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Surface proactively identifies risks, opportunities, and recommended actions across your workforce, so your team can focus on what matters most.

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Diagnose current frontline management capability
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THE PLATFORM

One intelligence layer. Every signal that matters.

Hotspots, insights, recommendations, benchmarks, and maturity scores all come from the same connected view of your organization, so you have one source of truth.

Insights

Insights & Hotspots

Plain-language insights into what’s happening across your workforce, with emerging risks and opportunities prioritized by what matters most to your business.

Recommendations

Recommendations

Expert-informed actions, prioritized and explained based on what will have the greatest impact in your organization.

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Maturity & AI readiness scores

See where your organization stands on talent, culture, and AI readiness, with scores by dimension and clear comparisons to peers.

Analytics

Talent Practices Inventory

The norms, unwritten practices, and institutional knowledge other systems miss, woven into every insight, benchmark, and recommendation.

Benchmarks

Benchmarked against peers that matter

Compare your policies, practices, and outcomes with relevant peers, then see where you stand and where there may be room to improve.

UNIFIED DATA

Connect every signal that shapes your workforce

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Surface brings together your HR systems, employee feedback, and the policies and practices that define how your organization works. The result is a unified context layer that powers every insight, recommendation, and agent response.

Connect your HR stack in days, not months

Make policies, practices, and institutional knowledge queryable

Every insight powered by the same source of truth

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Leave Policy
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Leadership Assessments
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lattice
Remote Work Policy
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glean
Surface

The complete picture, not just a survey

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Multi-signal, not single-source. Unify HRIS data, employee surveys, performance metrics, exit interviews, policies, benefits, and peer benchmarks into one intelligence layer, along with the unwritten talent practices that no other system captures.
Action, not just insight. Surface doesn't just uncover your biggest gaps, it helps you close them. Tailored recommendations based on real-world expertise, ready-to-run workflows, and drafts your team can act on immediately.
Expert-informed, not just AI-generated. Built on Paradigm's experience advising thousands of companies on building healthy, high-performance cultures, Surface is grounded in proprietary benchmarks, proven frameworks, and domain expertise that generic AI can't replicate.
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EXPERTISE BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Built on lessons from the people shaping modern work

Through conversations with leading operators, researchers, and executives, we bring current thinking on talent and organizational performance into how Surface interprets signals and recommends action. Here's what we learned from Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor:

Adam Ward

Head of Talent, Cursor

Talent density = consistency + rigor + effort

Most companies neglect effort — the one factor entirely within their control.

Hiring managers own the quality bar

The moment hiring gets handed off entirely to recruiting, the quality bar erodes.

Efficacy over efficiency

The best companies invest to get hiring right — not to optimize for spending less.

Watch the podcast →

EXPERTISE BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Built on lessons from the people shaping modern work

Through conversations with leading operators, researchers, and executives, we bring current thinking on talent and organizational performance into how Surface interprets signals and recommends action. Here's what we learned from Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor:

Adam Ward

Head of Talent, Cursor

Talent density = consistency + rigor + effort

Most companies neglect effort — the one factor entirely within their control.

Hiring managers own the quality bar

The moment hiring gets handed off entirely to recruiting, the quality bar erodes.

Efficacy over efficiency

The best companies invest to get hiring right — not to optimize for spending less.

Watch the podcast →

EXPERTISE BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Built on lessons from the people shaping modern work

Through conversations with leading operators, researchers, and executives, we bring current thinking on talent and organizational performance into how Surface interprets signals and recommends action. Here's what we learned from Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor:

Adam Ward

Head of Talent, Cursor

Talent density = consistency + rigor + effort

Most companies neglect effort — the one factor entirely within their control.

Hiring managers own the quality bar

The moment hiring gets handed off entirely to recruiting, the quality bar erodes.

Efficacy over efficiency

The best companies invest to get hiring right — not to optimize for spending less.

Watch the podcast →

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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 a high-performing culture?

Join people leaders using Surface to move from data to decisions — faster, and with confidence.

Request a Demo