Cutting through the noise with a new expert badging system
Do you work in the digital workplace space? If so, you already know the noise. Vendor marketing is loud, AI claims are bold and broad, and, from speaking to senior stakeholders going through the lengthy evaluation process, it can feel impossible to know who to trust. Every product promises to be the most intuitive, the most intelligent, the most transformative. Shiny things, smoke, and mirrors.
That is exactly why independent expert voices matter, and few carry more weight in our space than ClearBox Consulting. For years, ClearBox has been the go-to resource for HR leaders, internal communicators, and IT decision-makers navigating the digital employee experience market. Their research is rigorous, their criteria are transparent, and their opinions are earned.
So when ClearBox introduced a new, more nuanced badging system in V5.1 of the esteemed Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms report, designed to better reflect the real breadth of what modern platforms can deliver, we were honoured to hear that Unily had been awarded not one, not two, but four Choice badges.
Our four badges
"Many vendors' marketing channels are full of AI functionality. With this badge, we wanted to highlight those we felt were doing something unusual and truly beneficial at the point of demonstration."
Suzie Robinson, Consultant and Report Manager at ClearBox Consulting.
These badges means a great deal to us at Unily.
The AI landscape across the entire SaaS space is chaotic right now. Every vendor is claiming to have the most advanced AI, and buyers are understandably sceptical. ClearBox cut through that by looking at what was genuinely delivered in a live demonstration, not what was promised in a pitch deck. Being recognised in the AI Innovator category is a real validation of the investment Unily has made in AI that actually works for employees.
The Comms Excellence badge is equally meaningful. Internal communicators have been, and will continue to be a critical intranet stakeholder. Internal Communicators are often the people who depend most on the platform, yet rarely sit at the centre of product design decisions. Unily was built with communicators in mind, and it is gratifying to see that reflected in an independent evaluation.
Store things and hope people find them. This was the purpose of intranets in the past but that is no longer enough. Employees today expect to search and get an answer, not a list of documents to wade through. Knowledge management has become one of the most business-critical capabilities a platform can offer, because the cost of people not finding what they need adds up fast in duplicated work, slower decisions and calls to an already stretched HR team. ClearBox created their Strong Knowledge and Search badge specifically to call out the platforms getting this right. We are proud that Unily is one of them.
Placing in the Top 5 overall scorers, across a field of platforms assessed on dozens of criteria, speaks to the breadth of what Unily delivers. Not just in one area, but across the whole product experience.
For anyone currently evaluating intranet or employee experience platforms, we would encourage you to read the full ClearBox report. At a time when trust and clarity are more valuable than ever, there is no better independent guide to what these platforms can genuinely do.
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