What Speakfully does

Speakfully is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to gather and manage anonymous employee comments and complaints. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the company operates with a small team of 1-10 employees, indicating an early-stage operating footprint. Its public-facing positioning is in the employee voice / HR feedback technology category, an area that overlaps with broader employee relations and workplace investigation software markets. Leadership consists of three co-founders: Jana Morrin (CEO), Zach Halmstad, and Nandini Easwar (CTO). The company raised a $100,000 seed round in December 2021, led by gener8tor (a Wisconsin-based accelerator) with participation from Right Side Capital Management — a modest capital raise consistent with accelerator-portfolio-stage positioning.

The available input does not disclose product architecture details, pricing model, customer logos, go-to-market mechanics, or revenue figures. The website (speakfully.com) is the primary public surface, but no granular product, integration, or technology specifications were captured in the supplied data. As a result, deeper analysis of Speakfully's product surface, competitive positioning, and commercial traction is constrained by the thin evidence base.

Name

Speakfully

Legal name

HR Acuity

Website

https://speakfully.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Speakfully is a SaaS platform enabling businesses to gather and manage anonymous employee comments and complaints, founded in 2018 and based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Anonymous Feedback and Complaint Management Software

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Whistleblowing, Speak-Up Culture & Investigations Training (EDABADAL)

Keywords

• Anonymous feedback platform
• Complaint management software
• Comment management system
• Employee reporting tool
• Feedback collection software

Headquarters

HQ city

Eau Claire

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS platform for HR case management and employee relations. The platform includes Ethics & Compliance Hotline, Employee Workplace Reporting, Case Management, Documentation, Workplace Investigations, Performance Improvement Plans, Analytics, Integrations, AI, Workplace Accommodations, and Union Grievances.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Speakfully is a SaaS platform that allows businesses to gather and manage anonymous comments and complaints. It provides organizations with a centralized system to collect, track, and handle feedback and concerns submitted anonymously by stakeholders, supporting structured complaint resolution workflows.

Product overview

HR Acuity is an industry-leading platform for HR case management and employee relations, offering a unified platform-plus-modules architecture. The core Case Management platform serves as the central hub, with integrated modules including Ethics & Compliance Hotline, Employee Workplace Reporting, Documentation, Workplace Investigations, managER for People Leaders, Performance Improvement Plans, Analytics, AI, Workplace Accommodations, and Union Grievances. The platform is built on best practices and powered by advanced analytics, seamless integrations, and defensible AI, enabling organizations to manage every employee relations issue from intake through aftercare with clarity and confidence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Speak-Up Reporting: A feature enabling named or anonymous employee reporting through AI, live agents, or web channels.

Products and services

• Speakfully Platform SaaS platform that enables businesses to gather and manage anonymous comments and complaints submitted by stakeholders, providing a structured system to collect, track, and respond to feedback confidentially. Built for organizations that need a dedicated channel for anonymous reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• Yelp scaled its ER function by 120% with HR Acuity
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers45 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• WorkdaycoreTechnology or IntegrationHR Acuity has a strategic partnership with Workday, offering integration capabilities with the Workday platform. This partnership enables customers to seamlessly integrate employee relations and case management data with their HR systems.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• EQS Integrity Line (formerly WhistleB): EQS Integrity Line is a whistleblower hotline and case management platform built specifically for the EU Whistleblower Directive. It is a direct competitor to Speakfully for organizations needing anonymous-reporting infrastructure.
• Convercent (now part of NAVEX): Convercent offered ethics-and-compliance hotline, case management, and analytics. It was acquired by NAVEX and is a direct competitor in the anonymous-reporting space, now folded into NAVEX's broader suite.
• Vault Platform: Vault Platform provides an ethics, misconduct, and speak-up platform with anonymous intake and case workflow. It is a direct competitor to Speakfully for the modern anonymous-reporting use case.
• Lighthouse HQ: Lighthouse HQ provides employee feedback, engagement, and anonymous speak-up tools. It is a direct comparable for anonymous-reporting and feedback workflows targeting mid-market and enterprise HR teams.
• WorkInConfidence: WorkInConfidence provides an anonymous employee voice and feedback platform. Directly comparable to Speakfully as a focused anonymous-reporting and feedback tool.
• SpeakUp (SpeakUp by People Intouch): SpeakUp by People Intouch provides a confidential employee speak-up and grievance platform. Directly comparable to Speakfully for anonymous-reporting use cases.
• HR Acuity: HR Acuity provides HR case management, anonymous employee reporting, and investigation tools. Directly competes with Speakfully in the speak-up / anonymous-reporting category and serves as the closest product analog, albeit with significantly more scale and enterprise features.

Broad incumbents

• Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee engagement and feedback platform that includes anonymous survey and feedback capabilities. A broader incumbent that overlaps with Speakfully on the feedback/intake layer but extends well beyond.
• Lattice: Lattice is a people-management platform with performance, engagement, and feedback modules. A broader incumbent that could compete with Speakfully by adding anonymous-feedback functionality to its existing HR suite.
• NAVEX Global: NAVEX Global is the dominant incumbent in ethics-and-compliance and whistleblower-hotline software, offering hotline intake, case management, and policy management. Directly comparable to Speakfully as an anonymous-reporting platform, but at far greater scale and enterprise breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/speakfullynow
• Facebookfacebook.com/speakfullynow
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hr-acuity

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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