Sparrow

Outcome driven communication & team collaboration tool

Productivity

SaaS

Hello Product Hunt👋 I'm Harish, We are building Sparrow from Toronto. In my previous full-time job as a VP at a large SAAS organization, I was frustrated with the number of emails/Slack messages/ meetings I had to go through every day without any productive outcome. understanding this problem deeply led me to build Sparrow! A simple communication & collaboration tool that doesn't have the chaos of Email/Slack/Ms teams This is our first Product Hunt launch and our product is in beta, still rough around the edges, looking for Feedback to drive it in the right direction. Why Sparrow? In the dynamic landscape of modern work environments, specialized tools like JIRA for engineering, Sales Force for the Sales Team, and Client Success for CS teams have become essential. However, for Cross-Functional and Management teams, the reliance on email and Slack has created a challenge, users receive over 100 emails, attend 5-6 meetings and are flooded with Slack messages – this creates information chaos with a noticeable lack of accountability and traceability. We are building Sparrow to help cross-functional teams communicate with purpose, and transparency and build a culture of accountability, What is Sparrow?: 1. Sparrow works in the concept of outcomes (Decision, Actions, FYI, Review, Status Update) that anyone requests from anyone in an organization. 2. Once a Sparrow is created, you can have real-time chat conversations with in the Sparrow/Specific outcome. All discussions are under one context. no more chasing Slack threads or emails without context 3. Each Sparrow has a unique URL, that can be shared in Slack/teams/emails/ meeting requests etc., Share all the information on the outcome before you set up a meeting are start another Slack thread 4. completed Sparrows can be archived to create a repository of all decisions/actions/status updates etc. 5. You will receive weekly usage stats on accountability (number of overdue items, the goal is for teams to build a culture where overdue items are near zero.) Magic happens when a team uses Sparrow to communicate and collaborate on a day-to-day basis strive to live with accountability and maintain zero overdue sparrows. Our Alpha users, demonstrated a 6X reduction in emails/slack messages, a 3X reduction in time spent in communication tools and a 50% increase in organizational accountability after 4 weeks of usage. This is our beta version, free to use for the next few months. We would love to get your feedback on how it helps with your team collaboration, and what features would benefit you next. Lastly for new users signing up, a few notes: - Sparrow Beta is currently available for Desktop Browsers, we are not optimized for mobile - Please use work email to sign in. We place users into respective accounts based on their email domain. This makes it easier for your co-workers to join, all they have to do is log in. Generic gmail.com, outlook.com, Yahoo.com, etc accounts are not supported at the moment. - Please use the 'Continue with Google' or 'Continue with Microsoft' option to sign in, based on which email provider your organization uses. Sparrow Beta currently is available only via single sign-on from Google or Microsoft accounts Whats in our Roadmap for future ? - AI to recommend/auto create new Sparrows from email/slack/MS teams conversations - AI to nest conversations from email and Slack under each Sparrow/outcome/context - Mobile App - Desktop App - Notifications on key updates & overdue items