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Event Replay: July 2025 Product Update

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# Gradual: Product Updates

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Kyle Sutton

Head of Strategy & Operations @ Gradual

I am an avid learner and driven to help others succeed.

I pride myself on being able to pick things up quickly and translate between the technical and the high level.

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SUMMARY

Our latest product update event brought together the Gradual community to showcase powerful new features, share best practices, and offer a glimpse into what’s coming next. Features discussed included community engagement and forum updates, comments, reactions, and viewership data on content pieces and event landing pages and the brand new courses module. Admins in the dashboard also have new or improved metrics and data reporting at their fingertips with member segments lists, improved exports and statistics. We closed the event with an update on the roadmap priorities for the rest of 2025.

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CONTENT & TRANSCRIPT

Welcome, everyone to our 2025 second quarter product update. This is a great opportunity for us to showcase for you what's new and noteworthy from April through June of this year, and highlight some of the things coming up on our roadmap for, the remainder of 2025.

If you don't know me, my name is Kyle Sutton. I'm the head of operations and strategy here at gradual and it is my absolute pleasure to walk you through these notable updates that our team has been working so hard on. If you've been following along with the monthly updates that we share in our product announcements, you'll recognize some of these features, but we'll take the opportunity to dive in, perhaps a little bit deeper into things and, showcase some new some of these new features in action and talk about how customers are already using these.

We will also highlight our brand new courses feature, which has just launched this is available to graduate customers as an additional paid module. But we'll walk through today how it works so you can get an idea. I'm going to take a moment to recognize some other folks that are here. Hey, Jessica. Great to see you, Lindsay.

Awesome to see you as well. Please continue to say hi in the chat. So what are we going to cover today? We're going to talk about, community engagement and forum updates. We're going to talk through updates to the content section of Gradual, reporting and community insights, new admin and management tools that we've launched, as well as we'll finish up talking, about it.

We'll do a preview of the courses feature and give you a sneak peek of that and a little bit about our roadmap for the rest of the year as we go. Please feel free to drop any questions or comments in the chat like you're already doing. That'll be there on the right hand side in either all answering them live as we go, or a member of our team will jump in and provide an answer.

We're also going to share some of the resources and documentation that we have on these features as I talk about them, so you can bookmark those for later. Share them with the rest of your team. And we've got product updates in the community that we launch every single month. So you can always go there to see what's new and noteworthy.

And that really gets into some of the smaller features that we may not talk about. May not talk about here, but you can always ask us questions or find what you need at support that gradual icon. And as is our custom, we will wrap up with a wonderful roundtable discussion where you can come ask questions, share insights and ideas, and meet other community members or members of the gradual team.

So without further ado, we're going to dive right in and I'm going to share my screen. We are going to start talking about some updates to the forum experience inside of, insider gradual. So one of the the awesome things is we've gotten really great customer feedback on, on the forum. And this is, one of the most, I think, quick to use features or things that are being adopted by customers is, is the forum.

It's a great way for asynchronous discussion, support, deflection sharing ideas and best practices. Really, you name it. And the beauty is it's not a separate platform. It's native to gradual. So we're working on ways to make it easy for people to interact. And one of the key ways we've done that is added this unread notification. So or unread indicator is a better way to say it.

You'll notice I've, I've read these two posts so they're kind of grayed out. While these other ones are still black and bold in this light mode, it helps me as to what I've read and what I have. It makes it easy for for members to review and quickly catch up. We're going to continue to optimize this experience, maybe adding some more, pronounced notification or indicators, as well as, notify notifications or indicators if there are comments unread within within that post necessarily.

But making it simple to to have a user be able to interact. The other big update that we've alluded to before, but we haven't talked about in depth, is the addition of this, a new post type called questions. You'll see in some of these posts that we have, you know, Mark as answered or this has one answer.

This has three answer. This is because we now have both discussion style of posts as well as questions. So creating one is is pretty similar. And I can control it by board. And I'll show you what that looks like in a second. But I can create a post and I'll be prompted if I have enabled, to make a discussion post.

