Kona
Meet Kona, the AI copilot and coach for managers.Kona helps every manager save time on admin work, grow their leadership skills, and support their teammates. All without changing their workflow.Add Kona to your meetings to get AI agendas, meeting notes, and action items sent straight in Slack. Kona also offers expert coaching, based on how you showed up in the meeting and your company’s manager best practices.See why HR leaders love Kona:
"We’ve seen Kona work as a co-pilot to our managers. It can sit in and take notes for your meetings, support you in handling conflict situations, help you come up with an agenda for a team offsite, or provide suggestions on how to better help your employees with career development. For our team, Kona helps to reinforce company frameworks, values, and more––sharing content with managers at the right place and the right time. It helps them to continue building on what we’ve established through our talent programs or other initiatives."– Aniya Grimm, Head of Talent Success at Amplitude
“Something that keeps me up at night is how we can help managers practice what they're learning, in a way that's accessible. They have very little capacity to think about [management]. Kona enables us to give them back capacity and help them practice––with coaching and feedback––in a very controlled and safe way.”- Marissa Dahlson, Director of L&D, DEI, Employee Experience at CriblSee why managers love Kona:
“I turned on Kona and forgive my language but holy **** was this impressive. I am sharing what Kona generated five minutes after the conclusion of my 1:1… The value in having this record is huge.”
“If you haven't turned on Kona you really should. Every single member of my team gave me positive feedback about the summaries they got from Kona after our 1:1s.”
“Thank God I have Kona. It saves me at least 1.5 hours per direct report per week.”With Kona, you can::calendar: Save hours on writing meeting notes, action items, and agendas:green_apple: Build your manager skills with ongoing feedback, based on best practices:trophy: Get a first draft of a performance reviews full of real-life examples:chart_with_upwards_trend: See real-time trends on your effectiveness, and anonymous reports on departmentsIdeal for distributed teamsSee why Kona is trusted by best-in-class orgs and beloved by managers, from Engineering to Marketing to HR. Perfect for distributed teams that use Slack, Zoom, Google Meet.Ready when you areGet started with Kona for free! Set up directly in Slack and start your 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Need help getting started? Reach out to amanda@heykona.com!Kona is the tool for people-first leaders. Learn more about how Kona can make a big impact within your organization at https://heykona.com.Disclaimer: Kona uses advanced AI technology based on large language models. We never train our models on your meeting data and encourage our users to use their judgment and discretion when following AI-generated suggestions.
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General
Developer
Sike Insights, Inc.
Company headquarters location
United States
Terms of service
Privacy & data governance
Data retention policy
The Company is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR. Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall be:
a. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;
b. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that
is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;
c. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
d. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;
e. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and
f. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.”
Data archiving and removal policy
All customer data should be disposed of when it is no longer necessary for business use, provided that the disposal does not conflict with our data retention policies, our customers data retention policies, a court order, or any of our regulatory obligations.
● All employees, clients, vendors and contractors are instructed to not use the following media to store confidential information.
○ paper-based media
○ USB Drives or External Backup programs
○ CD ROM drives.
● All cloud based storage media being decommissioned should be sanitized when it is no longer necessary, provided that there is a backup of customer data on production systems to comply with our customers data retention and contractual obligations.
● Laptop based storage media may not be donated or sold. All laptop based storage media should be sanitized prior to transfer of ownership to a co-worker or prior to destruction.
Data storage policy
Sike Insights may collect and receive Customer Data, and other information and data ("Other Information") in a variety of ways:
● Customer Data. Customers or individuals invited to use a decision making tool by a Customer ("Authorized Users") routinely submit Customer Data to Sike Insights when using the Services.
● Personal Data. Sike Insights is primarily a Data Processor for Data provided by the Customer (Data Controller). In order to use Sike Insights Services, Personal Data provided by the Customer directly or indirectly (invitation to access Personal Data from a Workspace, or other) are accessible by Sike Insights in order to generate and/or operate decision making tools. Authorized Users may provide Sike Insights with their Personal Data directly at instances, for example when they provide feedback or request client support or in any way communicate with Sike Insights. Sike Insights will not collect or use any sensitive personal data unless Sike Insights has received an express consent regarding the specific data.
● Other Information. Sike Insights also collects, generates and/or receives Other Information:
1. Decision making tools, Workspace and Account Information. Teams use Sike Insights services and its capabilities to achieve efficient collaboration, better results and communication among members. To use, create or update a decision making tool, you or your Customer (e.g., your employer) supply Sike Insights with information that may include an email address, phone number, password, domain and/or similar account details. In addition, Customers provide Sike Insights (or its payment processors) with billing details such as credit card information, banking information and/or a billing address and/or email address.
2. Usage Information.
■ Services Metadata. When an Authorized User interacts with the
Services, metadata is generated that provides additional context about the way Authorized Users work. For example, Sike Insights may log the decision making tools, channels, people, features, content and links you interact with, the types of files shared and what Third Party Services are used (if any).
■ Log data. As with most websites and technology services delivered over the Internet, our servers automatically collect information when you access or use our Websites or Services and record it in log files. This log data may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the address of the web page visited before using the Website or Services, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data.
■ Report data. When you or Customer participates and/or generates a decision making tool, Sike Insights collects all supplied or relative information in view to produce and supply you and/or customer with results in form of a Report. Reports are archived and are retrievable by Customer. Reports may also be used for research, statistical purposes in order to improve Sike Insights efficiency, update our App, as well as feedback in order to create and launch marketing campaigns.
■ Device information. Sike Insights may collect information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and crash data. Whether we collect some or all of this Other Information often depends on the type of device used and its settings.
■ Location information. We may receive information from you, your Customer and other third-parties that helps us approximate your location. We may, for example, use a business address submitted by your employer, or an IP address received from your browser or device to determine approximate location in order to inline our Services with your current time-zone. Sike Insights may also collect location information from devices in accordance with the consent process provided by your device.
Data hosting details
Cloud hosted using AWS EC2, encryption at-rest and in-transit
App/service has sub-processors
yes
Guidelines for sub-processors
App/service uses large language models (LLM)
yes
LLM model(s) used
GPT-4o
LLM retention settings
Customer data is managed, processed, and stored with the highest levels of integrity, confidentiality, and restricted availability. The retention period for customer data is up to 60 days after contract termination. https://trust.heykona.com
LLM data tenancy policy
Kona does not use customer data to train any of its models. Additionally, the model providers used by Kona, such as OpenAI, also do not use Kona's data to train their models. This ensures that customer data remains secure. https://trust.heykona.co
LLM data residency policy
Customer data is stored and processed using AWS cloud hosting services, which are responsible for the physical and environmental security protections. All customer data stored by Kona is encrypted both at rest and in transit. https://trust.heykona.com
Certifications & compliance
SOC attestation
Data deletion request procedure
When someone requests data deletion, we are able to delete all user data with one click on our end. When a user uninstalls Kona from Slack, this happens automatically.
HIPAA compliant
no
While this app may offer HIPAA compliance, Slack does not have a business associate agreement with any third-party application providers, including those in the Slack Marketplace, so you are responsible for validating the provider's compliance and executing an appropriate agreement before enabling.
Security
Date of latest pen test
2024-08-30
Executive summary is available to potential customers upon request
yes
Supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
no
Has a dedicated security team
no
Contact for security issues
sid@heykona.com
Has a vulnerability disclosure program
no
Has a bug bounty program
no
Requires third party authorization/connections
no
Uses token rotation
no