For Heads of People & CHROs

Culture is a leading indicator.

fynn turns the check-ins, 1:1s and recognition your team already shares in Slack into a weekly read on retention — the signal that decides who stays, weeks before it shows up in an annual survey.

Slack-native, no new login · Consent-first AI · HRIS-sourced, not CSVs · 30-day pilot

One weekly read, not another annual survey

Your engagement survey tells you who left. fynn tells you who's drifting.

The signals that decide retention show up between Tuesdays, not once a year. fynn surfaces them where your team already works — and you turn it on in an afternoon.

01

Install from Slack

One-click OAuth — no keys to paste, no admin ticket. fynn syncs your roster and timezones automatically, and reads manager + department straight from your HRIS.

02

Turn on the pillars that matter

Start with check-ins, pairings or watercoolers — each with its own schedule, channel and audience. Nothing is global that doesn't need to be. No AI posts publicly without an admin's one-click approval.

03

Read one weekly signal

Reply cadence, pairing meet-rate, participation by cohort, dormancy — one stoplight metric per pillar. The board-ready read you can walk into a QBR with, weeks before anyone hands in notice.

What fynn reads

The everyday moments that hold a team together.

Each pillar targets a specific retention signal — and gives you data you can act on, not a vanity chart. Turn on what you need; the rest waits.

📝

Check-ins

One threaded conversation per teammate — curiosity-first AI follow-ups paced to their reply rhythm. Reply rates run 2–3× an engagement-survey email.

🤝

Pairings

Matched on shared work, not a shuffle. fynn finds a free slot on both calendars and drops a Zoom link in the intro DM — then measures whether they actually met.

🧪

Watercoolers

Admin-approved questions in the channels you pick. fynn posts, then warms the thread with its own first reply so it never dies in silence.

👏

Recognition

Specific, never performative. fynn coaches the giver toward what actually happened — no leaderboards, no points, no guilt nudges.

…plus 1:1 meetings, surveys, time-off, feedback, celebrations and more — eighteen pillars in all, each its own schedule, audience and kill switch.

fynn vs Donut

How we compare, honestly.

Donut is a solid product. Here's where fynn is different — and where we're not.

Capability
fynn
Donut
1:1 intro pairings
✓ AI-scored on shared work + activity balance
✓ Random shuffle
Async team check-ins
✓ Per-question DM threads, personalized follow-ups
Closed feedback loop
✓ Post-meet DM feeds the next round's matches
Per-program engagement insights
✓ Met-rate & lift vs a rolling baseline
Limited reporting
HRIS sync (dates, manager, dept)
✓ Direct OAuth; Zoho today, Bamboo / Workday next
Self-serve opt-outs in Slack
✓ pause / snooze / don't-pair / delete-my-profile
✓ pause
Starting price
$2.50 / person / month
≈ $3.90 / person / month

Comparison reflects fynn features live in the codebase today. Donut rows reflect their published documentation at the time of writing. We'll update this as either product changes.

Built to be trusted

The posture your DPO will sign off on.

Consent-first AI — every teammate has one-DM opt-outs the code checks before spending a token No AI posts unapproved — public output goes through an admin review queue HRIS-sourced — dates & reporting lines from your system of record, not a spreadsheet Privacy by design — zero-retention model terms; we send your DPO the DPA Incubated inside Axelerant — built by an employee-owned company that lives this

The full posture — GDPR, UK GDPR, DPDP (India), CCPA/CPRA — lives on the Privacy page.

See a signal delta in three weeks.

Pick one channel and one pilot cohort. 30 days, every feature, no card required — you'll know by week three whether the data justifies a wider rollout.