For People Teams
See whether your people are growing into their strengths. Monthly, teammate-reported, honest.
Parallax measures strengths utilization over time. Each teammate answers five questions once a month. Their responses produce a single index score that trends across months and quarters. You get a baselined before/after for every team, with no new meetings and no manager involvement in the measurement itself.
The measurement
Strengths Pulse
Once a month, each teammate receives a five-question survey inside Parallax. It takes about 90 seconds. The questions ask how often their work used what they are naturally good at, how visible their strengths were to their manager, and whether anything held them back. The teammate owns the response. It is private by default.
Parallax Strengths Index (PSI)
Responses roll up into one number per team per month: the PSI. The formula is published in full on the methodology page. The PSI trends over time, which means you can compare January to June and know whether things moved. One number, one direction, no ambiguity about what it measures.
The report
Parallax generates automated narrative reports on three cadences: monthly, quarterly, and annual. Each report opens with the number and its direction. When the numbers are flat, the report says so. When they drop, the first sentence tells you. Parallax does not spin its own data.
The quarterly and annual reports include trend context, participation rates, and the free-text themes that teammates chose to share. The full ruleset for how narratives are generated is on the methodology page.
Privacy by design
Privacy floors
Team-level data requires at least three responses before any aggregate appears. Org-level rollups require at least five. Below those thresholds, the data stays locked. No manager, no admin, and no export can surface it.
Consent defaults
Sharing is off by default. Individual Pulse responses never leave Parallax in any export unless the teammate explicitly opts in. The manager sees team-level trends, not individual answers. If you have been burned by "anonymous survey" tools that turned out not to be anonymous, this is the part that matters.
People team surfaces
Voice theme clustering
See anonymous patterns in how your teammates describe their experience. Parallax groups free-text Pulse responses into recurring themes so you can spot what keeps coming up without reading individual answers.
Expectations drift flagging
Teammates can signal when expectations feel off track. The flag is visible to the manager and the people team. It does not trigger a formal process; it starts a conversation before the gap widens.
Manager pipeline
See which managers are running the program and which stopped. The pipeline view shows adoption stage, last Pulse cycle completed, and team participation rate. No guessing who dropped off.
What Parallax will never do
- Change a historical score after the fact.
- Judge or classify free-text content written by the teammate.
- Aggregate below the privacy floor (three for teams, five for org-level).
- Soften, spin, or reframe a declining number.
- Train models on your organization’s data.
These are permanent commitments, not aspirations. The full list and the reasoning behind each one is on the methodology page.