Our Insights app has been well-received by our customers - so much so that some customers are creating and managing hundreds of insights every week. 

Releasing a feature that has been highly requested, means there's a need to get back to many people at once who initially requested the feature. How can we enable our customers to get back to 

How can we make it easier to close the feedback loop?

The all-new Gantt view type is another helpful tool in your toolbox for turning strategy into action. The Gantt view visually represents a logical timeline of projects or tasks that are needed to successfully deliver an initiative or opportunity. This view works wonders in conjunction with the airfocus hierarchy, giving you even better insight into how your items are related.

Visualize complex dependencies with Gantt views

We learned that most modern product teams work with OKRs. airfocus is not offering anything that goes beyond a single select objective custom field yet. We're now actively working on this. 

OKRs and goal-setting

The new Voting app makes it easy for you to quickly gauge an item's demand by collecting votes or reactions from your team members (on any view) and external stakeholders (via Portal or share link). You can pick from different voting methods, such as:

Depending on the method you picked, votes will affect the voting score that in turn can be used as criteria for prioritization.

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Collect votes from stakeholders quickly

Improve our key dev-tool integrations with regards to more powerful and flexible field mappings, sync options, and more.

Drop us a line, we'd love to hear more about this from you!

Dev tool integration improvements

Docs are an essential format of articulating product strategy and providing guidance. You will be able to create Docs on the workspace as well as on the item to increase alignment and efficiency.

Allow to tell stories with Docs

Items are the basis for your work in airfocus. For this particular initiative we're looking at visual improvements on how information is displayed on items with a special eye on elements created by apps. 

Let us know what improvement you would like to see. 👇

Item panel improvements

Workspaces with a lot of items can, in some cases, experience performance issues. As part of this initiative we don't only want to remedy these, but enable real-time updates across airfocus. 

Let us know in which scenarios you'd like us to speed up your experience. 🙌

Improve performance for large workspaces

We've already gotten a lot of feedback from you on our Priority Poker app and want to launch improvements based on that. 

We're keeping this initiative open though, so let us know what you'd like to see improved. 

Priority Poker improvements

The goal of this initiative is to make our hierarchy features even more powerful. We're thinking about improvements for dependencies, better connections for field values or formulas. 

What kind of field connections would you like to see? We're happy to hear from you about it. 


Better connect item fields across different workspaces and hierarchy levels

airfocus is already ISO 27001 certified. While SOC II and ISO 27001 share a wide range of criteria, we aim to hold both certifications. 

SOC II certification

. Working on descriptions and comments is finally fun (again).

The modern rich text editor allows you to communicate more effectively, organize information easily, and provide more clarity. It offers a wider array of editing possibilities such as slash commands, a floating formatting toolbar, drag-and-drop content blocks, and much more.

With more ways to present information within items and comments, airfocus enables your teams to have the proper context they need to build the right product faster.

Organize information better with our revamped Text editor

Flexibility is at the core of everything we do. That's we want to provide product teams with more view types so that they can structure, organize and communicate their data and items, their way.    

How can we expand views to facilitate further modularity?

We want to discuss ways to improve usability of views by introducing universal sorting and simplifying customization. This includes the importance of understanding the differences between default and quick filters for both views and their shared versions.

How do you think about this? Drop us a feedback. 

How can we improve the usability of our view level actions?

Automations can save time and improve productivity by reducing manual work. This can help product teams streamline workflows, like setting a new due date when there is a status change, for example. 

We would love to hear how automations would help your team improve workflows within airfocus.  

How can we set up automations and workflows to increase efficiency?

Forms created via the Forms app can now be shared more freely with your audience. You can create share links to your forms for direct access to the standalone form (no airfocus interface around it) or you can use the provided iframe code to embed the forms directly on your website. Your audience can also add attachments for additional context via these links or embeds.

Embed forms in your website or use them standalone

airfocus workspaces now have a dedicated system field to assign status to your items.

 has standardized status categories with customizable statuses per category to suit your team’s workflows. Get alignment and a clear view of what needs to be started, what’s in progress, and what’s completed – without the struggle of manually configuring a custom field on every workspace.

