INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pragli, the Bitmoji for the enterprise
at their desk, away, in a meeting, in the zone while listening to Spotify, taking a break at a digital virtual water coooler or done for the
message they can respond to later
Essentially, it translates the real-word presence cues we use to coordinate collaboration into an online workplace for distributed
in flow or waiting for critical responses
Pragli offers the focus that makes remote work productive with the togetherness that keeps everyone sane and in sync.The idea is to solve
hash something out on a call instead of vague text
Avatars give remote workers a sense of identity, while the Pragli water cooler provides a temporary place to socialize rather than an
endless Slack flood of GIFs
Nair know the feeling first-hand
After both graduating in computer science from Stanford, they built StacksWare to help enterprise software customers avoid overpaying by
accurately measuring their usage
But when they sold StacksWare to Avi Networks, they spent two years working remotely for the acquirer
problem before eventually scheduling a call
Jumping into synchronous communicating would have been much more efficient
that outside of scheduled meetings, they only had one audio or video call with co-workers per week
That convinced them to start Pragli a year ago to give work-from-home teams a visual, virtual facsimile of a real office
With no other full-time employees, the founders built and released a beta of Pragli last year
Then it plans to become freemium, with the full experience reserved for companies that pay per user per month
started with Pragi, teammates download the Pragli desktop app and sign in with Google, Microsoft or GitHub
Users then customize their avatar with a wide range of face, hair, skin and clothing options
of your facial expressions to your avatar
text communicate with any of your available co-workers
Guests can join conversations via the web and mobile too, though the team is working on a full-fledged app for phones and tablets
Tap on someone and you can instantly talk to them, though their mic stays muted until they respond
Alternatively, you can jump into Slack-esque channels for discussing specific topics or holding recurring meetings
remarkable amount of consideration into how the little office social cues about when to interrupt someone translate online, like if
It has really helped us improve transparency across teams
de-emphasize office space and hire more abroad.The biggest challenge will be making comprehensible enough to onboard whole teams such a
broad product encompassing every communication medium and tons of new behaviors
