Last month, we brought our entire global team together in one place, with Prague as the backdrop for our 2026 Company Kickoff (CKO) and Revenue Kickoff (RKO).
Between the historic cobblestone streets and the energy of having everyone in the same room, something clicked into place that you can’t replicate over Zoom: clarity on what matters most—the maintenance and reliability teams we serve.
We asked team members from across departments to share what the week meant to them. Here’s what they told us about Prague and why getting everyone together made all the difference.
The Customer Voice That Changed Everything
One of the most powerful moments came during a fireside chat that Fleur de Vries, Client Partner Principal, hosted with one of our customers.
“Having our customer on stage, openly sharing his unfiltered experience—the wins, the challenges, and his hopes for the future of our partnership—gave the entire company a direct view into how our work really impacts the plant floor,” Fleur recalls. “Leading that conversation in front of everyone was both a privilege and a personal growth milestone for me.”
That session drove home an essential point: our product roadmap wasn’t just about features and capabilities. It was about real manufacturing teams trying to keep critical operations running smoothly.
“Sales, Customer Success, Product, and R&D were not just presenting to each other, but challenging, collaborating, and aligning around what our customers actually need.”
— Fleur de Vries
More Than Strategy Sessions
The sessions throughout the week explored the ambitious plans taking shape across Augury’s product organization. As Saar Levinkron, Product Manager for our Ultra Low solution, puts it: “We’re going beyond critical rotary and delivering true machine health solutions that cover every asset that actually matters to our customers’ operations.”
Pat Sinicropi, Director of Strategic Sales, sees the customer impact clearly: “Our customers will benefit from an expanded product portfolio that will cover more of their critical assets. These insights will provide even more value and allow our customers to focus on what matters—their own customers, and getting high-quality products out the door.”
“Prague wasn’t just about planning 2026,” explains Diego Paranhos, Team Lead, Reliability Success. “We weren’t just building tools for reliability, we were crafting an experience that turns data into confidence. The level of alignment we reached is going to translate directly into faster, smarter, and more intuitive solutions that don’t just solve problems, they prevent them.”
That collective energy came from bringing together everyone who builds, sells, and supports our solutions, all focused on a single question: What do our customers really need?
Expanding Horizons
For Brian Crum, Senior Director of Product Management, the week crystallized what all these pieces add up to: “One system that brings together always-on sensing, AI diagnostics, expert validation, and agentic-AI workflows, all designed around how reliability teams actually work. We want maintenance and reliability managers to feel genuinely empowered by the technology.”
The expanded product vision means covering more critical assets across operations, and more importantly, it means solutions that fit naturally into how teams already work. Prague gave everyone, from R&D to sales to customer success, a shared understanding of where we’re headed and why it matters.
The Magic of Being Together
What made Prague special wasn’t just the formal agenda. It was the conversations that happened in between.
“Meeting my whole team in person was incredible,” reflects Torrie Griffiths, Client Partner. “Finally being able to build on the relationships in person made it all the more impactful.”
For the folks who’d just joined, being together in Prague made a real difference. Take Natalia Daly, Enterprise Account Executive, who’s only been with us two months: “I can confidently call my teammates friends, I know how to lean cross-departmentally when I need something, and I have a much clearer path for what I need to do to succeed.”
“Getting to meet so many people that I would never interact with in person was priceless.”
— Amir Kaufman, Product Manager, Platform & Delivery
Beyond the strategic alignment, there was something about Prague itself that resonated. The city’s history of transformation felt fitting for a company in its own period of growth. “It’s a city shaped by the blending of history and cultures,” Brian observes, “which parallels Augury as we continue to grow as a global company.”
The Energy We’re Carrying Forward
“With the whole team together, we were able to align and grow together,” shares Torrie. “We asked thoughtful questions, gave and took advice, and came out better than before.”
That spirit of curiosity and collaboration is what we’re carrying into 2026. Pat describes it as empathy for the person next to you in the boat,” and that mindset is shaping how we approach every customer conversation and product decision.
What Comes Next
As we settle back into our routines across time zones and continents, one thing is clear: Prague changed how we think about ourselves as a team and the work ahead.
The expanded product portfolio, deeper customer insights, and clearer strategic direction are concrete outcomes. But the real win was bigger than that: turning individual contributors into a unified team with a shared mission.
“We broke down walls and built bridges. The result is a unified, unstoppable force where every single person is locked in on the same North Star: our customers’ success.”
— Diego Paranhos
Prague reminded us that the best solutions come from bringing great people together with a shared purpose. We can’t wait to show you what we’re building this year.
Want to be part of it? We’re always looking for talented people who share our passion for solving manufacturing challenges. Explore careers at Augury and help us build solutions that make a real difference.
