{ "updated": "2026-11-10", "what": "One row per company on the map. `cat` is its one category, what its own headline sells; `ph` scores the map's stages 0 (not found on its site), 1 (partial) or 2 (core); `caps` lists the AI capabilities it sells today; `flags` marks who it is built for, from the vendor's own pages; `home` names the map a cross-listed row's name, site, category, scale and funding come from; `v` says where the row's facts come from: `primary` (the vendor's own release or changelog), `site` (the vendor's own site) or `reported` (trade press, where the vendor's site would not open); `src` lists every page we read for the row.", "categories": { "eex": { "n": "Intranets and employee experience platforms", "d": "One home for company news, pages, people and apps, on the web, on mobile and inside Teams, with AI that writes, targets and answers." }, "email": { "n": "Employee email and newsletters", "d": "Send internal email and newsletters and measure how comms land, with AI that drafts, personalizes and reports." }, "deskless": { "n": "Frontline employee apps", "d": "A mobile app for staff without a desk or a company email: news, chat and tasks, with AI that writes and translates." }, "advocacy": { "n": "Employee advocacy", "d": "Give employees approved posts to share on their own social accounts, with AI that writes the posts and tracks the reach." }, "signage": { "n": "Workplace digital signage", "d": "Screens in offices, plants and stores that carry company news and data, with AI that builds and schedules the content." }, "video": { "n": "Town halls, video and podcasts", "d": "Live and recorded town halls, company video and internal podcasts, with AI captions, translation, summaries, avatars and Q&A." }, "ic_ai": { "n": "AI comms assistants", "d": "Standalone AI that plans and writes comms, or turns a company's strategy into a briefing for each employee." }, "hcm": { "n": "HR suites and HRIS", "d": "Payroll, HR records and talent suites that now build or buy AI recruiting and HR agents." }, "wfm": { "n": "Workforce management and scheduling", "d": "Forecast labor demand and build shift schedules for hourly and frontline teams, with AI that fills and rebalances shifts." } }, "phases": [ { "k": "plan", "n": "Plan", "d": "Plan the comms: calendars, campaigns, audiences, approvals and governance." }, { "k": "create", "n": "Create", "d": "Make the content: news, posts, emails, pages and video." }, { "k": "deliver", "n": "Deliver", "d": "Reach the right people on the intranet, an app, email, chat, screens or social." }, { "k": "answer", "n": "Answer", "d": "Answer employee questions: search and an assistant over company content." }, { "k": "engage", "n": "Engage", "d": "Hear back: comments, surveys, communities, recognition and live events." }, { "k": "measure", "n": "Measure", "d": "Measure reach, reads, engagement and sentiment." } ], "caps": [ { "k": "writing", "n": "AI writing", "d": "AI that drafts, rewrites, shortens or changes the tone of posts, emails and articles." }, { "k": "translation", "n": "Translation", "d": "AI translation of posts, pages or messages into employees' languages." }, { "k": "targeting", "n": "Targeting and personalization", "d": "AI that picks the audience, channel or send time, or personalizes each employee's feed." }, { "k": "answers", "n": "AI search and answers", "d": "AI search and Q&A over company content, policies and connected apps." }, { "k": "insights", "n": "Comms analytics", "d": "AI that reports and explains reach, engagement and campaign results." }, { "k": "sentiment", "n": "Sentiment and feedback", "d": "AI reading of comments, surveys and pulse responses." }, { "k": "media", "n": "AI video and audio", "d": "AI-made video, avatars, podcasts, captions or transcripts." }, { "k": "governance", "n": "Content governance", "d": "AI checks of content for policy, brand, accessibility, stale pages or moderation." }, { "k": "copilot", "n": "Assistant", "d": "A general AI assistant or chat over the product's data." }, { "k": "agent", "n": "Named agent", "d": "A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own." }, { "k": "mcp", "n": "MCP or agent API", "d": "An MCP server, agent API, or apps inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot." } ], "flags": [ { "k": "deskless", "n": "Frontline", "d": "Built for frontline and deskless staff: a mobile app, kiosk or screen for people without a desk or a company email." }, { "k": "m365", "n": "Microsoft 365", "d": "Built on Microsoft 365: runs on SharePoint or inside Teams." } ], "modes": { "assist": { "n": "Assistive", "d": "Drafts, translates, ranks or suggests when a person asks. The person does each step." }, "agent": { "n": "Agent", "d": "Completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as building a newsletter or a campaign from a brief." }, "always_on": { "n": "Always-on", "d": "Runs continuously without a prompt, such as flagging stale pages or tracking sentiment in comments." } }, "scale_tiers": { "1": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue", "2": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base", "3": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed", "4": "No disclosed scale" }, "companies": [ { "n": "Microsoft Viva", "u": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva", "w": "\"Create an engaged and productive workforce with Microsoft Viva.\" One row for Viva Engage (communities and leader posts), Viva Connections (the employee home in Teams) and Viva Amplify (campaigns and publishing). Internal communications teams use it inside Microsoft 365. Copilot helps draft posts and catch up on activity.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Create an engaged and productive workforce with Microsoft Viva", "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage helps draft posts and gives context-aware help to catch up. Copilot in Viva Amplify offers AI-powered writing assistance for campaign content. Answers in Viva uses AI to connect people with experts and solutions.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Sold by Microsoft, a public company, as part of Microsoft 365." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": true, "note": "Built into Microsoft 365 and Teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva", "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/engage", "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/connections", "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/amplify" ] }, { "n": "ServiceNow Employee Center", "u": "https://www.servicenow.com/products/employee-center.html", "w": "ServiceNow Employee Center is the employee portal in ServiceNow's employee service line. Content managers publish news, company events and staged campaigns to chosen audiences and track engagement. AI comes through Now Assist and, in the EmployeeWorks Web App that ServiceNow calls the next generation of Employee Center (Pro), through the Otto assistant. Otto answers questions and plans and runs multi-step requests. Content managers can also draft announcements with Now Assist chat.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "It is the next generation of Employee Center (Pro).", "url": "https://www.servicenow.com/community/sn-employeeworks-blog/introducing-employeeworks-web-app/ba-p/3537890" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Now Assist Self-Service gives employees one chat for search, virtual agent, catalog and Q&A. In EmployeeWorks Web App, the Otto assistant plans and runs multi-step requests, answers with cited sources and supports over 100 languages. Content managers can draft Employee Slate announcements from a prompt with Now Assist Chat, using a knowledge article or catalog item as the source, and ServiceNow's documentation tells authors to review each draft for accuracy and tone.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "ServiceNow is a public company (NYSE: NOW) and says more than 80 billion workflows run on its platform each year." }, "hq": "Santa Clara, California, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.servicenow.com/community/sn-employeeworks-blog/introducing-employeeworks-web-app/ba-p/3537890", "https://www.servicenow.com/community/sn-employeeworks-blog/may-2025-enhancements-to-employee-center-pro/ba-p/3252447", "https://servicenow.com/community/employee-center-blog/july-2025-enhancements-to-employee-center-pro/ba-p/3340809", "https://www.servicenow.com/community/sn-employeeworks-articles/getting-started-with-servicenow-employeeworks/ta-p/3556833", "https://www.servicenow.com/community/employee-center-articles/employee-slate-product-faqs/ta-p/3543081", "https://www.servicenow.com/community/employee-slate-and-employee/campaigns-and-content-analytics/ta-p/2639295", "https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/H8yQl2SqBqnT6LbpTm28UQ/hrJUy7y7bxp3eO0phzaq0w", "https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/etYGEBUVr6RQYKLnfpRuhw/QgzeS09zSIZneLQ_LadaDw", "https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2026/ServiceNow-powers-government-reinvention-with-trusted-AI-that-drives-mission-critical-outcomes-at-scale/default.aspx", "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/servicenow-unveils-autonomous-workforce-employeeworks-f8bd8eeb-a4fa-4ac6-b2bf-37a3abcd6a10" ] }, { "n": "Appspace", "u": "https://www.appspace.com/", "w": "Appspace calls itself \"The Workplace Experience Company\" and sells one platform for an intranet, digital signage, space booking and visitor management. Comms teams publish news once to signage, a mobile app, email and Microsoft Teams. Appspace Intelligence writes and translates content, summarizes it as text or narrated audio, and runs assistants that answer employee questions and report on engagement. Appspace bought Igloo Software in September 2025.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Connect your intranet, digital signage, space reservation, and visitor management with one platform.", "url": "https://www.appspace.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "media", "sentiment", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Appspace Intelligence: content generation with AI narration, summaries and translation; Intelligence Assistants (Insights Assistant, Search Assistant) and custom assistants that book rooms, find files and connect to tools such as ServiceNow, Workday and Jira over MCP; Bring Your Own Model for Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry and Gemini.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Appspace says more than 3,000 customers use it, including 180 Fortune 500 companies (September 2026 release)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells a Frontline Edition that bundles an employee app, digital signage and kiosks for frontline staff." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.appspace.com/", "https://www.appspace.com/ai/", "https://www.appspace.com/press/", "https://www.appspace.com/frontline-edition/", "https://www.appspace.com/pricing/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/orchestration/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/appspace-introduces-intelligence-assistants/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/native-workplace-intelligence/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/enterprise-ai-bring-your-own-model/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/appspace-context/", "https://www.appspace.com/blog/appspace-and-contactmonkey/" ] }, { "n": "Axero", "u": "https://axerosolutions.com/", "w": "Axero sells \"One platform. Your intranet.\", an intranet and digital workplace with search across pages, files and connected tools, plus a mobile app. Internal communications and IT teams buy it. Axero Copilot answers questions from intranet content within each person's permissions, and an AI assistant helps editors rewrite text. App Manager builds custom internal apps.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "One platform. Your intranet.", "url": "https://axerosolutions.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "Axero Copilot is an AI chatbot inside the intranet that answers from permitted content and links to sources. Admins manage several Copilot profiles, and sub-agents let one profile draw on another's knowledge. The AI Assistant for Content Editors shortens, expands, polishes or changes the tone of text.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "The vendor says it supports over 6 million people worldwide." }, "founded": 2008, "hq": "New York, United States", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://axerosolutions.com/", "https://axerosolutions.com/platform/", "https://axerosolutions.com/solutions/axero-copilot", "https://axerosolutions.com/pricing", "https://www.axerosolutions.com/company/about-us", "https://my.axerosolutions.com/en-US/spaces/5/communifire-documentation/wiki/view/102872/axero-ai-powered-assistants", "https://my.axerosolutions.com/spaces/5/axero-documentation/wiki/view/30048/new-enhancements", "https://www.prweb.com/releases/axero-transforms-enterprise-collaboration-with-ai-engine-to-build-custom-internal-applications-302715586.html" ] }, { "n": "eXo Platform", "u": "https://www.exoplatform.com/", "w": "eXo Platform sells an open-source digital workplace for intranet, social network, knowledge hub and collaboration, as \"Your open-source alternative to SharePoint, Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace\". Internal communications teams run company news and engagement on it in the cloud, a private cloud or on premise. Its controlled AI works inside content and discussions, supports several language models, and an MCP server opens it to outside assistants.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Your open-source alternative to SharePoint, Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace", "url": "https://www.exoplatform.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "Contextual AI assistants that sit inside content, discussions, documents and projects, help write, search and extract tasks, and ground answers in company content with retrieval. Admins choose the language models (Mistral AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or self-hosted) and build specialized assistants, and users pick the sources an assistant draws on. An MCP server gives outside AI assistants access to more than 100 platform tools.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "eXo says its platform has more than one million users." }, "hq": "Paris, France", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.exoplatform.com/", "https://www.exoplatform.com/about-us", "https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/multi-llm-ai-digital-workplace-launch", "https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/exo-platform-mcp-server-secure-ai-digital-workplace/", "https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/exo-platform-7-2-ai-powered-unified-digital-workplace/", "https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/exo-platform-and-wikit-partnership-ai-at-the-service-of-the-digital-workplace/" ] }, { "n": "Fresh Intranet", "u": "https://www.freshintranet.com/", "w": "Fresh Intranet says \"Fresh makes SharePoint intranets simple, smart, and ready-to-go.\" Internal communicators publish targeted news, newsletters, community content and personalized pages inside Microsoft 365. FreshMind is its AI layer: AI answers at the top of intranet search, a Q&A chatbot, auto-generated titles, metadata and banner images, translation, and AI analytics that show intranet owners which questions go unanswered.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Fresh makes SharePoint intranets simple, smart, and ready-to-go.", "url": "https://www.freshintranet.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "FreshMind puts an AI-generated answer with references at the top of intranet search and adds a chatbot view for follow-up questions. AI Reasoning shows how each answer was built, and admins choose which content the AI may use. FreshMind also drafts titles, descriptions and metadata, translates content and generates banner images. An AI analytics view shows top and unanswered questions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Fresh says more than 2 million users across customers in 26 countries, and it is part of Advania UK." }, "founded": 2015, "owner": "Advania UK", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": true, "note": "Fresh is built natively on SharePoint and publishes across SharePoint, Teams and Viva Connections." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.freshintranet.com/", "https://freshintranet.com/features/fresh-mind/", "https://freshintranet.com/features/frontline-workers/", "https://freshintranet.com/product/news-comms/", "https://freshintranet.com/about/about-fresh/", "https://freshintranet.com/our-pricing/", "https://freshintranet.com/blogs/", "https://freshintranet.com/news/release-notes-q2-2026/", "https://freshintranet.com/news/release-notes-q3-2026/", "https://freshintranet.com/news/release-notes-q4-2026/", "https://freshintranet.com/news/fresh-named-a-clearbox-intranet-choice-winner-again/", "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/ai-powered-intranet-solution-built-on-sharepoint---fresh-intranet---sharepoint-p/4465709" ] }, { "n": "Haiilo", "u": "https://haiilo.com/", "w": "Haiilo sells \"The AI intranet your people love to use\" to internal communications teams. It joins an intranet, an employee app, employee advocacy and enterprise search. AVA, its AI assistant, drafts first versions of posts, adjusts tone and personalizes the experience. Haiilo MCP connects the platform to other AI tools so employees find answers from news, knowledge, communities and people.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI intranet your people love to use", "url": "https://haiilo.com/platform/intranet" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "AVA (Artificial Virtual Assistant), Haiilo's AI assistant: drafts posts, pages and newsletters, adjusts tone and length, searches across sources including Microsoft 365 and answers follow-up questions. Haiilo says AVA can help create content up to 10x faster. Haiilo MCP connects approved Haiilo content to MCP-compatible AI assistants. In employee advocacy, AI helps employees create and approve posts in their own tone.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Haiilo says it has 1,000+ customers and 3.5 million active users." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Haiilo sells a mobile app for deskless and frontline teams and integrates with Microsoft 365, SharePoint and OneDrive." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://haiilo.com/", "https://haiilo.com/platform/intranet", "https://haiilo.com/lp/internal-communications-platform", "https://haiilo.com/blog/boring-ai-hire/", "https://privateequityinfo.com/directory/private-equity-portfolio-company/1/haiilo", "https://nordic9.com/news/german-coyo-and-finnish-smarp-announced-they-would-merge-both-saas-companies/", "https://haiilo.com/blog/haiilo-mcp-trusted-company-knowledge-ai", "https://haiilo.com/blog/ai-connector", "https://haiilo.com/about/about-us", "https://haiilo.com/lpo/ava-ai-upgrade", "https://haiilo.com/blog/haiilo-and-microsoft-combining-the-best-of-both-worlds" ] }, { "n": "Interact", "u": "https://www.interactsoftware.com/", "w": "Interact calls itself \"The AI-native employee experience platform\". It sells an intranet, internal comms and HR tools to large companies. Cue gives each employee an adaptive home page, answers and next actions. Conductor lets comms, HR and IT teams describe a goal and then plans, writes, targets and schedules the content for approval. Action Agent moderates community content. Interact MCP opens the intranet to outside AI assistants.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-native employee experience platform", "url": "https://www.interactsoftware.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "governance", "insights", "mcp", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Cue, an adaptive AI intranet that answers questions and completes actions; Conductor, which plans, writes, targets and schedules intranet work for approval; Action Agent for content moderation; an AI Search Assistant; Ask Analytics and an Executive Assistant Agent in early access; and Interact MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini Enterprise.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Interact says more than 1,500 companies use it worldwide." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Majority investment from Castik Capital, terms not disclosed, 2025-11-27", "investors": "Castik Capital", "src": "https://www.interactsoftware.com/news/interact-enters-a-new-era-of-growth-with-strategic-investment-from-castik/" }, "hq": "Manchester, United Kingdom", "owner": "Castik Capital (majority investor)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Interact sells a Frontline App for deskless staff." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.interactsoftware.com/", "https://www.interactsoftware.com/news/interact-enters-a-new-era-of-growth-with-strategic-investment-from-castik/", "https://www.interactsoftware.com/news/interact-marks-a-new-era/", "https://www.interactsoftware.com/news/introducing-interact-mcp/" ] }, { "n": "LiveTiles", "u": "https://livetilesglobal.com/", "w": "\"Engage your workforce and unite your teams.\" LiveTiles sells a SharePoint-based intranet and the LiveTiles Reach employee app for frontline staff to internal communications and IT teams. Its AI Assistant answers plain-language questions about resources and applications from content that admins choose to index, and the intranet has AI-powered search. LiveTiles is now part of Omnia.