I just want to have a conversation about something, share a tip or an idea. Or I can ask a question, meaning that this is going to be something that will enable the ability for others to answer, and then something can be marked as an answer. It's really the only difference between these two, but it's a significant one because it means in the community I could have, for example, something that is Q&A thread or this particular forum board could be Q&A and I could only allow questions.

Then as a user and admin, I can go through it, I can filter, I want to see discussions, question or even answered and unanswered inside of a particular post. A moderator or the original poster can decide what is, What is an answer? I can say, hey, I'm going to mark this as an accepted answer. That answer would be tagged at the or pinned to the top of that post.

And then the poster who or commenter who had that best answer would also get a contribution saying, hey, you had an answer marked as correct. Should that be something that you have enabled within contributions? A great way for support deflection. You use cases and Q&A. And this isn't something that has to be across all of the forum experience.

In this demo we have it turned on, but inside of the dashboard I can set this up inside of each forum board. So for example, let's say my product feature releases. I don't need this to have questions in it. I just want it to have discussion posts so I can turn that on here. And vice versa. Or if I want to allow both lots and lots of flexibility and customization here.

Jumping back to the front end, we've also added more ways for people to to interact within specific posts. So if I go into the career path, one, I have the option now to sort my comments by other popular or latest. A great way for people to be able to see what's new and noteworthy. This selection has been here, but what's new is inside of the forum.

I in my forum settings, I can now decide what I want the default comment sorting to be. So if my community is behavior is more I want to see what's new, not necessarily what's most popular. I can change that. That default comment sorting here. These are just some of the small things that we've introduced to try and provide an even, friendlier user experience, more intuitive, and engaging.

We've got a lot more coming. Things like, quoted replies, which actually, if you go play around with it that launched this week, you can always mention we're working on, you know, group based notifications or larger app mentions, and other tools to make forum engagement, even stickier. So stay tuned for those. Seeing lots of great feedback in the chat.

Thank you so much. Please continue to to drop your your feedback in there or your reactions or questions and we'll answer those. So let's talk a little bit about content. The big updates here is we have launched, a new blog and resource editor. So the text editor for blogs and resources and in the content section of gradual is brand new.

It makes it even easier to craft engaging articles with better formatting. You can upload, control image sizing and orientation PDFs. You can build out tables and customize those. And we're going to continue to enhance and update this, to include even more functionality like colored text and things like that. I'll show you what this looks like.

But I also want to recognize the awesome work that our team did, because this meant migrating all of the content in gradually to this new editor. So every as of today, every customer is on this new editor, and you'll see it in their inside of the dashboard. Your experience doesn't change very much. The blog editor is still where you found it.

I'm going to jump into this, this particular blog here, and I'm going to go ahead and edit it, and we'll highlight some of the things that are new and noteworthy. You'll see the editor is just a little bit updated in the look and feel. We also are going to have this light background for for light mode customers.

And then I've we've added a couple things. One is I can insert a table and I can resize and format this table as needed. I can also and this is one of the most popular requests and significant updates, is the ability to upload a file directly. So great use case for whitepapers or downloadable resources. I no longer have to host it somewhere else on a third party.

You know, white paper site or in Google Drive or something. I can upload that directly into gradual or if I still want to, to include an external link to that resource, I can. This is huge. It means that you, you can have resources, external resources and pieces of content that are PDFs or other downloadable directly inside a gradual.

We will support, a dedicated kind of resource library or document or template library in the future. But this is a great way to, to serve that need now, because I can upload those, those pieces directly. All right. On this, content page, we're going to highlight a couple other things. One, we've talked about this before, but just a reminder, we now support comments on content.

So you can get interaction directly on that piece of content. You don't have to turn it on globally. You can have it on for specific pieces of content or vice versa. You can turn it off for specific pieces. Great for engagement. One of our customers is using this to collect feedback on resources, which is an awesome use case because it appears in context.

