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Meet Pryze: from napkin idea to eight-figure ARR.

Pryze started as a sharp idea about rewarding employees for focus. Unstuck helped turn it into a fundable workforce engagement platform with the technical team to keep scaling.

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Pryze founders standing inside the Pryze office with orange branded workspace details. — Pryze grew from early founder conviction into a workforce engagement company with a real team, real revenue, and a product employees could actually use.

Pryze accelerator proof

Unstuck helped Pryze build the app, prep for investors, and raise nearly $1M.

Plain answer: The accelerator work was concrete: build the mobile app, create the admin tools, prepare investor meetings, and give the team office space while the company became real.

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They were there every step of the way through the program.
Tim Hylton, Pryze co-founder, quoted by ARLnow

Pryze had a simple insight: reward workers for focused time instead of lecturing them about phone use.

ARLnow later connected Pryze's nearly $1M raise back to that support: investors, app development, coaching, and space to work.

Idea

Reward focused time.

App built

Mobile app, admin view, rewards flow.

Buyers

The pitch became something real.

Investor prep

Unstuck coached the meetings and story.

Nearly $1M

Capital followed proof.

Scale

20+ person team, eight-figure ARR.

Featured on 7News WJLA

Watch Pryze tell the story in their own words.

7News profiled Pryze co-founder and CEO Natalia Micheletti, the Arlington team, and the push to help hourly employees stay focused at work.

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More press

Pryze co-founders Natalia Micheletti and Tim Hylton at the Unstuck Labs office in Rosslyn.

Featured in ARLnow

Arlington startup raises nearly $1 million with help of local tech accelerator

ARLnow covered Pryze's nearly $1M raise and connected the growth back to Arlington's local tech accelerator ecosystem.

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Pryze

Pryze Workforce Engagement Platform

The challenge

Pryze came in with the kind of idea founders usually sketch between meetings: workers should be rewarded for staying focused, not punished after the damage is done. The opportunity was big, but the company needed the proof, product, and technical spine to turn a napkin concept into something employers could buy.

What Unstuck built

Unstuck Labs became the product, engineering, and operating partner behind the early climb: shaping the MVP, translating employer needs into product flows, building mobile and admin experiences, supporting integrations, and helping Pryze grow from outsourced build support into a real technical team.

The impact

Moved from early idea to a working MVP employers could understand.
Helped turn customer interest into early capital and stronger fundraising momentum.
Supported the path from early capital to a seven-figure raise, a 20+ person team, and eight-figure ARR.
Helped Pryze build the technical foundation and team structure needed to keep shipping after the first MVP.

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