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Engage your workforce and unite your teams", "url": "https://livetilesglobal.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot" ], "ai": "The LiveTiles AI Assistant sits in the Everywhere Widget and uses conversational search over content that admins choose to index, such as PDFs, Microsoft 365 files and SharePoint pages. It runs in the customer's Azure tenant on the LiveTiles AI Engine, and the vendor says it is included with a LiveTiles subscription. The intranet also lists AI-powered search.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "The vendor says it is trusted by more than 1,000 enterprises." }, "hq": "Sweden", "owner": "Omnia Digital Workplace AB", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": true, "note": "The intranet is built on Microsoft SharePoint, and LiveTiles Reach is an employee app for frontline workers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://livetilesglobal.com/", "https://livetilesglobal.com/livetiles-intranet-2/", "https://livetilesglobal.com/transform-your-intranet-with-the-livetiles-ai-assistant/", "https://livetilesglobal.com/make-sense-of-ai-madness-at-your-organization-with-the-livetiles-ai-engine/", "https://livetilesglobal.com/livetiles-and-omnia-unite-to-form-a-stronger-future/" ] }, { "n": "LumApps", "u": "https://www.lumapps.com/", "w": "LumApps calls itself \"The leading AI Employee Hub\". It sells an intranet and employee app to internal communications, HR and IT teams, for desk and frontline staff. Its AI covers writing, translation, enterprise search with summarized answers, and named agents such as Course builder, Broadcast designer and Onboarding guide. IT governs the agents in Agent Hub and builds its own in Agent Studio.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The leading AI Employee Hub", "url": "https://www.lumapps.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "targeting", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "LumApps AI, the AI Employee Hub, with Agent Hub, Agent Studio and an agent library (IT support, Onboarding guide, Incident reporting, Content lifecycle, Course builder, Broadcast designer). AI drafts and translates content and answers questions through permission-aware search.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "LumApps says it has over 10 million users (release, 2026-06-23). The 2025 combination with Beekeeper was announced as serving over 7 million users across 2,000+ clients." }, "founded": 2012, "hq": "Lyon area, France", "owner": "Bridgepoint (majority owner, funds managed by Bridgepoint)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "LumApps says it serves employees from the frontline to HQ and integrates with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.lumapps.com/", "https://www.lumapps.com/platform/ai-powered-platform", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumapps-launches-the-ai-employee-hub-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-302807099.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumapps-launches-agent-hub-defining-the-ai-powered-employee-hub-category-302606896.html", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/press-releases/lumapps-launches-agent-hub-defining-the-ai-powered-employee-hub-category", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/press-releases/lumapps-to-acquire-comeen-to-expand-its-ai-employee-hub-into-workplace-experience", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/lumapps-joins-google-clouds-agent", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/lumapps-unveils-the-next-era-of-company-agents", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/lumapps-and-beekeeper-to-join-forces-in-deal-backed-by-bridgepoint-creating-the-leading-employee-experience-platform-for-the-future-of-work", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/press-releases/bridgepoint-lumapps-majority-investor/" ] }, { "n": "MangoApps", "u": "https://www.mangoapps.com/", "w": "A workforce platform that grew from intranet and employee communications roots and now sells an intranet, an employee app, frontline operations and HR tools under one login. Ask AI answers questions from approved sources, AI builds pages, forms, surveys and wiki pages from a prompt, and AI agents can fill open shifts or clear clean timesheets. Buyers are communications, HR and operations leaders with frontline and office staff.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "MangoApps is the unified workforce platform built for frontline and operational teams.", "url": "https://www.newswire.com/news/mangoapps-unveils-refreshed-brand-and-logo-as-it-expands-to-support-daily-work" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "governance", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "Ask AI is the front door for plain-language answers from approved sources, scoped to each user's permissions. AI builds pages, trackers, forms, surveys, quizzes, courses and wiki pages from a prompt. The vendor says it runs more than 80 production AI agents, and some close routine work such as filling an open shift. An MCP server lets outside agents read data and take action.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "The vendor states more than 2 million users and 98% customer retention." }, "founded": 2008, "hq": "Issaquah, Washington, USA", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor sells a mobile app for frontline staff who have no desk, corporate email or laptop." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.mangoapps.com/", "https://www.mangoapps.com/pricing", "https://www.mangoapps.com/about", "https://www.mangoapps.com/articles/ai-grounded-in-work", "https://www.mangoapps.com/articles/mangoapps-spring-26-release-ai-lms-ops-upgrades", "https://www.mangoapps.com/newsroom/mangoapps-launches-industry-first-ai-that-creates-pages-forms-and-more-from-a-prompt", "https://www.mangoapps.com/newsroom/native-workforce-management-and-next-gen-generative-ai", "https://www.mangoapps.com/changelog/2907", "https://www.mangoapps.com/frontline-wire/frontline-ai-is-moving-through-five-phases-we-a", "https://www.newswire.com/news/mangoapps-unveils-refreshed-brand-and-logo-as-it-expands-to-support-daily-work", "https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News/MangoApps-Winter-Release-helps-organizations-run-operations-directly-inside-employee-experiences-173199.aspx" ] }, { "n": "Omnia", "u": "https://www.omniaintranet.com/", "w": "\"The intranet that makes complexity work.\" Omnia is an intranet for Microsoft 365, sold to internal communications, HR and IT teams. Content stays in SharePoint and the intranet runs as a Teams app, with iOS and Android apps for staff without a desk. AI gives answers with source links, helps authors draft, rewrite and translate, and runs scheduled agents that flag outdated or conflicting content.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The intranet that makes complexity work.", "url": "https://www.omniaintranet.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "governance", "mcp", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "AI tools include semantic search with AI-generated answers that link to the pages and documents used, topic-specific search agents, AI drafting and rewriting with tone, accessibility and WCAG checks, AI translation, and governance agents that detect outdated, duplicate and conflicting content. An Omnia MCP server lets Claude and Microsoft Copilot Studio agents work with Omnia, and any change needs approval in the client first. Customers can bring their own AI provider.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "More than 700 customers and more than 3 million users, as the vendor states." }, "founded": 2009, "hq": "Stockholm, Sweden", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": true, "note": "Documents stay in SharePoint and the intranet runs as a Teams app. Dedicated iOS and Android apps reach deskless staff who have no Microsoft license." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.omniaintranet.com/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/product/ai-powered-intranet/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/about/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/pricing/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/product/digital-workplace-microsoft-365/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/product/frontline-mobile-app/", "https://www.omniaintranet.com/resources/blog/how-ai-in-omnia-boosts-productivity-and-user-experience/", "https://omnia-docs-g2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes/mcp/7/index.html" ] }, { "n": "Poppulo", "u": "https://www.poppulo.com/", "w": "Poppulo sells \"the only AI-powered platform to align, assure, and activate your workforce across every channel, screen, and location\". Internal comms and HR teams use it for employee email and newsletters, an intranet, a branded mobile app, advocacy and workplace digital signage, all on one platform. Poppulo AI drafts and translates content, recommends audiences and answers questions about campaign results. Its signage line adds AI design and analysis.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The only AI-powered platform to align, assure, and activate your workforce across every channel, screen, and location", "url": "https://www.poppulo.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "insights", "media", "sentiment", "targeting", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Poppulo AI covers content creation in the email editor and Microsoft Word, AI translation in 54+ languages, AI audience recommendations, conversational analytics (formerly the Analyze Agent) and the Comms Coach assistant. Ask AI writes posts and summarizes and subtitles video. Enterprise AI Search and AI agents inside Ask AI Chat serve employees. The signage line adds Poppulo Designer and an Analyze Agent.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Poppulo says it is trusted by over 10,000 organizations, including more than 40 of the Fortune 100, and reaches more than 50 million employees (Sociabble release, 2026-05-26)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Backed by Vista Equity Partners; amount not disclosed", "investors": "Vista Equity Partners", "src": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41851818.html" }, "founded": 1996, "hq": "Denver, Colorado, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Poppulo sells a branded mobile app and workplace digital signage and says its portfolio serves both desked and deskless workers. It publishes to Teams and SharePoint but does not run on them." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.poppulo.com/", "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/ai", "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/ai-features", "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/platform-integrations", "https://poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/release-highlights", "https://www.poppulo.com/blog/poppulo-unveils-ai-enabled-modern-designer-and-first-ai-agent", "https://www.poppulo.com/blog/poppulo-unveils-ai-agents-for-employee-communications", "https://www.poppulo.com/blog/poppulo-acquires-sociabble", "https://invidis.com/news/2025/10/software-poppulo-enhances-cms-with-agentic-ai-suite/", "https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41851818.html" ] }, { "n": "Simpplr", "u": "https://www.simpplr.com/", "w": "Simpplr sells an \"AI-powered intranet for modern enterprises\" to internal communications, HR and IT teams. It brings together news, knowledge, apps and agents in one digital workplace. Comms AI plans campaigns and adapts drafts for each channel. A Knowledge Agent and an EX Agent answer employee questions. An AI Control Center lets IT govern every AI feature.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-powered intranet for modern enterprises", "url": "https://www.simpplr.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "governance", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Comms AI, an AI teammate for internal communicators that builds a comms plan from a goal, adapts drafts across channels and tracks approvals. A Knowledge Agent and an EX Agent for employee questions. AI Agent Studio for custom agents. AI Control Center for IT governance of every AI feature, with a choice of LLM providers or the customer's own LLM accounts.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Simpplr says more than 1,000 organizations use the platform and reports 2M+ active users on its site." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 131, "last": "Series D, $70M, 2023-05-02", "investors": "Sapphire Ventures (lead), Norwest Venture Partners, Tola Capital, Salesforce Ventures", "src": "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/simpplr-secures-70m-in-new-funding-to-deliver-personalized-employee-experiences-that-generate-real-business-impact/" }, "founded": 2014, "hq": "Redwood City, California, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "Simpplr sells its own intranet platform with a Frontline Support solution page." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.simpplr.com/", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/meet-comms-ai", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/ai-control-center/", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom_cat/press-releases", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/moveworks-and-simpplr-partner-to-give-enterprises-greater-flexibility-in-the-digital-workplace", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/simpplr-raises-32-million-to-amplify-employee-engagement-as-teams-adapt-to-the-hybrid-office/", "https://www.simpplr.com/fall-2025-release/", "https://www.simpplr.com/summer-2025-release/", "https://www.simpplr.com/virtual-assistant/", "https://www.simpplr.com/newsroom/press-releases/simpplr-completes-workday-design-badge-integration/" ] }, { "n": "Staffbase", "u": "https://staffbase.com/", "w": "Staffbase says \"Finally, one platform to reach every employee. Wherever they work.\" It sells an intranet, an employee app and email to internal communications teams, with a focus on frontline staff. Its AI assistant Navigator answers questions and completes tasks, Autopilot agents flag stale content and moderate comments, and Companion drafts and rewrites text.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Finally, one platform to reach every employee. Wherever they work.", "url": "https://staffbase.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "governance", "mcp", "media", "writing" ], "ai": "Navigator is the employee AI assistant, with voice and text and sourced answers plus actions. Autopilot agents flag outdated content and moderate comments, with people reviewing results. Content Pro does AI page creation and governance, Companion drafts and adjusts tone, On Air makes personalized audio briefings, and an MCP server and client connect Staffbase to other AI tools.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "More than 1,500 enterprise customers, per Staffbase's own pages. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions for the fourth year in a row." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E, $115M, 2022-03-15", "investors": "General Atlantic (lead), Insight Partners", "src": "https://news.crunchbase.com/briefing/staffbase-raises-115m-series-e/" }, "founded": 2014, "hq": "New York City, United States and Chemnitz, Germany", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Staffbase sells an Employee App for frontline staff and says it has \"Native integration with Teams, SharePoint, Viva, and more\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://staffbase.com/", "https://staffbase.com/employee-ai", "https://staffbase.com/navigator", "https://staffbase.com/about-us", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/staffbase-unveils-ai-employee-experience-platform", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/staffbase-cornerstone-frontline-learning-partnership", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/ai-powered-learning-for-frontline-workers", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/staffbase-first-companies-to-integrate-with-workday-sana", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-intranet-packaged-solutions", "https://news.crunchbase.com/briefing/staffbase-raises-115m-series-e/", "https://staffbase.com/press/releases/staffbase-integration-with-servicenow", "https://developers.staffbase.com/changelog/", "https://developers.staffbase.com/concepts/staffbase-mcp-server/", "https://staffbase.com/blog/what-is-mcp" ] }, { "n": "Unily", "u": "https://www.unily.com/", "w": "Unily calls itself \"The World's First AI-Native Employee Experience Platform\". Large enterprises use it as an intranet, employee app and frontline portal. Indi is an agent that builds branded pages and campaigns from a prompt. Unily Glass lets employees find answers and complete tasks in connected systems. Content Studio turns approved content into audio, video and infographics.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The World's First AI-Native Employee Experience Platform", "url": "https://www.unily.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "media", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Indi, an employee experience agent that turns a prompt into governed pages and campaigns; Unily Glass, a conversational layer that answers questions and runs actions in connected systems; AI Search; Content Studio for AI audio, video and infographics; Agent Orchestrator for outside agents; and an MCP server for Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise and Gemini.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Unily says it has more than 155 customers with over 10,000 employees each, more than 5 million users, 140 countries and 40 languages." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth investment from CVC Growth Funds, amount not disclosed, 2021-12-21", "investors": "CVC Growth Funds, Silversmith Capital Partners, Farview Equity Partners", "src": "https://www.unily.com/about/newsroom/unily-to-supercharge-digital-employee-experience-with-significant-growth-investment-from-cvc-growth-funds" }, "founded": 2005, "owner": "CVC Growth Funds (majority investor since its 2021 investment)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Unily sells a frontline portal and app, and Glass for Frontline as a mobile experience for staff without a desk." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.unily.com/", "https://www.unily.com/llm-info", "https://www.unily.com/about/newsroom/unily-to-supercharge-digital-employee-experience-with-significant-growth-investment-from-cvc-growth-funds", "https://www.unily.com/about/newsroom/unily-announces-indi", "https://www.unily.com/about/newsroom/unily-launches-glass-for-frontline" ] }, { "n": "Workvivo", "u": "https://www.workvivo.com/", "w": "\"One digital headquarters for every employee.\" Workvivo, from Zoom, combines an intranet, news feed, chat, livestreams and employee insights in one app for office and frontline staff. Internal communications teams buy it. AI drafts posts and pages, answers questions in Ask HQ, summarizes missed updates, and HQ Agent acts across more than 60 connected systems.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "One digital headquarters for every employee", "url": "https://www.workvivo.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "insights", "media", "sentiment", "writing" ], "ai": "Ask HQ answers questions in natural language across company knowledge and connected systems. HQ Agent retrieves information and takes action across more than 60 enterprise systems. AI Compose supports writing, Catch Me Up gives a personalized briefing of missed updates, and Seer turns employee feedback and signals into insight for managers. Workvivo AI is powered by Zoom AI Companion.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Zoom, a public company. The vendor reports more than 1,300 organizations and over 10 million users. Zoom bought Workvivo in 2023." }, "founded": 2017, "hq": "Cork, Ireland", "owner": "Zoom Communications", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells a mobile-first app for frontline staff. Connects to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workvivo.com/", "https://www.workvivo.com/frontline/", "https://www.workvivo.com/pricing/", "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/globenewswire9748455/", "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/globenewswire9714244/", "https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/04/14/cork-company-workvivo-acquired-by-zoom" ] }, { "n": "Zoho Connect", "u": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/", "w": "Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: \"Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.\" Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.", "url": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "sentiment", "writing" ], "ai": "Zia Writing Assistance handles grammar correction, rephrasing, tone adjustment, title generation and content refinement, and admins can choose the AI provider. Zia also summarizes posts and town hall discussions, tracks positive, negative or neutral sentiment, and supports natural-language search. A Model Context Protocol integration lets supported AI assistants read and manage Connect content.