But the other thing that you're going to note in this transition us to talk about some of the community insights and member data is this viewers tab. So now we've been working to and we've shared we've been tracking this information for you to be able to see what we'll call attributed content views. So what users are loading each of these content pages and when are they looking at it?

This gives you tons of insight into who's interacting with the content. What are the typical behaviors? I can see this on an individual piece of content here, so I can look and say, hey, you know, Kyle looked at this piece three times and Ricky looked at it once, but as we talk about insights and member data, I can also access this across the community and all of my pieces of content inside of the members tab or, sorry, inside of the community tab, we're going to see this new reports menu item in here.

We've started to collect all of the community level reports that you have access to. You've seen this already in events where we have that reports tab inside of events that collects them, or modeling the same thing at the community level in here, I can get that same content viewers report, so I can generate this. And it's going to show me, since January 1st of this year, who has looked at each piece of content?

It's essentially going to report on a page view for our pieces of content. But I also have other reports at my fingertips now, general content report. So if I want to say, hey, show me all of the views I've had across all my blogs and videos and count those, I can do that here. Macro reporting on our events so you can see general stats around in attendance or viewership for your virtual events and gradual as well as some of the in-person reporting your members export as well as, partners.

So if you're using the sponsorship booth or the partner section, which is this renamed as you can you can export, macro stats for your team to look at and for reliability and security. You can see who has, generated these reports and you can download them from here. So you've got some, some visibility into who has reported from your community data.

The other things that we've added when it comes to to membership or to reporting in insights are on the member level. So gathering some additional insights to understand where do members come from and what are they doing inside of the community. The first of those is going to be this new creation source. This is going to show you where this user originated from.

Did they sign up themselves on their own? Were they added via an admin or they generated via API or an event registration or something like that? It's going to show up here in this list. I can filter by that as well. But it's also going to be a field in my exports, so I can better understand where that user came from.

You'll also see I have some other new filtering abilities on this member list. I can filter by club or by space to see who are, who are the members in those particular groups. The other thing related to member management, though, is I don't have to just build and manage lists. From this page we've introduced this concept of segments, which is going to be the first in a long line of features to really enhance your, personalization and outreach to the community that we've talked about.

Segments are lists, but they are very powerful and can be used across the platform to do other actions. So let's take, for example, my customer segment here. I've got, this list that I want to maintain. I want to use this to do event invites or manually register people. And I want it to be reusable. So I can create this a couple different ways I can add members.

I could simply go through the member list and add them. I could import them if I already have a list of users. But what's really powerful is I can now leverage the data in the information I already have in gradual to build these out. So I'm going to click Add by Query and I'm going to add a condition.

What I want to do is I'm going to take some spaces that I already have existing. And I want to add all of my customers in my customer and my premiere customer space to this segment. I can preview what that looks like. Great. I've got these three people and I'm going to save it off. What I can now use is I can take this segment and I can repurpose it across the platform.

So let's say I've got my operations team meeting here, and I want to invite all of my customers to that. What I would have to do before is I'd have to go in and perhaps manually register those, or I could import the attendees, but now I can import them from a segment so from that segment I can say, great, take all my customers and I want to go ahead and register them for this event.

This is super powerful already. It allows you to create these lists, keep them up to date and really support ease. Easy member management. But this is, like I said, the first in several features that's going to allow you to do things like send email communications out to users. You'll notice that segments here in this list are currently titled static segments.

That implies that we will have dynamic ones similar to email marketing tools. So anytime a user would, be eligible to be in that segment, they would get added automatically. This is a large priority for the second half of this year, and you'll start to see more of these things introduced as we go. So stay tuned for that.

We started to talk about some of the event tools when it comes to event registration, but let's dive into those in detail. So a couple updates when it comes to events, the first of which I'm actually going to highlight in the event that we're in right now. And I saw a question about it already. So, let's pull my screen over here and we're going to get, the endless, the endless vision of, of me, inside of this event.

But what we can see is down at the bottom, we now have closed captions enabled. These are automatically generated, closed captions. They will be in the language that's being spoken on the stream or in the meeting or webinar, and can be toggled on and off as needed. They're toggled on by default for you. But you can certainly change that.

