About Wanderfly
Most companies hear the truth on someone’s last day.
We are building the version where that conversation happens while it can still change something.
The honest conversation arrives too late
An exit interview is the one genuinely candid hour a company gets with someone — and it is scheduled after the decision is made and the notice is served. Somebody finally says what they have been carrying for half a year, and all anyone can do with it is write it down.
Nobody plans to burn out. It happens quietly, over months, in the gap between how a person is actually doing and what anyone around them can see. By the time it surfaces as a resignation, it has been true for two quarters.
The problem was never the feedback. It was the timing.
“Most employee feedback systems are administrative cost centres that employees don’t trust.”
So honesty had to be designed in, not added later
A wellbeing tool only works if the people it is meant to help are willing to be honest inside it, and nobody is honest with a system that can be read back to their manager. Ask badly and you get the answer someone thinks is safe to give.
Privacy was never a feature we bolted on. It is the shape of the thing, and it costs us reporting a buyer would happily pay for:
No leader can see how one person is doing.
There is no screen in the product that shows it.
Nothing at all appears for a group smaller than five.
In a team of three, anonymity is a polite fiction.
A calendar is read for shape, never for content.
How much of a week is meetings, and how late it runs — never what they were about or who sat in them.
None of that is a promise we make. It is what the product will and will not do.
Noticing is not the same as helping
A chart never made anyone feel better. When someone needs a person rather than a number, Wanderfly hands off to Serene, our network of wellbeing experts. The company pays for the session, and is never told who booked it.
Who is building it
Wanderfly is built in Bengaluru by Penchala Tharun and Kishore. It is a small company working on something that stays mostly invisible until it is urgent, for people teams who would rather hear about it early.
- Founders
- Penchala Tharun, CEO. Kishore, CMO and co-founder. Bengaluru, India.
- Recognition
- GHP Mental Health Awards 2025: Best SaaS Based Wellbeing Company, and Employee Wellbeing Champions of the Year.
- A DPIIT-recognised startup.