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Zoho says more than 6,000 organizations and more than 1 million users use Zoho Connect." }, "hq": "Chennai, India", "price": { "note": "plans listed; prices not shown, contact sales" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.zoho.com/connect/", "https://www.zoho.com/connect/ai-powered-employee-experience.html", "https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html", "https://www.zoho.com/connect/pricing.html", "https://www.zoho.com/contactus.html" ] }, { "n": "Happeo", "u": "https://www.happeo.com/", "w": "Happeo sells an intranet that gives a company \"One official place for company information\", built for firms that use Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack. Its AI Search gives direct answers with sources, a Writing Assistant drafts and translates posts, a Slack AI Agent answers in Slack, and a Knowledge Engine add-on finds gaps in company knowledge. A Happeo MCP server connects AI tools.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "One official place for company information", "url": "https://www.happeo.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "governance", "mcp", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Happeo AI: AI Search with cited answers, AI Overview, a Writing Assistant for drafting and translating, AI page review, a Slack AI Agent, a Knowledge Engine that detects and assigns knowledge gaps, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Happeo says it is trusted by 500+ companies. It raised a US$26 million Series B in July 2022." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B, $26M, 2022-07-07", "investors": "Endeit Capital, Smartfin and Evli Growth Partners led the Series B; Inkef, Maki.vc and Vendep Capital also joined", "src": "https://www.happeo.com/blog/happeo-raises-26m-series-b-funding" }, "hq": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "Happeo connects to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack. It has a mobile app for its pages and search and does not sell a frontline product." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.happeo.com/", "https://www.happeo.com/ai", "https://www.happeo.com/slack-ai-agent", "https://www.happeo.com/pricing", "https://www.happeo.com/blog/a-year-of-product-progress", "https://www.happeo.com/blog/happeo-raises-26m-series-b-funding", "https://www.happeo.com/blog/ai-assisted-knowledge-gap-detection-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters", "https://www.happeo.com/blog/why-ai-search-is-hard-and-how-happeo-is-mastering-it", "https://parsers.vc/startup/happeo.com/" ] }, { "n": "Oak Engage", "u": "https://www.oak.com/", "w": "\"The all-in-one intranet and employee app that makes work easier for everyone,\" built to connect head office and frontline staff. Buyers are internal communications teams. Oak AI covers Aria, an assistant for search and content drafting, AI translation and monthly AI reports on what employees search for. A mobile app reaches frontline workers without a company email.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The all-in-one intranet and employee app that makes work easier for everyone", "url": "https://oak.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Aria is Oak's AI assistant. It answers employee questions from verified intranet content and helps communicators brainstorm, polish and draft updates. AI Translate, built on Microsoft Azure, translates announcements into more than 120 languages. Monthly AI reports show what staff search for and where knowledge gaps sit.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Private equity investment from NorthEdge in 2025. The vendor says it reaches 530,000 employees worldwide and lists a team of 76." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Investment from NorthEdge, amount not disclosed, 2025-07", "investors": "NorthEdge; earlier Maven", "src": "https://www.oaklins.com/ca/en/deals/111090/" }, "founded": 2017, "hq": "Newcastle, UK", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor sells a mobile app and SMS alerts for frontline staff who have no company email." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://oak.com/", "https://www.oak.com/products/ai-intranet", "https://www.oak.com/intranet-solutions/harness-ai/", "https://www.oak.com/product/ai-translate", "https://www.oak.com/product/ai-search", "https://www.oak.com/products/mobile-intranet-app", "https://www.oak.com/about-us", "https://www.oak.com/pricing", "https://www.oak.com/newsroom/oak-engage-launches-aria-the-ai-assistant-for-effortless-employee-engagement", "https://www.oak.com/newsroom/oak-engage-secures-investment-to-engage-deskless-and-frontline-workers/", "https://www.oaklins.com/ca/en/deals/111090/" ] }, { "n": "Powell Software", "u": "https://powell-software.com/", "w": "Powell \"transforms Microsoft 365 into the intranet your people actually use.\" It runs on SharePoint inside the customer's own Microsoft 365 tenant. Buyers are IT, HR and communications teams, often in regulated industries. AI search knows company jargon, AI drafts, translates and targets comms, an AI assistant answers employee questions, and an AI page builder is in development. A governance product readies content for Copilot.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Powell transforms Microsoft 365 into the intranet your people actually use, and the trusted knowledge base your AI needs.", "url": "https://powell-software.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "governance", "targeting", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Powell's AI answers HR, IT and onboarding questions without a Copilot license, and its search understands company acronyms and shows each result's owner and review date. Publishing tools draft, translate and target comms. An AI assistant bot for the intranet is in public preview. An AI page builder that turns a brief into a SharePoint page is in development, with general availability planned for Q4 2026.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "The vendor states 550+ organizations and 2M+ daily users. Cathay Capital became majority shareholder in October 2025." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Majority investment from Cathay Capital, amount not disclosed, 2025-10-01", "investors": "Cathay Capital; earlier Level Equity and CapHorn", "src": "https://www.cathaycapital.com/powell-enters-a-new-phase-of-international-growth-with-cathay-capital/" }, "hq": "Paris, France", "owner": "Cathay Capital (majority shareholder)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": true, "note": "Powell runs on SharePoint and Microsoft 365 inside the customer's own tenant. A native mobile app reaches frontline staff who have no company email." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://powell-software.com/", "https://powell-software.com/products/powell-intranet/", "https://powell-software.com/about-us/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/interest/company-news/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/whats-new-in-powell/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/whats-new-in-powell-a-mobile-first-experience/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/whats-new-in-powell-ai-capabilities/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/knowledge-management-ai-assistant-bot/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/powell-acquires-synigo/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/powell-new-office/", "https://powell-software.com/resources/blog/series-a-fundraising-16m/", "https://www.cathaycapital.com/powell-enters-a-new-phase-of-international-growth-with-cathay-capital/" ] }, { "n": "Akumina", "u": "https://akumina.com/", "w": "\"One platform. One intelligent experience for every employee.\" Akumina is a Microsoft-native employee experience platform for internal communications, IT and HR teams. It extends a SharePoint intranet and brings communications, knowledge, search and self-service into Teams and mobile. AI covers conversational search, AI-assisted authoring and an AI Hub that routes employees to approved knowledge, agents and actions.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "One platform. One intelligent experience for every employee.", "url": "https://akumina.com/platform/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "AI EX Manager matches an employee's intent with approved knowledge, agents, applications or actions, using the employee's role and permissions. Conversational search matches intent to people, content and knowledge. AI-assisted authoring drafts and tailors messages, and AI generates tags and metadata. An AI Hub can start inside Microsoft Teams and connect Copilot and other agents behind one experience.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "The vendor says global brands use it and publishes no customer count." }, "hq": "Nashua, New Hampshire, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": true, "note": "Built natively on Microsoft. Content stays in SharePoint and the platform brings communications, search and AI into Teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://akumina.com/", "https://akumina.com/platform/", "https://akumina.com/ai-leadership/", "https://akumina.com/it/", "https://akumina.com/internal-comms/", "https://akumina.com/resources/", "https://akumina.com/resources/akumina-announces-leadership-appointments/", "https://akumina.com/resources/how-ai-is-transforming-internal-communications/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/akumina/__b2xI8EE6vd_AFsO07YmQ2fynN5dnjpXDwIztBSix5Jo" ] }, { "n": "Claromentis", "u": "https://www.claromentis.com/", "w": "A UK software company that sells intranet-based hubs for franchise networks, multi-site businesses and charities: the Franchise Hub, the Enablement Hub and the Charity Hub. Buyers are franchisors, operations and communications teams. AI search and a chat assistant answer from the hub's own content, AI drafts news posts and images, and Franchise Hub carries ready-made AI agents and an SOP drafting app.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Secure, AI-powered software suites that unify communications, streamline operations, and upskill teams.", "url": "https://www.claromentis.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "Claromentis 11 added AI search that reads the intent of a query and an AI chat assistant that answers from the hub's own content and respects user permissions. Earlier AI tools draft news and blog text and generate images, and a policy chatbot answers questions about a policy. Franchise Hub includes a library of configurable AI agents and a built-in Manual Magic AI app that drafts operations manuals. Admins can turn AI off.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "The vendor publishes no customer count and no funding. It has traded since 1998." }, "founded": 1998, "hq": "Brighton, UK", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.claromentis.com/", "https://www.claromentis.com/pricing", "https://www.claromentis.com/franchise/", "https://www.claromentis.com/blog/inside-claromentis-11-ai-search-locations-and-more", "https://www.claromentis.com/blog/claromentis-10-introducing-our-new-ai-intranet-features", "https://www.thebfa.org/?p=100212", "https://www.claromentis.com/blog/claromentis-launches-manual-magic-ai-integration", "https://www.claromentis.com/blog/claromentis-partners-with-sa-franchise-brands", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/claromentis" ] }, { "n": "Firstup", "u": "https://www.firstup.io/", "w": "Firstup says \"Activate your workforce with intelligent communication\". It sells an intranet, employee app, email and signage channel set to internal communications teams, aimed at large and frontline workforces. Firstup AI adds AI Search for employee questions, an AI Content Creator for drafts, AI Insights on comment sentiment, and access from Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT over MCP.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Activate your workforce with intelligent communication", "url": "https://www.firstup.io/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "mcp", "sentiment", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Firstup AI has five named parts. AI Search, AI Content Creator and AI Insights (comment sentiment) are live. AI Actions and AI Audience Builder were announced as coming later in 2026. Firstup content is also reachable inside Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT over MCP.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Firstup says thousands of communicators use its AI-powered content and campaign tools daily. No customer count or funding is published." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Firstup sells a mobile-first Employee app and says it is built for the frontline." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.firstup.io/", "https://www.firstup.io/platform/", "https://firstup.io/press-releases/", "https://firstup.io/press-releases/firstup-extends-ai-suite/", "https://firstup.io/blog/firstup-extends-its-ai-suite-with-new-built-in-agentic-capabilities/", "https://firstup.io/press-releases/ai-search-copilot-chatgpt-iso-certification/", "https://firstup.io/blog/firstup-q3-2026-release/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news/firstup/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/firstup-elevates-the-employee-experience-with-advanced-personalization-in-latest-platform-release-302696754.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/firstup-names-ian-winkler-chief-financial-officer-302908096.html" ] }, { "n": "HubEngage", "u": "https://www.hubengage.com/", "w": "HubEngage calls itself a \"Unified Employee Experience Platform\". Internal communications and HR teams use it for an employee app, intranet, email, SMS and digital display publishing, plus recognition, social, surveys and messaging. The AI writes and translates content, moderates comments, reads sentiment, runs an employee Q&A chatbot with AI search, and generates pulse surveys and quizzes.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Transform how you connect, communicate, and engage employees with one intuitive digital hub.", "url": "https://www.hubengage.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "governance", "insights", "sentiment", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "AI content creation, scheduling and auto-translation in the Communications Hub, AI-driven comment moderation, an AI sentiment engine on comments and survey answers, an AI chatbot and AI search over connected company content, and AI Surveys and AI Microlearning that generate pulse checks and quizzes and analyze the results.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding is disclosed." }, "hq": "Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "HubEngage describes itself as a workforce experience platform built for frontline and distributed workforces, with iOS and Android employee apps." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hubengage.com/", "https://www.hubengage.com/software/employee-communications-hub/", "https://www.hubengage.com/software/ai-chatbot/", "https://www.hubengage.com/about-us/", "https://www.hubengage.com/blog/", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/fnw/financewire-news--fnews/hubengage-launches-ai-surveys-and-microlearni-/9595776", "https://www.webdisclosure.com/press-release/hubengage-launches-ai-surveys-and-microlearning-to-cut-hr-costs-and-boost-employee-experience-tJyhnIIU9VK", "https://uctoday.com/hubengage-launches-new-intranet-platform", "https://hubengage.com/", "https://www.hubengage.com/employee-communications/", "https://briefglance.com/articles/hubengage-ai-tools-target-frontline-workers-promise-big-hr-savings" ] }, { "n": "Jostle", "u": "https://www.jostle.me/", "w": "Jostle sells an intranet it calls \"Better than an intranet\", with news, a policy library, a people directory, events, tasks and recognition in one place. Internal communications and HR teams buy it. JostleAI answers questions from the Library and the support center with cited sources, summarizes news and files, and sends each employee a weekly personalized digest.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "Enable every employee", "url": "https://www.jostle.me/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "JostleAI is the built-in assistant. Ask a Question returns cited answers from the Library and the support center. It summarizes News and Library items, suggests licensed images for articles, and builds a weekly Digest tailored by role and location.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding is published. The vendor says its success framework has helped thousands of companies." }, "hq": "Vancouver, Canada", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jostle.me/", "https://jostle.me/product", "https://jostle.me/product/jostle-ai", "https://jostle.me/about", "https://jostle.me/pricing/", "https://blog.jostle.me/product" ] }, { "n": "MyHub", "u": "https://www.myhubintranet.com/", "w": "MyHub sells a cloud intranet for employee communication, knowledge and learning, as \"The modern AI intranet where teams connect to learning, knowledge, information, and each other.\" Admins publish news, policies, updates and forms and reach staff on a mobile app. AI Assist helps admins draft, edit and update content. AI Search answers questions across connected repositories, and an AI-powered learning module builds courses.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The modern AI intranet where teams connect to learning, knowledge, information, and each other.", "url": "https://www.myhubintranet.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "answers", "writing" ], "ai": "AI Assist drafts, edits and updates policies, procedures and news articles. AI Search answers staff questions over connected content and respects each user's permissions, and admins choose which repositories and folders it may index. The AI-powered Learning Management System speeds up course creation and personalizes learning paths.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding is disclosed." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.myhubintranet.com/", "https://www.myhubintranet.com/ai-policy/", "https://help.myhubintranet.com/ai-usage-data-processing-policy", "https://www.myhubintranet.com/product-updates/", "https://www.myhubintranet.com/about/", "https://www.myhubintranet.com/pricing/" ] }, { "n": "Sparrow Connected", "u": "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/", "w": "Sparrow Connected sells an \"AI-powered omnichannel internal communications solution\" that plugs into Microsoft 365. Comms teams create content once and publish it to a SharePoint intranet, Teams, email, SMS, a mobile app, web portals and screens, including for frontline staff without Microsoft licenses or company email. It builds a personal newsletter for each worker, translates drafts automatically and reports on content and compliance reads.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-powered omnichannel internal communications solution", "url": "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "targeting", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "The vendor lists \"AI smart content\" on its top plan, automatic draft translation into more than 170 languages, and newsletters it \"automagically generates\" for each worker from relevant content.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding disclosed on its own pages." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": true, "note": "Built on SharePoint and Teams, with a mobile app, SMS and screens for frontline workers who share a computer or lack company email." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/", "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/platform/channels", "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/platform/features", "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/pricing", "https://www.sparrowconnected.com/company/about-us" ] }, { "n": "ThoughtFarmer", "u": "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/", "w": "ThoughtFarmer sells \"The intranet platform that works for your whole company\", with news, broadcasts, communities, comments, targeted audiences, a mobile app and email newsletters. Internal communications teams at organizations of about 50 to 5,000 employees buy it. AI Create and AI Enhance help write content, and AI Assistant answers employee questions with cited links.", "cat": "eex", "cat_src": { "quote": "The intranet platform that works for your whole company", "url": "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "A three-part native AI suite. AI Create drafts content from a short prompt and AI Enhance refines tone and style. AI Assistant is a chat tool that answers from administrator-selected pages and attached files, respects page permissions and links to its sources.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding is published. The vendor lists more than 150 G2 reviews and names organizations of about 50 to 5,000 employees as its best fit." }, "hq": "Vancouver, Canada", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/ai-intranet-features/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/get/features/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/blog/news-thoughtfarmer-ai-assistant-feature-release/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/blog/introducing-ai-create-and-ai-enhance-transforming-intranet-content-creation", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/news-and-product-updates/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/contact-us/", "https://www.thoughtfarmer.com/pricing/" ] }, { "n": "ContactMonkey", "u": "https://www.contactmonkey.com/", "w": "ContactMonkey sells internal email and newsletter software that runs in Outlook and Gmail. It helps teams \"create internal emails and newsletters faster, extend their reach, and prevent costly errors\". Internal comms and HR teams build branded emails, send to HRIS-synced lists, and track opens and clicks. ContactMonkey AI writes drafts, checks every email before send, previews how employee groups will react, and answers questions about results.