Symmetric visibility.
Every employee sees exactly what their manager sees about them. Bit-for-bit. This is the line. It's why we don't ship a "shadow mode" and never will.
They had both, independently, deployed three different employee-monitoring tools at their previous jobs. They had both, independently, walked out. ProdView is the workforce-analytics platform they wished had existed — privacy-first, manager-centric, no leaderboards.
The category we found in 2022 optimised for one buyer: the executive who wanted a "productivity score" leaderboard to wave at their board deck. Every tool we evaluated had a screen full of red and green bars ranking employees by minute. Every one of them recorded keystrokes "for compliance". Every one of them eroded trust the second they were deployed.
That's the wrong customer. The buyer who actually opens these tools every day is the line manager — the one with five to fifteen direct reports who wants to know who needs a 1:1 this week, who's heading for burnout, and whether the fleet is healthy. That manager doesn't need a leaderboard. They need a Friday-morning briefing.
ProdView is that briefing. We took every screen out that didn't serve a real management conversation, and we built the ones that did.
Every employee sees exactly what their manager sees about them. Bit-for-bit. This is the line. It's why we don't ship a "shadow mode" and never will.
Every number in the product can be traced back to the events that produced it. We don't ship a "productivity score" that's a black box. If you can't explain a number to the person it's measuring, it shouldn't be in the dashboard.
We've turned down keystroke logging, screen recording, sentiment analysis, AI summaries, and a "burnout score" — all customer-requested. The product gets better by saying no.
Priya and Layla quit their jobs, wrote the first agent in two weeks. First customer: their old team at Halcyon.
Led by Boldstart. We hired four engineers, opened a Brooklyn office.
First public release. Twelve design-partner customers.
The compliance work that unlocked our first three regulated customers.
Identity story complete. Crossed 100 paying teams in October.
The Security page graduated from preview. False-positive rate under 2%.
Led by Index, with participation from Mosaic and Notable. Hired our first VP Eng.
Devices page, Linux agent, top-of-mind lists. 412 customers, 38 people. Ships every Tuesday.
Most of us came from infrastructure, security, or design tools — companies that took both correctness and trust as table stakes. We're remote-first across Stockholm, Brooklyn, Berlin, and São Paulo.
We picked investors who got the privacy-first thesis on the first call. They've been patient about scope and loud about saying no with us.