
Sprig helps teams gather and synthesize customer evidence. airfocus helps them turn that signal into priorities, roadmaps and accountable product decisions.
airfocus, UserVoice, Mopinion and Contentsquare all promise to turn user gripes into product decisions. In the space of a year most of them stopped being independent companies - and that tells you where the whole category is heading.
Hubert Palan is the Czech-born founder and CEO of Productboard, the AI-powered product management platform used by 5,400+ companies including Salesforce, Zoom, and Microsoft. After earning an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and spending nearly four years as VP of Product at GoodData, he founded Productboard in 2014 with co-founder Daniel Hejl to solve a problem he'd lived firsthand: the disconnect between customer feedback, product strategy, and what actually gets built. The company reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $1.725B valuation following a $125M Series D, and Palan has since led a bold AI-first transformation of the platform with products like Productboard Spark and Productboard Pulse.