Parafoil

Beyond the survey

Know what's changing between surveys

The survey tells you what people say when they're asked. Parafoil adds more sensors: a weekly read on how your organization actually behaves.

The question you get asked

“Engagement in Engineering dropped six points. Why?”

  • Survey results arrive after the moment to act has passed.
  • Self-report captures how people feel, and you still need to know why.
  • You're asked why a number moved and have nothing to point to.

What Parafoil shows you

A behavioral signal every week

Leadership styles, manager effectiveness, decision habits and meeting conditions, updated weekly and cut by team, level or cohort. Every aggregate states the managers and window behind it.

Leadership stylesThis quarter

CoachingDecisiveDemocraticDirectionalEasy GoingServantTransactionalTransformational
Demonstrated Goal

Manager effectiveness12-week trend

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

Biggest shiftsThis week

Product · CoachingRising
Sales · ClarityFalling

Illustrative, from a demo workspace.

Explain the survey

Bring a survey result to Ask Parafoil and see which meeting patterns moved alongside it, in the same teams and the same weeks.

Built to be checked

Measures are calibrated against expert judgment, and every figure states its basis.

Your data, your models

Pull team-level trends through the API or CSV into your own tools, or measure against your own leadership framework.

Ask Parafoil

Or ask it in your own words

Ask on the web, in Slack or in Claude. Answers come from the same team-level data, with the basis stated underneath.

Explain our survey result in EngineeringWhat moved most this quarter?Compare two teams on manager effectiveness

Ask Parafoil · your organization

Explain the engagement drop in Engineering this quarter.

1:1s thinned out and decisions got harder to close

Over the same twelve weeks, 1:1s in Engineering fell and more decisions came back for a second discussion. Clarity fell further there than anywhere else.

These moved alongside the survey result. They show what tends to go together, not what caused it.

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

Why it matters

What changes for your team

1

Explain, don't just report

Walk into the survey debrief with the patterns behind the number.

2

Fewer pulses, more signal

Run pulse surveys less often, because the weekly read fills the gap between them.

3

A read for every HRBP

Give each HR business partner a weekly view of their part of the business, scoped to what they cover.

The science

Measured against expert human judgment

Parafoil's measures are calibrated against expert human judgment and grounded in decades of published behavioral science. It's why the answers hold up in the room.

Privacy by design

Answers about teams, never about a person

Every leader keeps their own feedback private, and the organization sees teams. That's why people lead naturally, and why the data is worth trusting.

Questions

What people ask us

Does it replace our engagement survey?

It works alongside it. The survey tells you what people say when asked. Parafoil shows how they're being led every week, which helps you explain what the survey finds.

How reliable is it?

Parafoil's measures are calibrated against expert human judgment, and our method is published.

Can we get the data out?

Yes, at team level: through the API, a CSV export, or the Claude connector. Nothing about an individual manager leaves the product.

See it on your own organization

A 30-minute demo, built around the questions you're asked.