You email the whole alumni base about a wellness challenge and a handful of the usual faces reply. Everyone else means to join, forgets by the weekend, and the momentum dies before it starts. And the ones who do sign up? You have no way to know whether they actually did the pushups or just typed a number into a form — so the leaderboard nobody trusts becomes the leaderboard nobody follows.
- Graduates scatter across cities and time zones — a shared, recurring reason to engage is nearly impossible to sustain past a single reunion weekend.
- Honor-system fitness challenges invite fudged numbers, so class rankings and any prize you attach to them lose all credibility.
- Free wellness programs get polite sign-ups and near-zero follow-through — there's nothing at stake to make a busy alum actually finish.
- Reunion energy fizzles fast, and you have no repeatable format that keeps class rivalries and school pride alive between events.
How Cadoo solves it
Put real stakes behind school pride
Alumni bet their own money on hitting a fitness goal, and that changed everything about whether they show up. Instead of a free program people ignore, your challenge becomes a commitment they've literally bought into. Frame it class-versus-class — the '09s against the '14s — and add school pride on top of real dollars. Winners split the pot; you get graduates finishing what they started instead of quietly dropping off after week one.
Every rep verified, so your leaderboard is trustworthy
Cadoo's AI counts and form-scores each pushup, squat, situp, pullup, dip, and plank hold straight from the phone camera, and reads daily steps from your alumni's own health app. No self-reported totals, no honor system, no arguments over who really did the work. When you crown a class champion or hand out a prize, it's backed by verified performance — the kind of result graduates will actually brag about.
Turn wins into shareable class bragging rights
Cadoo runs on friendly competition: alumni bet with classmates, climb leagues and leaderboards, and walk away with skinned highlight clips of their best sets. Those shareable wins spread through class group chats and social feeds on their own, pulling in the alumni who ignored your original email. It's word-of-mouth reengagement — every verified victory becomes an invitation for the next graduate to join the rivalry.
Frequently asked questions
How does Cadoo help Alumni Associations?
Cadoo turns a wellness idea into a challenge your graduates actually finish. Alumni bet money on reaching fitness goals, every workout is verified by AI from the phone camera (steps come from their health app), and class-versus-class leaderboards plus shareable highlight clips keep the rivalry — and your engagement — going long after reunion weekend.
How do you stop alumni from cheating the challenge?
Cadoo verifies the work instead of trusting a form. Reps for pushups, squats, situps, pullups, dips, and plank holds are counted and form-scored by AI directly from the phone camera, and daily steps are read from Apple Health or Google Health Connect. That means your class rankings and any prize you attach to them are backed by real, verified performance.
How do we set up a fitness challenge for our alumni?
You can create a game yourself in minutes through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or email Tim@cadoo.io and we'll help you design a challenge — class-versus-class, reunion kickoff, or a recurring league — tailored to your alumni community.
Ready to launch a game for alumni association organizers?
Set up a branded, camera-verified fitness game through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or talk to us and we’ll build it with you.