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#452 – Launching Pages

Friday Ship #452 | July 25th, 2025

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This week we received feedback from users and partners on our pre-release version of Pages.

The choice to enter the knowledge management market wasn’t easily made. There are a plethora of tools clogging the space. Being “yet another wiki-like collaborative document tool” without clear differentiation or positioning would be a death sentence for the product.

We decided to begin developing Pages because we just kept getting asked to. While there are several amazing SaaS options for knowledge management, there are hardly any that can operate within the extremely restrictive security environments of some of our customers (such as within defense, health care, or finance).

Additionally, we need a way for users to access and share Parabol’s Insights capabilities that allow users to qualitatively analyze trends from meeting data at scale. We use Insights to help diagnose chronic process issues within our organization, help provide employees feedback during 360 reviews, and even prioritize our roadmap based on feedback that come up during customer retrospectives.

User Feedback on Pages & Insights

Here is some of the first feedback we received:

I was surprised that I needed to create a page to build a report, but I got there—I was thinking, “I just want to run a report. Just let me run a report.” – but I understand that I may want to “save” that somewhere in Parabol and come back to it later, or share it in app. So that makes some sense.

Building another intranet of pages alongside our other intranet(s) is slightly terrifying to me, so the “Pages” idea makes me a little anxious. 😨

With this insights feature, I want to generate insights on all of our teams in X group (6 squads) without having to click each one. Or maybe I want to do the whole BU Product Team (15 squads). I’d love to just be able to run the report at the desired level (e.g., company-wide, BU/team, group within the BU, individual squad) without having to click all of the things.

Partner Feedback on Pages & Insights

We also met with partners this week to learn how they might see Parabol Pages adding value to their own product. We received several ideas for combined value propositions and customers who might be early adopters.

Rolling the Snowball

It’s hard to launch something new. Today, no one is using Pages. We’re hopeful by this time next year we’ve learned what it takes to have filled out as much of the market for this tool as we can.

Metrics

This week saw modest gains in weekly meeting activity as part of a larger, downward trend. We’re anticipating a slow August during summer vacation season, then a bounce for “back to school season” beginning in September. We’re hopeful that the launch of Pages will have an upward impact on MAU later on in the fall.

This week we…

…completed implementation work to migrate our meeting summaries to Pages. Meeting summaries are getting a number of substantial updates this development cycle. With our meeting summaries now moving to Pages, users will have an editable, sharable archive of meeting summaries at their disposal. This will also launch and expose Insights for our users. Shipping this feature will expose over a year’s worth of work to all our users. We’re excited to finally get it out in the wild!

…began holding conversations to recruit members for an executive advisory board to help shape our next major offering. If you’re reading this update and interested in getting involved, please write us.

…began reflecting on 10 years of Parabol. Our 10-year anniversary is coming up. We began a process this week to reflect on a decade of operating our company.

Next week we’ll

…wrap up development Cycle 9 and begin planning Cycle 10.

…host a retrospective to learn how we can pursue our step-change innovation efforts with more gusto.

Jordan Husney

Jordan Husney

Jordan leads Parabol’s business development strategy and engineering practice. He was previously a Director at Undercurrent, where he advised C-Suite teams of Fortune 100 organizations on the future of work. Jordan has an engineering background, holding several patents in distributed systems and wireless technology. Jordan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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