Our Latest Platform Release: Making Employee Communication Smarter, Faster, and More Personal

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We just shipped our latest platform release, and honestly? We’re pretty excited about it.

This update is all about helping you connect with your people more effectively—whether you’re trying to get urgent information to frontline workers, making sense of engagement data, or just trying to cut through the noise in everyone’s already-crowded inboxes.

The best part? A lot of these features came straight from listening to you. Let’s dive in.


Personalization That Actually Scales

Here’s a common challenge: you need to send one campaign, but different groups need to see different things. Maybe you’re announcing new product offerings in one division, but different offerings in another. Previously, that meant multiple campaigns. Not anymore.

Audience Block Targeting lets you customize specific sections within a single campaign for different audiences. It’s like having multiple versions of the same message, automatically served up to the right people. Less work for you, more relevant content for them.

A digital campaign editor interface showing a "Fresh Foods Quarterly Update" email draft. The email preview features a photo of a man in an apron arranging fresh vegetables in a market. Below the image is a heading "What's Ahead for Fresh Foods This Quarter" followed by bullet points about expanding seasonal offerings, strengthening retail relationships, enhancing customer experience, and supporting team growth. A message thanks employees for their hard work. The editor highlights a dynamic content block labeled "HR" with text about new faces, initiatives, and employee engagement. On the right side, a panel lists dynamic content variants by department and location, including HR, Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, and locations SF, London, and NYC.

We’ve also upgraded our Knowledge Hub to make it easier to build those go-to information spaces employees actually use—think policy libraries, benefits guides, or resource centers. Better admin controls mean you can more easily create, organize, and update pages.

The screenshot shows a webpage editor interface for creating a topic titled "New Topic 1" in draft mode. On the left sidebar, there is a "Pages" section listing five pages: About, Posts, Shortcuts, Meet The Team, and Meet The Team EU, with one hidden page named Members. The main content area displays the "Fresh Foods Store London" page with a header image of a grocery store, the store's logo, and a welcome message. The navigation tabs include About, Posts, Shortcuts, Meet The Team, and Meet The Team EU, with the latter currently selected. Below, a message states "There is no content in the Meet The Team page yet" with a "+ Content" button for adding content.

And when something truly urgent comes up? Forced Delivery ensures those messages reach everyone, regardless of their usual channel preferences. Because sometimes “optional” just isn’t an option.

Direct Delivery Options panel with three checkbox settings: 1. "Force delivery to all selected channels for each recipient" (checked) 2. "Mark the communication as Important in the Notification Center" (unchecked) 3. "Include in the ‘For You’ section of Member Experience" (unchecked) Below the options are two buttons: "Cancel" and "Save.

Your Data, Your Way, Right When You Need It

If you’ve ever wanted to dig deeper into your engagement data using your own analytics tools, this one’s for you.

Our enhanced Direct Data Export capabilities give your analytics teams near real-time access to raw engagement data through automated, secure exports. Whether you’re a Tableau devotee, a Looker loyalist, or have your own BI stack, you can now pull Firstup data into your existing workflows and dashboards.

Translation? Faster insights, better decisions, and no more waiting around for custom reports.

SFTP Connections interface showing the Event History tab with a list of file transfer events. Each entry includes a filename labeled "Filename," a date and time, a file size of 12MB, a status indicator (In Progress in blue, Failed in red, Successful in green), and the SFTP destination "sftp://user2@host.com/". The sidebar menu includes options for Create, Campaigns, Calendar, Journey, Insights, People, and Library.

Integration Where Work Actually Happens

Communication doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your employees are already using tools like Workday and Concur every day, so we’re meeting them there.

Our expanded Workday integration now lets employees check pay slips, time-off balances, and absence requests right inside Firstup. One less system to log into, one less password to remember.

For our Concur users, managers can now view receipts inline with expense reports—whether you’re in the US or EU. Faster approvals, less friction, happier managers.

Two overlapping mobile app screens are shown. The screen in the background is titled "Workday" with a blue header and three purple links below: Absence Balance, Absence Requests, and My Payslips. The screen in the foreground is titled "My Payslips" and displays a dropdown menu for Payslip Period set to "Month-to-Date." Below are two payslips listed with payment dates 09/30/2025 and 09/15/2025, each showing a gross amount of 5,000.00 and a net amount of 3,000.00. There is a "BACK" button at the top left and an "Open Workday" link at the top right.

Why This Matters

Every update in this release is designed to solve a real problem—making personalization easier, getting you data faster, and reducing the number of tools your people need to juggle. Whether you’re already using Firstup or just exploring what modern employee communication can look like, these capabilities are about making your job easier and your employees’ experience better.

Because when communication works—when people get the right information at the right time in the right place—everything else gets easier. Projects move faster. Engagement goes up. People actually know what’s going on.

Ready to See It in Action?

All these features are live and ready to use today. If you’re already a Firstup customer, reach out to your account team to learn how to enable these capabilities. If you’re new here and curious about how Firstup can transform your employee communication, let’s talk.

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