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Surface by Paradigm

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Surface by Paradigm

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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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Millennial and younger employees are less engaged than other generations. Millennials and Gen Z represent 60% of your workforce and will be your future leaders.
Lower engagement in this cohort correlates with 30% higher attrition risk and reduced productivity. Addressing this gap now prevents talent loss and builds a stronger leadership pipeline.
Do you want to see key peer benchmarks and get recommendations for how you can take action?
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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.

HRIS
WorkdayDayforceUKGBambooHR
Performance
LatticeWorkdayADP
Surveys
Culture AmpGlintPeakonPerceptyx
Policies & Benefits
LeaveWellnessRemote Work
Talent Practices
HiringFeedbackPromotions
Learning
LMSTrainingsLeadership Assessments
Recruiting
GreenhouseAshbyWorkday
Insights
Top hotspots, identified by looking across your full HR stack, policies, and org context.
Recommendations
Highest leverage actions to strengthen people excellence.
Policy drafts
Grounded in benchmarks and your company voice.
Playbooks
Multi-step plans designed by experts, with rollout and comms.
Board readouts
Quarterly reports ready for your leadership team.
Custom analytics
Charts and graphs built by Surface Agent using your company data.
Domain Expertise
Benchmark Intelligence
Expert Frameworks
Proven Strategies
Sources
HRIS
WorkdayDayforceUKGBambooHR
Performance
LatticeWorkdayADP
Surveys
Culture AmpGlintPeakonPerceptyx
Policies & Benefits
LeaveWellnessRemote Work
Talent Practices
HiringFeedbackPromotions
Learning
LMSTrainingsLeadership Assessments
Recruiting
GreenhouseAshbyWorkday
The Intelligence LayerLogo
Domain Expertise
Benchmark Intelligence
Expert Frameworks
Proven Strategies
Outputs
Insights
Top hotspots, identified by looking across your full HR stack, policies, and org context.
Recommendations
Highest leverage actions to strengthen people excellence.
Policy drafts
Grounded in benchmarks and your company voice.
Playbooks
Multi-step plans designed by experts, with rollout and comms.
Board readouts
Quarterly reports ready for your leadership team.
Custom analytics
Charts and graphs built by Surface Agent using your company data.
HRIS
WorkdayDayforceUKGBambooHR
Surveys
Culture AmpGlintPeakonPerceptyx
Policies & Benefits
LeaveWellnessRemote Work
Talent Practices
HiringFeedbackPromotions
Insights
Top hotspots, identified by looking across your full HR stack, policies, and org context.
Recommendations
Highest leverage actions to strengthen people excellence.
Policy drafts
Grounded in benchmarks and your company voice.
Playbooks
Multi-step plans designed by experts, with rollout and comms.
Domain Expertise
Benchmark Intelligence
Expert Frameworks
Proven Strategies
Sources
HRIS
WorkdayDayforceUKGBambooHR
Surveys
Culture AmpGlintPeakonPerceptyx
Policies & Benefits
LeaveWellnessRemote Work
Talent Practices
HiringFeedbackPromotions
The Intelligence LayerLogo
Domain Expertise
Benchmark Intelligence
Expert Frameworks
Proven Strategies
Outputs
Insights
Top hotspots, identified by looking across your full HR stack, policies, and org context.
Recommendations
Highest leverage actions to strengthen people excellence.
Policy drafts
Grounded in benchmarks and your company voice.
Playbooks
Multi-step plans designed by experts, with rollout and comms.

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.

Surface Agent producing finished work
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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

Joelle Emerson
Joelle Emerson
Co-Founder & CEO
Civil rights lawyer; advisor to leading People teams
Natalie Johnson
Natalie Johnson
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Services
Former Google people analytics leader
Carissa Romero, PhD
Carissa Romero, PhD
Co-Founder & Head of Product
Organizational psychologist; Stanford researcher
Ryan Godbey
Ryan Godbey
Senior Director, Strategy
Former U.S. Navy Intelligence Analyst
Alex Tiant
Alex Tiant
Senior Director, Learning
Ex-Deloitte · learning design
Adam Bronte
Adam Bronte
Founding Engineer
18 years in AI, security & data

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.

/ 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
“This is exactly the kind of information we’d need to help drive the culture that we want. We want to be able to define what it feels like to work here, and this is really exciting for that work.”
Head of People
Global Technology Company
“When you have that data, then you can make the case — we actually do have a problem, here’s what Surface shows us, and this is why it matters. Then you can prioritize taking action.”
VP, Talent & Learning
Fortune 500 Wine & Spirits
“For the first time, I can see what’s happening across every team and act on it before it becomes a retention problem.”
SVP, People Operations
National Healthcare System
Customer portrait

“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

GDPR

GDPR

CCPA

CCPA

CCPA

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.

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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