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "Create internal emails and newsletters faster, extend their reach, and prevent costly errors", "url": "https://www.contactmonkey.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "governance", "insights", "media", "sentiment", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "ContactMonkey AI includes CoAuthor (prompt to finished email draft), ConfidenceCheck (pre-send checks for broken links, inconsistent dates, accessibility, readability and custom rules), Audience Preview (AI personas that predict how employee groups will read a draft), Translation, an AI audio summary Listen button, and Insights Assistant, a chat over send, engagement and survey data. Brand Voice, PulseCheck and an AI comms calendar are announced.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "ContactMonkey says more than 1,000 organizations use it and that it passed $10 million in annual recurring revenue (CEO release, 2026-03-31). Series A of $55M in 2023." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 55, "last": "Series A, $55M, 2023-12-07", "investors": "Updata Partners", "src": "https://www.contactmonkey.com/news/contactmonkey-updata-series-a-funding" }, "founded": 2010, "hq": "Toronto, Canada", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "Runs inside Outlook and Gmail and adds SMS; not built on SharePoint or Teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.contactmonkey.com/", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/ai", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/pricing", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/product-updates", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/product-updates?query-a0555f18-page=5", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/product-updates?query-a0555f18-page=6", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/introducing-coauthor", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/audience-preview", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/product_updates/confidencecheck-your-assistant-for-error-free-emails", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/product_updates/add-a-listen-button-to-your-emails", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/your-questions-about-campaign-performance-answered-instantly", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/blog/brand-voice", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/news/contactmonkey-updata-series-a-funding", "https://www.contactmonkey.com/news/jeff-cates-as-ceo" ] }, { "n": "PoliteMail", "u": "https://politemail.com/", "w": "PoliteMail is \"an internal communications platform integrated with M365 Outlook to help organizations improve employee reach, readership and engagement.\" Corporate comms and HR teams design branded email in Outlook, send to existing distribution lists through Exchange, and measure reach, readership and engagement against industry benchmarks. Its AI suggests subject lines, translates messages, drafts text, and adds Paige, an agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "PoliteMail is an internal communications platform integrated with M365 Outlook to help organizations improve employee reach, readership and engagement.", "url": "https://politemail.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "mcp", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Subject Suggester writes subject lines \"using AI predictive analytics\". AI translation in PoliteMail Online keeps formatting and branding. Version 5.50 adds AI Writing Assistance, which uses the customer's own AI provider key, and Paige, a PoliteMail agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot that creates, sends and measures messages and campaigns.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "PoliteMail says it serves 15% of the Fortune 100 and 21% of the world's 100 largest employers, and that it measures billions of internal emails." }, "hq": "Greenland, New Hampshire, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": true, "note": "Runs inside Microsoft 365 Outlook and sends through Exchange; Paige runs in Microsoft 365 Copilot." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://politemail.com/", "https://politemail.com/products/politemail/", "https://politemail.com/pricing/", "https://politemail.com/about-politemail/", "https://politemail.com/contact/", "https://politemail.com/resource-center/press-center/", "https://help.politemail.com/help/release-notes", "https://help.politemail.com/help/release-notes?page=2", "https://help.politemail.com/help/5-25-5130", "https://help.politemail.com/help/5506522", "https://help.politemail.com/help/ai-features", "https://help.politemail.com/help/how-does-copilot-work-with-politemail" ] }, { "n": "SnapComms", "u": "https://www.snapcomms.com/", "w": "SnapComms, an Everbridge company, sells an employee communication platform that \"bypasses email\" with desktop alerts, scrolling tickers, screensavers, lock screens, wallpapers, internal newsletters, surveys, an employee app and SMS. Internal comms, IT and HR teams use it for urgent notices, awareness campaigns and readership reporting. Its AI Content Assistant writes notification text and checks grammar and spelling.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "Deliver high-impact multi-channel integrated internal communications to reach and engage employees.", "url": "https://www.snapcomms.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "An AI Content Assistant generates notification text and checks grammar and spelling for desktop alerts and other channels.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Everbridge since November 2020." }, "owner": "Everbridge", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.snapcomms.com/", "https://www.snapcomms.com/products/desktop-alert", "https://www.snapcomms.com/products/internal-newsletters", "https://www.snapcomms.com/platform", "https://www.snapcomms.com/news/everbridge-acquisition" ] }, { "n": "Workshop", "u": "https://useworkshop.com/", "w": "Workshop sells \"the #1 internal communications email software\", an email-first platform that extends to Teams, Slack, SharePoint, SMS and landing pages. Internal comms, HR and IT teams create, send, manage and measure employee email. Cici, its AI agent, builds a complete on-brand email from a prompt and answers questions about results. The AI Studio add-on runs scheduled agents for drafting, editing, analysis and onboarding, plus an MCP server.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 internal communications email software", "url": "https://useworkshop.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "governance", "insights", "mcp", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Cici, Workshop's AI agent, generates full emails (layout, copy and images), refines and translates copy, and analyzes performance; a free Cici Lite is open to any communicator. AI Studio adds prebuilt and custom agents (Draft writer, Copy editor, Data analyst, Onboarding coordinator, Brand manager) that run on a schedule, a SharePoint connector and a Workshop MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Workshop's press fact sheet lists more than 800 customers and 140 employees. It raised $5M seed and $12M Series A." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 17, "last": "Series A, $12M, 2023-11-16", "investors": "McCarthy Capital (lead), Ludlow Ventures, M25", "src": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omaha-based-startup-workshop-raises-12m-to-streamline-internal-email-and-communications-301991425.html" }, "hq": "Omaha, Nebraska, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "Sells SMS as an add-on for employees without work email; the core product is email." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://useworkshop.com/", "https://useworkshop.com/ai-studio/", "https://useworkshop.com/features/mcp-server/", "https://useworkshop.com/pricing/", "https://useworkshop.com/about/", "https://useworkshop.com/press/", "https://useworkshop.com/press/workshop-launches-ai-studio-an-agentic-layer-designed-to-give-internal-communications-teams-the-capacity-theyve-never-had/", "https://useworkshop.com/press/workshop-launches-agentic-ai-that-builds-complete-internal-comms-from-a-single-prompt/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omaha-based-startup-workshop-raises-12m-to-streamline-internal-email-and-communications-301991425.html" ] }, { "n": "Axios HQ", "u": "https://www.axioshq.com/", "w": "Axios HQ sells \"The AI-powered internal comms platform\" to internal communications teams and leaders who send regular updates to employees. Teams plan series on a content calendar, write with AI outlines and drafts, check each draft against Smart Brevity guidance, route it for approval and send it by email, Slack, Teams or SharePoint. Content Agents pull from existing channels to draft updates, and analytics report opens, clicks and reactions by audience.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-powered internal comms platform", "url": "https://axioshq.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "governance", "insights", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "AI outlines, first drafts, rewrites and tone changes. Smart Brevity Guidance scores each draft as it is written and flags what to fix. Content Agents pull from existing channels and auto-generate first drafts. An MCP integration connects Axios HQ to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Gemini.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised a $20M Series A in March 2023, co-led by Glade Brook Capital Partners and Greycroft. The company said then that it had more than 500 clients." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $20M, 2023-03-24", "investors": "Glade Brook Capital Partners, Greycroft", "src": "https://www.axioshq.com/insights/hq-raises-20-million-in-series-a-funding" }, "hq": "Arlington, Virginia, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://axioshq.com/", "https://axioshq.com/features/ai", "https://www.axioshq.com/how-it-works", "https://axioshq.com/pricing", "https://www.axioshq.com/insights/hq-raises-20-million-in-series-a-funding", "https://www.arlnow.com/2023/04/03/axios-hq-raises-20m-to-expand-ai-software-taming-the-wild-west-of-internal-corporate-communications/" ] }, { "n": "Cerkl Broadcast", "u": "https://cerkl.com/", "w": "Cerkl Broadcast sells \"Free Employee Email & Omni-Channel AI Internal Comms\". Teams that mainly use email get a free email builder, templates, audience sync and analytics. Larger plans, branded Omni AI, deliver the same content to Teams, SharePoint, Slack, a mobile app and microsites. Its AI builds a personalized newsletter digest for each employee from published content and writes subject lines.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "Free Employee Email & Omni-Channel AI Internal Comms", "url": "https://cerkl.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Omni AI personalizes which content each employee sees across email, Teams, SharePoint, Slack and mobile. AI Newsletters (News Digests) curate, personalize and send a newsletter to each employee on a set cadence. AI subject line generation for newsletters.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A of $7M in 2021. Cerkl says Broadcast reaches nearly 6 million employees every month." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $7M, 2021-10-26", "investors": "River Bay Investments", "src": "https://cerkl.com/newsroom/cerkl-raises-7-million-in-series-a-funding" }, "hq": "Cincinnati, Ohio, United States", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://cerkl.com/", "https://cerkl.com/broadcast/internal-email/ai-newsletters", "https://cerkl.com/broadcast/omni-channel", "https://cerkl.com/broadcast/plans-and-pricing", "https://cerkl.com/newsroom", "https://cerkl.com/newsroom/cerkl-raises-7-million-in-series-a-funding", "https://cerkl.com/newsroom/cerkl-partners-with-crescenzo-communications-to-expand-strategic-support-for-internal-communicators", "https://cerkl.com/newsroom/redesigned-insights-for-more-usable-internal-communication-analytics" ] }, { "n": "ChangeEngine", "u": "https://www.changeengine.com/", "w": "ChangeEngine sells employee communication software for HR and people teams. Its pitch: \"Send across every channel, automate employee journeys and build your intranet with AI chat.\" Teams send email, Slack, Teams, SMS and WhatsApp messages from one orchestrator and build onboarding and benefits journeys. An AI builder turns a described initiative into a hub and its comms. An HR Knowledge Agent answers policy questions, and an MCP server opens the account to outside assistants.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "Send across every channel, automate employee journeys and build your intranet with AI chat.", "url": "https://www.changeengine.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "The platform builds an employee hub and writes the comms from a described initiative. AI Content Creation Studio makes branded, multi-format content from a prompt. An HR Knowledge Agent answers policy questions from approved content, and a Two-Way SMS Text Agent handles texts. The ChangeEngine MCP server lets ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot plan, write, target and schedule comms, and nothing sends without a human approving it.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding disclosed on its own pages." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.changeengine.com/", "https://www.changeengine.com/changeengine-mcp", "https://www.changeengine.com/pricing", "https://www.changeengine.com/product-hr-knowledge-agent" ] }, { "n": "SWOOP Analytics", "u": "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/", "w": "SWOOP Analytics sells \"AI-enhanced digital workplace analytics for SharePoint intranets, Viva Engage and M365.\" Internal comms and digital workplace teams at organizations with 5,000 to 500,000 employees use it to measure the reach, engagement and sentiment of intranet pages, Viva Engage communities and Teams, and to benchmark against peers. Dr SWOOP, an AI analytics coach, explains the data and suggests next steps. It measures channels; it does not send content.", "cat": "email", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-enhanced digital workplace analytics for SharePoint intranets, Viva Engage and M365.", "url": "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 0, "deliver": 0, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "insights", "sentiment" ], "ai": "Dr SWOOP, \"your AI analytics coach for internal communication\", is built into all SWOOP Analytics products. The platform includes sentiment analysis of content and topics on Viva Engage.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding disclosed on its own pages." }, "hq": "Sydney, Australia", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": true, "note": "Analytics built for Microsoft 365: SharePoint intranets, Viva Engage and Teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/", "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/about", "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/dr-swoop", "https://www.swoopanalytics.com/latest-news" ] }, { "n": "Axonify", "u": "https://axonify.com/", "w": "Axonify is mainly a frontline training platform, and its communications side is secondary. Its Guided Execution area includes Frontline Connect, which it describes as a way to \"Create community, capture employee feedback and ensure consistent frontline comms.\" Frontline Connect carries broadcast messages, chat, channels, priority messages, announcements and pulse checks to hourly staff. Max Assistant answers questions from company content, and Rollout drafts and tracks launch communications, training and tasks. Buyers are operations, L&D and HR leaders.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "Create community, capture employee feedback and ensure consistent frontline comms.", "url": "https://axonify.com/platform/guided-execution/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "Max Assistant gives frontline workers company-approved answers, and Max Coach runs voice practice sessions. Rollout drafts the training, communications and tasks for an initiative. Conversational Insights lets managers ask questions about readiness in plain language. An MCP server connects Axonify to Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and ChatGPT, where a user can draft a message to a shift and send it after review.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "The vendor says it supports more than 4 million frontline workers in more than 160 countries and has more than 260 global customers." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth equity, $27M, 2016-11-01", "investors": "JMI Equity, BDC Capital", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/axonify-raises-27m-to-gamify-employee-training-without-wasting-your-time/" }, "founded": 2011, "hq": "Waterloo, Ontario, Canada", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor says it builds only for hourly, distributed frontline teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://axonify.com/", "https://axonify.com/about/", "https://axonify.com/platform/", "https://axonify.com/platform/guided-execution/", "https://axonify.com/platform/rollout/", "https://axonify.com/platform/mcp-server/", "https://axonify.com/platform/max-ai-assistant-coach/", "https://axonify.com/pricing/", "https://axonify.com/news/", "https://axonify.com/news/axonify-redefines-frontline-enablement-with-ai/", "https://axonify.com/news/axonify-launches-max-coach/", "https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/axonify-raises-27m-to-gamify-employee-training-without-wasting-your-time/" ] }, { "n": "Beekeeper", "u": "https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper", "w": "Beekeeper is a mobile-first app for frontline teams, \"purpose-built for the 80% of the global workforce who don't sit at a desk\". It carries targeted messages, chat, checklists, forms and training without a company email address. Its AI assistant, Maia, drafts shift updates, translates messages, summarizes shift handoffs and gives managers sentiment reports. Since July 2025 it is part of LumApps.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "Beekeeper was purpose-built for the 80% of the global workforce who don't sit at a desk.", "url": "https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "governance", "sentiment", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Maia, Beekeeper's AI assistant for frontline workers and managers. It drafts shift updates, recognition posts and safety reminders, translates messages in real time, summarizes shift handoffs, flags inappropriate content and safety risks, and gives managers sentiment analysis. Agentic features, such as updating schedules when a call-out is flagged, are described as planned.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "LumApps says the combined LumApps and Beekeeper group has more than 2,000 clients and over 7 million users (2025-07-02 release); the Beekeeper page states 7M+ users across 2,000+ organizations." }, "founded": 2012, "owner": "LumApps (majority owned by funds managed by Bridgepoint)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's page says it was \"purpose-built for the 80% of the global workforce who don't sit at a desk\" and runs without a corporate email address." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/beekeeper-unveils-maia-the-ai-assistant-revolutionizing-the-future-of-frontline-work", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/frontline-tools-ai-playbook", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/news/lumapps-and-beekeeper-to-join-forces-creating-the-leading-employee-experience-platform-for-the-future-of-work", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/the-next-chapter-for-beekeeper-customers", "https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/beekeeper-lumapps-unified-ai-employee-experience", "https://www.lumapps.com/platform/meet-agent-hub" ] }, { "n": "Oneteam", "u": "https://www.oneteam.io/", "w": "\"The all-in-one platform for your frontline team.\" Oneteam is a mobile app where managers post news, updates and announcements to the whole company or one location. It also holds team chat, a knowledge library, forms, tasks, onboarding, e-learning and surveys. Its AI Buddy answers staff questions in 50+ languages from company handbooks and policies. HR and internal communications teams buy it.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "The all-in-one platform for your frontline team", "url": "https://www.oneteam.io/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot" ], "ai": "AI Buddy answers employee questions around the clock, in any language, from the company's own handbooks, policies and forms. It reports the questions it had no answer for, so admins can add content.