Parafoil

Team health

Spot early signs of overload and attrition risk

Exit interviews explain what already happened. Parafoil tells you proactively which teams are showing early signs of strain, weeks before it becomes a resignation.

The question you get asked

“Which team are we about to lose?”

  • By the time it shows up in the survey, people have already left.
  • Pulse surveys get quieter the more often you run them.
  • A call from HR to a manager can feel like an accusation.

What Parafoil shows you

Early signs, team by team

Each team is measured against its own recent history. When its meetings move outside that range, Parafoil names the team, says what changed, and suggests a proportionate next step.

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

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.

Illustrative, from a demo workspace.

Measured against each team's own normal

No league tables. A team is flagged when it departs from its own baseline, which is also why a flag is worth reading.

What to rule out first

Every flag comes with the ordinary explanations to check, such as a launch, quarter-end or new joiners, so the first call is an informed one.

Told every Monday

Up to five teams a week, in Slack and email. Mark a flag Expected and it stays quiet for four weeks.

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 show early signs of overload?What goes with lower risk in our organization?Has anything changed in Platform Engineering this month?

Ask Parafoil · your organization

Which teams show early signs of overload?

Platform Engineering and Sales

In Platform Engineering, 1:1s are down 31% and direction was unclear in a third of meetings over the last three weeks.

In Sales, after-hours meeting load has been among the organization's highest for four weeks. Teams whose manager holds a weekly 1:1 show less after-hours load.

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

Why it matters

What changes for you

1

An earlier conversation

Talk to the team lead while it's still a conversation, with something specific to talk about.

2

Signal over noise

Know which flags are expected and which are new, so you spend your time where it matters.

3

Proof for the business

Show that retention risk is visible before the resignation letter, and what was done about it.

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 judge people's wellbeing?

No. It describes conditions in a team's meetings, such as 1:1 cadence, after-hours load and unclear direction. It never infers anyone's feelings or makes a judgment about a person.

Is it a prediction?

It flags early signs and says so. Levels are worked out in code from each team's own history, and the wording never claims a cause.

Who sees it?

The leaders your organization chooses. Answers are always about teams, never individuals.

See it on your own organization

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