One Qwest Master to make it. One shared link to launch it. One Qwest to build the whole team.
CaperQwest is an online treasure hunt designer for corporate team building: an indoor or outdoor scavenger hunt your own people build, for teams in the workplace. One person from the team becomes the Qwest Master and designs the Qwest; everyone else splits up into Sqwads† and competes to complete the Qwest route. Each Sqwad uses one phone to open a web browser and go to the Qwest web link. No email sign-up, no bulky app installs and no downloads.
Why a colleague should be your Qwest Master
Most corporate team building activities, from agency-run scavenger hunts to escape rooms and away-day facilitators, send a stranger to run your afternoon. We hand the map to a colleague instead.
Being Qwest Master hands the colleague who usually listens a reason to speak: to lead the briefing, explain the rules, guide every Sqwad, and deal with whatever comes up on the day. A Qwest is designed in advance and with care, so it rewards observation and planning over volume, and it asks the designer to think many steps ahead of the players. That is a habit worth building. Much of corporate life now runs on crisis management rather than planning; this is a rare, low-stakes chance to practise forethought instead: planning for what happens later, before it happens. And when the hunt is running, a Qwest Master who makes room for six loud Sqwads tends to get more out of them than one who competes for the spotlight. The research on quieter leaders points the same way: when the people being led speak up with ideas, less extraverted leaders tend to get more out of them (Grant, Gino & Hofmann, 2011).
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Qwest Master
Onboard in minutes
A brief onboarding with a short training video shows your Qwest Master how to use the control room to design routes and stops. Their account stays active for a month from activation.
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Qwest Master
Share one link
Your people split into Sqwads. Each Sqwad scans a QR code or taps the link on one of their own phones. No player accounts and no app store visit.
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Everyone
Play, then export the insights
Sqwads race a live leaderboard while the Qwest Master watches from the control room, messages every Sqwad when needed, then exports the results and insights to a PDF.
Design your own route, stops and clues
Design your own route in the control room, indoors or outdoors, and add stops wherever you like: across the city, around the park, or entirely inside your building. At each stop, choose the kind of clue that suits the spot:
At a photo stop, the Sqwad takes the picture on their phone and submits it. It goes straight to the control room, where the Qwest Master sees it appear, approves it or sends it back, and the Sqwad's points update live.
Make it relevant to your team. A team based in London already knows the Tower, the Eye and Big Ben, so design something more bespoke and lesser known: the alley behind the office, the pub with the odd sign, the plaque nobody has read.
There is no better way to get your team to know the lay of the land than a Qwest through it. Hide clues in the new meeting rooms, the good coffee place and the fire exit nobody can find, and by the end of the afternoon everyone knows the building, and the neighbourhood, by heart.
- Team building activities
- Corporate away days
- Off-sites and team retreats
- Team bonding activities
- New starter and graduate onboarding
- Summer socials
- Christmas party alternatives
- Icebreakers for merged teams
- Wellbeing walks
- Client and partner events
- Indoor scavenger hunts around the office
- Outdoor city treasure hunts in London
- Rainy-day team activities
- Routes and stops, indoors or outdoorsCity streets, a park, one building, or a mix of all three. Rain forecast? Move the whole route inside. Reorder stops by dragging them.
- Hints that cost pointsDecide how much help a Sqwad can buy when they're stuck.
- Timers and pacingA hard finish, a per-stop clock, or a relaxed afternoon.
- The control roomWatch every Sqwad's progress live and send a message to all Sqwads at once, whether that's a nudge, a bonus clue or "back to the pub by five".
- Your company coloursYellow is ours by default; your Qwest Master can set your brand accent.
- Insights to PDFScores, times, photos and clue-by-clue stats, exported in one click.
- Save and rerunKeep a Qwest for the next intake, or tweak it for the next office. On our current £200 beta offer the Qwest Master has unlimited access for one month, so rerun as often as you like.
- One phone per SqwadSqwads use their own phones. We recommend up to five people per Sqwad, which is about as many as can comfortably crowd round one screen, but there is no hard limit and we never count heads.
Two views of one Qwest
Sqwads play on a phone. The Qwest Master runs the show from the control room on a laptop. Both are the same web app, opened in a browser.
that runs
four minutes fast
Find the clock outside the old chambers on Fleet Street. Take a Sqwad photo with the whole crew and the clock face in shot.