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "The vendor says over 300 organisations in retail, hospitality, logistics and healthcare use it." }, "founded": 2014, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Oneteam sells its app for frontline employees who reach it on their phones." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.oneteam.io/", "https://www.oneteam.io/en/ai-buddy", "https://www.oneteam.io/en/pricing", "https://www.oneteam.io/en/about-us", "https://www.oneteam.io/en/blog" ] }, { "n": "Speakap", "u": "https://www.speakap.com/", "w": "Speakap sells an \"Employee Experience Platform for Frontline Teams\" that connects headquarters and frontline staff in one app: news, chat, onboarding, training, tasks and a knowledge base. Internal communications and HR teams buy it for staff without a desk or a company email. Its AI Frontline Assistant answers workers' questions in their own language from the company's approved documents, filtered by role, location and department, and hands off to a person when it is unsure.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "Employee Experience Platform for Frontline Teams", "url": "https://www.speakap.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "translation" ], "ai": "The AI Frontline Assistant uses retrieval over admin-approved internal documents to answer frontline questions in the worker's language. It filters answers by role, location and department and escalates to a human when it cannot give a high-certainty answer.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Speakap says 600+ companies use it and that it has more than 300K daily users." }, "founded": 2011, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's own pages sell the platform to frontline and deskless teams as a mobile app, and it runs on company tablets for staff without personal devices." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.speakap.com/", "https://www.speakap.com/solutions/ai-frontline-assistant", "https://www.speakap.com/about-us", "https://www.speakap.com/pricing" ] }, { "n": "Blink", "u": "https://www.joinblink.com/", "w": "Blink calls itself \"the universal AI platform for frontline work\": a mobile app and intranet with a news feed, chat, tasks, forms, surveys and recognition for staff with no desk or company email. Its AI builders draft forms, pages, surveys and newsletters from a plain-language description. Frontline Assistant and Smart Search answer worker questions, and Blink IQ reports on sentiment and engagement.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Employee Communication Platform Built for Frontline Teams", "url": "https://joinblink.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "insights", "sentiment", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Frontline AI: AI builders for forms, pages, journeys, surveys, tasks, newsletters and no-code apps, each reviewed by a person before publishing; Frontline Assistant and Smart Search for cited answers; an onboarding agent (Blinkie AI); Blink Assist, which drafts, refines and translates messages; and Blink IQ with its Blink Lens assistant for engagement, reach and sentiment data. Managers can use Blink's AI agents in chat to assign work or check task status.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Blink says it works with hundreds of companies worldwide. It announced a $17 million round in May 2026." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "$17M, from Enlightened Hospitality Investments, 2026-05-18", "investors": "Enlightened Hospitality Investments", "src": "https://pulse2.com/blink-17-million-raised-from-enlightened-hospitality-investments-and-global-partnership-announced-with-shake-shack/" }, "founded": 2015, "hq": "Boston, Massachusetts, United States", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's site says it reaches every worker \"even without email, desks, or devices\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://joinblink.com/", "https://www.joinblink.com/product/frontline-ai", "https://www.joinblink.com/use-cases/employee-communications", "https://www.joinblink.com/about", "https://www.joinblink.com/pricing", "https://pulse2.com/blink-17-million-raised-from-enlightened-hospitality-investments-and-global-partnership-announced-with-shake-shack/", "https://www.joinblink.com/intelligence/whats-new-in-blink-ai-builders-video-first-chat-and-publishing-that-keeps-up-with-you", "https://www.joinblink.com/intelligence/blink-unites-frontline-communication-and-task-management", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/blink-announces-next-generation-ai-driven-employee-analytics-platform", "https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news39834.htm" ] }, { "n": "Flip AI", "u": "https://www.getflip.com/", "w": "Flip AI is \"an employee communication app built for the frontline workforce who have no desk, no company email and no PC\". It carries company news, role and location channels, chat with live translation, polls and HR services. Flip Intelligence adds Ask AI, which answers questions from a company knowledge base and triggers agents, plus builders for workflows and apps. It was called Flip before.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "Flip AI is an employee communication app built for the frontline workforce who have no desk, no company email and no PC.", "url": "https://www.getflip.com/features/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "translation" ], "ai": "Flip Intelligence: Ask AI answers questions from the company knowledge base and triggers pre-built agents and chat flows; the AI Agent Gateway connects Ask AI to systems such as SAP, Workday, Jira and Salesforce over MCP; the AI Flow Builder and Fusion app builder create workflows and apps from plain-language descriptions. Chat and calling include live translation.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Flip says more than 1,000 brands and more than two million people use the platform (2026-08-19 release). It has raised venture rounds in 2025 and 2026." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "$25M, 2026-08-19", "investors": "Notion Capital, HV Capital, L-Bank (new)", "src": "https://www.getflip.com/newsroom/press-releases/flip-raises-25-million-to-bring-ai-to-deskless-workers/" }, "founded": 2018, "hq": "Stuttgart, Germany", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's page says the app is built for \"the frontline workforce who have no desk, no company email and no PC\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.getflip.com/", "https://www.getflip.com/features/", "https://www.getflip.com/insights/flip-intelligence", "https://www.getflip.com/about-us", "https://www.getflip.com/newsroom/press-releases/flip-launches-four-products-at-forward-2026/", "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/?p=375005", "https://www.getflip.com/newsroom/press-releases/flip-raises-25-million-to-bring-ai-to-deskless-workers/", "https://www.getflip.com/newsroom/press-releases/flip-secures-28-million-series-a-extension-to-expand-new-ai-powered-capabilities-for-deskless-workers/", "https://www.getflip.com/blog/how-ai-agents-will-transform-the-frontline-employee-experience/" ] }, { "n": "Humand", "u": "https://humand.co/", "w": "Humand is a mobile app for deskless workers that starts with internal communication: a social feed, groups, a magazine for announcements, live streams, chat and a knowledge library. It adds HR, time off, shifts, learning and recognition modules in the same app. AI rewrites drafts into announcements, and the Sammy assistant answers employee questions from company documents.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "The app that connects deskless workers", "url": "https://humand.co/en/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Humand AI turns a draft into a ready-to-publish announcement and suggests the channel and timing, and an admin reviews it before it goes out. Sammy answers employee questions around the clock from company documents and policies, and admins set its name, greeting and sources.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "The vendor says more than 2,500 companies and over 2 million employees use it in 50+ countries. It raised a $66M Series A in February 2026." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $66M, 2026-02-23", "investors": "Kaszek Ventures, Goodwater Capital", "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/23/humand-secures-66m-scale-ai-powered-operating-system-frontline-workers/" }, "founded": 2020, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Humand builds a mobile app for deskless workers in manufacturing, retail, healthcare and logistics." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://humand.co/en/", "https://humand.co/en/internal-communication/", "https://humand.co/en/humand-ai/", "https://humand.co/en/product-news/", "https://humand.co/?p=42062", "https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/23/humand-secures-66m-scale-ai-powered-operating-system-frontline-workers/" ] }, { "n": "YOOBIC", "u": "https://yoobic.com/", "w": "YOOBIC sells a \"leading AI-powered retail operations platform\": a mobile-first app where store teams get tasks, company news and chat, and training. Retail HQ, operations and internal communications teams buy it. The AI writes lessons, quizzes and posts, answers staff questions through the NEO Assistant, and a Store Manager Copilot turns store data into prioritized daily actions.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "the leading AI-powered retail operations platform", "url": "https://yoobic.com/news-press/yoobic-expands-ai-leadership-in-retail-with-acquisition-of-humanitics-and-launch-of-store-manager-copilot/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "writing" ], "ai": "AI content creation for lessons, quizzes and posts, the NEO Assistant chatbot for staff answers, a Store Manager Copilot that recommends daily priorities from store data, and a Visual Merchandising Copilot that reviews store photos.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "YOOBIC says more than 350 retail brands use it. It disclosed a $50M Series C in 2021 and total funding of just over $80M." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 80, "last": "Series C, $50M, 2021-07-22", "investors": "Highland Europe (lead), Felix Capital, Insight Partners", "src": "https://tech.eu/2021/07/22/digital-workplace-for-deskless-workers-yoobic-raises-50-million/" }, "founded": 2014, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's own pages sell a mobile-first app that helps store teams carry out tasks, communicate and learn." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://yoobic.com/", "https://yoobic.com/news-press/yoobic-expands-ai-leadership-in-retail-with-acquisition-of-humanitics-and-launch-of-store-manager-copilot/", "https://yoobic.com/yoobic-unveils-bold-new-brand-identity-and-website-showcasing-its-global-leadership-in-ai-powered-retail-operations/", "https://info.yoobic.com/yoobic-strengthens-ai-leadership-fall-2025-product-release", "https://yoobic.com/blog/why-yoobic-v15-is-reframing-the-frontline/", "https://tech.eu/2021/07/22/digital-workplace-for-deskless-workers-yoobic-raises-50-million/", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/22/yoobic-raises-50m-for-its-chat-and-communications-app-app-aimed-at-frontline-and-service-workers", "http://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3913088,00.html" ] }, { "n": "Zipline", "u": "https://getzipline.com/", "w": "Zipline sells retail operations software that puts store communications, tasks, knowledge and training in one app for store teams. Retail HQ, operations and communications teams buy it. Zippy, its frontline AI assistant, answers store staff by role and location. AI authoring helps HQ write targeted messages, and ZipCoach turns store data into coaching actions for field leaders.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-powered frontline operations platform", "url": "https://getzipline.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "insights", "writing" ], "ai": "Zippy is a frontline AI assistant that answers by role and location. AI-powered authoring drafts HQ communications, AI summaries and forecasting flag trends and risks, and ZipCoach recommends coaching actions from 300+ store signals.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Zipline says over 130 leading retailers choose it. It disclosed a $30M Series B in 2021." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B, $30M, March 2021", "investors": "Fifth Wall (lead)", "src": "https://www.privateequityinternational.com/retail-zipline-raises-30m-led-by-fifth-wall" }, "founded": 2014, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor's own pages sell a frontline operations platform for store teams." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://getzipline.com/", "https://getzipline.com/ai-at-zipline/", "https://getzipline.com/blog/ai-capabilities-retail-operations/", "https://getzipline.com/blog/zipline-launches-zipcoach/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zipline-launches-zipcoach-to-bring-top-store-performance-to-every-location-302908453.html", "https://www.retailitinsights.com/doc/zipline-launches-exclusive-ai-insights-beta-program-empower-frontline-intelligence-0001", "https://getzipline.com/blog/trurating-and-zipline-announce-partnership-to-bring-customer-insight-and-coaching-into-daily-retail-operations/", "https://www.privateequityinternational.com/retail-zipline-raises-30m-led-by-fifth-wall", "https://news.crunchbase.com/?p=18647" ] }, { "n": "EngagedlyFX", "u": "https://frontline.engagedly.com/", "w": "EngagedlyFX is a mobile-first frontline platform that the vendor describes as \"Frontline Success guided by AI.\" Its Connect pillar covers news feed and announcements, push notifications and SMS, and employee feedback. It is the product that grew out of theEMPLOYEEapp. Buyers are HR and operations teams. AI answers questions, helps write posts and builds automated workflows.", "cat": "deskless", "cat_src": { "quote": "Frontline Success guided by AI", "url": "https://frontline.engagedly.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "HR Assistant answers questions from in-app resources around the clock. A writing assistant helps with News Feed posts, praise messages and feedback replies. Intelligent Automation builds workflows from a prompt, and Marissa AI helps build them. AI Coach and Manager Coach give guidance and nudges to managers and employees.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "The vendor says it already supports more than 30,000 frontline managers worldwide." }, "owner": "Engagedly", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "The vendor says it is built for and trusted by frontline workforces." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://frontline.engagedly.com/", "https://engagedly.com/frontline-solutions/product/features/ai", "https://engagedly.com/frontline-solutions/blog/engagedly-expands-beyond-talent-management-with-launch-of-engagedlyfx-for-frontline-workers", "https://engagedly.com/blog/engagedly-acquires-theemployeeapp-to-help-customers-communicate-engage-and-develop-their-deskless-workforce/", "https://theemployeeapp.com/" ] }, { "n": "Sprout Social Employee Advocacy", "u": "https://sproutsocial.com/features/employee-advocacy/", "w": "Sprout Social sells Employee Advocacy as an add-on to its social media management plans, from the Standard plan up: \"Expand your social media reach and offset awareness spend\". Admins post approved stories, and employees share them to their own networks. Message Ideas by AI Assist, built on Sprout's OpenAI integration, offers up to three wording choices for each share, which employees can edit.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Expand your social media reach and offset awareness spend", "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/features/employee-advocacy/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "Message Ideas by AI Assist, built on Sprout's OpenAI integration, suggests share copy for a story that employees can edit before they post.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Product line of Sprout Social (Nasdaq: SPT), which reported $125.1 million revenue for Q3 2026." }, "hq": "Chicago, Illinois, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://sproutsocial.com/features/employee-advocacy/", "https://sproutsocial.com/insights/what-is-employee-advocacy/", "https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/", "https://sproutsocial.com/product-updates/2026-q1/", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001517375/000151737526000067/a3q26earningsrelease2.htm" ] }, { "n": "Clearview Social", "u": "https://clearviewsocial.com/", "w": "Clearview Social sells a simple employee sharing tool, used by law firms and other professional firms: \"Social Sharing & Advocacy That Scales with Your Brand\". Marketing teams send ready-to-share posts to staff by email, Slack or Teams for one-click sharing. An AI caption generator and Shuffle Content give each person varied, on-brand captions. PeakTime studies engagement patterns, picks posting times and schedules posts.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Social Sharing & Advocacy That Scales with Your Brand", "url": "https://clearviewsocial.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "The AI caption generator suggests unique, easy-to-edit captions for each shared post. PeakTime analyzes engagement patterns on each network to time and schedule posts.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Part of ProfitSolv. Clearview Social says it has more than 10,000 users." }, "founded": 2013, "hq": "Knoxville, Tennessee, United States", "owner": "ProfitSolv", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://clearviewsocial.com/", "https://clearviewsocial.com/social-media-ai/", "https://clearviewsocial.com/about/", "https://clearviewsocial.com/pricing/", "https://clearviewsocial.com/blog/" ] }, { "n": "Hootsuite Parliament", "u": "https://www.hootsuite.com/parliament", "w": "Amplify is Hootsuite's employee advocacy product. Hootsuite renamed it Parliament in June 2026 and made it part of its Social OS. Admins post approved content, and employees, executives and partners share it to their own profiles, with points, leaderboards and reach reports. Hootsuite's built-in AI writes captions and posts. The Parliament MCP lets admins and advocates create, schedule and share advocacy posts from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Boost reach with the no. 1 employee advocacy platform", "url": "https://www.hootsuite.com/platform/employee-advocacy" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "Hootsuite's built-in AI content writer drafts captions and posts in Parliament. The Parliament MCP brings advocacy work into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini for advocates and content admins. Hootsuite says a link from its Wisdom AI agent to Parliament is coming soon.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Product line of Hootsuite, a private company that says it has more than 200,000 users and more than 6,000 enterprise customers." }, "founded": 2008, "hq": "Vancouver, Canada", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hootsuite.com/parliament", "https://www.hootsuite.com/platform/employee-advocacy", "https://www.hootsuite.com/integrations/mcp", "https://www.hootsuite.com/about", "https://www.hootsuite.com/whats-new", "https://www.hootsuite.com/whats-new/parliament-mcp-for-content-admins", "https://www.hootsuite.com/whats-new/whats-new-in-q3", "https://www.hootsuite.com/whats-new/scale-employee-advocacy-and-drive-social-roi-with-amplify", "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/press-releases/2026/06/24/hootsuite-rebuilds-for-the-ai-era-introducing-wisdom-a-social-first-ai-agent-turning-social-signals-into-action/" ] }, { "n": "Oktopost", "u": "https://www.oktopost.com/", "w": "Oktopost sells B2B social media management to marketing teams, with employee advocacy as one product: \"Drive more pipeline and revenue from LinkedIn\". Its Advocacy Agent turns approved company content into a draft post in each employee's own style, which the employee edits and shares. Agent Builder runs no-code agents for approvals and triage. An MCP server and a Claude Code plugin let AI tools draft and schedule posts, and an Outreach integration puts advocacy inside sellers' daily work.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Drive more pipeline and revenue from LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.oktopost.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "insights", "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "The Advocacy Agent \"transforms approved company content into personalized employee posts\" from each employee's style guide. Agent Builder is a no-code tool for agents that route approvals and triage conversations. The Oktopost MCP server and Claude plugin let AI tools draft, tag and schedule posts and explain analytics.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Oktopost says more than 20,000 marketers use it, in more than 50 countries." }, "founded": 2013, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.oktopost.com/", "https://www.oktopost.com/about/", "https://www.oktopost.com/platform/ai/", "https://www.oktopost.com/pricing/", "https://www.oktopost.com/press/ai-advocacy-agent/", "https://www.oktopost.com/press/oktopost-claude-plugin-b2b-social-media-execution/", "https://www.oktopost.com/press/b2b-social-selling-employee-advocacy-integration/", "https://www.oktopost.com/blog/oktopost-mcp-server-ai-social-workflows/", "https://www.oktopost.com/blog/your-content-tools-just-got-an-upgrade-new-ways-to-trigger-oktopost-agents/", "https://www.oktopost.com/blog/i-gave-an-ai-the-keys-to-oktopost/" ] }, { "n": "Sociabble", "u": "https://www.poppulo.com/sociabble", "w": "Sociabble, a Paris company that Poppulo bought in May 2026, sells employee advocacy with an intranet, a frontline mobile app and rewards. Its site now says \"Sociabble Is Now the Poppulo Experience Platform\". For advocacy, \"Ask AI\" writes, adapts and translates social posts in each employee's voice in more than 50 languages. A LinkedIn Coach agent drafts posts, gives feedback and can publish or schedule them, and Image Studio makes or edits visuals.