We’re excited to see Unily once again recognized as a ClearBox Choice vendor in the 2026 edition of the ClearBox Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms Report. The recognition highlights vendors demonstrating strong real-world capability across areas such as employee communications, community, knowledge discovery, AI, governance, and overall employee experience delivery.
This follows Unily's recent recognition across four additional ClearBox badges spanning AI innovation, communications excellence, intelligent search, and overall platform capability.
More than just another AI promise
In a market full of big AI promises, overlapping platform claims, and rapidly changing employee expectations, independent recognition like this reinforces that organizations choose Unily because we focus on experiences that genuinely help employees connect, communicate, find knowledge, and get work done more effectively.
Our approach at Unily reflects the sustained shift toward more connected, intelligent, and experience-driven platforms as we focus on communication, community, knowledge, AI, and helping employees move from information to action.
ClearBox takes a deeply product-led and scenario-based approach, assessing how platforms support real organizational needs across communications, community, governance, knowledge discovery, AI, and employee experience delivery.
That’s what makes the ClearBox Choice recognition particularly meaningful.
The growing importance of connected employee experiences
“Being recognized as a ClearBox Choice vendor is incredibly meaningful to us because it reflects the continued shift we’re seeing across the employee experience market,” says Jenny Shiers, Chief People Officer at Unily.
For many organizations today, the challenge is no longer simply launching an intranet or adding new digital tools.
“Organizations today are looking for more than just another platform. They want experiences that genuinely help employees connect, communicate, and get work done more effectively, while also creating stronger culture, engagement, and a greater sense of belonging across increasingly distributed workplaces,” Jenny continues.
AI innovation needs to solve real employee challenges
While AI is central to the future of employee experience, innovation only matters when it solves real employee challenges and reduces friction in meaningful ways.
“We want the Unily platform to support those real challenges and priorities of employees,” says Sam Hassani, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Unily.
“The opportunity is not simply to add more AI features but to build intelligent and connected experiences that help cut employees through noise and complexity and move from information to action faster and more naturally,” he adds.
That continued focus on experience and removing friction across an increasingly fragmented digital workplace is also shaping how Unily thinks about innovation.
Over the past year, we’ve continued evolving our AI-native vision for employee experience across innovations like Indi and Unily Glass, the conversational employee experience layer designed to help employees search, discover knowledge, navigate systems, and take action across the digital workplace through a more connected and intuitive experience. Together, they help organizations move beyond static intranet experiences toward more intelligent, connected, and conversational ways of working.
At the same time, we’re investing heavily in the foundations that remain critical to enterprise employee experience success: strong internal communications, thriving communities, intelligent search and knowledge discovery, governance, personalization, and enterprise-wide engagement.
Employee experience expectations are evolving rapidly
“That balance between innovation and platform maturity is a major reason why sustained independent recognition matters,” says Katy Hiller, Chief Marketing Officer at Unily.
Alongside the rapid growth of AI across the workplace, organizations are also rethinking the role employee experience platforms play more broadly.
“As employee expectations shift and digital workplaces become increasingly complex, there is growing recognition that successful employee experience is no longer just about delivering content or launching another intranet. It’s about creating environments that help employees navigate work more easily, stay aligned, and work more effectively across connected digital ecosystems, ” Katy adds.
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