Village Labs

Our most #meta use case for AI yet?.... (posting about my product, by asking my product to post about my product ?? ) I would not necessarily recommend our customers use Village Labs to write their LinkedIn content, but hey... it was worth a try. Here's what I asked our new custom report tool: "Please write a super compelling LinkedIn post for me, Bradford, based on what's happening at my company in the last 24 hours. The goal of this post is to generate interest in buying my company's product. It should be written in the style of a LinkedIn influencer and follow all best practices.?"

This morning, Village Labs scanned all our connected apps (Jira, Slack, Notion, Monday and Docs/Sheets) and picked up that Martin has way too many P0 issues assigned to him that'll block the rest of the team unless we redistribute. The Blockers report is another cool and super useful example of what you can do with Custom Reports within Village Labs.

Here's a sneak peek ?? a new feature to help managers skip writing status updates every week: We've upgraded our custom AI reports. Soon you can get even MOAR customized insights about your team and your company from Village Labs. Think of the possibilities! Never write a status update ever again.... 1. Improved prompt customization 2. Better report previews(!) for quick iteration 3. Add or restrict specific data sources (e.g. Slack, Google, Notion, HubSpot) 4. Add or restrict specific user groups (e.g. Sales or "Q4 Planning Strike Team") 5. Blame Homer Simpson for everything that goes wrong (optional)

Now status updates are dead, too ?? Last week we “killed” the standup. This week we killed off your weekly status update. We just released our “Team Updates” feature and it’s magical. As usual, Atlas' AI does all the heavy lifting with Team Updates, so you can focus on the work that actually matters. Atlas looks across all your tools (Slack, Docs, Meet, GitHub, Jira, Notion, etc.) and finds everything needed for a great team or XFN update. Then we drop it in everyone’s Daily Briefing feed so they’ll never miss a thing. We also have a cool new “follow” feature that lets you follow teams you care about, and make sure their automated weekly updates show up in your feed. This is insanity, but knowledge workers spend about 2.5 hours per day searching for information! (IDC/McKinsey) And think of all the hours managers/directors/VPs spend slaving away on Fridays to send out their weekly status update. Never again! Atlas is here for you. And we’re currently offering 60 day risk-free trials :)

I talk to a pretty diverse group of leaders and companies each week. However different they are, there’s one thing they pretty much universally hate ?? Slack. This usually comes up unprompted when I ask what’s going well and not about remote or distributed work. It’s something like: - there are 150 messages across 15 different channels I’m supposed to read when I wake up or get out of meetings - it’s an incredibly inefficient way of sharing/consuming info? - it's very distracting (esp for eng etc) to be interrupted every few minutes - bad decisions happen in Slack threads - there is so much company knowledge lost in Slack. Think of this as the ‘Slack tax’ on your organization. You pay it because there are obviously a lot of benefits: quick comms, collaboration, connectedness. But the tax gets more expensive the more stuff that happens in Slack. For remote or distributed teams, it’s extremely expensive. At Village Labs, we hate the Slack tax. So we’ve added something to Atlas’ Chief of Staff to reduce it. Because Atlas’ LLM is connected to, and can understand and summarize all the data and content living in the tools a company uses everyday - Atlassian Jira, HubSpot, Google docs, Notion, Asana, Slack etc? - we've added a module that generates summaries of the most important stuff happening across different Slack channels. You can understand it in plain english and dive in more if need be. Slack is just the tip of the iceberg. Atlas gives the quick 1-minute data-rich summary of pretty much anything across your org: what an individual or team is working on, where that cross-functional project is at, or what’s the latest on that issue that you care about, and a whole whole lot more. Atlas is having a huge impact on our team’s execution speed, visibility, and connectedness. Ping me if you wanna stop paying such a hefty slack tax!