#472 – Closing Out 2025
Friday Ship #472 | December 19th, 2025
As we head into winter break, this is our last Friday Ship of 2025.
It’s fair to say this year stretched us. We said goodbye to some really great teammates, people who helped shape Parabol and left fingerprints on the product and the company. That’s never easy, and it’s not something we gloss over.
At the same time, something else happened this year.
We got tighter.
We became more clear-eyed about what matters, how we work together, and what kind of company we’re committed to being. This year we celebrated 10 years of Parabol! That decade of perspective helped us navigate the transitions of 2025 with a deeper sense of purpose.
And that focus showed up in the work. In 2025, we didn’t just maintain; we evolved:
- We launched Pages & Insights: Moving beyond “just meetings” to become a true home for team knowledge. We turned meeting outputs into living documents and gave leaders the AI-powered tools to see patterns across their entire organization.
- We created a Leaner, Faster Engine: We spent 2025 streamlining our codebase and our internal processes. From migrating to more efficient infrastructure to refining our sprint cycles, we made the engine behind Parabol more resilient.
- We shipped “Pages Databases”: Laying the foundation for custom workflows and more structured ways for teams to organize their work.
- We leveled up on Trust: We officially kicked off our SOC 2 Type II audit and also deepened our commitment to being the most secure, self-hostable collaboration platform for regulated industries.
That’s something we’re proud of.
As we step away to recharge, reset, and spend time with family and friends, we’re doing so as a smaller, stronger, and more focused team than we were a year ago. We are ending the year with real momentum and a clear roadmap for what’s next.
Thank you to everyone who was part of Parabol this year. And thank you to our customers and community for trusting us with your most important conversations.
See you in 2026. 🌱
Metrics
While we have a good number of people meeting in Parabol to wrap up their work year, we’re seeing the holiday break with the drop in weekly new sign-ups. We expect to see the typical uptick of people looking at new tools at the start of 2026. This cohort will see a different Parabol than the prior year, as we introduce new workflows built on top of databases and team knowledge from meetings.
This week we…
…shaped our plans for Product Cycle 12. We’ll kick off in January and wrap up in February, with a focus on improving deployments for our public sector and regulated industries, building out a brand new ranking workflow, adding SCIM deletion, and exploring an all-new search engine that supports both our app UX and MCP integrations with other tools.
…had some fun social time and played a couple rounds of telephone (AI Image version). Check out the entertaining progression of each image here.
Next week we’ll
…close our virtual office for a 2-week winter break. We’ll keep an eye on platform stability and respond to any urgent needs. We hope everyone can enjoy some time off and get recharged for a new year!
Kendra Dixon
Kendra leads operations at Parabol with over 15 years of experience building and managing teams in remote work environments. She came to Parabol from Techstars where she managed the first remote accelerator supporting startups focused on the future of work. Kendra lives and works in Northern California.