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Make Social Sharing Easier with AI", "url": "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/ai-content-sharing" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "governance", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "\"Ask AI\" writes, adapts and translates social posts in over 50 languages. The LinkedIn Coach, a chat-based agent, drafts posts from scratch or from outside sources, gives feedback and can publish or schedule posts for the user. Image Studio generates or edits visuals, and AI moderation keeps posts within the company context that admins set.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Poppulo, which says it serves more than 10,000 organizations." }, "founded": 2014, "hq": "Paris, France", "owner": "Poppulo", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sociabble's platform includes a frontline mobile app for staff without a desk." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.poppulo.com/sociabble", "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/ai-content-sharing", "https://www.poppulo.com/employee-experience-platform/employee-advocacy", "https://www.poppulo.com/blog/poppulo-acquires-sociabble", "https://www.ardian.com/news-insights/press-releases/sociabble-joins-forces-poppulo-accelerate-future-employee-experience", "https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41851818.html", "https://invidis.com/news/2026/05/ma-poppulo-acquires-sociabble/" ] }, { "n": "Socxo", "u": "https://www.socxo.com/", "w": "Socxo, an Indian company, sells employee advocacy tied to the B2B sales pipeline: \"Employee advocacy that shows you who's warming up.\" Socxo Advocacy gives employees approved content to share. Socxo Signals, which Socxo calls \"The AI-native intelligence layer\", reads engagement from advocacy, the CRM, the website and events. It scores buyer intent and proposes a next best action and AI-drafted follow-ups for sales.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Employee advocacy that shows you who's warming up.", "url": "https://www.socxo.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "insights", "writing" ], "ai": "Socxo Signals scores account and buyer intent from advocacy engagement and other sources, proposes the next best action and drafts follow-ups with AI.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Socxo says more than 200 enterprises run its Advocacy product." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.socxo.com/", "https://www.socxo.com/signals/", "https://www.socxo.com/about/", "https://www.socxo.com/pricing/", "https://www.socxo.com/news/", "https://www.socxo.com/blog/" ] }, { "n": "Ambassify", "u": "https://www.ambassify.com/", "w": "Ambassify, a Belgian company, sells employee advocacy to enterprise teams across Europe: \"Employee Advocacy only works if your people use it\". Community managers run campaigns that employee ambassadors share on social media. The AI assistant drafts campaign copy from a short topic summary, suggests several captions, translates copy into chosen languages and helps members polish their own posts, in a tone of voice that admins and employees set.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Employee Advocacy only works if your people use it", "url": "https://www.ambassify.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Ambassify's AI assistant creates campaign copy and advocacy posts, offers caption options, translates campaign copy automatically and refines members' share messages, guided by a tone of voice setting.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised a 2 million euro round in 2021 from LRM, ING Bank and others. Bought Social Seeder in December 2024." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "2 million euro round of equity, subordinated debt and subsidies, 2021-03-23", "investors": "LRM, ING Bank, Flemish Department for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Jean-Marie Vliegen", "src": "https://tech.eu/2021/03/23/belgium-based-employee-engagement-platform-ambassify-raises-e2-million/" }, "founded": 2017, "hq": "Beringen, Belgium", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ambassify.com/", "https://www.ambassify.com/product/ai-assistant", "https://www.ambassify.com/press", "https://www.ambassify.com/pricing", "https://www.ambassify.com/blog", "https://tech.eu/2021/03/23/belgium-based-employee-engagement-platform-ambassify-raises-e2-million/", "https://siliconcanals.com/ambassify-acquires-social-seeder/" ] }, { "n": "DSMN8", "u": "https://dsmn8.com/", "w": "DSMN8 sells an employee advocacy platform with the headline \"Brand-approved, ready-to-share content at your employees' fingertips.\" Marketing and comms teams curate posts, and employees share them to LinkedIn and other networks, with scheduling, leaderboards, a newsletter and managed services. The AI Content Assistant writes captions within Company Voice tone rules that admins set. Personal Voice rewrites approved posts in each employee's own tone, and a delegate can apply an executive's voice.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 Employee Advocacy Platform on G2", "url": "https://dsmn8.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "The AI Content Assistant generates posts \"tailored to your company voice and guidelines\", with tone rules set through Company Voice. Personal Voice AI rewrites curated content in each employee's tone, language and structure.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Private. No customer count or funding published. DSMN8 says hundreds of companies use it." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://dsmn8.com/", "https://dsmn8.com/about-us/", "https://dsmn8.com/pricing/", "https://dsmn8.com/press-and-media/", "https://dsmn8.com/blog/personal-voice-ai-powered-employee-advocacy/", "https://dsmn8.com/blog/ai-tone-of-voice-in-employee-advocacy/", "https://dsmn8.com/category/dsmn8-news/" ] }, { "n": "EveryoneSocial", "u": "https://everyonesocial.com/", "w": "EveryoneSocial calls itself \"The AI-powered advocacy platform for activating execs and staff\". Marketing, comms and HR teams load approved content, and employees and executives share it to their own social accounts. AI drafts share copy in a brand voice the admin controls. A compliance product captures and reviews the social activity of regulated staff. MCP connectors open the platform to Gemini, Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-powered advocacy platform for activating execs and staff", "url": "https://everyonesocial.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "AI Share Copy drafts a post title, a note to the team and share text for each post, in a brand voice set by the admin. It is off until a workspace admin asks for it. MCP connectors for Gemini, Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Private. No customer count or funding published." }, "founded": 2012, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://everyonesocial.com/", "https://everyonesocial.com/advocacy-tour/", "https://everyonesocial.com/about/", "https://everyonesocial.com/pricing/", "https://help.everyonesocial.com/article/667-release-notes" ] }, { "n": "GaggleAMP", "u": "https://www.gaggleamp.com/", "w": "GaggleAMP sells employee advocacy to B2B marketing and sales teams: \"The Most Trusted Marketing Channel You're Not Fully Using\". Admins assign activities to employees, such as sharing, commenting or reacting, and track adoption. AI helps create activities and writes \"AI-generated copy variations per employee\", with \"AI paraphrasing so every rep sounds like themselves.\" GaggleAMP prices by company size, not per seat.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Most Trusted Marketing Channel You're Not Fully Using", "url": "https://www.gaggleamp.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "\"Create activities with AI\", \"AI-generated copy variations per employee\" and \"AI paraphrasing so every rep sounds like themselves.\"", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Founder-owned and fully remote. No customer count or funding published." }, "founded": 2011, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.gaggleamp.com/", "https://www.gaggleamp.com/about", "https://www.gaggleamp.com/pricing", "https://blog.gaggleamp.com" ] }, { "n": "PostBeyond", "u": "https://www.postbeyond.com/", "w": "PostBeyond sells an employee advocacy and social selling platform: \"Empower employees to become your best advocates\". It is part of Influitive, a customer advocacy company. Marketing teams load approved content, and employees share it to their networks. AI-powered Content Generation writes a distinct post for each employee within brand guidelines, and machine learning recommends content for each employee to share.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Empower employees to become your best advocates", "url": "https://www.postbeyond.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "AI-powered Content Generation creates \"uniquely crafted social posts for employees with your brand guidelines in place\". Recommended Content uses machine learning to suggest what each employee should share.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Part of Influitive. No customer count published." }, "hq": "Toronto, Canada", "owner": "Influitive", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.postbeyond.com/", "https://postbeyond.com/about", "https://postbeyond.com/features", "https://www.postbeyond.com/pricing/" ] }, { "n": "Supergrow", "u": "https://www.supergrow.ai/", "w": "Supergrow sells an AI LinkedIn writing tool to individuals, and a Teams product that marketing and comms teams use to run employee advocacy: \"Turn Expertise Into LinkedIn® Content With Employee Advocacy\". Employees do not reshare company posts. They join \"AI-guided interviews\" that turn their answers into three to five original posts. Content DNA keeps each post in the person's voice, admins review drafts and run challenges, and an MCP server connects Claude and ChatGPT.", "cat": "advocacy", "cat_src": { "quote": "Turn Expertise Into LinkedIn® Content With Employee Advocacy", "url": "https://www.supergrow.ai/employee-advocacy" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 1, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "mcp", "writing" ], "ai": "PostCast runs AI-guided interviews, with an AI interviewer that adapts its questions, and turns each session into several posts. Content DNA builds a voice profile for each person. Posts can also be made from a PDF, video or article. Content Radar (beta) finds post ideas in meetings and Slack, and the Supergrow MCP connects Claude and ChatGPT.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding published." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.supergrow.ai/", "https://www.supergrow.ai/employee-advocacy", "https://www.supergrow.ai/changelog", "https://www.supergrow.ai/pricing" ] }, { "n": "Comeen", "u": "https://comeen.com/", "w": "Comeen sells workplace software for digital signage, meeting rooms, desk booking and visitors, now as \"Work AI for the Workplace\". Its corporate signage broadcasts updates, schedules announcements and shows live dashboards, and it has a page for frontline workers. Its AI adds multilingual subtitles to video on screens, and one AI assistant handles workplace requests. LumApps bought Comeen in 2026 and runs it as its workplace experience line.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Comeen is a leading French SaaS solution for managing the workplace: meeting rooms, desks, visitors, and digital signage.", "url": "https://comeen.com/press-release/comeen-amazon-signage-stick" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "AI subtitling, powered by Google Gemini, that transcribes and translates video for screens; a workplace AI assistant that answers occupancy questions, books rooms in Teams and Google Chat and routes problems to teams such as ServiceNow queues.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Comeen says more than 320 companies use it; LumApps owns it." }, "hq": "France", "owner": "LumApps", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells signage for frontline workers, including internal communication in manufacturing plants." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://comeen.com/", "https://comeen.com/press-releases", "https://comeen.com/comeen-lumapps-acquisition", "https://comeen.com/press-release/lumapps-acquires-comeen", "https://comeen.com/press-release/comeen-amazon-signage-stick", "https://comeen.com/press-release/comeen-launches-ai-powered-multilingual-subtitling-to-enhance-digital-signage" ] }, { "n": "Fugo", "u": "https://www.fugo.ai/", "w": "Fugo sells digital signage and TV dashboards for offices, factories and stores, and has a page on signage for internal communications that reaches deskless staff who never open the intranet. Its AI lives in the CMS sidebar: Ask Fugo answers questions about screens, playlists, dashboards and content. Fugo says natural-language actions, AI rules for what plays and an MCP server are coming.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Digital signage for internal communications", "url": "https://www.fugo.ai/use-cases/internal-communications-digital-signage/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot" ], "ai": "Ask Fugo, an AI assistant in the CMS sidebar that answers questions about the account's screens, playlists, dashboards and content, in beta on select plans. Actions, AI triggers and an MCP server are listed as coming soon.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Fugo says more than 1,000 teams use it, on more than 10,000 screens in 60 countries." }, "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells internal comms screens for deskless staff, with manufacturing templates for frontline workers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.fugo.ai/", "https://www.fugo.ai/features/ai-digital-signage/", "https://www.fugo.ai/use-cases/internal-communications-digital-signage/", "https://www.fugo.ai/company/about/", "https://www.fugo.ai/pricing/" ] }, { "n": "OptiSigns", "u": "https://www.optisigns.com/", "w": "OptiSigns sells digital signage to \"engage customers and employees\", with workplace solutions for employee engagement, display dashboards and workplace app integration, plus manufacturing and logistics pages. AI Designer turns a short description into editable screen designs. OptiDev, its AI app builder, builds kiosk apps and live data displays from a prompt. An AI audience analytics add-on counts and profiles viewers to adapt content.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Digital signage made easy. Transform any screen or TV into a dynamic platform to engage customers and employees.", "url": "https://www.optisigns.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "insights", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "AI Designer for signage designs from a prompt; OptiDev, an AI agent that builds apps with interface, database and APIs and publishes them to screens and kiosks; AI Audience Analytics, which uses on-device face detection to adapt content to viewers and report on audiences.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "OptiSigns says more than 43,000 organizations use it, on more than 230,000 screens." }, "hq": "Houston, Texas, United States", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens for manufacturing and production sites and for logistics staff." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.optisigns.com/", "https://www.optisigns.com/optisigns-ai", "https://www.optisigns.com/post/optisigns-ai-designer-idea-design-seconds", "https://www.optisigns.com/post/optisigns-ise-2026-best-of-show", "https://www.optisigns.com/pricing", "https://invidis.com/sixteen-nine/2026/01/14/optisigns-launches-optidev-ai-an-ai-powered-app-builder-for-digital-signage" ] }, { "n": "Rise Vision", "u": "https://www.risevision.com/", "w": "Rise Vision sells cloud digital signage, screen sharing and emergency alerts, with the line \"Communicate, Teach, Collaborate, and Improve Safety\". Schools are a large market, and it also sells enterprise communications with user roles, manufacturing dashboards, safety scoreboards and screens for warehouses and factories. Its AI tool turns a prompt into a branded, editable presentation for the screens.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 Cloud Digital Signage Software Solution", "url": "https://www.risevision.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "Rise Vision AI, starting with the AI Presentation Design and Editing Tool: a prompt returns three branded designs that a person edits and schedules. AI credits come with every subscription tier.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Rise Vision says more than 12,300 organizations use it." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens for factories, warehouses, construction and logistics sites to keep employees informed." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.risevision.com/", "https://www.risevision.com/press-releases", "https://www.risevision.com/press-releases/rise-vision-launches-ai-powered-design-tool-to-simplify-digital-signage-content-creation", "https://www.risevision.com/pricing" ] }, { "n": "ScreenCloud", "u": "https://screencloud.com/", "w": "ScreenCloud sells \"Visibly Better Communication\": digital signage software and hardware that puts company news, dashboards and alerts on screens in offices, plants and depots. It has pages for comms teams, HR teams and frontline communication, and it shows intranet content from tools such as Simpplr on screens. Its AI summarizes articles, documents, news feeds and Slack messages so they fit a screen.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "ScreenCloud is a full-stack digital signage company that provides hardware and software to run screens at scale", "url": "https://screencloud.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "AI summarization, powered by OpenAI, in the Quick Post app (web articles, documents, images or typed text), in ScreenCloud for Slack and in Headline News feeds. It is on by default and ScreenCloud support can turn it off for the whole account.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "ScreenCloud says more than 10,000 organizations use it." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens for deskless and frontline teams, with manufacturing and logistics pages." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://screencloud.com/", "https://help.screencloud.com/en/articles/10300880-how-to-use-and-manage-ai-features-in-screencloud", "https://screencloud.com/digital-signage/ai-digital-signage-content", "https://screencloud.com/product-updates/digital-signage/new-simpplr-integration-enhancements", "https://screencloud.com/pricing", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/prlog-2026-9-22-optimum-partners-with-screencloud-to-bring-enterprise-digital-signage-to-the-deskless-workforce" ] }, { "n": "Visix", "u": "https://www.visix.com/", "w": "Visix sells \"enterprise digital signage and space management solutions that unify communications across your organization\", with use cases for employee communications, health and safety messaging and data dashboards. Its manufacturing page links the office and the factory floor. The AxisTV Signage Suite has an AI messaging assistant that rewrites a manager's text in a chosen tone. Uniguest bought Visix in August 2026.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Visix delivers enterprise digital signage and space management solutions that unify communications across your organization.", "url": "https://www.visix.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "An AI messaging assistant in the AxisTV Signage Suite: in a template's text field it rewrites copy in one of five tones, such as Professional or Short as Possible, and offers several versions to pick from.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Visix says it serves more than 4,000 clients and 1,000 campuses." }, "founded": 1980, "hq": "Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States", "owner": "Uniguest", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens that connect the office and the factory floor, with safety messaging and real-time data." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.visix.com/", "https://www.visix.com/news/visix-brings-ai-messaging-to-digital-signage/", "https://www.visix.com/news/uniguest-accelerates-workplace-and-campus-engagement-strategy-with-acquisition-of-visix/" ] }, { "n": "Yodeck", "u": "https://www.yodeck.com/", "w": "Yodeck sells \"The easiest way to share content on screens\": low-cost digital signage for offices, factories, schools and stores. Its office page sells internal communications screens, and its manufacturing page sells live updates, KPIs and safety messages. The Yodeck AI Agent connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools over MCP, so a person can deploy campaigns, start emergency takeovers or audit screens with one plain-language request.