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Kona is an AI-powered coach for managers, integrating with Slack and Zoom to provide real-time feedback, automate meeting notes, and offer performance insights. It helps L&D and HR teams scale manager development, reinforce training, and save significant time on administrative tasks.

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2025-08-03
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Kona Overview

Kona, now part of 15Five, is an AI-powered sidekick designed to enhance manager development and team performance. It functions as a personal performance coach for every manager, integrating directly into their daily workflow within Slack and Zoom. By attending meetings, Kona provides real-time, personalized coaching based on the organization's specific best practices and competencies. This approach helps transform theoretical training into practical, reinforced behaviors.

The platform is built to address the common challenges faced by People Teams and L&D leaders, such as time-strapped managers, the need for ongoing skill reinforcement, and the difficulty of providing scalable, individual support. Kona automates tedious administrative tasks, allowing managers to focus on meaningful conversations rather than documentation.

How to use Kona

Getting started with Kona is designed to be seamless and integrated into your existing tools.

  1. Installation & Configuration: Add the Kona app to your Slack workspace. Go to the Kona app in Slack and follow the onboarding steps. It's crucial to add your direct reports so Kona knows which 1:1 meetings to join.
  2. Calendar Integration: Link your Google Calendar. This allows Kona to automatically identify scheduled 1:1 meetings and join them.
  3. During the Meeting: Kona will automatically join the Zoom waiting room for your scheduled 1:1s. Once admitted, it begins its work. You can control it using simple chat commands in Zoom: type "Kona pause" to temporarily stop note-taking, "Kona start" to resume, and "Kona leave" to have it exit the meeting completely.
  4. After the Meeting: Immediately after the meeting concludes, Kona sends a private Slack message to the manager containing detailed notes, a list of action items, and confidential coaching observations. The direct report also receives a copy of the notes and action items, ensuring alignment, but does not see the manager's coaching feedback.

Core Features of Kona

  • AI Meeting Coach: Delivers real-time, in-meeting coaching based on actual conversations. It reinforces your organization's specific manager competencies and training programs directly in Slack and Zoom.
  • AI Manager Assistant: Automatically generates comprehensive meeting notes, extracts clear action items, and creates performance snapshots. This feature can save managers 45-90 minutes per week for each direct report.
  • Real-time People Analytics: Provides the People Team with a dashboard visualizing manager behavior change over time. It identifies skill gaps and opportunities for improvement across the organization without compromising individual privacy.
  • Customization and Integrations: Kona can be customized to align with your company's unique documentation and tech stack, including integrations with Performance, Learning, Project Management, and HRIS systems.
  • Privacy and Security: Kona is SOC 2 Compliant. It never stores meeting recordings or transcripts. All data is encrypted at-rest and in-transit, and meeting notes are kept 100% confidential between the manager and their direct report.

Use Cases for Kona

Kona is ideal for organizations looking to scale their leadership development efforts effectively.

  • For L&D and HR Teams: Use Kona to reinforce formal training programs, track behavior change, and identify systemic skill gaps. It acts as a scalable coaching solution, giving every manager the support they need without manual intervention.
  • For Managers: Managers use Kona to save hours on meeting prep and follow-up, improve the quality of their 1:1s, and receive personalized coaching to become more effective leaders. It also assists in drafting more confident and constructive performance reviews.
  • For Remote & Hybrid Teams: Kona helps maintain connection and effectiveness in distributed teams by ensuring 1:1s are productive and well-documented.

A case study with Amplitude demonstrated that Kona supported 170 managers, saving them up to 1.5 hours weekly on meeting prep and enhancing training retention, leading to more effective leaders and happier teams.

Advantages of Kona

Kona offers a distinct advantage by embedding coaching directly into the workflow. It's not another platform to log into; it works where the managers work. This leads to higher adoption and real behavior change. It saves everyone time—managers, their reports, and the HR team. The platform provides scalable, consistent, and data-driven support that was previously only possible through expensive, one-on-one executive coaching.

Pricing and Plans

Kona operates on a freemium model. New users can access basic Slack features, such as daily check-ins, for free. For companies interested in the full suite of capabilities, Kona offers a free 30-day trial of its Pro features. For detailed pricing and custom enterprise plans, teams are encouraged to contact the Kona sales team directly. Payments are securely processed via Stripe, with options for credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and bank transfers.

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