Introducing Zeal – Breaking the norm of company culture

[rangersanger]

This feels a little dehumanizing to me. As a manager and someone tasked with helping build company culture, pushing that work off to a chatbot seems like an abdication. As an employee, I value having a relationship with my boss where I can convey concerns and where he elicits them. Anonymous feedback absolutely has its place, but this seems targeted at replacing regular 1:1 bidirectional feedback, which is an incredibly important part of good culture.

[zeal-technology]

We do not aim to replace relationship between manager and employee. In fact our goal is to help strengthen the relationship. Believe it or not many managers do not have the proper training when becoming a manager to implement meaningful 1:1 meetings to solicit feedback and gauge how their people are feeling. We aim to better track and improve this relationship with gathered metrics so that managers never miss a beat. We also acknowledge that many people are not comfortable giving feedback in a one on one or publicly so our goal is to provide a channel for them to do so comfortably and productively. We have seen teams address feedback that has come through Ava and even implement and improve parts of their culture that management had no idea was an issue for its employees.

With that said, Ava is meant to strengthen relationships on the team and help the team collaborate when it comes to company culture. She even provides metrics on how relationships are within the company.

[b_emery]

My two cents: Not sure what "Breaking the norm of company culture" means, but a company culture can be an important way to communicate the core values of a company. "Measure employee engagement" which is elsewhere on the website communicates the purpose much more clearly. Until I read your meetava page I thought this was some kind of replacement for company culture. Best of luck!

[zeal-technology]

Thank you for the encouragement! :) We are actively working on fixing our message on the website to be more direct and clear.

[snvzz]

Closed the website after a few unfruitful attempts at figuring out what it was about without watching videos.

Not nice.

[hobarrera]

I've no idea what they do either, but I do know of ANOTHER zeal that's a really useful tool for viewing documentation offline:

https://zealdocs.org/

[danudey]

This is a common trend I've seen repeatedly. They have a great video on their website that makes it super obvious what they do in a short amount of time, and basically no information other than that to help you decide if it's worth looking at.

Honestly, it's not a complicated system. Four screenshots would convey the process super clearly, and they could be screen caps from the video. The product itself seems simple, clean, and easy to explain. I'm not sure why people don't bother doing so.

[patmcguire]

Welcome to Zombocom!

[zeal-technology]

sorry to hear that we will look at making some adjustments to come across more clear without the video

[freshflowers]

Suggestion to stop using the same fucking stock images with the same fucking benches everybody else is using to symbolize "cool company".

[zeal-technology]

Noted :)

[akytt]

There is no such thing as good or bad company culture. The culture either supports the strategy or does not. Warm, fluffy and nice is an option, but there are others. A real pity the huge body of literature on this has been ignored.

[zeal-technology]

Feel Free to ask us any questions here!

[huebnerob]

It sounds like 'Ava' will need to interrupt employees and prompt for feedback on some frequent recurring basis in order to provide what your marketing describes as 'realtime' results. How are you going to balance this distraction and annoyance against your product requirements?

[andrewguenther]

Since your website doesn't tell us, what is this?

[ironchef]

Not having pricing on your page (or .. having the "up to 10 users -> free", "more than 10-> call us") is a non-starter imo. I need some idea of pricing before I spend any time looking. $10/user/year? $100? $1000?

[diN0bot]

is it possible to chat with a demo ava somewhere?

[ffef]

Your CTA is missing the word "Again" at the end. /s