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Connect employees, break down silos, and share knowledge with Mystery Coffee®. Mystery Coffee® automatically brings employees together across teams, locations, and countries to foster knowledge sharing, strengthen belonging, and improve collaboration across the organization.

15-minute meetings
Virtual and hybrid
Available worldwide
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More than 300 companies worldwide

  • 3M+ Matches
  • 55+ Countries
  • 10+ Years of Matching Expertise
  • Enterprise-ready

Strong Organizations Are Built on More Than Processes

Many Companies Don’t Lack Knowledge; They Lack Connection

Knowledge, experience, and great ideas already exist across your organization, but they’re often scattered across teams, locations, and individuals. Especially in hybrid and global organizations, valuable connections no longer happen naturally. Without the right connections, knowledge stays trapped in silos, expertise remains hidden, and collaboration is limited to existing networks.

Silos between teams

Knowledge remains trapped within existing structures.

Expertise remains hidden

Finding the right people with the right expertise is difficult.

Less interaction

Spontaneous connections happen less often.

Isolated teams

Collaboration remains limited to immediate teams and networks.

Less sense of belonging

Connections beyond employees’ immediate teams are missing.

Insights aren’t shared

Experience and insights aren’t shared across the organization.

Employee Networking is no Longer a Nice-to-Have

In hybrid and global workplaces, spontaneous interactions happen less often, making it harder for employees to build relationships beyond their immediate teams. Yet these connections are essential for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and a strong sense of belonging.

11%

less creative exchange with colleagues when working from home.

25%

fewer unplanned interactions in hybrid and remote work environments.

83%

of employees say strong relationships with colleagues are very important.

Mystery Coffee® Creates Real Business Value

Small Interactions Can Lead to Valuable Connections

Mystery Coffee® creates intentional opportunities for employees to connect in ways that often don’t happen naturally during the workday. This helps internal networks grow beyond existing teams and locations, turning a quick coffee chat into connections that can lead to lasting collaboration.

 

 

A stronger company culture

Employees connect with people outside their immediate work environment, building stronger relationships and a better understanding of one another.

 

 

Better collaboration

New connections give employees access to fresh perspectives and expertise beyond their own teams.

 

 

Greater belonging and engagement

When employees feel connected across the organization, it’s easier to build meaningful relationships and become part of a broader internal network.

 

 

Fewer silos, more knowledge sharing

Knowledge and experience become more visible and are shared across teams, departments, and locations.

Employee Networking, Automated and Scalable

Mystery Coffee® Connects The Right People Across Your Organization

Instead of leaving valuable connections to chance, Mystery Coffee® continuously creates new connections across your organization.

Smart Matching

Define the criteria that matter most for your networking goals, from location and department to shared interests and other custom criteria.

Automated communication

Invitations, match details, and reminders are sent automatically.

Flexible formats

Connect employees one-on-one, in groups, or through communities, whether in person, virtually, across teams, or across the globe.

Minimal admin effort

Mystery Coffee® automates the entire process, while the admin dashboard keeps you in control and gives you full visibility.

A Coffee Match in 3 Simple Steps

Sign-up

After registering on the Mystery Coffee® platform, employees select their department and how often they’d like to participate. Participation frequency can be adjusted individually.

More Than Just Coffee

The Impact of a New Connection

A Mystery Coffee® starts with a simple conversation, but its impact can go much further. New connections can open doors to knowledge, support, and perspectives that might otherwise remain hidden across the organization.

58%

felt more socially connected after their Mystery Coffee®.

53%

felt more motivated after their coffee.

78%

would feel comfortable asking their new connection for help in the future.

22%

even solved a specific work-related problem during their conversation.

Built For a Wide Range of Use Cases

For Every Type of Employee Connection

 

 

Cross-Team Networking

Create new connections and gain fresh perspectives across departments.

 

 

Knowledge Sharing

Make expertise more visible and help knowledge flow across the organization.

 

 

Company Culture & Belonging

Encourage meaningful interactions and build relationships beyond immediate teams.

 

 

Global & Hybrid Teams

Enable personal connections across locations, countries, and time zones.

Alle Use Cases entdecken

Our Customers Love Mystery Coffee®

  • Daniel Aschoff

    We have been using Mystery Minds at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. During this time, it was the easiest way for many colleagues to get in touch with colleagues they didn't know and to look outside the box of their own department. Newcomers, in particular, have made great use of this and have built up an initial network. Meanwhile, our Lunch Roulette is an indispensable part of the daily life of the company and contributes to a lively corporate culture and lots of communication.

    Daniel Aschoff, Head of Communications at Allianz Globagl Corporate & Specialty in Central and Eastern Europe

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  • Sina Marold

    Collaboration is the fuel of the future – As a global technical service provider, it is important to us that our employees around the world network and exchange ideas. Mystery Coffee not only strengthens our innovative power, but also our corporate identity and the resilience of our employees.

