The employee hub for teams that need more than a knowledge base

No, and most of the work is sorting what you already have. A Happeo admin can export lists of pages, channels, and users from Admin Settings, and that export becomes your inventory. Your implementation specialist goes through it with you and marks what moves and who owns it on the other side.

Your people come across through the identity provider that fed Happeo. Entra ID and Okta provision Jostle automatically, and a Google domain syncs employee data directly. Job titles, locations, and start dates arrive structured, and joiners and leavers stay current without anyone editing a list.

What makes it even easier is that the content has an obvious place to go. Policies and handbooks become Library items under a Librarian who owns that section, announcements become News, and the People directory fills itself from the sync. There are no pages to recreate, because the places that content lands are already there.

Yes. Google is one of the identity providers Jostle supports for sign-in, using OpenID Connect, and people can launch the platform straight from the Google App Launcher. Employee data imports and syncs from your Google domain, so a new hire appears in Jostle when they appear in Google.

On the content side, the Library can sit on Google Drive, so files stay where they already live and open in Docs, Sheets, or Slides without anyone leaving Jostle. Drive permissions are locked and maintained on the Google side, which lets a Librarian share a file with a location or department without untangling folder access. You can also start a new document from inside the platform, co-edit it there, and embed a Form or a Slides deck in a News item.

Org units connect to Google as well. A division or department can be tied to a Google Group, and editing the org unit in Jostle updates the Group. That lets you target a News post or send a calendar invite to that group without maintaining a second list by hand. Notifications land in Gmail.

Jostle works with both at once. Sign-in and employee data can come from Entra ID, Google, Okta, OneLogin, or SAML, and Jostle keeps its own credentials alongside them. Teams notifications, Outlook calendar, Gmail, and Google Calendar all work at the same time, on the same platform.

Documents follow whichever suite they belong to. A person can create and co-edit a Word file and a Google Doc from the same place, and Microsoft Forms and Google Forms both embed into News and Library items.

The one choice you make is Library storage, which connects to either OneDrive or Google Drive. Point it at the drive that holds your policies, handbooks, and forms. Files in the other suite still get linked, shared, and found in search.

Jostle’s AI features all sit under JostleAI, which is included with every plan at no extra cost. Ask a Question answers employees’ questions from your Library, cites the documents it used, and only draws on content that person has permission to see. It also answers how-to questions about Jostle itself from the Support Center.

The Weekly Digest sends each employee a personalized email summarizing the latest news and updates. And for News authors, image suggestions find properly licensed photos based on the article’s content or a description they type in.

Jostle doesn’t use your data to train AI models, and System Admins can switch individual AI features on or off.

For the full feature list and Jostle’s answers on data handling, see the JostleAI page.

The two put their focus in different places. Happeo is a knowledge platform first, where teams lay out Pages and search reaches into connected tools like Drive and Slack. Jostle is an employee hub with fixed destinations for News, recognition, People, and the Library, so company updates and culture get the same attention as finding answers.

That shows up in how an update reaches people. In Happeo, posts live in Channels, and who sees one depends on who belongs to that Channel. In Jostle, each News item is targeted by employee data such as location, department, or role, so it reaches the right people whether or not they’ve joined anything.

Sign-in differs too. Happeo requires a Google Workspace or Microsoft account, while Jostle supports those along with its own credentials, which lets you include employees who don’t have a work email.

No. Whoever owns internal comms can run Jostle, whether that’s an HR generalist, an office manager, or a communications coordinator. Publishing a News item or adding a Library document doesn’t involve page layouts or code, and the destinations never need redesigning.

IT is involved once, during implementation, to connect single sign-on and the employee data sync. After that, new hires and leavers flow in from your HR system or identity provider, so there’s no user list for anyone to maintain. Plus, your implementation specialist stays with you through launch, so the person running Jostle isn’t left to work it out alone.