How it happened.
The same path every Mayfly project follows: the expertise a company already has, where it stopped scaling, and what was found and built.
- 01The expertiseWhat the company had
- 02The limitWhere it stopped scaling
- 03Find the leverageIdentify · Validate
- 04Build itDesign · Build · Launch
01The expertiseWhat the company had
A team that understood corporate gifting from the finance side.
Feels knew the teams that give corporate gifts, and the finance and tax rules that decide whether a company can do it at scale.
That understanding was the asset the second version was built on.
02The limitWhere it stopped scaling
Physical cards added cost, logistics and friction.
The original Feels tied gifts to physical cards: cost, logistics, a carbon footprint and friction at every step.
Adoption stalled, and the operational burden made it hard for gifting and rewards teams to commit.
03Find the leverageIdentify · Validate
Find the make-or-break moments with finance teams.
Workshops with corporate finance teams mapped the moments that decide adoption.
Finance policy and tax treatment turned out to be what let a company adopt the product at scale, so the product was designed around them.
04Build itDesign · Build · Launch
Purely digital, finance-ready.
No physical cards. Bulk gifting, automated donation receipts, universal payment options that work across corporate finance policies, and tax compliance built in.
The giver is done in two minutes. The recipient directs the donation to any of 1.5 million charities.