I can manage this inside of the gradual dashboard really easily. Know put that screen back over here inside of the dashboard. I can go into, any webinar or any, live stream event, and in my webinar or meeting room, I can turn on those, those live captions. I can also control this per stage in a live stream event.

So that means inside of the live stream on my stage settings, I can now edit and I can turn on the live captions. That means I could theoretically have a stage, an English stage in Spanish, French, etc., etc.. We're not doing that translation that would need to be done natively or on your side, but it is possible to show those captions in those languages if that's what's being spoken on the stream right now.

We're not saving that caption, file and making it available as transcription. Yet. That is something that is on, on our near term roadmap to introduce some of the other features that we have available in the events relate to, event engagement and how people are interacting. The first of those is going to be event polls. So I'm going to jump into this gradual team webinar, and we're going to show you what that looks like.

And we're actually going to launch a poll here in a second. It's a simple fun one for today. But we'll get that going. So inside of my webinar now you'll see on the right hand side I've got a lot of options. I've got my chat, my Q&A, my normal tabs. But I also have this pull tab. This is what's going to show to the end users on on the webinar.

I can have multiple polls launched at the same time. If I really want to, I can build polls and store them in my poll library. You'll see I've got a bunch built already and I can simply start those. I can have a bunch of different question types here. I can allow people to respond anonymously. I can do, kind of other or more open ended responses.

It's, very, popular requested feature. And it's finally here. And we're really excited about it. You can continue to leverage and explore this. There's we probably don't have enough time to do a deep dive on polls today. We just launched all the resources around this. So please feel free to, to play with it. Lots of engagement and power here.

Since we're inside of this webinar already, we're going to talk about our next feature for engagement. And that's being able to play back videos live inside of the environment. Right now it's purely supported with YouTube. So I can find a YouTube video. It needs to be a public or unlisted video, but I can play that back with audio inside of the, the meeting or webinar if I've got, you know, I want to do a watch party.

It even works with some live streams. If you've got it set up correctly. So you can have a, have a synchronous watch party inside of a gradual webinar or meeting room, or even just playback and update and then discuss. Or maybe you're doing it more in a learning circumstance, whatever you want. I can now share those, that, other content inside of the community.

Let's jump back to the homepage and we're going to switch gears, and we're going to talk about our in-person events, because we have launched, in in an update to our in-person event check in app. The first update is is now supported on mobile. That's right. You can use your user mobile device. You no longer have to have an iPad to do, event check in or even session check in session check in works in that same app.

It is only supported on mobile devices, so it's not available yet on the, on the iPad or tablet app. But you can have a team armed with with your session checking app to check people in to to specific sessions. I've recorded a quick video, that I'm going to talk over while place here. So, I'm going to load the gradual app.

I'm going to go into kiosk mode as normal, but I'm in this session check in mode. And then I can use either QR code to just scan someone's badge as they're walking in the door. Or maybe I want to have them even check in themselves by name. Regardless, it's going to instantly sync to the gradual dashboard where I can manage all of this.

I can set what sessions I want for check in and what sessions I don't. I can close that check in, to make sure that I can keep keep everything straight. We've already had customers leveraging this, which is really exciting. And I think they found it really powerful. We're going to jump back in to the gradual dashboard.

We'll jump back into the dashboard and I'll show you what that what that kind of looks like here. So inside of an in-person event, if I find one, we'll use our art. Actually we're going to use our community training here. I bookmarked that so I could find it quickly later, inside of check in. I've got my new session check in tab.

So this is where I can add specific sessions from the agenda to be able to be available for check in. I can end it if I want to make sure nobody gets checked into this accidentally. And this is where I can see my session check in list. So I've had Kyle and Gerald already register. I can export this, but then I'm also going to have, my other scan reports and things from my my exports as well.

Right now that session check in is going to be available just on this page, but you can edit it if needed. You can delete people and move them around. Really, really, really popular. Alrighty. We've got a couple more updates and then I promise we're going to get into our our overview of the courses module. So one of the things that we have found really powerful in that makes gradual, unique from other platforms is the ability to create segmented and curated, environments or subgroups within the community.

