ClarityLift — ambient organizational health intelligence

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spec_version: 0.1.0
spec_url: https://theintegrityframework.org/specs/brief-md/v0.1.0
document_type: brand-brief
brand_id: claritylift
brand_version: 1.2.0
parent_operator_id: tom-pinder
last_updated: 2026-05-06
draft_authority: read_only_until_constraints_md_item_11_lifts
sections:
  identity: public
  voice-overrides: public
  brand-context: public
  positioning: public
  visual-identity: pitch-shareable
  available-assets: pitch-shareable
  product-context: pitch-shareable
  brand-story: pitch-shareable
  strategic-priorities: private
  disqualifying-condition-kill-switches: private
  customer-insight-notes: private
  internal-scoring-weights: private
  pre-launch-exclusion: private
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# Copy respects voice-overrides: avoids "differential privacy",
# "temporal-correlation defense", "predict turnover", "flag burnout",
# "AI for HR" lead-frame, and "no surveys, no surveillance" as the
# differentiator.
name: ClarityLift
tagline: Ambient organizational health intelligence — reads the room without reading anyone
url: https://claritylift.ai
description: ClarityLift runs semantic LLM analysis on team conversation content in Slack, Teams, and Discord channels and reports at the team level only. Aggregate-only architecture with a 10-person minimum group threshold, no DM ingestion, no raw conversation storage. Surfaces friction, disengagement, communication, culture, and positive-pattern signals as actionable team-level insights for CHROs, VP People Ops, and people-analytics leads at 100-5,000-employee Slack-first or Teams-first organizations.
categories: [people-analytics, hr-tech, employee-experience, organizational-health, slack-apps, teams-apps]
pricingModel: paid
logoUrl: https://prapi.dev/brand/claritylift/logo-square.svg
founderTwitter: tjpinder
linkedinUrl: https://linkedin.com/in/tjpinder
contactEmail: tom@claritylift.ai
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# Brand: ClarityLift

> **CONSTRAINT REMINDER:** per `constraints.md` item 11, the agent does NOT produce ClarityLift content during V1 pre-launch. This brand-brief.md is structural context only. Authorization to draft requires V1 ship + 2 weeks stabilization + Tom's explicit edit to `constraints.md` item 11.

## Identity [public]
- name: ClarityLift
- legal_entity: StartVest LLC
- website: https://claritylift.ai
- description: Ambient organizational health intelligence. Semantic LLM analysis of conversation content in Slack / Teams / Discord channels, aggregated at team level only
- launched: 2026 (V1 deployed at claritylift.ai; SOC 2 Type I audit in preparation; Teams consent flow shipping in V1.1)

## Voice Overrides [public]

### Additional banned phrases (HARD. Walked-back claims that must never reappear)
- **"differential privacy" / "DP"**. Never claim. Walked back 2026-04-25 per `project_claritylift_dp_temporal_walkback`. Removed from /privacy and blog. Hard rule.
- **"temporal-correlation defense"**. Never claim. Walked back 2026-04-25. Hard rule.
- **"predict turnover"** / **"flag burnout"**. Clinical / individual-level claims that violate the aggregate-only architecture
- **"AI for HR"** as the lead frame (generic; lead with the specific signal)
- **"no surveys, no surveillance"** alone as the differentiator (Viva Insights could claim that too. Sharper positioning is the semantic-analysis gap)

### Additional banned framings
- Differential-privacy or temporal-correlation defense claims (per `voice/anti-patterns.md` adjacent banned)
- Any privacy-architecture claim that goes beyond aggregate-only + 10-person threshold + no-DMs + no-raw-storage

### Additional required elements
- pitch: chro_or_analytics_lead_persona
- pitch: aggregate_only_architecture_disclosure (every public claim about ClarityLift's privacy posture is bounded by what's verifiable in code)

## Brand Context [public]
ClarityLift reads the room. Semantic LLM analysis of actual conversation content in Slack / Teams / Discord channels, aggregated at team level only. No surveys. No surveillance. No DMs read. Aggregate-only with a 10-person minimum group threshold.

The category line: *Culture Amp asks every quarter. Viva Insights counts messages. We read the room.*

The differentiator is the semantic LLM analysis gap between four adjacent product categories. Survey platforms (Culture Amp, Lattice), metadata analytics (Viva Insights, Worklytics), surveillance (ActivTrak, Teramind), and survey-delivery-as-ambient (the products that push surveys through Slack and call themselves ambient). ClarityLift is none of those.