The real treasure
The science: building a game teaches more than playing one
Team building activities are often bought on gut feel. The research on games, learning and teams points the same way: the people who design the game get the most out of it.
In plain English: these are big, recent studies, but most of them looked at students rather than offices, and walking helps people come up with ideas rather than choose between them. We think that is good reason to build on, not a promise.
What is out there, and why we built CaperQwest
The research points to three things: let your own people design the game, get everyone moving, and make it safe to speak up. We measured what the market offers against those, and against the practical questions a buyer asks: does it need an app, a host, or a price per head?
| Feature | CaperQwestRemidus, London (beta) | App ANorth American scavenger hunt app | App BGerman hunt builder | App CUS enterprise hunt app | App DEU subscription hunt app | App EUS city hunt app | Agency FUK agency, app plus remote host | Agencies GUK fully managed, iPads and host |
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| No app store installRuns in the browser, no bulky download | ✓Web app | ~Browser or app | ✗App required | ✗App required | ✗Player app required | ✗App required | ✗Agency's own app | ~Vendor iPads supplied |
| No player accounts or email | ✓Qwest Master only | ~Participant data captured | ~Creator account; player data varies | ✗Accounts | ✗Email or account required | ✗Ticket per player | ~ | ✓No player accounts |
| You design it yourselfFrom the research: motivation and autonomy | ✓Your Qwest Master | ✓ | ✓ | ~Vendor-assisted set-up | ✓ | ✗Vendor planner | ✗Agency designs | ✗Agency designs |
| No facilitator needed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗Remote host by default | ✗On-site host |
| Gets people walking, indoors or outFrom the research: walking and ideas | ✓Routes indoors, outdoors or both | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo, QR and text clues | ✓All three | ✓Photo, video, text, GPS | ✓Plus GPS | ✓ | ✓ | ~Preset city hunts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Where your data is hosted | ✓Remidus's private UK servers | US cloud | EU (Germany) | US cloud | EU | US cloud | Not published | Not published |
| Pricing model | Per Qwest; unlimited Sqwads and unlimited people; Qwest Master account runs a month with unlimited Qwests | Per event, capped by participant count | Per licence or per hunt; business licence required | Quote only, no published prices | Subscription plus per-device add-ons | Per person | Per person plus facilitation fee | Per person |
| Every Sqwad heard mid-gameFrom the research: safety to speak up. Messages and insights export | ✓Message all Sqwads from the control room; PDF export | ~CSV and media download | ~Results after play, not live | ~Dashboard | ~Dashboard | ✗ | ~Post-event report | ~Debrief |
| Approx. cost30 people in 6 Sqwads, ex VAT | £200 | $299 (up to 40 participants) | Licence-based | Quote only | Subscription | ≈ $450 (≈ $15 a head) | ≈ £610 (£12 pp + £250 host) | ≈ £1,650 to £1,950 (£55 to £65 pp) |
Beta pricing: £200 a Qwest.
CaperQwest is still in its beta version, and we're looking for companies planning a team building activity, away day or team social to trial it at a cheaper rate. One price covers unlimited Sqwads, and we never count heads: one phone per Sqwad, with as many colleagues in each as you like. We recommend up to five people per Sqwad, since that is about as many as can comfortably crowd round one phone, but there is no hard limit.
A Qwest Master account lasts for a month from activation. In that month your Qwest Master can create as many Qwests as they want, for as many Sqwads as they want. If you would like more Qwest Masters for different divisions or different teams within the same company, just let us know.
Who we're looking for right now: London corporates in sectors whose day jobs are not always synonymous with creativity, and who want to encourage it: finance, investment, law, accountancy‡, insurance, consulting. Anywhere in the UK works too. We're all London-based, and we're looking to expand beyond it next.
- Unlimited Sqwads, one phone per Sqwad, never priced per head
- One Qwest Master login, active for a month from activation, with onboarding and a short training video
- Unlimited Qwests within that month
- We recommend up to five people per Sqwad, the number that can comfortably crowd round one phone, but there is no hard limit
- Control room to design routes and stops, message every Sqwad, then watch the hunt live
- Insights and results exported to PDF
- No app store install, no player sign-up, data on Remidus's UK servers