SimplePerf • AI performance reviews

This is the feature that sets SimplePerf apart. When someone writes a vague comment, the AI asks a targeted follow-up, like requesting one example where an earlier design doc would've helped. It doesn't write the review for them. It pulls a better answer out of a person who'd otherwise submit two lines and click done, which is the whole reason a busy reviewer who hates writing feedback ends up saying something useful anyway. For small teams with no HR staff to chase quality, that nudge is the whole value proposition.

SimplePerf collects input from every side: self reviews, manager reviews, upward reviews, and peer reviews. You decide who reviews whom, and each reviewer gets guided prompts so the responses stay comparable. Seeing a self-assessment next to a peer's view of the same person is where the real insight lives, and this is exactly the kind of AI performance review software that makes that comparison easy to run. So what do you actually get when you put those views side by side? It's more work than a one-way review, but the AI prompts keep each person's effort to around 20 minutes.

Notifications and reminders arrive in Slack or Microsoft Teams, right where people already spend the day. A direct message tells you a review cycle started and that it's your turn. Another chases you before a deadline. Reviews themselves open in a clean web app, so the heavy reading happens in a focused space rather than a chat thread. The split sounds minor. In practice, it's why cycles finish. Because nobody has to remember a password for a portal they log into once a quarter, the review actually gets done before the deadline passes and the manager starts chasing people in private messages.

SimplePerf chases people for you. When a review is due, it sends reminders automatically instead of leaving a manager to send awkward follow-ups. The product frames this as "always on time," and for anyone who has run a review cycle manually, that's a real time saver. You set the timeline, then step back. That's it. No chasing required.

Built-in templates cover the common cycles: quarterly check-ins, annual 360-degree reviews, and new-hire 90-day reviews, each with its own timeline. You pick one, and SimplePerf lays out the heavy lifting of who does what and by when. That structure is what lets a team with no HR department run reviews without designing a process from scratch.

Each employee gets a clear summary that pulls strengths and focus areas into one view, and you can export it as a PDF. That's the artifact you bring to a feedback meeting. Having the review itself and the takeaway in separate places matters when you're about to discuss someone's performance and need the important points in front of you, not buried in eight peer responses.

SimplePerf is free for teams under 10 employees and costs $3 per user per month beyond that. Against an average of roughly $11 per user per month for comparable review tools, that pricing is the difference between running reviews and skipping them. There's no credit card required to start, and a 30-day trial covers a full cycle for larger teams.