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Technology to create fast, visual indexes of people and organizations.
Build a visual index of everyone in your organization that's instantly accessible, fully customizable, and always connected to your data. Help everyone from the CEO to the new joiner get to know who's who, get context for where people fit in and get in touch when they need to.
Names & Faces provides a visual employee directory that helps growing and distributed teams put names to faces. It offers a web and mobile directory with org charts and HR data integration to keep the directory up to date.
A visual directory where colleagues appear as people first, with search by name, role, team, or location. It includes an organizational context and a downloadable org chart. It can automatically import employee data from HR systems, upload spreadsheets, or add people manually, and it supports branding and access control for admins. The product is accessible on web and mobile for broad team visibility.
Who it’s for: Growing companies with distributed teams seeking a visual employee directory and organizational context
Public customer quotes/testimonials and branding features noted; user base cited as 300,000+ users
I'm the founder and CEO of Names & Faces. We're grateful to have Accel, Y Combinator, Slack Fund, and Elad Gill backing us on our mission to build technology that helps people thrive in the groups that matter to them. Highlights of my past life include launching the 20-Over Cricket format in South Africa, winning a South African Music Award, attending Northwestern University as a Mandela Washington Fellow, and building Yuppiechef.com, a Tiger Global backed e-commerce company in South Africa.

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