Status provides a holistic view of item progress across hierarchy levels and workspaces. You can track the progress of parent items (e.g. Jira epic) based on how many of its child items (e.g. Jira stories) have been closed.

New ‘Status’ field aligns your team on status definitions and brings clarity on item progress

The improved notifications system allows you to receive 

 on mentions, invites and comments for items that you follow. 

 allow you to receive updates when you are added or removed from a workspace, you are assigned to an item, and when an item you are watching

log allows you to look into almost every update that has been made to a particular item since its creation, no matter if the item has been added manually by a team member or if it has been added/imported via an integration.

Notifications and item updates

With Product Hierarchy, you can decide how items relate to each other across your workspaces. Link parent and child items, select how everything maps together, and plan every level of your product development process.

Allow to define a product hierarchy

Our first CRM integration allows you to gather feedback in airfocus directly from your Salesforce data. Easily import Salesforce cases and opportunities as items to airfocus to inform product discovery and prioritization.

Salesforce integration

Improve hierarchy

The airfocus Forms app helps you create customizable forms to gather feedback, ideas, or any other supporting information for your product work. The app allows you to add a new button to your workspace (e.g. "Give feedback") to capture general information on the workspace level or on specific items from anyone.

Forms app: Allow to collect internal and public information and feedback

This major update to our navigation included the ability to manage and organize workspaces that belong together into custom groups, allowed for global search across all workspaces and created a new side panel. 

Improve cross-team collaboration and navigation

AI Assist gives you access to AI for product managers with powerful prompts embedded directly in your airfocus item descriptions and comments. 

You can use slash commands to start with a first draft quickly, iterate from there, and never get stuck with writer's block again. Analyze feedback sentiment and get short summaries to generate insights fast. Save time on repetitive tasks, spice up your messaging, and focus on the big picture instead.

AI Assist: Unlock the power of AI for product managers

The airfocus Insights app allows you to centralize feedback from any channel in one place to uncover actionable insights for discovery and product strategy.

Insights app: Allow to gather and centralize feedback in one place and inform product discovery

With airfocus Portal, you can engage with your community on a branded customer-facing website. Build products people want and close the feedback loop with your audiences, regardless of whether they’re customers, teammates, or business stakeholders. If you’re already an airfocus user, you will be able to base your portal on your existing workspaces with just a few clicks.

Portal: Share product work and get feedback on your branded portal

Introducing our brand new Webhooks integration (Beta). Webhooks allow you to automatically send requests to other apps whenever a certain event occurs on the workspace for which the webhook is configured. Use webhooks to stay up-to-date with your work. Receive automated updates from airfocus and customize them to meet your needs.

Real-time updates to third-party apps with Webhooks

Understanding your user base is key to building the right solutions. 


We are curious to hear more about your use cases relating personas to your strategy and items.

How can we allow to manage personas in airfocus?

We're considering adding popular product analytics tool integrations to airfocus.

This could allow easy access to product usage insights right where you make decisions. How do you think about this problem space? Let us know. 


Your product analytics tool is not on the list? Drop us a line!

How can product analytics tool integrations be helpful?

Processing large amounts of feedback from all kinds of channels can be super time consuming (sometimes it can be too much to realistically handle). Solving this using AI/ML will free up PM's time and improve decision making.

Let us know any feedback you may have on this. Thanks.

Automate feedback processing and insights creation with AI

Expand integration toolset to productivity apps such as:

Should airfocus integrate more development and task management tools?

We have enhanced the experience of our Insights app by introducing a new feature that enables users to create insights directly from the description field. Now, all you need to do is highlight the text you want to create the insight from and select the item you wish to link to from the drop-down menu. It's that simple! 

We've also made it possible to filter results when linking an insight to an item, as well as transfer insights in bulk from one item to another.

Insights app and feedback management improvements

Integrate airfocus with more communication and customer support tools so that you can link important information to your airfocus items without having to leave the conversation. 

Integrate more communication and customer support tools

Make airfocus API public in order to allow for users and 3rd parties to create their own integrations and setup based on the airfocus functionality. Is this something you would be interested in? 

Open the airfocus APIs to the public

Part of planning a successful delivery is managing capacity effectively. How can we assist you in achieving this? Please let us know and we will be happy to help.

Allow users to manage capacity/resources in airfocus

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