Parafoil

Know how your organization actually behaves, team by team, every week

Parafoil is leadership intelligence. It analyzes the meetings your organization already runs and shows where leadership is working, where teams are strained and where change is stalling. Every leader grows with private feedback. You see the whole picture.

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Attend to

Sales fell furthest on Clarity this quarter, and 1:1s there are down a third.

Health & Risk ↗

Biggest shiftsThis week

Product · CoachingRising
Sales · ClarityFalling

Manager effectiveness12-week trend

Clarity3.4
Alignment3.2
Feedback3.9
Supportiveness3.6

Illustrative example.

Why Parafoil

Your organization's best data is in its meetings

The work of leading happens in conversation, thousands of times a week. It's the richest record of how your organization actually works, and until now nobody could read it. Parafoil does.

Where decisions get made

Who decides, who's consulted, and which decisions keep coming back.

Where priorities get tested

Which teams act on the strategy, and which only talk about it.

Where trust gets built

How leaders listen, coach and hand over ownership, week after week.

Your survey tells you how people felt last quarter

It's a vital read, and it arrives late. Parafoil sits alongside it and adds more sensors: a weekly read on how the work actually happens.

How oftenSurvey: Once or twice a yearParafoil: Every week
What it measuresSurvey: What people say when they're askedParafoil: How your organization actually behaves
When you find outSurvey: After the moment has passedParafoil: While there's still time to act
EffortSurvey: Surveys, reminders and action plansParafoil: None. It works from the meetings you already run

What you see

Know what you should be paying attention to

Parafoil tells you, before anyone has to ask, where there's risk and where there's momentum. Every answer names a team, says what changed and suggests the next step.

Is the strategy landing?

See which teams are acting on your priorities, and which are only talking about them. Learn more →

PrioritiesLast 8 weeks

Is the strategy landing?

‘AI-first support’ is being acted on in Support and Product. Sales discusses it but has made no decisions in 6 weeks.

AI-first support · by team

SupportFollowing through
ProductFollowing through
EngineeringDeciding
SalesTalking but not deciding
FinanceNot coming up

Which teams need attention?

Early signs of overload and attrition risk, weeks before they show up in a resignation. Learn more →

Health & RiskLast 3 weeks

2 teams show early signs of overload: Platform Engineering and Sales.

Platform EngineeringHigh

1:1s down 31% and unclear direction in 34% of meetings over three weeks.

Next step: Check 1:1 cadence with the department lead

SalesElevated

After-hours meeting load among the organization's highest for four weeks.

Next step: Agree meeting hours and buffers with the department lead

Is AI actually changing how we work?

Every team on one scale, from curious to native, so you know where the transformation is real. Learn more →

AI transformation12-week trend

↗ trending toward Native · pace steady

CuriousTryingEmbeddingNative

Stage 3 of 4: Embedding. Trending toward Native, pace steady.

Evidence · behavior shift

Delegate12 → 19 +7
Strategicflat

Where each team sits

EngineeringEmbedding
ProductEmbedding
SalesTrying

Who actually works with whom?

The map the org chart can't draw, with the connections that are fading. Learn more →

Collaboration across analyzed meetings

PeopleDesignData ScienceProductEngineeringCustomer SuccessMarketingSalesFinance
Strong connection Weak connection!Declined vs previous period Connected to the most others

Ask Parafoil

Get the answer before the board asks

Ask the question no dashboard anticipated, in your own words, and take the answer straight into the room. Or let it come to you: every Monday, the teams worth a look arrive in Slack and email.

Ask anything about how your organization leads…
Draft a board-ready summaryShow me whether the program is workingExplain our survey resultFind an at-risk teamCompare two teams

Ask Parafoil · your organization

Compare Engineering and Sales on decision-making since the reorg.

Engineering is delegating more, and Sales is reopening decisions

Since 6 Oct, Engineering moved toward Delegate and Consult. Decisions are made in the meeting more often, and fewer come back a second time.

Sales moved the other way: more decisions reopened, and Command rose as the most common mode in 1:1s.

Based on meetings analyzed across 25–49 managers, this quarter.

Ask Parafoil · your organization

Which manager in Sales is struggling?

I can only report where at least five managers have contributed, so I can't break this down that far.

Parafoil Alerts · Monday 8:00This week in Meridian: 2 teams worth a look

Platform Engineering · Intensity, three weeks running. After-hours meetings are about double this team's normal, across most managers in the team.

Rule out first: a release deadline or on-call rotation.

