Playground (tryplayground.com)
Playground (tryplayground.com) Innovation & Technology Culture
Frequently Asked Questions
Innovation is core to how Playground operates.
We’re constantly iterating on our product to better serve early childhood educators and providers, grounding our roadmap in real customer feedback and evolving needs. Because we’re still growing, ideas can quickly turn into shipped features. Our team ships code every day.
Internally, we also encourage experimentation and innovation. Team members are empowered to test new tools, explore AI and automation, and build internal solutions that make us more effective. Our founders actively promote a “work smarter, not harder” mindset and invest in helping the team develop technical leverage, even outside traditional engineering roles.
Playground’s technology is modern, thoughtfully chosen, and continuously evolving.
We prioritize a tech stack that reflects the same qualities as our product — user-friendly, modern, and sleek. We’re constantly exploring cutting-edge tools and, when it makes sense, partnering with other innovative startups whose products align with our standards and solve meaningful problems for our teams. We also actively encourage employees to leverage the generative AI revolution to build custom solutions that increase their effectiveness. As our CEO often says, we’re in the age of personalized software.
At the same time, we balance new technologies with proven platforms like Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace to ensure reliability and scalability.
Very quickly — when it’s relevant and adds real value.
Because we’re a growing company with high agency across teams, we’re able to evaluate and implement new tools without heavy bureaucracy. For example, in pursuit of SOC 2 compliance, we selected and rolled out a compliance platform and had the full team actively using it in under a month.
We move fast, though thoughtfully. If a new technology improves efficiency, security, or customer impact, we’re willing to experiment, adopt, and operationalize it quickly.
As a modern software company operating in the age of generative AI, Playground is highly tech-savvy and forward-looking. We embrace new tools quickly, encourage experimentation, and actively look for ways technology can increase leverage across every function. Team members are empowered to explore AI, automation, and emerging platforms to build smarter workflows and custom solutions that improve how we operate.
At the same time, we value craftsmanship and reliability. We adopt tools not because they’re new but because they meaningfully improve speed, quality, and/or customer impact.
