Sunrize FAQ

Questions, answered

How Sunrize works, what it measures, and how it fits into your organization

Sunrize is a workforce intelligence platform for distributed organizations. It brings together workplace activity signals, calendar patterns, timezones, and organization context so leaders can understand collaboration rhythms, expected coverage, and meeting pressure without asking employees to submit timesheets.

No. Traditional time trackers ask people to start timers or log hours. Sunrize uses periodic online and away status checks to show broad activity patterns automatically. It is designed for organization planning and collaboration insight, not payroll or minute-by-minute proof of work.

No. Sunrize does not capture screenshots, track keyboard activity, inspect open applications, or read message content. Activity analytics are based on periodic workplace presence signals. Calendar intelligence analyzes scheduled event patterns and invite responses; it does not claim whether someone actually attended a meeting.

Add Sunrize to your Slack workspace, then open the dashboard from the Sunrize App Home tab. Administrators can choose who participates, add other administrators, configure personal dashboard access, and optionally connect Microsoft 365 for organization-wide calendar intelligence and directory context.

Sunrize includes locations and timezone composition, working-hours overlap, expected workforce coverage, organization activity heatmaps and rhythms, historical ranges, people views, calendar meeting patterns, weekly Slack roundups, and CSV exports. Custom plans can retain up to seven years of history for compliance, governance, and audit requirements.

An organization-wide Microsoft 365 connection adds Outlook calendar patterns and basic directory context. Calendar Intelligence can show meeting volume, scheduled meeting hours and people-hours, after-hours pressure, invite responses, external collaboration, and load by person or department.

Slack and Microsoft 365 are our standard connections. Sunrize can extend across Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, project tools such as Linear, and the other workplace systems that run your organization. Email support@sunrizeapp.com to build the right fit for your operating model.

Yes. On eligible plans, administrators can enable personal dashboards. An employee's personal dashboard shows only that person's own activity and calendar patterns; it does not provide access to organization administration or other employees' data.

Sunrize is designed around purpose-limited data collection, scoped integration permissions, role-based dashboard access, and plan-managed retention. Administrators can control participation and review selected administrative actions. See our Trust page and Privacy Policy for details.

Email support@sunrizeapp.com for product questions, integration requests, custom plans, or rollout support