Wavy runs your culture events. CultureWise builds your culture every day.

Wavy is an operations and measurement layer for employee programming: town halls, socials, ERGs, offsites, and a marketplace of hosted experiences. CultureWise is the proven system 1,000+ companies run every week to define the behaviors that make up their culture and practice them, on a methodology refined over 25 years.

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One runs the events.
One builds the culture.

Wavy is a well-built tool for a real problem: People teams juggling town halls, socials, ERGs, and offsites across disconnected tools. It centralizes the logistics, automates the invites and surveys, and reports attendance and satisfaction. It measures how an event landed. CultureWise decides what your culture is, teaches it one behavior at a time, and gives every manager something to run this week.

Wavy: culture programming operations

What you get

  • Centralizes events, workshops, and recurring rituals in one hub
  • Automates invites, RSVPs, reminders, surveys, and post-event reports
  • A marketplace of 400+ hosted experiences to book
  • Measures attendance, satisfaction ratings, and whether people felt more connected
  • Sold to People and Employee Experience teams
  • No defined set of behaviors, and nothing for a manager to teach or coach
CultureWise: a culture operating system

What you get

  • 25–40 Fundamentals: the specific behaviors that drive your success
  • One practiced company-wide every week, a rhythm not a report
  • Structured coaching and the Culture by Design methodology
  • Software: weekly lessons, kudos with SBI, reporting
  • Run by the CEO and every manager, not just HR

CultureWise vs Wavy

Wavy tells you how Thursday's town hall landed. CultureWise tells your team what to practice on Monday.

CapabilityCultureWiseWavy
What it's built to do Define the behaviors that make up your culture and practice them Plan, run, and measure employee events and programs
Who defines what good looks like Your team writes 25–40 Fundamentals in your own words Nobody has to. The unit of work is an event
How it works One Fundamental practiced company-wide every week Plan an event, automate the logistics, survey afterward
What a manager gets A weekly lesson to teach and structured human coaching An invite to send and an attendance report
What gets measured How each Fundamental is taking hold, week to week Attendance, satisfaction stars, connection after the event
Who owns it The CEO and every manager People and Employee Experience teams
Track record 25+ years, 1,000+ organizations, named clients Founded 2018 in Toronto, seed-funded in 2022

Comparison reflects information Wavy publishes on joinwavy.com as of September 2026. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Practice beats measurement

1/week
One Fundamental practiced company-wide, every week
25–40
Shared standards your team runs, not values on a wall
1,000+
Organizations running the CultureWise system

"An event builds connection for an afternoon. A behavior practiced every week builds a way of working."

The Culture by Design principle

Wavy organizes and measures the programs around your culture. CultureWise defines the behaviors first, teaches one every week, and gives managers something to coach.

Proof it sticks

It's not just words on a wall. It's the standard we hold ourselves to every single day.

Jim Derry
Jim DerryCEO, Field Fastener

The Fundamentals have become second nature. I don't have to force it. That tells me this has stuck.

Linda Chadwick
Linda ChadwickCEO, Rita's Italian Ice

We were already successful. But the Fundamentals made us better.

Mark Kramer
Mark KramerPresident, Kramer Beverage

It's made the most significant impact to our culture since our founding almost 40 years ago.

Justin White
Justin WhiteCEO, K&D Landscaping

A strong culture is not only part of the transformation. It drives it.

Richard Kopelman
Richard KopelmanCEO, Aprio

CultureWise turned our values into behaviors. Now people know what good looks like.

Greg Newell
Greg NewellPresident, Nave Newell

Common questions

Isn't Wavy also a "culture operating system"?

Wavy uses the phrase. The product it describes is an operations and analytics layer for employee programming: events, town halls, ERGs, and a marketplace of hosted experiences. CultureWise is a culture operating system in the working sense, a defined way of working your team practices every week, backed by human coaching, run by 1,000+ organizations over 25+ years.

Does CultureWise plan or host events?

No. CultureWise runs through the meetings and huddles you already have. A Fundamental takes about three minutes a day to practice, and the platform carries the lesson, the recognition, and the measurement. If you want an event calendar and a marketplace of experiences, that is a different tool.

Wavy measures engagement and connection. Doesn't that measure culture?

It measures how people felt about a program. Attendance and a satisfaction rating tell you whether the offsite landed. They don't tell you whether your people practice the behaviors that define your culture on an ordinary Tuesday. CultureWise measures that, against a standard your team wrote.

What about our people who aren't at the events?

Events reach the people who show up, and deskless teams rarely can. CultureWise runs through managers wherever the work happens: a five-minute huddle at shift start, a stand-up on the floor, a crew meeting in the truck. The weekly Fundamental reaches the loading dock the same way it reaches the leadership team.

Who owns it inside the company?

Wavy is built for People and Employee Experience leaders. CultureWise belongs to the CEO and every manager, because culture is a leadership job. The weekly practice runs through the people who lead teams.

Can we use both?

Yes. They solve different problems. Wavy runs the logistics and reporting for your events. CultureWise defines the behaviors and builds them every week. Companies that do both get better events too, because everyone arrives knowing what good looks like.

Good companies have good cultures by chance. World-class companies build them by design.

See how CultureWise builds your culture with a proven system your team runs every week, no event calendar required.

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