Next step: worth a conversation with the team lead this week.

Sales · Decisions, one week. Decisions came back up for discussion more often than usual, for about half the managers.

Rule out first: a pricing or territory change.

ExpectedTeam view

Everything else is within its usual range. This describes conditions in team meetings, not anyone's performance.

Where it works

SlackEmailClaudeThe web

Answers are always about teams. Questions about individuals are politely refused.

Measurement for your organization

Measured against how your organization leads

Parafoil measures what matters to you: your principles, your structure, your moments of change. Every read is specific to your organization.

Your leadership framework

Your leadership principles and company values become the yardstick, reported team by team.

Your structure

Teams, levels and functions come from your HR system, so every view matches how you're organized.

Your rules

Your organization decides what's analyzed, who is told and how it rolls out.

Your baseline

Every team is measured against its own history, so you see real movement and a busy week doesn't read as a trend.

Your moments

Measure what changed after a reorg, a launch or a leadership program, against the rest of the organization.

Your principle

“Decide with data”

  • ProductStrong, steady
  • EngineeringRising since June
  • SalesFading since the reorg

Illustrative example. Reported for teams of five or more managers.

The science

Science you can't prompt your way to

Anyone can point a language model at a transcript. Parafoil brings cognitive and behavioral science to the conversation, calibrated by a panel of expert leaders, so its answers hold up in the boardroom.

Language that reveals how people think

The way people speak tracks certainty, confidence and who holds the floor. Parafoil reads those signals, the way cognitive science taught us to.

Grounded in behavioral science

Built on decades of peer-reviewed research into how people lead, decide and work together.

Calibrated by expert leaders

Parafoil's measures are calibrated against the judgment of experienced leaders, so it sees what a seasoned eye would see.

Measured against your own history

Each team is compared with its own normal, so real change stands out and a busy week doesn't.

For every leader

Grow every leader in the moment

Most people are never trained to lead. Parafoil gives every manager private, specific guidance from their real meetings, measured against their own goals, with no extra work. The organization sees the change add up.

Minutes after the meeting

A short, private read on how they led and one thing to try next time.

Where they already work

In Slack, in Claude and before their next 1:1. Nothing new to learn.

Progress they can see

Week by week, managers see how their leading is changing, and so does the organization, across teams.

See it as a manager

1:1 with your report · just now

Only you

Your Coaching style showed up strongly in this meeting.

When your report raised the vendor delay, you asked what options they had already weighed before offering yours, and they left with a plan they had shaped.

Try next time: agree on a date for the follow-up before the meeting ends.

4 Leadership Actions

• State the value of Terrence's pricing analysis

• Let Priya own the client presentation

• Agree the follow-up date

Draft Talking Points

In 12-week pilots: 80% of managers changed how they lead, and the data agreed.

Built to roll out across enterprises like yours.

Privacy by design

Private for every leader, so the organization can trust what it sees

Each leader's feedback goes to that leader alone. The organization sees team patterns, never individuals. That's why people lead naturally, and why the data is honest.

Feedback that belongs to the leader

Every leader's feedback is theirs alone. It never becomes a score or a review, which is why people use it honestly.

Answers about teams

Your organization sees how teams are working, never what one person said or did.

Nothing joins the call

Parafoil works quietly alongside the meetings you already run, and no bot joins the call.

Your data, your rules

SOC 2 Type II, enterprise controls, and a Trust Center your security team will recognize.

See it from the other side: for managers and for their teams.

Visit the Trust Center

Solutions

Start with your role

One read on how your organization actually behaves, with a way in for every leader.

Or start with the question you're asked most

Critical acclaim

What leaders are saying

My feedback was vague: delegate more. Parafoil turned it into specifics — the exact meetings where I was the bottleneck and could have handed the decision over.

Nas, Engineering Manager

It flagged one of my team was stressed before I saw it myself. That heads-up helped me handle the convo way better.

Bob, Customer Experience Lead

Adding Parafoil to how I manage has probably been the most useful thing I've done for my own growth. It's like a mirror I actually trust.

Sarah, ex-Big Tech PM

Integrations

Works with the tools you already use

Parafoil fits into your calendar, your HR system and the places your managers already work, so there's no new tool to roll out.

Your calendar and meetings

Any meeting platform. No bot joins the call.

Your HR and learning systems

Teams, levels and reporting lines come from your HR system. Program cohorts come from your learning platform.

  • Sana

Where your managers already work

  • Claude
  • Fathom

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