Bounty Board: how it works
The Bounty Board is the sprint game. A manager posts a bounty — “first to 12 meetings booked,” “any deal over the line” — and the whole team races. The first rep past the target claims it for the posted points. Where the season games reward months of consistency, a bounty turns this week’s priority into a race with a prize on it.
01The board in one look
Top: where the manager posts. Middle: the live races, each with its target, its countdown, and the current leader’s progress bar. Below: the claimed wall — every landed bounty, name-stamped — and anything that expired unclaimed. Right: the bounty points leaderboard.
02How a bounty is won
Everyone starts from zero. When a bounty is posted, each rep’s current numbers are snapshotted as their starting line. Only what you produce after the post counts toward the target — season leaders get no head start, and a quiet week doesn’t disqualify you.
First past the target claims it. Progress updates whenever new data lands (a CSV import or CRM sync), and the winner is whoever actually crossed the target first — the race, run for real, not just the leaderboard at the moment someone happened to check it. One winner per bounty.
How ties are settled. If two reps cross on different days, the earlier day wins, even if a later data update reveals them in a different order. If they cross on the same captured day — as fine a finish as the data can see — the larger gain past the target wins; the claimed card says “tied within the same sync” so nobody reads it as a photo finish that was never actually recorded. Orgs without day-by-day history yet see the older, simpler rule: whoever’s update happened to land the gain first.
Deadlines are real. A bounty can run for 24 hours, a week, a month, or with no deadline. If nobody lands it in time it expires, unclaimed, and the board says so.
03Bounty points — their own game
Claimed bounties pay out in bounty points, on the Bounty Board’s own leaderboard — they don’t change season points, the Quadrant, or any other board. That’s deliberate: a manager can put a big number on this week’s priority without bending the season’s scoring, and the bounty standings crown their own kind of winner — the rep who shows up when there’s a race on.
04Posting bounties (managers)
- Name it and point it at a metric. Any tracked metric works — meetings, deals, dials, pipeline dollars. The title is what reps rally around, so say it like a challenge.
- Set the target and the points. The target is the gain a rep needs from the moment you post; the points are the flat payout to whoever lands it first.
- Pick the window. 24 hours, this week, this month, or no deadline. Short windows make sharper races.
You can cancel an open bounty before anyone claims it. Claimed bounties stay on the wall — the record of who landed what is part of the game.
05Common questions
“The season leader always wins everything — why would I chase a bounty?” Because the baseline resets the field: a bounty counts only what happens after it’s posted. It’s the one board where being behind on the season means nothing.
“When does my progress update?” When new data lands — a CSV import or a CRM sync. The bar isn’t a live ticker; it moves when the numbers do.
“Can a bounty pay real prizes?” The board pays points. Plenty of teams pair a bounty with a real-world prize in the title (“First to 50 dials = lunch on me”) — the board keeps score, you keep the promise.
More questions? Write to hello@gritboard.io — a human reads it. Curious what the game feels like? See the Bounty Board overview.