Maybe I'm doing this through spaces already where I'm curating the content or roundtables or events that show up to users, but maybe I want to have a dedicated area of the community for my advocates or VIP customers, or enterprise users or something like that. Those are just some of the examples of how people have used clubs or groups already.

And we found this feature so popular and so powerful for the community experiences we've actually made it available for, for everyone. So you can create a certain number of clubs or interest groups here inside of this, without without any needing to add anything on. So I could create, for example, a specific area for maybe a persona in my community.

And that club can have its own forum discussions, it can have its own events and its own content. I can delegate management of this club to members of the community or other team members, so they can build it out. If you're planning to stick around for our meeting room, I'd encourage you to jump in and maybe, some of our time, some of our friends who are already using clubs in a really sophisticated and cool way can share some of their insights.

Or maybe they'll drop those in the chat, but we've seen lots of really, awesome use cases around clubs. So we've made it available for, for everybody. The other thing that I can do in clubs now is I can have spaces, interact with clubs. So real quick clubs are or what you'll see referred to as groups sometimes. Are these areas within the community that I can have, dedicated people I have access to, maybe their private or public or secret spaces or those behind the scenes access groups.

So users can only see that content if they're in that space. So clubs and spaces can now interact. Let's say I've got one club, which is for my, certain product users. And within that I've got a VIP group. Maybe I don't want to have a separate club for that. So within that product club, I could create a space for my VIP.

So they have one place to go where they see all the content and all of the conversation. But it's curated based on who they are. There's a lot, there's a lot of powerful capability when it comes to clubs, and it can get, pretty sophisticated, pretty fast. So if you're interested in this or thinking about your architecture for the community, let us know.

And we're happy to to walk you through that. Related to clubs A simple but popular feature that's now available is you can move content between, clubs in the community really easily. So if I go into an interest group and I go to one that maybe has an event that I want to move, I can come in here and I can, migrate this so I can promote it to the community level, or I can full on, move it to the community level, or move it from the community down into a club.

Great for reorganizing things and making the process of deploying clubs a little bit easier, because you've got the ability to, to move things around a little bit better. One of the other big, but simple updates is the search is now available for your public community page. So if your community is public, users no longer have to be logged in in order to use the search, which is really popular and powerful for SEO and other optimization when it comes to traffic and discovery and making sure that people are finding your content or your events on your community.

In the last kind of community management and integrations update is we have a brand new integration with Shopify to power your community. Rewards center. So inside of, this integration, I can sync items from my Shopify store into the reward center. Inside of that kind of contributor's module, inside of gradual. It means that I can, I don't have to manage those two systems completely separately.

I can sync those items. People can redeem them directly and gradually, and then that's automatically going to push that redemption into Shopify. We've got great documentation on this. If you're using Shopify today, for, you know, your store or swag fulfillment or anything like that, let us know. We would love to to be able to explore. If you're planning on using rewards and gradual, the Shopify integration, we already have a couple customers using it with a lot of success because it means that the systems just stay stay in sync really, really seamlessly.

All right. I am going to pause there before we jump back into courses. And I'm going to take a quick look at the chat. Maybe we'll answer a couple of questions. And then we are going to jump into that. That course is overview and then into our meeting room and conversation. Awesome. It looks like we've got some some great questions coming in.

Yep. Polls are super popular. There are some some enhancements coming to polls for kind of real time reporting and an insights and information in the future. Right now, it's done, to keep things simple so we can get it deployed quickly. So those are good questions. Jane. Rebecca. Right now, the, the app is, the tracking app is only supported on Apple devices with the session check in on iPhones.

We do plan to, release that for Android in the future. I do not have a timeline on that at the moment. And what's most interesting is our poll response. All right. Favorite ice cream flavor? Chocolate. But a surprising tie with mint chocolate chip. I did not I did not expect that. So that is just a quick demo of of those features and some of the things that are there.