## Positioning [public]
- category: ambient organizational health intelligence
- primary_persona: CHRO, VP People Operations, Head of People, Chief People Officer
- champion: people analytics lead, sometimes the COO
- secondary_persona: CEO at smaller orgs where the CHRO role doesn't yet exist
- buyer_size: 100–5,000 employees, Slack-first or Teams-first culture
- industries: SaaS, fintech, professional services, healthcare
- not_for: enterprises with mandated metadata-only HR analytics, surveillance-product buyers, survey-platform buyers content with quarterly cadence
- comp_set_distinct_from: Culture Amp, Lattice (surveys); Viva Insights, Worklytics (metadata); ActivTrak, Teramind (surveillance)

## Visual Identity [pitch-shareable]
(TODO: visual identity not yet codified.)

### Colors
- primary: (TODO)
- secondary: (TODO)

### Typography
- heading_font: (TODO)
- body_font: (TODO)

### Logo
- primary_url: (TODO)
- icon_only_url: (TODO)
- minimum_size_px: 32

## Available Assets [pitch-shareable]
- headshot: inherits operator
- bio_short: (TODO)
- bio_long: (TODO)
- logo_press_kit: (TODO)
- product_screenshots: (TODO. Only after V1 ships)

## Product Context [pitch-shareable]

### Features
- semantic LLM analysis of channel conversation content
- aggregate-only output (team level, no individual tracking)
- 10-person minimum group threshold per channel (sub-threshold channels are free; not analyzed)
- no DMs read; no raw conversation storage
- per-channel pricing (not per-employee)
- strategic alignment module (Growth tier and above)
- platform fee with SOC 2, BAA, SSO, dedicated CSM (Enterprise)

### Pricing
- Starter (1–10 channels): $79/ch monthly, $66/ch annual. 3-channel minimum
- Growth (11–25 channels): $59/ch monthly, $49/ch annual
- Growth (26–50 channels): $39/ch monthly, $33/ch annual
- Enterprise (51+): $29/ch monthly, $24/ch annual + platform fee $500–$1,500/mo

Annual = ~16% discount (2 months free).

### Customer base
- (pre-launch. Populate after V1 ships)

### Differentiators
- Semantic content analysis vs metadata-only (Viva Insights / Worklytics)
- Per-channel pricing vs per-employee (cost predictability for Slack-first companies)
- Aggregate-only architecture by design, not by claim (verifiable in code)
- Microsoft Co-Sell + SDVOSB distribution advantages

### Verifiable key claims
- Aggregate-only architecture, 10-person minimum threshold per channel. First-party product fact (verifiable in code)
- No DMs read; no raw storage. First-party privacy architecture (verifiable in code)
- EU AI Act compliance deadline August 2, 2026. Relevant for EU markets (cite EU AI Act Article 6 + Annex III)
- GPT-4o-mini per-channel cost ~$0.045/month. First-party COGS (use for "AI is expensive" counter-narrative)

### Banned claims (HARD)
- Differential privacy. Never claim
- Temporal-correlation defense. Never claim
- Any privacy-architecture claim beyond aggregate-only + 10-person threshold + no-DMs + no-raw-storage

## Brand Story [pitch-shareable]
ClarityLift is a spinoff from IdeaLift. The thesis: every CHRO is making decisions on a stale survey from last quarter, while the actual signal is in the Slack channel that just had a 40-message thread about scheduling. ClarityLift reads the room. At team level, with a hard 10-person minimum, with no DMs and no raw storage. So CHROs make decisions on present-tense signal instead of episodic surveys.

## Strategic Priorities [private]
- Pre-launch: V1 ship + 2 weeks stabilization gate
- Compliance / distribution advantages: Microsoft Co-Sell (Teams-deploying customers), SDVOSB (federal-adjacent customers)
- v2: IdeaLift handoff for product-feedback content discovered in HR / org-health channels, industry-vertical templates (healthcare comms, hybrid-work patterns), team-coaching layer (alerts → playbooks)

## Disqualifying-condition kill switches [private]
- Microsoft ships Viva Insights with semantic content analysis (the regulatory-trust landmine resolves itself; compresses the moat)
- Culture Amp launches an ambient product distinct from survey delivery
- EU AI Act enforcement actions against HR analytics tools narrow the legal window for ClarityLift's architecture

## Customer Insight Notes [private]
(populated post-launch)

## Internal Scoring Weights [private]
- topic_fit_weight: 0.30
- voice_fit_weight: 0.25 (voice fidelity is critical given walked-back claims)
- credibility_fit_weight: 0.25 (HR-trade press + people-analytics outlets)
- timeliness_weight: 0.15
- exclusivity_weight: 0.05

## Pre-launch exclusion [private]
`constraints.md` item 11 blocks all ClarityLift drafting during V1 pre-launch. The exclusion lifts when:

1. ClarityLift V1 ships AND
2. V1 has 2+ weeks of stabilization (no priority bug fixes pending) AND
3. Tom explicitly authorizes by editing `constraints.md` item 11.

Until those three conditions are met, this brand-brief.md is read-only context, not draft authority. PRAPI's matching engine should still consume the brief for inbox scoring (so future ClarityLift opportunities surface), but pitch generation and content drafting must remain blocked.