting and employee benefits · an affiliate code for your people · co-branded posts and newsletter inclusion.

$40 to earn back roughly $15,000 of an employee's time. Say it slowly.

Under 25 people?

Skip the call. Buy the cards.

Team packs ship to one address. Every card comes with a month of Membership, so your people can try the rewards before you commit.

5 cards$150$30 per card · one-timeGet 5 cards
10 cards$300$30 per card · one-timeGet 10 cards
25 cards$750$30 per card · one-timeGet 25 cards
Let's lock it in

Get DisConnected for your team.

Tell us about your team. We'll send a proposal with your numbers, a rollout plan, and early-client pricing.

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