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "The easiest way to share content on screens", "url": "https://www.yodeck.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "mcp" ], "ai": "Yodeck AI Agent (Yodeck MCP): from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or other MCP clients it sets up and schedules campaigns, finds unused media, starts emergency takeovers and audits accounts within the user's permissions. Delete actions are disabled. Included in the Premium and Enterprise plans.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Yodeck says more than 65,000 businesses in 135 countries use it." }, "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens for manufacturing sites with live updates, KPIs and safety messaging." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.yodeck.com/", "https://www.yodeck.com/ai-agent/", "https://www.yodeck.com/release-notes/yodeck-updates-july-2026/", "https://www.yodeck.com/pricing/", "https://www.theatdb.com/news/yodeck-launches-ai-agent-for-digital-signage-management" ] }, { "n": "Korbyt", "u": "https://www.gokorbyt.com/", "w": "Korbyt sells \"Smarter Digital Signage and Booking Experiences\" for corporate offices, campuses and production floors, plus an employee app and desk and room booking. Its pages target employee communications for desk workers and frontline workers, with shop-floor KPIs and safety reminders for manufacturing. The 5CAI suite of AI agents creates signage content, picks which content plays, books spaces and watches screens for faults.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Korbyt delivers AI-powered digital signage and space booking solutions to simplify communication, enhance collaboration, and increase productivity.", "url": "https://www.gokorbyt.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "Korbyt 5CAI, five AI agents in the Korbyt Anywhere platform: CreateAI (branded signage content from prompts, with image editing), CurateAI (tags content and favors what performs best), ConciergeAI (desk and room booking in Teams and Outlook), CommandAI with ScreenDetective (finds and fixes screen faults) and ClarityAI (analytics, listed as coming in 2026).", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count published; Korbyt says Fortune 100 companies use it." }, "hq": "Dallas, Texas, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells real-time communications for frontline workers and manufacturing shop floors." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.gokorbyt.com/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/lp/5c-ai/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/news/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/press-release/korbyt-to-unveil-5cai-agent", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/press-release/korbyt-to-unveil-newest-additions-to-5cai-agent-suite-at-ise-2026/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/press-release/korbyt-infocomm-2026-screendetective-launchpad-2/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/press-release/korbyt-ai-booking-law-firms-iltacon-2026/", "https://www.gokorbyt.com/press-release/avocor-and-korbyt-form-new-strategic-global-partnership/", "https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/news/korbyt-unveiling-enhancements-to-ai-agent-suite/" ] }, { "n": "Mvix", "u": "https://www.mvix.com/", "w": "Mvix sells enterprise digital signage software, players and kiosks, and calls its AI the \"Most comprehensive AI Suite in Digital Signage.\" Its employee communications solution sends timely, targeted messages to departments, locations or buildings, and it has a manufacturing and logistics page on safety and employee communication. The AI Suite makes images, short videos and spokesperson-style announcements for screens without an agency.", "cat": "signage", "cat_src": { "quote": "Enterprise Digital Signage", "url": "https://www.mvix.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "media", "writing" ], "ai": "Mvix AI Suite in the Signature 360 platform: AI images, AI videos, spokesperson-style announcements, promotional ads and music-driven creative. Mvix says it is building AI models that predict device failures.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count published; Mvix says it has sold enterprise digital signage since 2005." }, "founded": 2005, "price": { "note": "Player tiers are priced on the vendor's site; the AI Suite is sold to enterprise customers." }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Sells screens for manufacturing and logistics sites, including production line staff." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.mvix.com/", "https://www.mvix.com/pricing", "https://www.retailitinsights.com/doc/mvix-launches-ai-suite-to-optimize-digital-signage-content-production-time-and-enhance-system-reliability-0001" ] }, { "n": "HeyGen", "u": "https://www.heygen.com/", "w": "HeyGen is an AI avatar video platform with an internal communications page: \"Internal Communications Videos Every Employee Actually Watches\". Comms teams use it for CEO updates, company announcements and change communications. Executives clone themselves once as a digital twin, and HeyGen translates each video into the languages employees speak. Video Agent builds a full video from one prompt.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Internal Communications Videos Every Employee Actually Watches", "url": "https://www.heygen.com/business/internal-communications" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 1, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "Video Agent, which handles scripting, visuals, voiceovers, avatars and editing from a single prompt; Avatar V and digital twins; Video Translation, AI Dubbing and Lip Sync AI.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "HeyGen says it passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue in June 2026, with more than 30 million users." }, "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.heygen.com/", "https://www.heygen.com/business/internal-communications", "https://www.heygen.com/blog/heygen-september-2025-release", "https://www.heygen.com/blog/announcing-avatar-v", "https://www.heygen.com/blog/category/product-updates", "https://www.heygen.com/blog/heygen-surpasses-200m-arr" ] }, { "n": "Kaltura", "u": "https://corp.kaltura.com/", "w": "Kaltura sells its corporate communication product as \"Video-first communication, now with enterprise-grade AI\". Internal communications teams use it to run live, simulive and on-demand town halls and company updates in one video hub. AI enriches each recording with captions, chapters and translations, cuts clips and summaries, and the Genie agent answers employee questions from past events.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Video-first communication, now with enterprise-grade AI", "url": "https://corp.kaltura.com/experiences/corporate-communication/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "answers", "copilot", "mcp", "media", "sentiment", "translation" ], "ai": "Genie, an \"AI agent that turns events and videos into searchable, conversational knowledge\"; a Publishing Agent for captions, chapters and translations; Agentic Avatars, real-time conversational video agents; and Event OS, an MCP integration that lets AI assistants create and run events.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (Nasdaq: KLTR). Full-year 2026 revenue guidance of $185.0M to $185.7M (Q3 2026 results, 2026-11-09)." }, "hq": "New York, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://corp.kaltura.com/experiences/corporate-communication/", "https://corp.kaltura.com/", "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/KLTR/kaltura-announces-financial-results-for-third-quarter-p3ga676j77nd.html", "https://corp.kaltura.com/press/kaltura-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-eself-ai-a-provider-of-ai-based-interactive-avatars/", "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/KLTR/kaltura-launches-agentic-ai-conversational-avatars-to-power-the-next-27pbfofkc1bv.html", "https://stocktitan.net/news/KLTR/kaltura-introduces-event-os-for-ai-agents-enabling-organizations-to-c7xyxf33dknh.html" ] }, { "n": "Brandlive", "u": "https://brandlive.com/", "w": "Brandlive produces and streams company town halls and executive broadcasts, and now owns MediaPlatform, an enterprise webcasting platform for CEO town halls. Its BrandTV platform gives internal communications teams a branded channel for live town halls and on-demand video. AI tags, captions, transcribes and chapters each town hall, builds highlight clips, and offers Ask AI to viewers. MediaPlatform AI adds live captions and live translation.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "The streaming platform every company needs.", "url": "https://brandlive.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "BrandTV AI enrichment (titles, summaries, transcripts with speaker detection, tags and chapters), \"agentic editor workflows\" for Highlights, and Ask AI for viewers; MediaPlatform AI for AI-powered live closed captions and live translation.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Brandlive says it partners with more than 500 companies worldwide and supports over 20,000 webinars and town halls each year (September 2025)." }, "hq": "Portland, Oregon, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://brandlive.com/", "https://www.mediaplatform.com/", "https://www.mediaplatform.com/mediaplatform-ai", "https://martechvibe.com/article/brandlive-launches-brandtv-an-enterprise-streaming-platform", "https://martechseries.com/video/brandlive-launches-brandtv-the-enterprise-streaming-platform-every-company-needs/", "https://techintelpro.com/news/marketing/digital-transformation/brandlive-launches-brandtv-to-bring-streaming-quality-to-town-halls", "https://salestechstar.com/?p=253031", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandlive" ] }, { "n": "Brightcove", "u": "https://www.brightcove.com/", "w": "Brightcove is a video platform for media companies and enterprises. Its Communications Studio pack sells internal video: \"Power up your communications strategy\", with leadership updates and live and on-demand libraries for employees. The AI Suite handles content creation and translation, AI Content Multiplier turns town halls into short clips, and the Agentic Hub lets teams ask AI agents to do video work.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Power up your communications strategy", "url": "https://www.brightcove.com/solutions/communications-studio" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "mcp", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "AI Suite (content creation and translation tools), AI Content Multiplier for short clips from long videos, the Agentic Hub, a chat interface where AI agents analyse video data and act across the platform, and Brightcove MCP to connect outside AI tools.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Bending Spoons, which completed its purchase of Brightcove in February 2025." }, "owner": "Bending Spoons", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.brightcove.com/solutions/communications-studio", "https://www.brightcove.com/blog/multiply-video-impact-brightcove-ai-content-multiplier", "https://www.brightcove.com/pressroom/brightcove-unveils-gen-2", "https://www.brightcove.com/pressroom/roadmap-2026-ai-customer-experience", "https://www.brightcove.com/blog/2026-product-roadmap", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/bending-spoons-closes-233-million-acquisition-of-brightcove" ] }, { "n": "Panopto", "u": "https://www.panopto.com/", "w": "Panopto is a video platform for universities and businesses. It says \"Panopto delivers internal communications video as a managed program\": live town halls and leader messages, an on-demand archive, multi-language captions and analytics. AI Search answers employee questions from company video and links to the exact moments, and AI Recast turns town halls and executive communications into short avatar-narrated pieces.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Panopto delivers internal communications video as a managed program", "url": "https://www.panopto.com/blog/video-for-internal-communications/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 2, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "Knowledge Intelligence: AI Search, which gives synthesized answers from an organization's video with links to source moments, and AI Recast in AI Video Studio, which turns existing video into short avatar-narrated pieces.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Panopto says more than 2,000 organizations worldwide use it." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.panopto.com/blog/video-for-internal-communications/", "https://www.panopto.com/news/introducing-knowledge-intelligence-to-unlock-video-based-knowledge/" ] }, { "n": "Qumu", "u": "https://www.enghousevideo.com/enterprise-video-management/qumu", "w": "Qumu, now Enghouse Qumu, is an enterprise video management platform that Enghouse Video sells for secure internal communications, large live streams and video learning. It lists \"Townhalls & Exec Comms\" as a use case. Its AI-Powered Enhancements add captions, translations and accessibility features to live and recorded company video.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Townhalls & Exec Comms", "url": "https://www.enghousevideo.com/enterprise-video-management/qumu" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "media", "translation" ], "ai": "AI-Powered Enhancements for captions, translations and accessibility, and Enghouse Video AI listed as a separate offering.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Part of Enghouse Systems, a public company." }, "owner": "Enghouse Systems", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.enghousevideo.com/enterprise-video-management/qumu", "https://www.enghousevideo.com/solutions/enghouse-qumu-new-multi-language-captions-translations" ] }, { "n": "Slido", "u": "https://www.slido.com/", "w": "Slido is an audience Q&A and polling tool, now part of Cisco Webex, sold as \"The easiest way to make your meetings interactive\". Companies use it to \"Run effective Q&A sessions and engage your team during all-company meetings\". Slido AI writes polls from a meeting goal or a slide deck, builds quizzes, rewrites poll wording, and helps employees phrase clearer questions before they submit them.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Run effective Q&A sessions and engage your team during all-company meetings.", "url": "https://www.slido.com/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 0, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "Slido AI: AI-generated polls from a prompt or from PowerPoint and Google Slides, AI Quiz, an AI Writing assistant for polls, and Question AI, which helps participants refine their questions. In Webex meetings the AI Assistant suggests polls from the live transcript.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Part of Cisco (Webex), a public company. Slido says it is trusted by 750K customers worldwide." }, "owner": "Cisco", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.slido.com/", "https://www.slido.com/ai", "https://community.slido.com/product-news-announcements-108/what-s-new-in-slido-january-2026-7498", "https://community.slido.com/product-news-announcements-108/slido-ai-2-0-work-smarter-than-ever-7896", "https://help.webex.com/uk-ua/article/ifr3v8" ] }, { "n": "Synthesia", "u": "https://www.synthesia.io/", "w": "Synthesia is an \"AI Video and Avatar platform for business\". It lists internal communications as a use case and says \"with Synthesia, creating an internal communications video becomes an easy, 5-minute task.\" Comms teams turn scripts and documents into avatar-led update videos, translate them into many languages, and add quizzes. Survey Sessions let an avatar interview employees and return structured insights.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "But with Synthesia, creating an internal communications video becomes an easy, 5-minute task.", "url": "https://www.synthesia.io/post/internal-communication-videos" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 1, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "media", "sentiment", "translation" ], "ai": "AI Avatars, AI Video Generator, AI Video Dubbing and 1-Click Translation; Video Agents and Interactive Avatars that hold real-time conversations with viewers; and Sessions (Roleplay and Survey Sessions), where avatars coach staff or interview respondents.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Synthesia says it is trusted by 50,000+ teams and over 90% of the Fortune 100. Series E of $200M at a $4B valuation (January 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E, $200M, 2026-01-26", "investors": "GV (lead), NVentures, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, NEA", "src": "https://synthesia.io/post/series-e-200-million-4-billion-valuation-future-work" }, "hq": "London, United Kingdom", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.synthesia.io/", "https://www.synthesia.io/post/internal-communication-videos", "https://www.synthesia.io/post/synthesia-3-0-the-next-era-of-video", "https://synthesia.io/post/series-e-200-million-4-billion-valuation-future-work", "https://www.synthesia.io/post/sessions-interactive-avatar-platform" ] }, { "n": "Vevox", "u": "https://www.vevox.com/", "w": "Vevox calls itself an \"AI-Assisted Polling, Quizzing and Q&A Platform\" and sells \"Interactive, two-way townhalls\" alongside classes and training. Internal communications teams use it for anonymous Q&A, live polls and quizzes at town halls and all-hands, inside PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams. Its AI writes quiz and poll questions from a topic, documents or a web page, and suggests answer options.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "#1 for Townhall Meetings & Ask Me Anything", "url": "https://www.vevox.com/townhall-meetings" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 0, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "AI Quiz Generator and AI Question Helper, which write quiz and poll questions from a topic, uploaded documents or a URL and suggest plausible answer options.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Wooclap since September 2026. The combined group serves more than 1,000 higher education institutions and corporate learning teams." }, "owner": "Wooclap", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.vevox.com/", "https://www.vevox.com/townhall-meetings", "https://www.vevox.com/blog/another-monster-vevox-update", "https://www.vevox.com/blog/vevox-product-update-march-2026", "https://www.wooclap.com/en/blog/wooclap-acquires-vevox/" ] }, { "n": "Vimeo", "u": "https://vimeo.com/enterprise", "w": "Vimeo Enterprise offers \"Centralized control for enterprise video\" for companies that run town halls, leadership updates and training on video. Its employee communications page sells virtual town halls that \"bridge geographical divides\". AI turns long recordings into highlight reels and written summaries, translates audio and captions, captions live events in 99 languages, and lets employees ask questions of the video library.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Create immersive virtual town hall experiences that excite your workforce and bridge geographical divides.", "url": "https://vimeo.com/solutions/communications" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "answers", "insights", "mcp", "media", "translation" ], "ai": "Vimeo AI for highlight reels, summaries, chapters and AI translation of audio and captions; Vimeo Central, an AI-powered video hub with natural-language Q&A; Ask Your Library search across the whole library; and a Vimeo MCP server that connects video libraries to outside AI agents (beta).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Bending Spoons since November 2025. Vimeo says Vimeo Enterprise is trusted by over 3,000 companies in 190+ countries." }, "owner": "Bending Spoons", "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://vimeo.com/enterprise", "https://vimeo.com/solutions/communications", "https://vimeo.com/blog/post/introducing-vimeo-central", "https://vimeo.com/product-updates", "https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20277439-vimeo-elevates-the-creator-with-agentic-video-all-new-vimeo-review-and-monetization-tools-at", "https://www.newsshooter.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-sold-to-italian-app-developer-bending-spoons-for-1-38-billion/", "https://www.panabee.com/news/vimeo-exits-nasdaq-bending-spoons-closes-1-38-billion-cash-merger" ] }, { "n": "Colossyan", "u": "https://www.colossyan.com/", "w": "Colossyan is an AI video platform built mainly for training. Its internal communications page says \"Streamline your internal communications with AI video\" and pitches announcements, policy changes and leadership updates as avatar videos. Comms teams pick from 300+ AI avatars, translate videos into 120+ languages and keep them on brand. Its Cora agent drafts a scene-by-scene plan from source material for a person to approve.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Streamline your internal communications with AI video", "url": "https://www.colossyan.com/use-cases/internal-communications/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 1, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "media", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "AI video generator \"powered by Cora\", an AI Agent that plans videos scene by scene and pauses for approval; AI Avatars, AI Voice Cloning, video dubbing and an AI Script Assistant.