Parabol
Parabol makes software that makes every meeting worth the time invested. It is an open-source collaborative workspace for structured, inclusive team meetings, continuous improvement, collaborative documentation and research-backed team-health checks.
At a Glance
- Software/product and engineering teams
- Remote, hybrid and distributed organizations
- Enterprise companies
- People operations and HR teams
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Parabol
Agile Retrospective Meeting Tool
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Latest News
Parabol shipped Team Health into production
Pages and Insights launched into general availability
Parabol previewed Custom Team Insights inside its upcoming Pages feature
CEO Jordan Husney published a ten-year retrospective on building Parabol
Products & Services
Structured retrospective meetings with anonymous reflection, grouping, voting, discussion threads, tasks and templates.
Digital planning-poker estimation that syncs issues from backlog tools and helps teams estimate sprint work.
Synchronous or asynchronous team updates for distributed teams.
Structured check-in meetings for agendas, individual updates, transparency and accountability.
Market Position
Parabol positions itself as an open-source, self-hostable Agile meeting and team-health platform rather than a generic whiteboard or survey tool. Crunchbase identifies Miro, Retrium and TeamRetro as alternatives/competitors; Parabol differentiates with an integrated meeting lifecycle, anonymous facilitation, action-task creation, AI meeting analysis, GraphQL programmability and secure deployment options.
Leadership
Founders
Jordan Husney
Founder and CEO; previously a Director at Undercurrent, where he advised Fortune 100 C-suite teams on the future of work. He has an engineering background and several patents in distributed systems and wireless technology.
Terry Acker
Parabol cofounder; part of the founding team that built the company around facilitated meeting mechanics and meaningful ways of working.
Matthew (Matt) Krick
Technical cofounder/principal engineer. He joined the early team, rebuilt the stack around GraphQL and built Parabol's real-time publish/subscribe implementation.
Executive Team
Jordan Husney
CEO and Head of Product
Founder; former Director at Undercurrent advising Fortune 100 C-suite teams on the future of work; engineering background with patents in distributed systems and wireless technology.
Founding Story
Jordan Husney conceived Parabol after a blizzard-era trip between Brooklyn and GE's Connecticut headquarters made him conclude that software would 'eat the office' and most knowledge workers would work remotely. After Undercurrent was acquired in 2015 and its acquirer went bankrupt, he started Parabol to put the facilitated-meeting mechanics he had used at Undercurrent into software, initially as a check-in tool and later expanding into Agile meeting formats.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium SaaS subscriptions for hosted Parabol, with paid per-active-user Team pricing and custom annual Enterprise contracts; the product is also open source and self-hostable.
Pricing Tiers
Up to 2 teams, up to 10 meetings per month, unlimited users, 30 days of history and limited custom templates/integrations.
Unlimited teams and meeting history, private teams, Team Health, AI summaries, enhanced security and priority support.
Annual flexible user tiers, SAML SSO, SCIM, dedicated account manager, uptime SLA, Jira Data Center, self-managed GitLab and optional on-premise or single-tenant hosting.
Target Markets
- Software/product and engineering teams
- Remote, hybrid and distributed organizations
- Enterprise companies
- People operations and HR teams
- Government, defense, healthcare and other regulated organizations needing self-hosting or air-gapped deployment
- Agile retrospectives and continuous improvement
- Sprint planning and estimation
- Synchronous or asynchronous standups
- Team check-ins and meeting facilitation
- Anonymous team-health measurement followed by action
- Cross-team documentation and knowledge management
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