So let's talk about courses. Why did we build, courses inside of gradual? Well, what we found is the nature of gradual is that is an all in one experience. And what a lot of our customers leverage the community for is customer education or, you know, workforce training and things like that. And some of them use very heavy duty learning management systems, but most don't need all of those features.

We want a simple way to showcase content, track progress towards completion, do some knowledge checks, and give badges or certification. We want to be able to have it live in the community where people already are, and so it's easy to find and discover. And that's why we built courses, because we think there's a lot of power in having this content inside of gradual.

A lot of customers are already using the content library to showcase course content, but now we have a dedicated way to do it. So I'm going to walk through courses on the front end. We're going to walk through how to build it, and then we're going to wrap up talking about our roadmap before we jump into that meeting room.

Here are just some examples of of what courses can look like inside of the community. I've got my banners here at the top. I can showcase what's new, noteworthy, or where I want to drive people. And yes, these will soon be courses offered to you as graduate customers that you can participate in. We're building them out right now.

Inside I can showcase some featured courses so things that I want to highlight. And then on each course page I've got some basic info. You know, my name, the instructor, the overview of the course. And this can be really robust. I can have a full, you know, syllabus or rubric here that I'm going to showcase. This one's pretty simple.

The number of lessons who the instructors are. You can see who the current participants in the course are. And then I've got my outline of my table of contents for for what's going to be covered in this course can be really short or really long. I can have, you know, just a couple of modules, or I could have hundreds of of lessons that are built out into chapters at the end of the course today, I can give a badge or points if I've got that enabled, but in the future will be able to offer certifications as well.

Enrolling into courses is super simple. I just click and roll and I can get started. It'll walk me through the different parts of the course and I can set, if people are allowed to skip around or if they have to watch the video in its entirety, I can have either rich text content within the course or video content we will support full Scorm, content in the future.

And right now, we don't support knowledge checks or quizzing, but that is something that we're actively working on and should launch, within the next couple of months. So you'll be able to do some checks in between chapters or at the end of that course, I want to showcase just how easy it is to to build out courses and deploy them, because this is something that we're doing already, as we're building them out.

So I'm going to go into the gradual dashboard here. We're going to go into our are getting Started course. You know, I can add my cover, my banner, my description, and I can go into course content. I've already built out a couple. But one of the things that may stop people from using courses is, wow, I have to I have to generate all this new content inside of the community.

But that's not necessarily true because you can repurpose it probably a lot of the content that you already have. So let's look at what that, what that looks like in action. So I'm going to add a new video lesson. And at the end of the how to add a Community admin, we want to teach people how to add a member to the community.

So we're going to say how to add new community member. I've got a quick description that I am going to copy and paste from my already existing support article. So I'm going to copy and paste that in. And then I already have a video that walks through this. It's on loom. So I'm going to open this. I've already you know, just to save time I have already downloaded this video.

I'm not going to make you sit and do that, but I can simply take that video uploaded here. I can decide if I want someone to be able to scrub the video. Chances are no. So I'm going to have that be on by default. I'm going to save it, and I'm going to put it in this chapter.

That chapter is now done and ready to go. That was content that I already had. It existed in our support resources, but now it walks through in a guided way. The types of education and insight that we, we need our customers to have. And it doesn't mean you have to create net new things. You certainly can.

But this is just one example of how to repurpose existing content, especially if you have content that's kind of already course structured, if you will. It's super easy to copy and paste that in. A couple key differences. I will need to upload those videos like you saw too gradual natively. That means that we'll be able to track how long is that user viewed it.

So then if I go back to my enrollees, I can see who's enrolled, how long they've watched a particular video. Let's go back to the courses list and let's find one who has got some people enrolled. So hosting webinars and meetings, I can go to enrollees and I say, great, nobody's started it yet. We've got them registered, but they haven't taken, taking any action.

It really gives you a lot of power when it comes to customer and community education. It doesn't need to have tons and tons and tons of, detailed controls, but I do have quite a few I can control access by space, just like you can with any piece of content. So maybe certain customers need access to certain courses and others don't.

