AI in performance management, inside the review cycle you already run

AI insights gives the people running a review cycle a short summary of each review, and a writing coach helps reviewers say what they mean before they submit. Reviewers still write and rate their own reviews, and you decide what gets shared.

AI in performance management, inside the review cycle you already run

In the review cycle

Where the AI sits in a review cycle

The writing coach helps while reviewers write, and AI insights helps once the reviews are in. Everything else in the cycle stays as it is.

Step 1

Set up the cycle

You decide whether reviewers get the writing coach and which feedback framework it checks their answers against. You can also add the AI reviewer as one more reviewer.

Step 2

Reviewers write

Reviewers write as usual. When they want a second look, Check my draft points out what each written answer or comment is missing against your framework.

Step 3

Reviewers submit

Each reviewer submits their own review, with their own ratings. The coach never blocks Submit or changes a word, and its notes aren’t saved.

Step 4

Read a summary of each review

On each employee’s review, Generate insights writes a short summary of the answers submitted, with strengths and opportunities. Run it once the reviews are in.

Step 5

Share the results

Results reach the employee only when someone on your side shares them, one review at a time or in bulk, and they can be unshared. The AI insights card isn’t part of what’s shared.

AI insights

Get the gist of a review before you read every answer

When you’re working through dozens of reviews, AI insights gives you a short summary of one employee’s review, covering how they’re rated and what reviewers keep coming back to. It sits next to the answers it came from, so you can check it against them.

  • Built from this review. It reads the ratings and written answers submitted in this review, including the AI reviewer’s if you added one. It sees each reviewer’s type, such as manager or peer, but not their name.

  • For the people running the cycle. The card appears for the cycle’s creator, its collaborators and anyone who manages review cycles. Employees don’t see it on their own results.

  • Generated once, on request. Nothing runs until you press Generate insights, and the summary isn’t updated afterwards. You can’t regenerate it, so wait until every reviewer has submitted.

Get the gist of a review before you read every answer

Writing coach

Help reviewers write review comments people can act on

Before they submit, reviewers can check a draft against the feedback framework you chose: each written answer gets a score and a short note on what’s missing. The coach never edits the answer, so every word stays the reviewer’s own.

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Help reviewers write review comments people can act on

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Explore the rest of AI in PeopleForce

AI in performance brings together the AI features below. Open each one for the details, or see AI Companion and AI in recruiting.

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Add an AI reviewer to a review cycle. It answers your questions for every employee from their goals, 1:1s, feedback and kudos, with its reasoning under each rating.

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Why HR teams choose PeopleForce

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Real people on our support team answer, with a first reply in about two minutes and 98% satisfaction.

Room to grow

Start with Core HR and add Recruit or Perform later, all on the same employee record.

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Questions people ask about AI in reviews

Does the AI write performance reviews for our managers?

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See the AI in one of your own review cycles

We’ll set up the writing coach with your framework and show you AI insights on a review, so you can judge both on your own questions.