Product Updates from UpRaise: What We Shipped in Q4 2025 & What is Coming Next?
At UpRaise, our focus is simple: help teams manage people operations with less effort and more clarity.
Over the last quarter, we shipped important improvements across People automation and OKRs. At the same time, we have been planning what’s next to make everyday workflows even smoother.
Here’s a quick look at what we delivered recently and what we are planning for the coming quarter.
What We Delivered in Q4 2025
1. Automation
(Available on UpRaise People Automation and UpRaise for Employee Success)
Automation was one of our biggest focus areas this quarter and this is exclusively available in UpRaise People Automation. The goal was to reduce manual work and help teams run more consistent processes.
We rolled out the first set of automation capabilities, where teams can now automate everyday people operations using simple triggers and actions, such as:
- Sending automatic Slack messages for birthdays and work anniversaries
- Creating Jira work items automatically
- Distributing forms without manual follow-ups
These automations help teams save time, reduce mistakes, and keep workflows running smoothly.
Along with that, we have also introduced a new Automation landing page to make it easier to understand what automation can do and how to get started. It brings together common use cases, guidance, and clear entry points, so admins can quickly explore and use automation without confusion.
This is just the beginning. We have more automation capabilities planned, and we will continue rolling them out gradually over the coming quarters. We will share updates as People Automation features within UpRaise continues to take shape.
2. Objective & Key Result Detail Page Revamp
(Available on UpRaise People Automation and UpRaise for Employee Success)
We also refreshed the Objective and Key Result detail pages. The new layout is easier to read, makes progress, punch-ins and alignments clearer, and better matches the updated UpRaise design system. Overall, the experience is cleaner and easier to use.
3. OKR Punch-in Approval (Advanced Edition)
(Available on UpRaise for Employee Success)
For teams that need stronger control, we introduced punch-in approvals for team-level OKRs in the Advanced Edition. Progress updates now require approval before they affect OKR progress. This helps avoid inflated updates and improves accountability, especially for larger or more structured teams.
What We Are Planning Next Quarter
1. Forms
(Available on UpRaise People Automation and UpRaise for Employee Success)
Template Gallery for Forms Module
We plan to introduce a template gallery that helps users get started quickly with ready-made form templates for common use cases. Users will be able to browse templates by category like department-based, role-based, event-based, competency driven etc., and template type and easily edit or customize them to create their own forms. This will make form creation faster and require much less effort from teams.
Form Responses Page UI Revamp
We are also planning to redesign the Form Responses page to make reviewing submissions clearer and more organised.
2. UI Revamps
To improve usability and reduce interruptions, we are gradually moving from pop-ups to drawers across the product.
Planned updates include:
- Create / Edit View: Pop-up to Drawer (Available on UpRaise People Automation and UpRaise for Employee Success)
- Create / Edit Segment: Pop-up to Drawer (Available on all UpRaise Apps)
- Request / Edit Leave: Pop-up to Drawer (Available on UpRaise People Automation and UpRaise Employee Garrison)
These changes are aimed at creating a smoother and more consistent experience across workflows.
3. Email Templates
(Available on all UpRaise Apps)
We plan to improve email templates across multiple modules, including:
- OKRs
- Leaves
- Feedback
- Forms
4. Advanced Edition
The Advanced Edition is applicable for teams using UpRaise for Employee Success – OKRs, Feedback, Review forms.
a. Custom Roles and Permissions Custom roles and permissions shall no longer be available in the Standard edition.
Alongside this, we will be laying the groundwork for additional Advanced Edition features focused on supporting more complex and growing teams. The aim is to introduce capabilities that offer better structure, clearer ownership, and more control as organizations scale. We will share more details as these capabilities take shape in the coming quarters.
Platform Update: Migration to Atlassian Forge
Q4 2025: We laid the groundwork for this migration by setting up and implementing the Atlassian Forge manifest. This was an important first step to ensure our apps align with Atlassian’s latest platform requirements.
Next quarter: Our first focus will be on building custom UI experiences that are served through Forge. After that, we will continue moving more parts of the backend and data layers to Forge in a phased manner.
Looking Ahead
In the next quarter, our focus will be on balancing execution and discovery, shipping meaningful improvements while laying the foundation for future Advanced Edition capabilities. Customer feedback will continue to guide what we build next.
We are excited about what’s coming and look forward to sharing more updates soon.