    Sina Marold, Head of HR Maritime Operations, Maritime at DNV

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  • Cristina Conesa

    After more than 2 years, Mystery Coffee has become a key element of our employee experience and a great tool for fostering smooth internal communication. Thanks to the great customer service and ongoing advice from the Mystery Minds team, we also rolled it out internationally and now we can connect with colleagues in other countries too!

    Cristina Conesa, Head of Marketing & Communications

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  • Tom Bachmann

    Mystery Coffee has exceeded our expectations. When the pandemic started, we were looking for an effective way to significantly improve employee engagement in our increasingly virtual world. After 20 months, the user-friendly platform provided by Mystery Minds has created thousands of new relationships across our company. I get emails all the time from coworkers saying, ‘I just had the best Mystery Coffee’. I highly recommend it for any organization serious about driving positive company culture and employee engagement.

    Tom Bachmann, Culture Shaping Manager and Senior Champion

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  • Tom Bachmann

    Mystery Coffee is just such a great tool to stimulate conversations and build relationships across organizational boundaries and physical locations. I have met amazing colleagues I did not even know existed and had many deep and insightful conversations.

    Joel Nielsen, Division of Human Resources / GLDC Chief of Regional Talent Management Team

    UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
  • Teresa Wieland - Caritas

    The Caritas Coffee Calls have been a great experience. We were delighted with the very positive feedback we received from our colleagues. It helped people to meet who probably would never have encountered each other otherwise.

    Teresa Wieland, Press and Campaign, Communication and Media Officer

    Caritas

Used by Companies Worldwide

How Companies Use Mystery Coffee®

Connecting colleagues from all over the world

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Enterprise-ready

Employee Networking That Scales With Your Organization

From a few hundred to thousands of employees, Mystery Coffee® can be tailored to fit your organization, networking goals, and existing tech stack.

Custom Matching

Define matching criteria tailored to your goals and target groups.

Integrations

Connect Mystery Coffee® with your existing HR and communication tools.

Automated Communication

Invitations and key information are automatically sent to participants.

Admin Dashboard & Analytics

Manage communities, participants, and key metrics from one central dashboard.

Data Privacy & IT Security

Developed and hosted in Germany, with the security and privacy requirements of large organizations in mind.

Personal Support

From initial setup and launch to ongoing operations, a dedicated point of contact is there to support you every step of the way.

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Mystery Coffee® — the Original

An Idea Born From a Challenge And Built to Last

When in-person interactions suddenly disappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic, our existing Mystery Lunch format no longer worked as it had before. Having lunch together virtually? It just wasn’t the same.

 

 

So we created Mystery Coffee®: a simple way to bring colleagues together for short, personal conversations, even when they weren’t in the same place.

 

 

What started as a response to an extraordinary situation has become a scalable way for companies worldwide to build stronger internal networks and create meaningful connections across their organizations.

Ready to build stronger connections across your organization?

Discover how Mystery Coffee® can bring employees together across teams, locations, and countries and help build a more connected organization.

Frequently Asked Questions About Mystery Coffee®

Mystery Coffee® is an employee networking platform that automatically connects employees for short in-person or virtual conversations. It helps organizations build stronger internal networks across teams, departments, locations, and levels of seniority.

Employees sign up for the platform, provide relevant profile information, and choose how often they want to participate. The matching algorithm then connects suitable participants. Match details are sent automatically, and employees can meet in person or virtually.

Mystery Coffee® goes beyond random Coffee Roulette. Organizations can define custom matching criteria based on their networking goals and determine which types of connections they want to create. The platform also automates invitations, communication, and reminders while providing a central admin dashboard for managing and analyzing the program.

Mystery Coffee® is particularly well-suited for mid-sized and large organizations with employees working across different teams, departments, locations, or countries. The platform can scale from a few hundred to several thousand participants and can be tailored to different employee networking goals.

Yes, it was actually developed for this use case. Mystery Coffee® supports both in-person and virtual matches, making it suitable for hybrid, distributed, and global organizations. Employees can be connected across locations, countries, and teams.

Organizations can define matching criteria based on their specific networking goals. These can include factors such as location, department, role, interests, or other custom criteria, allowing connections to be created more intentionally than with purely random matching. You name it, we match it!

Mystery Coffee® regularly creates new connections between employees who might not otherwise meet during their day-to-day work. This can help expand internal networks, make knowledge and expertise more visible, and encourage interaction across teams and locations. Organizations use Mystery Coffee® for cross-team networking, knowledge sharing, company culture, and connecting global and hybrid teams.

Yes. Mystery Coffee® is built with enterprise requirements in mind. The platform is developed and hosted in Germany and is GDPR-compliant. Administration, integration, and IT security features make it suitable for large organizations.

Mystery Coffee® was created by Mystery Minds during the COVID-19 pandemic. When in-person interactions disappeared and the existing Mystery Lunch format no longer worked as before, the idea emerged to connect employees for short, personal conversations over coffee instead. Mystery Coffee® has since evolved into a scalable employee networking solution.