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised a $22M round led by Lakestar in February 2024." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Funding round, $22M, 2024-02-06", "investors": "Lakestar (lead)", "src": "https://tech.eu/2024/02/06/colossyans-ai-text-to-video-platform-attracts-22m-in-latest-funding-round/" }, "hq": "London, United Kingdom", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.colossyan.com/", "https://www.colossyan.com/use-cases/internal-communications/", "https://tech.eu/2024/02/06/colossyans-ai-text-to-video-platform-attracts-22m-in-latest-funding-round/" ] }, { "n": "Hypecast", "u": "https://hypecast.one/", "w": "Hypecast sells \"Every Tool to Run a Corporate Podcast\", including private internal podcasts that employees hear in Spotify and Apple Podcasts. For comms teams it promises \"voice-first updates\" that reach distributed workforces. HypecastAI turns text into narrated podcasts in over 200 languages, and AI production handles editing, transcription in 40+ languages, translations and promo clips. It connects to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and leading intranets.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Reach distributed workforces with voice-first updates-more personal than email and easier to scale than live meetings.", "url": "https://hypecast.one/product/hypecast-ai" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "media", "translation" ], "ai": "HypecastAI, \"Your AI-powered, multi-language podcasting tool to engage your teams\", plus AI post-production, transcription in 40+ languages, translations and promo clips.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or institutional funding published." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://hypecast.one/", "https://hypecast.one/product/hypecast-ai" ] }, { "n": "Pigeonhole Live", "u": "https://pigeonholelive.com/", "w": "Pigeonhole Live is a live Q&A and polling tool that helps companies \"Put an end to monologues at your all-hands\". Internal communications teams use it so employees can ask questions, vote and comment during town halls. AI Translation lets employees ask and read questions in 54 languages, and AI Insights, in preview, analyses town hall Q&A for trending topics, employee concerns and sentiment.", "cat": "video", "cat_src": { "quote": "Put an end to monologues at your all-hands", "url": "https://pigeonholelive.com/solutions/internal-communications/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 0, "deliver": 0, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "insights", "sentiment", "translation" ], "ai": "AI Translation for Q&A in 54 languages, and AI Insights (preview), which analyses town hall Q&A to spot trending topics, employee concerns and overall sentiment.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding published." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://pigeonholelive.com/", "https://pigeonholelive.com/solutions/internal-communications/", "https://pigeonholelive.com/town-hall-meetings/" ] }, { "n": "Thesmia.ai", "u": "https://www.thesmia.ai/", "w": "Thesmia.ai calls itself \"HR's AI internal comms assistant.\" It is an AI chat tool for HR teams that plans and writes the communications around HR programmes, such as a new HRIS, a performance review process or a wellbeing launch. It builds comms plans and timelines and drafts employee, manager and leadership messages, slide decks, survey copy and video scripts, with HR, marketing and change management playbooks built in.", "cat": "ic_ai", "cat_src": { "quote": "Thesmia.ai is an AI Internal Comms Tool built specifically for HR teams.", "url": "https://www.thesmia.ai/" }, "ph": { "plan": 2, "create": 2, "deliver": 0, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "writing" ], "ai": "A chat assistant with HR strategy, change management and internal comms expertise built in. From guided prompts it drafts comms plans, timelines and messages tailored to employees, managers and senior leaders.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding published." }, "price": { "note": "free trial offered; paid pricing not published" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.thesmia.ai/", "https://www.thesmia.ai/about", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/thesmia-ai/launches" ] }, { "n": "Thruline", "u": "https://thruline.io/", "w": "Thruline sends each employee a short, personalized audio briefing every day that ties their work to the company's mission, goals and priorities. Leaders enter the strategy, weekly themes and daily nudges. The vendor says \"AI transforms your strategic inputs into clear, human-sounding messages\" tailored to each person's role and goals, read by a synthesized voice in the employee's preferred language. It sells to leaders and comms teams that want strategy to reach every employee.", "cat": "ic_ai", "cat_src": { "quote": "Thruline delivers personalized, bite-sized audio briefings that connect every employee to your company’s mission, goals, and momentum", "url": "https://thruline.io/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 0, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "media", "targeting", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "AI writes a daily message for each employee from the company's strategy, themes and nudges, tailored to role and goals. Synthesized voice reads it in the employee's language, and enterprise clients can use a custom voice such as the CEO's.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count, revenue or funding published." }, "price": { "note": "paid plans published on the vendor's site" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://thruline.io/", "https://thruline.io/pricing", "https://thruline.io/about", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/thruline" ] }, { "n": "ADP", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.adp.com/", "w": "ADP Connect is an employee engagement experience for ADP Workforce Now, delivered in the ADP Mobile app. Practitioners post company announcements and policy changes to a news feed with email and push notifications. ADP Connect Plus adds direct and group chats, an interactive social-style feed and AI-powered moderation of chats and comments. News feed content can be published in English, Spanish and French. ADP says it engages deskless and frontline workers.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "ADP Connect is an employee engagement experience for communication, collaboration, and recognition that keeps your employees informed, engaged, and connected, wherever their work takes them.", "url": "https://apps.adp.com/en/apps/623573/adp-connect-for-adp-workforce-now/overview" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "governance" ], "ai": "AI-powered moderation in ADP Connect Plus scans chat messages and comments on posts for more than 40 topics across languages, and blocks or flags content it judges inappropriate for the practitioner.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NASDAQ: ADP); 1.1 million clients, 42 million wage earners" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "ADP's own page says ADP Connect engages deskless and frontline workers in the ADP Mobile app." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://apps.adp.com/en/apps/623573/adp-connect-for-adp-workforce-now/overview", "https://apps.adp.com/en-US/apps/623573/adp-connect-for-adp-workforce-now/features" ] }, { "n": "Dayforce", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.dayforce.com/", "w": "Dayforce Communications lets HR teams reach candidates, employees and alumni on any channel inside the Dayforce platform, including email, SMS and Dayforce Hub. Users build internal audiences, design, draft and deliver content, and set up communities and peer-to-peer chats. Dayforce calls the approach AI-enhanced, including AI-enhanced Hub messaging, and aims it especially at frontline industries. It also reports which channels give the best engagement.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Dayforce Communications, a new way to help streamline, automate, and unify communications efforts across the employee lifecycle", "url": "https://www.dayforce.com/blog/dayforce-discover-spotlights-simplicity-at-scale-with-next-gen-agility-and-intelligence" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "targeting", "writing" ], "ai": "AI-enhanced Dayforce Hub messaging inside Dayforce Communications. Dayforce content authoring agents also draft text, with employee communications named among the uses.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Taken private by Thoma Bravo for about $12.3B (closed 2026-02-04)" }, "owner": "Thoma Bravo", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.dayforce.com/blog/dayforce-discover-spotlights-simplicity-at-scale-with-next-gen-agility-and-intelligence", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-dayforce-communications", "https://www.dayforce.com/blog/ai-that-helps-you-plan-deliver-and-grow", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-new-dayforce-ai-agents-to-accelerate-how-work-gets-done", "https://www.worklife.news/?p=87082" ] }, { "n": "Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/", "w": "Oracle Communicate, part of the Oracle ME employee experience platform in Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, lets HR, business leaders and managers send targeted communications and run internal events tied to workforce data. An audience builder automates outreach and reminders, employees get one hub for communications and events, and dashboards show who reads, responds and acts. AI recommends the most relevant campaign emails to each employee based on HR data, interests and past engagement.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Oracle Communicate empowers your HR team, managers, and employees to create internal events and communications that help shape your workplace culture and drive behaviors that matter to your organization.", "url": "https://oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/applications/human-capital-management/oracle-me-solution-overview.pdf" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "targeting" ], "ai": "AI-powered recommendations surface the most relevant campaign emails in each employee's highlights carousel, based on work location, business unit, job role and the communications the employee recently engaged with.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NYSE: ORCL)" }, "owner": "Oracle Corporation", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/applications/human-capital-management/oracle-me-solution-overview.pdf", "https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/readiness/hcm/26c/meex-26c/26C-employee-experience-wn-f45830.htm", "https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/readiness/hcm/26c/meex-26c/26C-employee-experience-wn-t75281.htm" ] }, { "n": "Paylocity", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.paylocity.com/", "w": "Paylocity Community is the employee communications hub inside Paylocity's HR and payroll platform. HR posts announcements to a company feed from ready-made templates, schedules them and tracks engagement on a dashboard. Employees join team and discussion groups, chat, share files, give peer recognition and ask questions in Ask an Expert groups. AI Assist writes announcements from a prompt and calibrates their tone.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Streamline employee communication and foster a culture of engagement.", "url": "https://www.paylocity.com/products/hr/employee-experience/community/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 2, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "writing" ], "ai": "AI Assist generates announcements from a prompt and calibrates their tone before HR shares the post with groups.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NASDAQ: PCTY)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.paylocity.com/products/hr/employee-experience/community/" ] }, { "n": "SAP SuccessFactors", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.sap.com/products/hcm.html", "w": "SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone is the employee hub of the SAP SuccessFactors suite. It brings applications, information and communication into one entry point, with customizable cards, workspaces, feeds and communities that HR and teams use to reach employees. Joule, SAP's AI copilot, answers employee questions using content from public Work Zone workspaces. A generative AI writing tool improves clarity and tone and translates text in the home page quick actions.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone helps boost user productivity and engagement by centralizing access to business applications, processes, information, and communication in one unified entry point.", "url": "https://help.sap.com/doc/6c6deafbd1bf4c4baddd19699dd69161/Cloud/en-US/1707e446de9641929a63ebc7f5375594.pdf" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "Joule answers employee questions grounded in public Work Zone documents such as blog posts, wiki pages and knowledge base articles. The generative AI writing tool enhances writing, changes tone, shortens or lengthens text, builds bulleted lists, flags biased wording and translates from US English into the 46 languages SAP SuccessFactors supports.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public parent SAP SE (NYSE: SAP); SuccessFactors has over 10,000 customers; SmartRecruiters serves more than 4,000 organizations" }, "owner": "SAP SE", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": false, "m365": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://help.sap.com/doc/6c6deafbd1bf4c4baddd19699dd69161/Cloud/en-US/1707e446de9641929a63ebc7f5375594.pdf", "https://news.sap.com/2025/10/sap-successfactors-2h-2025-release-ai-skills-people-insights/" ] }, { "n": "UKG", "home": "hiring-software", "u": "https://www.ukg.com/", "w": "UKG Talk is UKG's employee communications platform, sold with UKG Pro and built for frontline teams across shifts, roles and locations. HR and managers send company-wide announcements and targeted messages to mobile and desktop, run two-way messaging, groups, shoutouts and pulse surveys, and track open rates and engagement by group, role and time of day. UKG says its AI suggests content, picks send times and personalizes messages by team or topic.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Maintain consistent messaging across your entire workforce, from the front office to the front line.", "url": "https://www.ukg.com/products/features/employee-communication-and-collaboration" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 2, "measure": 2 }, "caps": [ "insights", "targeting" ], "ai": "UKG's \"people-first AI\" suggests content based on user behavior, sends messages at the best time and personalizes communication by team, topic or trend. Built-in AI gives leaders insight into communication patterns.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Privately held; UKG says tens of thousands of organizations use it to plan frontline staffing" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "UKG says its employee communication software is mobile-first, multilingual and suitable for shift-based and deskless workers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20260720113213/https://www.ukg.com/products/features/employee-communication-and-collaboration", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.ukg.com/company/newsroom/ukg-showcase-workforce-operating-platform-nrf-big-show-2026", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260316429211/en/UKG-Showcases-Next-Era-of-AI-led-Workforce-Orchestration-at-UNLEASH-America-and-TRANSFORM" ] }, { "n": "WorkJam", "home": "workforce-planning-software", "u": "https://www.workjam.com/", "w": "WorkJam's Employee Communications module is a feed for frontline staff with news, recognition, chat, live streams and polls. Teams target messages by role, location or shift, and an announcement can trigger a task, a quiz or an acknowledgment. Its frontline intranet uses AI to answer questions from the Knowledge Center.", "cat": "wfm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Stop Playing Broken Telephone. Connect Every Employee, Every Shift.", "url": "https://www.workjam.com/products/employee-communications/" }, "ph": { "plan": 1, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot" ], "ai": "On the communications page, AI delivers instant responses from Knowledge Center content. WorkJam's AI Agent, built on Google's Gemini models, answers staff questions and handles shift swaps and time-off requests in natural language.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor names TJX, Ulta Beauty, Marks & Spencer and Shell as users (July 2026 release); Catalyst Brands rollout to about 70,000 associates (Sep 2026 release)" }, "founded": 2014, "hq": "Montreal, Canada", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "WorkJam describes its feed as \"only built for frontline work\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workjam.com/products/employee-communications/", "https://www.workjam.com/products/ai-workflows/", "https://www.workjam.com/newsroom/workjam-raises-bar-for-frontline-operations-platforms/" ] }, { "n": "Connecteam", "home": "workforce-planning-software", "u": "https://connecteam.com/", "w": "Connecteam's Communications Hub gives deskless teams a social-style Updates feed, chat, a directory, a knowledge base, events and surveys in one app. Managers post to everyone or to a team and see who read each post. AI helps write each update, translates posts and chats into each employee's language, and answers staff questions from the company's own resources.", "cat": "wfm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Instantly reach every employee, make information a tap away, and drive engagement wherever they work", "url": "https://connecteam.com/employee-communication-app/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 1, "deliver": 2, "answer": 1, "engage": 1, "measure": 1 }, "caps": [ "answers", "copilot", "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "AI Updates & Translate improves a draft update and auto-translates posts and chats into each employee's preferred language. The AI Agent answers employee questions in chat from the company's in-app resources. Connecteam presents these under \"AI built for deskless teams\".", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series C of $120 million in March 2022 co-led by Stripes and Insight Partners (TechCrunch); vendor's About page says '1.8M+ managers and employees'" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $120M, 2022-03-02", "investors": "Stripes and Insight Partners (co-leads), Tiger Global, Qumra Capital, O.G. Tech", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/?p=2278715" }, "founded": 2013, "hq": "New York, USA (founded in Israel; HQ per 2022 TechCrunch report)", "price": { "note": "free plan and paid plans published" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Connecteam calls its AI \"AI built for deskless teams\" and sells the app to frontline and field staff." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://connecteam.com/", "https://connecteam.com/employee-communication-app/", "https://connecteam.com/employee-communication-app/updates/", "https://connecteam.com/ai-capabilities/", "https://connecteam.com/pricing/", "https://releases.connecteam.com/" ] }, { "n": "Legion", "home": "workforce-planning-software", "u": "https://www.legion.co/", "w": "Legion Frontline Communications puts secure chat, newsfeed updates, announcements, polls and surveys in the same mobile app that hourly staff use for scheduling. Two named AI assistants help managers write newsfeed posts and announcements, and let employees read any message in their preferred language.", "cat": "wfm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Engage, empower, and connect your frontline workforce with Legion Frontline Communications", "url": "https://legion.co/products/frontline-communications/" }, "ph": { "plan": 0, "create": 2, "deliver": 2, "answer": 0, "engage": 1, "measure": 0 }, "caps": [ "translation", "writing" ], "ai": "The Legion AI Communication Authoring Assistant drafts and refines newsfeed posts and announcements. The Legion AI Communication Translation Assistant translates any message into an employee's preferred language. Both run when a manager or employee asks.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Vendor says 'over 2 million Legion-powered employees' and live in 35 countries (Jan 2026 release); named venture investors, no round size published" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Not published", "investors": "Riverwood Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, First Round Capital (named in the vendor's January 2026 release)", "src": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/01/12/legion-ai-workforce-management-innovations/" }, "hq": "Redwood City, California, USA", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "deskless": true, "m365": false, "note": "Legion's communications page is written for the frontline workforce." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://legion.co/products/frontline-communications/", "https://legion.co/legion-ai/", "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2025/08/06/2025-summer-release-75-new-wfm-features-ai-assistants/" ] } ] }