#461 – Pages & Insights Launched!

This week we shipped two new major features, Pages & Insights, into general availability.

Pages is Parabol’s built-in collaborative knowledge base for storing documentation, working agreements, research, and anything you can imagine. Along with the rest of Parabol, it can be self-hosted and run on your infrastructure.

Insights is Parabol’s powerful AI analysis tool for extracting information and finding patterns from hundreds of meetings run across all of your teams. It can be used by leadership to find patterns in what’s enabling or holding an organization back, prepare for individual performance reviews, and so much more!

To support the launch, we recorded a short video demonstration of how these features work:

Insights have been in beta for a little over a year now. Originally we had designed Insights to be accessed under a team’s dashboard. We found, however, the feature was too hard to find and its output too difficult to share. Shortly after our initial implementation we began work on Pages and decided that it could be used to drive a better version of the Insights feature. Only a handful of users were given access as we implemented and refined Pages.

September 25th (yesterday) was the first time everybody could see insights, as can be seen by the above graph. Friday (today) tends to be the day when most users log in. We’re excited to see how this data change and what trends emerge, and learn more about what people choose to use Insights for.

Pages, too, was released on the 25th. Below is a graph of user-created pages (vs. Pages automatically created to house a Parabol meeting summary):

The Pages traffic prior to 9/25 was a from a small, limited beta. We’re excited to see how this feature takes off in the coming weeks. We’ll plan to share back in a month or so on adoption metrics and early learnings.

We’re particularly excited to bring Pages to market now as Atlassian has decided to end of life their self-hosted Data Center products, including Atlassian Data Center Confluence. Parabol is open-source, self-hostable (including highly secure and regulated environments within banks, healthcare, and defense—we’re accredited at the U.S. Department of Defense up to Impact Level 4!), or able to be sold as a private, single-tenant instance. All hands are on deck to gather user feedback and make the Pages and Insights features all they can be.

There was a small dip in the number of meetings ran this week over last week. On the brighter side, we’re seeing a much higher rate year-over-year of new user signups. We anticipate significant growing platform activity in the near future.

…completed development Cycle 10. We met our most important goal: releasing Pages and Insights!

…continued prototyping expansion to Pages. We’ve been working on new ways of initiating collaborative workflows from within Pages to suit a variety of new kinds of use cases. We made great strides this week and are excited to continue on in this work in the coming weeks and months ahead.

…begin a two-week cool down period on the Product Team. After every six-week development cycle, our Product team takes two weeks of exploration, bug fixes, prototyping, rest and recuperation.