Organizations invest significant resources for professional development and performance management. When we've talked to employees about these tools, no one is really using them because they fear that the data they input into these systems will be used against them in some way. With AI, this fear is amplified.

For example:

• If you track your real goals in these tools, will it be used against you if you change this goal?
• If you document your real feelings in a 1:1 meeting, will IT be able to read it?
• If you track who you want to connect with at your company, will your leaders judge this through a political lens?

In other words, a deep irony exists in this space: if you really want employees to engage in the people-side of their jobs, then you'll also need to allow them some privacy in which to do this.

People have been working around this fact for a long time. They create their own private solutions in the form of spreadsheets, docs, or even paper notebooks.

People Work gives users the foundation of privacy and agency:

• It stores all data locally in a human readable Domain-Specific Language (DSL) (link to docs).
• Data is not shared by default, and sharing is only done when the user decides to. Most data is never shared.
• Any synchronization across devices is encrypted and controlled by the employee.

With this privacy in place, people can really engage in the people side of their jobs. If an employee feels like they have agency and autonomy in their career, then they are more engaged. And everyone wins!

We're able to accomplish this because we are bootstrapped and therefore haven't promised investors radical growth that forces us to harvest people's data. This helps us solve the real, fundamental problem here, and in turn, allows people to really achieve what's next in their careers.

Imagine what a whole company of people who are actually engaged in the people side of their work would look like. Let's work together to make it happen.