Why we built PETALS
Because the best teams aren't just productive — they're happy, supported, and growing together.
The problem with most team health tools
Most approaches to measuring team health fall into one of two traps: they're either too heavy — lengthy surveys that feel like homework and get ignored after the first run — or too shallow, reducing everything to a single happiness score that tells you nothing useful.
We wanted something in the middle. Something quick enough to do regularly, meaningful enough to act on, and visual enough that anyone could understand it at a glance.
PETALS is that thing.
Five factors. One flower.
The name PETALS stands for the five feeling factors that matter most in a healthy team: Productivity, Enjoyment, Teamwork, Learning, and Serenity.
Each factor is a petal. Together they form a flower. The centre of the flower is the average — a balanced view of how the team is doing overall.
It takes two minutes to fill in and five seconds to understand. That's the point.
People over process
PETALS isn't about scoring teams or generating reports for management. It's a conversation starter. The numbers matter less than what happens next: a 1:1 where someone finally says they're struggling, a retro that goes somewhere real, a manager who spots a pattern before it becomes a problem.
We believe that when teams feel good, they do good work. And that starts with someone asking — and actually listening to — how everyone is feeling.