Gratitude is alive and well. We built dab so the people who look after us can be thanked properly again — with their dignity intact and their money their own.
For most of history, thanking someone was simple. You had cash, you handed it over, it was theirs. Then the cash disappeared — and with it, the easiest, most human way to say thank you.
What replaced it made the moment worse. A screen spun round on the counter, asking for a number while everyone watched. Tipping went from a private gesture to a public test. We think that’s backwards.
dab puts the thank-you back where it belongs: between two people. Someone sees good work, taps a small disc worn by the person who did it, and the money lands straight in that person’s own wallet. No screen to perform for. No employer in the middle. No app for the person giving.
A worker wearing a dab is a person you choose to thank, not a sign asking for money. That distinction — dignity over charity — sits underneath everything we make.
The people who serve you should own what they earn — the device, the wallet, the relationship and the record.
Three rules we hold to, on every surface we touch.
We sell the feeling before the transaction. The product should make someone feel recognised, never exposed.
dab stays black and white. The only colour that ever appears is the colour a person or a venue chooses for their own device.
Our humour points at the awkwardness of the moment and at technology — never at tax, and never at getting around an employer.
dabdab ltd is a payments company building the infrastructure that lets gratitude move as easily as it used to. The device is a “dab”. The company is dabdab. The mark is a five-point asterisk — a small spark of thanks.
We come from deep inside payments, which is why we own the hard parts — the wallet, the processing and the card — rather than renting them. That’s how a tip can land instantly, in full, and stay the worker’s own.
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