Worklytics GTM brain

Worklytics provides workplace and AI adoption analytics to IT, people analytics and organizational leaders using collaboration metadata.

category

Workplace and AI ROI analytics

market profile

  • text: As organizations purchase multiple AI tools, IT and finance leaders need evidence of adoption and value ahead of renewal.
  • text: Workforce analytics vendors vary between organizational collaboration analysis and individual activity monitoring, creating distinct privacy tradeoffs.

personas

  • title: IT or AI adoption leader
    pains:
    • AI purchases are dispersed across teams and vendor accounts
    • Renewals require evidence of usage and value, not just licenses purchased
  • title: Head of people analytics
    pains:
    • Periodic surveys miss ongoing changes in cross-functional collaboration
    • Workplace measurement can erode trust if employees perceive surveillance
  • title: CFO or technology finance leader
    pains:
    • Cannot compare AI spend with estimated value across tools
    • Needs an accountable basis for renewing or reallocating software spend

icp

  • text: Organizations with 100 to 1,000 employees are the stated target for the Business tier.
  • text: Larger enterprises with dedicated people analytics or IT teams, multiple work platforms and requirements for data pipelines and governance.

message pillars

  • text: Connect AI adoption to economic outcomes.
  • text: Analyze work patterns without accessing work content.
  • text: Use insights to improve collaboration and management.

objections

  • objection: Will employees see this as surveillance?
    response: Review aggregation thresholds, privacy proxy, access controls and the row-level Enterprise option with employees and privacy counsel before rollout.
  • objection: Are estimated AI savings the same as proven ROI?
    response: Agree a conservative baseline and methodology with finance, then validate estimates against measurable outcomes before using them for renewals.
  • objection: We already have Microsoft workplace analytics.
    response: Compare required integration coverage and analytics across the actual collaboration and AI tools in use.

competitors

  • name: Microsoft Viva Insights
    website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/workplace-analytics-and-feedback
    why: Workplace collaboration and employee analytics within the Microsoft ecosystem.
  • name: Humanyze
    why: Workforce and organizational analytics addressing collaboration and productivity.
  • name: ActivTrak
    why: Workforce productivity and AI adoption analytics with different monitoring capabilities.

influencers

  • name: Erik Schultink
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikschultink
    why: Founder and CTO discussing people analytics and AI adoption.
  • name: Philip Arkcoll
    url: https://www.businessinsider.com/boss-track-ai-use-career-2025-8
    why: Co-founder and CEO quoted on AI adoption measurement.

keywords

  • workplace analytics
  • AI ROI measurement
  • people analytics software
  • meeting effectiveness analytics
  • organizational network analysis
  • manager effectiveness analytics
  • AI adoption analytics

voice

  • Practical and data-driven
  • Privacy-conscious
  • Leadership and employee experience focused

signals

  • text: An upcoming AI license renewal prompts finance and IT to evaluate adoption and cost.
  • text: People analytics leaders are investigating manager effectiveness or cross-team collaboration.
  • text: A company uses several collaboration and AI platforms and needs a cross-platform view.

stack

  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • ChatGPT
  • Microsoft Copilot

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free for up to 100 users; Business starts at $2,500/month

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • blog
  • LinkedIn
  • events
  • free tools

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Philip Arkcoll
    title: Founder
    role: Founder

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