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Sparrow — Outcome driven communication & team collaboration tool
Sparrow is an outcome-driven communication tool that helps cross-functional teams collaborate with purpose, increase transparency, and build accountability. An outcome can be a decision, action item, deliverable, status update.
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@maya_maya6 @xavier4ai Thank you Xavier for you comments on Sparrow. I will check out the linked in group shortly, didn't know one existed for PH founders, thanks for sharing.
@guruchand_gurusamy Thank you for being a beta user and sharing your feedback Guru đź‘Ť
@gaby_korablyova Hey Gaby, Thanks for supporting us. I'll dive in to this a little deep here
Problems
- Imagine cross functional working in a mid size org (1000 employees)
- I was getting over 100 internal emails , probably was in 40-50 MS teams channels/ Slack channels, and calendar full of meetings
- Challenge: Unless I process/ read through all my emails and messages, I dont know whats important & Why ?
- and once you get through them, you dont have tracability in to conversations from last week, that need to be actioned now etc.
Diving a little deep
- People communicate to accomplish something, if that was clear upfront, (The who, The What, The Why and the When) and starts with outcome, it is easily consumable
- If all the conversations regarding a particular outcome are nested inside it. I don't have to read the mall in order to priortize, cause I have visibility into the outcome at a high level
- lastly bringing together communication and task management, again because we are trying to get things done via email and slack, where there is not tracking / accountability
In the market there are a few AI driven solutions that can help with deriving tasks from this choas and prioritizing it for you. We asked a different question ? why is there so much noise and choas? the answers were
1. email/slack/teams etc are open ended communication tools, there is no portocol to communication. We changed that (in Sparrow with out specifying an outcome - The who, th what, the why, the when, you cannot initiate communication)
2. no accountability and transparency in communication tools. If I said I will update a deck, noo one know if I am actively doing it, when I will do it etc. We changed that by giving every outcomes a status and due date.
In essence, we took the best practices in corporate communication (already followed by many organizations) and packed it into an out of the box product. While change is hard for any organization to adopt a new tool for communication, the benefit is long lasting, as its changing the culture of communication and helps with creating less chaotic and stress free environment
Lastly, Sparrow is for real business outcomes.. we haven't solved for usecases like, pinging some one for a coffee break/ water cooler chat etc.
Congrats on the launch! Very exciting and much needed solution to the chaos of collaborating in large teams.
As a Senior Product Manager with multiple years of experience in SaaS I can resonate with the problem Sparrow is solving. The constant back and forth and breaks in communication between Slack, email, and other tools is time consuming. Time that could be dedicated to more productive work.
I appreciate how the focus here is on outcomes rather than simply task creation. Definitely looking forward to giving this a spin!
@quadri_oshibotu Thanks Quadri for the support and feedback. Focusing on tasks is doing more stuff,, focusing on accomplishing outcomes is delivering more value. In fact, when Teams use sparrow, they start to ruthlessly prioritize the outcomes, focus on a few but with greater degree of accomplishment.
Been using Sparrow for a while and has helped us focus more on purposeful communication and stay on track.
Cheers to the team!!
TL;DR - If you want to apply collaboration and cross-functional approach into your workplace, look no further.
I was part of the user demos for this product and been using it from the beginning. With the millennia & gen-z joining the workforce, this app solves the current problem perfectly: no more confusion about who said what or who's working on what. It cuts out unnecessary meetings or discussions and helps get the real work done faster. I'm a big fan of the logic and approach behind this tool.
@kirithiga_sundaramoorthy Thank you for the feedback and support. The approach behind Sparrow is different from most tools, we try to minimize communication overlad by helping people be purposeful, impactful when the communicate and drive clarity with organization of information based on outcomes. Hopefully, Sparrow will help transform communication culture for modern teams.
Communication is very important. Especially in a world that is becoming more and more digital. I really like working remotely, but it requires tools that fit the team and culture. Congrats to your launch!
@marvin_maendle thanks Marvin for the support. Feel free to try Sparrow with your team, would love to hear feedback from your usage
Was lucky to work with Harish at a stint with a large B2B SaaS company, and can vouch for his outcome driven problem solving approach towards new product development. Sparrow is solving a very real problem for bringing about more efficiency in work place exchanges; the clutter is real as most of us experience on a day to day basis. Keeping track of context across emails and collaboration tools like Slack and Teams is a challenge, especially on tasks and projects with longer cycle times.
Sparrow could also help new people to familiarise themselves with tons of past context, as they join role or team.
Looking forward to how it unfolds under Harish's leadership and vision.
Sparrow will become synonymous to the word productivity and getting things done.
Been part of demos and used the product and I can say that it is not only a tool, it could positively disrupt the way how we work in the world of more noise and less music (work) :)
@tamilbharathi_v That’s the goal! Thank you for sharing your experience with sparrow.
Harish, the product you’ve developed and your pitch is super impressive! As an IT professional at a major telecom managing a team, I can totally foresee this product could bring the much needed change and prioritization into the everyday workplace interactions. Congratulations on the launch and wish you the very best!
Congratulations on the launch! The reduction in emails and Slack messages, along with the increase in organizational accountability, demonstrated by your alpha users is impressive and speaks volumes about the potential impact of Sparrow. Great work!
@prateekkapoor thank you. We hope sparrow can make work life less stressful specially in a remote-hybrid environment.
Congratulations on the launch, Harish.
The problem sparrow is solving is core to the quality of our work lives.
Being a product person, my job is to prioritise things but my day doesn’t have right tools to prioritise my day.
Constantly living in fear that something more important must have come up while I was away from Slack.
It’s time we living our work day by design, not by default.
I am very hopeful that sparrow will help us keep work life uninterrupted while keeping the higher ups completely in sync.
Enjoy the building process!
Congratulations on your launch! How are you going to differentiate it from your competitors?
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