Parafoil

Collaboration

See how your organization actually collaborates

The org chart shows who reports to whom. Parafoil shows which teams actually work together, where the links between them are weakening, and how decisions get made on each side.

The question you get asked

“Why do Product and Sales keep missing each other?”

  • Silos show up in results months after they form.
  • A reorg is drawn on the org chart and then never checked.
  • Everyone has a theory about where the friction is.

What Parafoil shows you

The map the org chart can't draw

Parafoil maps how departments meet across the meetings it analyzes. Line thickness shows how many cross-team manager pairs actually meet, and a badge marks any link that has weakened since the previous six weeks.

Collaboration across analyzed meetings

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

Dominant styles

High CoachingDemocraticServant
Decision habitConsult

Biggest shiftsThis week

Product · CoachingRising
Sales · ClarityFalling

Illustrative, from a demo workspace.

Who works with whom

Every link carries its denominator, such as 18 of 60 manager pairs meeting, and the meeting mix behind it: 1:1s, small groups or large ones.

Weakening links, flagged

When two departments stop meeting the way they used to, the link is marked, so you can ask about it before the handoffs start failing.

How decisions get made

See the balance of Command, Consult, Collaborate and Delegate in each team, and whether it shifted after a reorg.

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.

Which teams stopped meeting since the reorg?Which department does everyone depend on?How does Sales make decisions compared with Product?

Ask Parafoil · your organization

Which teams stopped meeting since the reorg?

People and Design have drifted apart

Manager pairs meeting across People and Design fell from 31 to 18 since the reorg on 6 Oct. Most of the drop is in small-group meetings.

Engineering is now connected to more departments than any other, and meets Sales more than before.

Based on meetings analyzed across 50+ managers, the last six weeks.

Why it matters

What you bring to the business

1

A reorg you can check

See within weeks whether a new structure changed how people actually work together.

2

Evidence in the conversation

Bring a map to the business leader, so the conversation starts from what's happening.

3

Bottlenecks before they bite

Spot the department everyone depends on while there's still time to share the load.

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

How soon does the map appear?

As soon as enough meetings have been analyzed to draw it reliably, usually within the first few weeks.

Can I see which people meet each other?

No. The map shows how departments work together, never individuals.

What do you need from us?

Departments from your HR system, or a CSV roster. That's what turns meetings into a map of teams.

See it on your own organization

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