Offsite Planning Kit

Retreat services charge $149 per person, per event. $79 once buys the planning system your team keeps and reuses.

TeamOut (YC W22) bills $149/person for full retreat planning; NextRetreat bills €49/person — both on their pricing pages, checked 2026-09-26 — and NextRetreat's own FAQ puts total trip spend at €1,000–2,000 per person. That is a €20,000–40,000 budget for a 20-person offsite, executed from a plan written by hand in scattered docs — and when the event ends, the planning system leaves with the planner. YC backed an AI agent for this exact category in February 2026 (55 points on Hacker News), which tells you the pain is real. This kit is the in-house answer: the goal → budget → place → agenda → activities → logistics → run → follow-through loop as 30 files you own — venue RFP and scoring matrix, T-90 logistics checklist, facilitation runbooks, run-of-show, contingency playbook, feedback survey, and a decision tracker that survives contact with Monday. One payment of $79 — reuse it for every offsite to come.

Get the kit — $79
One-time payment · ≈ ฿2,790 · free updates for v1.x · instant download

What's inside the kit

One zip, 30 working files — the eight-step loop (goal → budget → place → agenda → activities → logistics → run → follow-through) with a worked example beside every template: a fictional 14-person remote company, Kite & Co., planning a 3-day Lisbon offsite on a $1,100/person budget. No software to install, nothing to subscribe to.

Goal

Decide what the offsite is for

The goal decision tree asks four questions and lands on one of four paths — connect, decide, recharge, build — each with a different agenda. Then the scope worksheet and the approval email that gets the budget signed before bookings start.

Budget

A money model, not a vibe

The six-block per-person model with a 10–15% buffer, a worked line-item CSV, market reference points dated 2026-09-26 with a blank update log — plus the three approval emails, including the one for "not now".

Place

Date, destination, venue — scored

Date rules (quarter-close, arrival days, timezone empathy), a weighted destination matrix, two ready-to-send venue RFP emails, and the 8-criteria scoring sheet with tie-breakers. The five vague venue answers you must not accept are listed by name.

Agenda + Activities

Days that hold their shape

Full 2-, 3- and 5-day agenda templates by goal path, a 15-session menu with sizing arithmetic, energy-curve rules (max two heavy blocks a day), an activity bank indexed by team size and budget, icebreaker scripts, and inclusion guardrails you can read aloud.

Logistics

The T-90 spine

The master checklist from T-90 to T+7 with one owner per line, the travel-and-accommodation tracker CSV, the dietary and accessibility collection form with vendor-handling rules, and the four comms emails (save-the-date → packing list).

Run + Follow-through

Execute, then make it stick

Facilitation runbooks (kickoff, decision session, retro), a minute-level run-of-show, the five-case contingency playbook, the T+24h feedback survey with a synthesis method, the decision → owner → date tracker, and the one-page report your approver actually reads.

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Three real files from the kit, trimmed: the goal decision tree, the venue RFP template, and the T-90 logistics checklist. Instant download — no email needed.

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This market publishes its prices. So do we — on this page.

Verified against the vendors' own pricing pages at the time of writing (2026-09-26). Prices change — check before any purchase, including this one.

What you get TeamOut (YC W22) NextRetreat Gable This kit ($79 once)
Published pricing Venue sourcing $0 (< 500 employees, $250 deposit) · Retreat planning $149/person · Year-round $1,500/yr Concierge €49/person (20–80 people) · Concierge XL €39/person (80–500) · €50 deposit Workplace platform: Essentials $4/bookable resource/mo · Visitor management $199–249/location/mo · On-demand venues subscription + usage $79 once, printed on this page
Cost of offsite #2 $149 per person again — $2,980 for a 20-person offsite €49 per person again — ~€980 for the same team Platform bills monthly whether or not an offsite happens $0 more — duplicate the folder, run it again
What ships in the box A planner's time: itinerary, vendor bookings, weekly planning meetings — "save 50+ hours of planning" is their own pitch A specialist + platform: proposals, bookings, on-site support — the plan is theirs, hosted in their app Enterprise software: space booking, analytics, visitor management — for companies of 50–5,000+ The system: goal tree, budget model, RFP + scoring, agendas, activity bank, T-90 checklist, runbooks, run-of-show, contingencies, survey, tracker
After the event The planning knowledge leaves with the planner; the next offsite starts from zero again Their FAQ: total trip spend typically €1,000–2,000 per person — recurring, every event Contract length and per-resource fees follow their roadmap Files stay: your quotes, tracker and survey history become next year's starting point

Sources: teamout.com/pricing · nextretreat.com/pricing · gable.to/pricing (all read 2026-09-26); offsite.com/pricing and surfoffice.com/pricing returned 404 the same day. Demand anchor: "Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats" (2026-02-25, 55 points, 61 comments). Card prices on Gumroad's template shelf are JS-hidden; the shelf search "team retreat template" returned 4 products on 2026-09-26.

