To Build or to Rent: Should You Create Your Own HR Tool?
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?
6 Best Lattice Alternatives in 2026: Features, pricing & use cases
Explore 6 top Lattice alternatives like Small Improvements, GWork, 15Five, Leapsome, Culture Amp, and BambooHR for your performance management needs.
29 Questions to Ask Your New Hires
We’re thrilled to kick off our Template Toolkit with a powerful resource: the Pulse Surveys Template we use here at Small Improvements!
7 Best 360 Evaluation Tools to Consider in 2026
How to find a 360 Feedback tool that actually helps people grow, not just one that collects ratings
8 Best Culture Amp Alternatives in 2026
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.
7 Best Leapsome Alternatives in 2026
Leapsome has become one of the most well-known platforms in modern performance management. By combining reviews, engagement surveys, goals, learning, and employee development in one system, it’s become especially popular among fast-growing companies looking to centralize their people processes.
Top 10 employee engagement software platforms in 2026
Employee engagement has become one of the most discussed topics in HR, and not because companies suddenly care more about surveys. Retaining great people has become harder, and organizations are looking for better tools to help.