Or maybe another cool use case that we've heard about already is using courses to do community ambassador training. So I've got club leaders, local chapter leaders that I want them to kind of go through a training module. I can build that in a course. I can make it specific to that group of users and restricted by space so only they can access it.

Really, really powerful when it comes to, what you can do with the courses module.

If you are interested in courses and want to learn more, let us know. Please reach out. I know a couple customers have already. Like I mentioned, this is an add on module. That means it is does come at an additional price for gradual customers. But we can build that pricing based on your use case, how many courses you think you'll have, enrollees and things like that.

Happy to have that conversation and dive into more depth on the types of content that supported how you might go built go about building or transferring current content into that courses module. Awesome. That is our courses overview. Pretty basic, but again, happy to to jump into things in more detail as needed. Let's switch gears and wrap up talking about our roadmap.

So we're going to talk a little bit about our roadmap for the remainder of the year and some of the priorities. We're going to launch a quick poll at the end of this to just gauge your in your interest and insight into some of the tools that we're, working on. And considering these are not exhaustive, but just a bit of a straw poll to see what what's piqued your interest?

So the focus for the second half of the year is helping you demonstrate and drive value of the community to your organization and company business, what have you. And that's going to come from kind of three distinct areas. The first, we've talked a lot about kind of email and workflow automation. How am I able to increase the capacity of what we're doing inside of the community, drive engagement and interaction in a way that doesn't necessarily mean additional headcount or, more manual asks and activities.

So that email and workflow automation is going to give you the ability to do things like newsletters, digests and things like that. The second big area of of growth for the community in demonstrating value is in reporting. How am I showcasing the engagement inside of my community? How am I reporting on who are the most active members giving some scoring on, engagement over time that I can report up in the business to showcase?

Hey, here's here's the impact our community is having and what we're doing. And then the third area that we've already begun to tinker with internally, and we're excited about our kind of AI tools, assistance to put that information and data that you have to work. Maybe that's inside of a meeting room, having a companion or an assistant, maybe that's inside of the community itself, where people can ask questions unlike just in the search.

And it can summarize responses, or it's something like, for you as a community manager or community leader, being able to to get insights into what the community is doing, how they're interacting and what they're talking about to help inform, product decisions, roadmap, even community activities. What are the conversations that are happening in the forum that should inform, or event series or what we're looking to do from a content strategy perspective?

Those are just some of the things, that we're going to be focused on for the remainder of the year. Some other notable items. Gradual is continued, continually committed to providing a more accessible experience in the platform. I didn't go through it today, but we have drastically improved the platform's accessibility over the last month, and we'll continue to do so on an ongoing basis.

Things like keyboard navigation are now supported on pretty much every gradual page. We're launching additional accessibility resources inside of meeting, webinar and live stream environments for your events and things like captions are already introduced. We're committed to to making gradual as accessible as possible. If you have questions about accessibility, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Happy to have, have a conversation about that. It has been awesome to showcase all of these great new things with you and highlight the the great work that our team is doing. I cannot thank our team enough for their incredible hard work. They have done so much, to bring these things to life. It would be. I'd be remiss to not highlight the other resources that you have available.

Support that gradual.com is staffed by a wonderful team, on our operations team who can answer questions. We also have, new members of our team who are here to give you guidance and support when it comes to community strategy and, and your vision around that, as well as more technical support in how to connect gradual to your CRM and other tools.

So please don't hesitate to reach out. The first thing you can do, though, is you can jump into a meeting room with us, which is where we're going to go now in a couple seconds, Laura is going to drop, a link in the chat, or you can find it in the agenda, or there's going to have notifications on your screen wherever it is, for us to join a roundtable conversation in a meeting for you to ask questions, we can, you know, give some more insight into what's coming up.

You can just come in and say hi, or, or meet some other community leaders regarding us. We appreciate you all so much. Thank you so much for joining us today and carving out the time to learn about all the new, wonderful things inside of the product. Stay tuned for more updates and we will see you next time.

Thank you so much!

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