AgilityPortal: How Jay Lartey Is Reimagining the Digital Workplace for a More Connected Workforce
From scattered emails and disconnected applications to one integrated workplace, AgilityPortal is building a digital environment where employees can communicate, collaborate and find the resources they need—wherever they work.
A modern organisation may have employees working from corporate offices, homes, retail locations, factories, warehouses and customer sites. While technology has made distributed working possible, it has also created a new challenge: keeping everyone informed, connected and working towards the same objectives.
Important announcements can disappear in email threads. Documents may be stored across multiple applications. Employees can struggle to find the right colleague or information, while managers have limited visibility into communication and collaboration across teams.
For Jay Lartey, founder of AgilityPortal, this is more than a technology inconvenience. It is a workplace challenge that affects how organisations function.
His vision is to bring the essential elements of a connected organisation into one accessible digital environment. Through AgilityPortal, businesses can combine internal communications, employee engagement, collaboration, knowledge sharing and project management within a unified digital workplace.
The company has been selected for the Digital Workplace Innovation Excellence Award at the Great Companies Global Awards 2026, recognising its work in developing an integrated platform for organisations with office-based, remote and frontline employees.
Website: https://agilityportal.io
The thinking behind a connected digital workplace
AgilityPortal's origins are connected to a broader ambition: making workplace communication and collaboration more seamless.
The company's website identifies Agility Online as the software business behind AgilityPortal, founded in 2019 to improve workplace communication and help organisations build more connected digital cultures. Lartey's professional background brings together software development, enterprise implementation and workflow improvement.
His stated experience includes working with clients such as Coca-Cola and Novartis, and supporting human resources and employee engagement professionals in developing strategies for connecting distributed teams.
This perspective informs the problem AgilityPortal seeks to address. Organisations do not necessarily lack communication tools. In many cases, they have too many of them. Different applications serve different purposes, but employees must move between systems to locate information, communicate with colleagues, manage work and access company resources.
The result can be fragmented experiences and unnecessary complexity.
AgilityPortal's central proposition is to bring these activities together through a single cloud-based platform. Its mission, as expressed by the company, is to empower remote organisations to connect, communicate and collaborate through a unified digital workplace.
Rather than treating an intranet as a static repository of company information, the platform presents it as an active environment where employees can participate in everyday organisational life.
One platform, multiple workplace needs
AgilityPortal combines several capabilities that organisations traditionally manage through separate systems.
At its foundation is internal communication. Employees can access company announcements, newsfeeds, real-time chat, channels and discussion spaces. Organisations can use targeted communications to share relevant information with departments, teams or different employee groups.
The platform also includes an employee directory, helping people find colleagues through information such as teams, skills, departments and locations. Communities and workspaces provide dedicated environments for discussions, projects and departmental collaboration.
Document management and knowledge sharing form another important part of the offering. Organisations can create intranet pages, HR hubs and internal resources, while employees can access shared documents and information through a centralised environment.
The platform's search functionality is designed to make information easier to discover, including AI-powered workplace search. Its wider feature set includes analytics, personalised dashboards, employee onboarding, digital forms, permissions and governance capabilities.
Project management extends the platform beyond communication. Teams can organise tasks, assign responsibilities, monitor progress, manage milestones and collaborate around shared deliverables. Kanban boards, project workspaces, reporting and approval workflows are among the capabilities described on the company's website.
This breadth matters because communication and execution are closely connected. A team may receive an important update, but it also needs a practical way to act on it, coordinate responsibilities and track progress.
By bringing these functions together, AgilityPortal aims to reduce the friction between knowing what needs to happen and getting the work done.
Designed for employees, not just administrators
One of the platform's defining priorities is accessibility.
Traditional intranet systems can become difficult to adopt when they feel designed primarily for IT departments or administrators rather than the employees expected to use them every day.
AgilityPortal takes a more employee-centred approach, drawing on familiar social networking experiences. Its newsfeed, reactions, comments, mentions, communities and messaging features are intended to make workplace interaction more intuitive.
The platform is also mobile-first, supporting employees who may not spend their working day at a desk. This is particularly relevant to frontline teams in industries such as retail, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and hospitality, where employees need timely information while working across different locations.
The company's modular approach allows organisations to add or remove features as their requirements evolve. Its website also describes integration options with tools including Google Drive, Office 365, DocuSign and Microsoft identity services.
This approach recognises that businesses do not all operate in the same way. A small organisation may begin with communication and document sharing, while a larger or more distributed workforce may require additional capabilities for employee engagement, project
coordination and governance.
The objective is to provide a common digital environment without requiring every organisation to adopt an identical workplace structure.
Recognition for usability and customer experience
Technology is only valuable when people can use it effectively. A feature-rich platform that employees find confusing may struggle to become part of everyday working routines.
AgilityPortal identifies ease of use as one of its important achievements. The company reports recognition from G2 as one of the easiest employee intranet applications to use, based on verified customer reviews.
Its submitted company information also identifies customer service, product reliability and value for cost as important areas of focus.
The company's website displays ratings of 4.7 out of 5 across G2, Google and Capterra. These platform-displayed ratings provide an additional indication of its customer-review positioning, although ratings and review counts can change over time.
AgilityPortal also describes its customer support model as including onboarding guidance, implementation assistance and dedicated customer success support. Its stated approach is to help organisations move beyond purchasing software and achieve practical adoption within their teams.
The company says its platform is helping more than 1,000 businesses build digital workplaces and vibrant communities. This is a company-reported figure, reflecting the reach it presents for its product.
Supporting the changing nature of work
The importance of connected workplace technology extends beyond remote working.
Many organisations now operate across a combination of physical and digital environments. Their employees may be distributed by geography, department, shift pattern or job function. A communication approach built around office meetings and email alone may not serve everyone equally.
A frontline employee, for example, needs quick access to operational updates and relevant resources. A remote team member may need project information, shared documents and reliable communication channels. A manager may need visibility into participation, employee feedback and project progress.
A unified digital workplace can provide a shared point of access for these different needs.
AgilityPortal's offering reflects this wider shift. Its solutions span corporate intranets, internal communications, employee engagement, extranet portals and project management.
Together, these capabilities position the platform as more than a conventional employee communication application.
The company also publishes educational resources around employee culture, frontline engagement, digital transformation and workplace technology. This content supports its broader focus on helping organisations understand the operational and people-related dimensions of digital workplace development.
Building a workplace where people feel connected
At its heart, AgilityPortal's proposition is about people as much as software.
An organisation's culture is shaped by the way information moves, how colleagues interact, whether employees feel included and how easily people can contribute to shared goals. Technology cannot create a healthy workplace culture on its own, but the right digital environment can support the everyday behaviours that strengthen it.
By bringing communication, knowledge, collaboration and work management into one environment, AgilityPortal aims to make those connections easier to establish and maintain.
The company's recognition with the Digital Workplace Innovation Excellence Award reflects the relevance of this approach in an era when organisations are reconsidering how their people work together.
For Jay Lartey and the AgilityPortal team, the opportunity lies in making the digital workplace more accessible, connected and useful—not simply adding another application to an already crowded technology landscape.
As organisations continue to evolve, the ability to connect people across locations and roles will remain an important part of effective business operations. AgilityPortal's ambition is to help make that connection a more integrated part of everyday work.
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