diff --git a/app/components/Profile.vue b/app/components/Profile.vue
index 846c5a366..0ee20d66f 100644
--- a/app/components/Profile.vue
+++ b/app/components/Profile.vue
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { buildFlags } from '#shared/flags.ts';
 import { buildImageUrl } from '#shared/helpers.ts';
 import type { Profile, UserWithProfiles } from '#shared/profile.ts';
 import useConfig from '~/composables/useConfig.ts';
+import useDialogue from '~/composables/useDialogue';
 import useMainPronoun from '~/composables/useMainPronoun.ts';
 import useSpelling from '~/composables/useSpelling.ts';
 import { loadCalendar, loadPronounLibrary } from '~/src/data.ts';
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ const props = withDefaults(defineProps<{
 const { $translator: translator } = useNuxtApp();
 const { convertName } = useSpelling();
 const config = useConfig();
+const dialogue = useDialogue();
 
 const pronounLibrary = await loadPronounLibrary(config);
 
@@ -87,11 +89,24 @@ const usedOpinions = computed(() => {
                         <h2>
                             @{{ user.username }}
                         </h2>
-                        <p v-if="user.team || profile.teamName || profile.footerName" class="mb-2">
-                            <nuxt-link :to="{ name: 'team' }" class="badge bg-primary text-white">
+                        <p v-if="user.team || profile.teamName || profile.footerName || user.personally" class="mb-2">
+                            <nuxt-link
+                                v-if="user.team || profile.teamName || profile.footerName"
+                                :to="{ name: 'team' }"
+                                class="badge bg-primary text-white"
+                            >
                                 <Icon v="collective-logo.svg" class="inverted" />
                                 <T>contact.team.member</T>
                             </nuxt-link>
+                            <a
+                                v-if="user.personally"
+                                href="#"
+                                class="badge bg-info text-dark"
+                                @click.prevent="dialogue.alert($t('user.personally.description'))"
+                            >
+                                <Icon v="handshake-alt" />
+                                <T>user.personally.badge</T>
+                            </a>
                         </p>
                     </div>
                 </div>
diff --git a/locale/en/translations.suml b/locale/en/translations.suml
index 054192d47..0c8f89b17 100644
--- a/locale/en/translations.suml
+++ b/locale/en/translations.suml
@@ -917,6 +917,9 @@ user:
         Your account was created using a method that didn't share a verified email address with us.
         Please change the placeholder below to your email and confirm it with a code –
         this way you'll have a fallback login method in case you lose access to the one you used.
+    personally:
+        badge: 'Met us in person'
+        description: 'If you''ve met the team at a pride event or a workshop, reach out via email or our community discord to get a badge.'
 
 profile:
     description: 'Description'
diff --git a/locale/pl/translations.suml b/locale/pl/translations.suml
index 73da15341..cf11a36c0 100644
--- a/locale/pl/translations.suml
+++ b/locale/pl/translations.suml
@@ -1558,6 +1558,9 @@ user:
         Twoje konto zostało utworzone z użyciem metody logowania, która nie udostępniła nam zweryfikowanego adresu email.
         Aby mieć dostępny zapasowy sposób logowania, gdybyś straciłx dostęp do obecnego,
         wpisz swój adres email poniżej i potwierdź go kodem.
+    personally:
+        badge: 'Poznałx nas w realu'
+        description: 'Jeśli poznałxś osoby członkowskie kolektywu na wydarzeniu pridowym albo warsztatach, daj nam znać przez maila albo na naszym discordzie społeczności, aby otrzymać odznakę.'
 
 profile:
     description: 'Opis'
diff --git a/migrations/093-user-personally.sql b/migrations/093-user-personally.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5b9ed24a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/093-user-personally.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+-- Up
+
+ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN personally INT DEFAULT 0;
+
+-- Down
+
diff --git a/server/express/profile.ts b/server/express/profile.ts
index 4c48965c3..632473198 100644
--- a/server/express/profile.ts
+++ b/server/express/profile.ts
@@ -588,11 +588,16 @@ router.get('/profile/get/:username', handleErrorAsync(async (req, res) => {
             users.bannedReason,
             users.bannedTerms,
             users.bannedBy,
-            users.roles NOT IN ('', '*-external') AS team
+            users.roles NOT IN ('', '*-external') AS team,
+            users.personally
         FROM users
         WHERE users.usernameNorm = ${normalise(req.params.username)}
     `);
 
+    if (!user) {
+        return res.status(404).json({ error: 'User not found' });
+    }
+
     return await fetchProfilesRoute(req, res, locale, user as User);
 }));
 
@@ -608,11 +613,16 @@ router.get('/profile/get-id/:id', handleErrorAsync(async (req, res) => {
             users.bannedReason,
             users.bannedTerms,
             users.bannedBy,
-            users.roles NOT IN ('', '*-external') AS team
+            users.roles NOT IN ('', '*-external') AS team,
+            users.personally
         FROM users
         WHERE users.id = ${req.params.id}
     `);
 
+    if (!user) {
+        return res.status(404).json({ error: 'User not found' });
+    }
+
     return await fetchProfilesRoute(req, res, locale, user as User);
 }));
 
diff --git a/server/express/user.ts b/server/express/user.ts
index 588597b81..5263c54af 100644
--- a/server/express/user.ts
+++ b/server/express/user.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ export interface UserRow {
     loginAttempts: string | null;
     timesheets: string | null;
     socialLookup: number;
+    personally: 0 | 1;
 }
 
 export interface AuthenticatorRow {
diff --git a/shared/profile.ts b/shared/profile.ts
index 6bf17e59f..3f005307d 100644
--- a/shared/profile.ts
+++ b/shared/profile.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export interface UserWithProfiles {
     bannedBy: string | null;
     team: string;
     profiles: Record<string, Profile>;
+    personally: 0 | 1;
 }
 
 export interface Profile {