Introducing Surface Listening: AI-native employee listening, built into Surface
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Introducing Surface Listening
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Build the AI-Native People Team
Surface unifies people data, benchmarks what matters, and turns analysis into finished work, giving People teams the intelligence they need to build high-performing organizations.
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Unified data
One intelligence layer across every signal
Surface brings together the signals shaping your workforce and applies expert judgment and peer benchmarks to turn raw data into people intelligence.




Finished work
Where intelligence meets action
Ask Surface to create the reports, plans, policies, and communications your team needs, grounded in your data and guided by expert-built playbooks.

BUILT BY EXPERTS
Expert judgment built in
Surface is shaped by Paradigm experts who have advised more than 2,000 organizations since 2014. Their research, frameworks, and field experience inform the playbooks, benchmarks, and evaluation standards built into the product.
BUILT BY EXPERTS
Expert judgment built in
Surface is shaped by Paradigm experts who have advised more than 2,000 organizations since 2014. Their research, frameworks, and field experience inform the playbooks, benchmarks, and evaluation standards built into the product.
BUILT BY EXPERTS
Expert judgment built in
Surface is shaped by Paradigm experts who have advised more than 2,000 organizations since 2014. Their research, frameworks, and field experience inform the playbooks, benchmarks, and evaluation standards built into the product.
2,000+
Organizations advised since 2014
12+ yrs
of research and advising across talent, culture, and people analytics
400+
Signals analyzed per company
300+
Expert playbooks deployed






Return on intelligence
Boost talent density. Unlock productivity. Accelerate performance.
Surface gives People teams the intelligence and execution capacity to diagnose issues faster, act with greater confidence, and complete high-value work in days instead of months.
/ 01
Preventable attrition.
Most voluntary departures are preventable, but only if you can spot the drivers in time. Surface identifies the patterns leading to attrition and recommends interventions grounded in what's worked at peer companies.
75%
of voluntary departures are preventable. Source: Work Institute, 2025.
/ 02
Consulting fees avoided.
Attrition analyses, talent practice design, inclusion strategy, manager training. The work leading companies once paid our consultants months to deliver, Surface produces in real time.
$275K
avg. annual external spend displaced. Source: Paradigm analysis.
/ 03
Performance unlocked.
Stronger managers. Better collaboration. Faster communication. Surface compounds the small practices that separate top-quartile companies from the rest.
+17%
productivity lift on engaged teams. Source: Gallup.
/ 04
Faster decisions.
Surface helps teams diagnose issues and act in days, not weeks, so critical people decisions don't stall.
2–3x
speed vs. traditional workflows.
Source: Paradigm analysis.
In their words
Built for leaders who know the team is the strategy

“This is the most exciting platform I’ve seen in years. There’s so many different ways that we can use the data and I’m really excited about how it fits into my vision of how we’re changing.”
Chief People Officer
Multi-Site Restaurant Group
Security & Privacy
Your data stays yours
Paradigm's enterprise-grade security built in
Your data is never used to train AI models
Data encrypted at rest and in transit
SSO & role-based access controls
Annual third-party penetration testing
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 2 Type II

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CCPA
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Ready to build the people team of the future?
Join people leaders using Surface to move from data to decisions — faster, and with confidence.
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GET STARTED TODAY
Ready to build the people team of the future?
Join people leaders using Surface to move from data to decisions — faster, and with confidence.
Request a Demo