Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Ever opened your intranet only to feel like you’re stepping into a time capsule? Old, irrelevant content has piled up, and now the platform you hoped would be a digital hub of collaboration and connection feels more like an abandoned storage room. And here’s the reality: once employees lose faith in the intranet, it’s hard to get them back. AI-powered content moderation for intranets can clear the clutter so your platform remains a go-to destination.

A payment batch fails at 2 a.m. Within minutes, engineers and compliance staff are trading messages about which customers are affected. Whatever tool carries that conversation also carries customer data and the decisions a regulator may ask about later. For a digital bank, team communication is part of the operating infrastructure.

A mid-sized company asks an AI agent to onboard a new starter. The agent creates the email account. It adds the person to the right channels. It books the induction sessions and raises a laptop request. Then it reaches the finance-system access step. The request goes to an approver whose mailbox returns an out-of-office reply. The workflow has no rule for that. The agent is built to keep moving, so it skips the step. It reports: “onboarding complete.” Nobody notices for nine days.

A talk by Midhun Suresh R and Kieran Lane at The Matrix Conference 2026. Defence and government organisations need to share classified information quickly, with their own people and with allies, without it ever reaching someone who isn't cleared to see it. Speaking at The Matrix Conference, Midhun Suresh R. and Kieran Lane showed how the Mission Partner Environment (MPE) add-on for Element Server Suite Pro (ESS Pro) makes that possible.

Agents need more than access to your tools. They need connected context that shows how work fits together, and where the boundaries are. An account team is preparing a customer renewal, and the customer is asking for a discount beyond standard policy. The contract and the discount policy sit in different systems. A recent support escalation has changed the tone of the conversation, a similar case came up in Slack last quarter, and someone approved a different arrangement for this account.

AI adoption has reached the point where people are getting real value from it, but turning those individual wins into business outcomes is getting harder. That gap is what we set out to understand in The State of Intelligent Collaboration, our study of 9,500+ leaders and employees across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, run in September and October 2026.

Businesses constantly adopt new technologies to improve workplace productivity and simplify internal communication. As organizations grow, their existing communication tools may no longer support their operational requirements. Moving to a new team communication platform becomes necessary to accommodate larger teams, improve collaboration, and streamline daily workflows. However, switching communication platforms requires careful planning and execution.

In May 2026, the Zulip open-source project and Kandra Labs announced the creation of the Zulip Foundation and that four core team members, including Zulip’s founder Tim Abbott, would step back from daily work at Kandra Labs. The Zulip Foundation had an impressive list of Board Members and Advisors lined up, and Kandra Labs had an Interim President (me, Kim Vandiver) in place to ensure continuity of leadership. So, how have things gone in the past 6 months? Really quite well.