Most HR leaders didn’t choose Excel. It chose them.

AI has made it dramatically easier to build software. Product managers can mock up ideas in hours, developers move faster, and prototypes that used to take weeks get validated in days. So if your Small Improvements subscription costs more than $10k a year, it’s a fair question: should you build something in-house instead?

Jennifer Beattie, founder of Culture on Camera recently sat down with us to share her tips and tricks for managing performance at a distance – read on to learn more about her recipe for success!

PerformYard is a well-rated performance management platform built around flexible review cycles, goals, 360 feedback, continuous feedback, and reporting. Its biggest strength is configurability: companies with an established performance process can shape the platform around how they already work.

15Five has built its reputation around manager effectiveness. Its platform combines regular check-ins, 1:1s, performance reviews, goals, engagement surveys, and coaching tools to help managers stay closer to their teams.

Culture Amp is one of the best-known employee experience platforms on the market. It’s widely used by companies that want to measure engagement, understand employee sentiment, and connect survey insights to performance and development conversations.