The honest paragraph

  • Not software. Nothing installs. 30 markdown and CSV files you edit in any editor, Notion or Google Docs.
  • Not a booking or travel service. The kit takes no commission and books nothing; you deal with venues and airlines directly, with better questions prepared.
  • Not legal advice. Venue contracts, visas, insurance and accessibility rules belong to your lawyer, insurer and vendors; the checklists make sure you ask.
  • No outcome promises. The kit organizes the planning work within your control. It promises no team-bonding scores and no business results — the survey and report exist so you can measure what actually happened.
  • English-only v1. The files are English; the landing page is the six-language part.

How it works — three steps

Designed for someone who has never planned an offsite. Every step in the SETUP guide ends with a "what success looks like" check.

1

Unzip and verify (2 minutes)

One folder, 30 files, a manifest that matches. Open START-HERE and see the eight-step loop and the time budget on one page.

2

Goal, budget, approval (~3 hours)

The decision tree picks your path, the scope sheet captures it in one page, the budget model turns the ceiling into line items with a buffer — and the approval email goes out with a decision-by date inside your booking window.

3

Run the checklist, then the day

The T-90 master checklist carries the weeks: RFP, scoring, bookings, forms, comms. On the day, the run-of-show and the contingency playbook run themselves; afterwards, the survey, the tracker and the one-page report close the loop.

One price. The planner is rented per head; the system is bought once.

Under 3% of what planning services charge for one 20-person offsite — and the files outlive every event.

$79 one-time
≈ ฿2,790 · instant download
  • 30 working files — decision trees, matrices, RFP templates, SOPs, checklists, CSVs
  • Worked example beside every template (fictional Kite & Co., 14 people, Lisbon)
  • Reusable for every future offsite — company-wide or one team
  • Novice-grade SETUP with success checks at every step
  • Free updates for v1.x · 14-day full refund
Buy the Offsite Planning Kit — $79

Secure checkout via Stripe · 14-day refund, no forms · sample above if you want to look first

Questions, answered straight

We already use a retreat-planning agency. Why this?
Keep the agency for destinations where their vendor network earns its fee — and run the kit beside it: the goal tree sharpens the brief you give them, the budget model checks their quote line by line, and the tracker makes their promises checkable. For the smaller offsites that agencies price per head anyway, the kit replaces the fee entirely.
Does it work for small teams — 5 to 10 people?
Yes. The activity bank has a ≤10 section, the agenda templates scale down (the 2-day template assumes it), and the budget model works the same at any headcount. Small teams are the buyers the per-person pricing hurts most: at 6 people, $149/head is $894 — for planning alone.
What exactly do I get — and what format?
One zip, 30 files: 27 markdown documents, 2 CSVs (cost estimate, travel tracker) and a license — the eight-step loop map, the 10-step novice SETUP guide, the goal decision tree, scope worksheet, approval emails, budget model and cost CSV, date and destination matrix, venue RFP templates and scoring matrix, agenda templates for 2/3/5 days, the session menu, the activity bank, icebreakers with inclusion guardrails, the T-90 logistics checklist, the travel tracker CSV, the dietary/accessibility form, four comms emails, facilitation runbooks, discussion guides, the run-of-show, the contingency playbook, the feedback survey with synthesis method, the follow-through tracker, the leadership report template, and a 10-prompt AI pack behind a fact-check gate. Markdown opens in any editor, Notion, Google Docs or a notes app.
How much time does it really take?
First-time setup with the kit: about 3 hours to a complete draft plan (goal, budget, approval email, shortlist). Between venue lock and event: a 30-minute weekly checklist sweep, heavier in booking week. TeamOut's own pitch says full retreat planning is "50+ hours" of work — the kit's claim is humbler: it makes those hours structured and reusable, and it does not promise the 50 hours disappear.
Refunds?
14 days, full, no forms: reply to the receipt email and the files stay yours. The free sample above exists so you can see the style before buying.

The planner is rented per person. The system is yours forever.

Thirty files that take an offsite from "you're organizing it" to a followed-up plan with owners and dates — goal, budget, venue, agenda, logistics, run-of-show, contingencies, survey, tracker. $79 once, every offsite after that is $0.

Get the kit — $79