Effy AI is AI-first performance management software for small and mid-sized companies. It runs 360-degree feedback, performance reviews, goals and OKRs, probation reviews, and 1-on-1s — in the browser or inside Slack. The AI drafts the review forms, chases the responses, checks feedback for bias, and turns the results into summaries, heatmaps, and a 9-box view. A first cycle is set up in about 30 minutes, with no implementation project and no training for managers. Pricing starts at $3 per seat per month and is free for up to 5 users.
Our mission
Turn performance management from an admin task into something a growing company actually uses — AI at the core, simple by design, and useful from the first cycle.
Who we serve
Founders, CEOs, HR and people leaders, and managers at companies of roughly 30–1,000 people. Teams that need the insight a large HR function would produce, without the cost, the complexity, or the consultants.
What we do
- AI-first reviews — draft, summarize, and analyze feedback instead of reading a folder of forms.
- Fairness by default — bias detection and consistency checks before feedback is submitted.
- Actionable insight — summaries, heatmaps, score trends, and a 9-box view of performance against potential.
- Goals and growth — SMART goals and OKRs with alignment views, check-ins, PDPs, and PIPs, tied back to review outcomes.
- Career frameworks — tracks, levels, and competency matrices, with promotion signals and growth opportunities per level.
- AI skills for HR — packaged workflows that run in Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot and do real HR work end to end.
Why Effy AI
- AI that works in the background. Forms get written, reminders get sent, summaries get drafted. Nobody has to learn a new discipline.
- Simple enough for non-HR managers. The people filling in reviews are line managers, not HR specialists, and the product is built for them.
- Fairness tools built in. Bias and consistency checks apply to every submission, not just the ones someone thinks to review.
- Sized for SMBs. The features a 30–1,000 person company needs, priced per seat, with no implementation fee.
How it works
Simple — launch in about 30 minutes
- AI-generated forms, built for the role and the review type rather than from a blank template.
- Reviews run in Slack or the browser, with automated reminders that chase responses so HR does not have to.
- Bulk user import, sequenced workflows, peer nominations, and acknowledgments.
Fair — trust the process
- A bias and consistency checker flags feedback that is vague, harsh, or unfair before it is submitted.
- AI-assisted calibration surfaces rating drift between managers and teams.
Actionable — decisions, not dashboards
- AI summaries turn raw comments into a readable picture, per person and per cycle.
- Heatmaps, score trends, and the 9-box grid show where performance and potential sit across the company.
- Exports to PDF and CSV, a central dashboard, permissions and sharing, and cycle history and cloning.
What you can run with Effy AI
Reviews
Annual, mid-year, quarterly, 360-degree, and probation or 30/60/90-day reviews. AI form generation, flexible question types and scored scales, sequenced workflows, peer nomination and approval, reminders, AI summarization, customizable reports, PDF and CSV export, permissions, and cycle history and cloning.
Goals and OKRs
SMART goals and OKRs with a people view and an alignment view, automated check-ins, personal development plans and performance improvement plans, and privacy and sharing controls.
1-on-1s
Prep notes ready the moment a 1-on-1 lands on the calendar, grounded in the employee's context — their goals, their level, and what the next one asks for. Managers can ask questions in Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot and get answers from real employee context rather than generic advice.
AI skills for HR
Free, ready-made workflows that run in an AI assistant and do a complete piece of HR work, with a pause for approval before anything is created:
- Build your career framework — tracks, levels, competencies, promotion signals, anti-patterns, growth opportunities, and assignment criteria, drafted from your own job descriptions, org chart, and titles.
- Build an onboarding plan for a new hire — a task list with owners and dates, a welcome email, a first-week schedule, and a draft 30/60/90, pushed into your tools after you approve. About 5 minutes per hire.
- Document our onboarding process — reconstructs how onboarding actually runs from email history, task tools, and a short interview, then writes it up as a two-page document split by owner. 15–20 minutes.
- Create my HR context files — the folder of context files about your company that makes every later AI session smarter.
AI for HR — free course
A nine-lesson course on using Claude to run real HR work: setting up an account that knows your company, organizing context files, moving from one-off prompts to work that runs on a schedule, documenting and running onboarding, writing the employee handbook, and building a people analytics dashboard.
Pricing
Transparent, per seat, and modular. Buy reviews, goals, or both.
- Free — up to 5 users, full access to 360 reviews. No credit card, no time limit.
- 360° Reviews — $3 per seat per month, billed annually, for one review per user per year. $6 per seat per month for multiple reviews per user per year. Includes 360 reviews, bias checks and quality nudges, AI summaries, heatmap and 9-box insights, and the Slack integration.
- Goals and OKRs — $2 per seat per month, billed annually. Includes SMART goals and OKRs, people and alignment views, PDPs and PIPs, and check-ins.
A pay-per-cycle option is available, so a company that runs one cycle a year pays for one cycle. No minimums, no contracts, no implementation fees. Billing is pro-rated as the team changes. Nonprofits get 30%. Payment is by card in-app.
Security and compliance
- Data encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, with access strictly controlled and audited.
- Privacy by design, granular access controls, and customer-managed retention and deletion. Customers own their data and metadata.
- Designed to be GDPR compliant. Infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services, with automated encrypted backups and a documented disaster recovery plan.
- Application security built into the development cycle: peer review, SAST and DAST, and regular testing against the OWASP Top 10.
- Details, and the Privacy Notice, DPA, and sub-processor list: effy.ai/security
Getting started
- Sign up free — up to 5 seats, no credit card.
- Watch a demo or book a call.
- Buyer's guide — what a switch to Effy AI involves: a person runs the rollout, you are live in a week, and they check in every quarter.
- Onboarding help is included, plus in-product chat.
Comparisons
Customer stories
- Eleos Health — a behavioral health tech company moved from annual reviews to continuous feedback, with its values and leadership model embedded in the process.
- First Choice Health — a healthcare benefits company replaced manual survey consolidation with AI-organized feedback.
- Nx — a developer tools company replaced Google Forms with automated 360 reviews across its tech team.
Machine-readable index
A structured index of this site for LLMs and agents: effy.ai/llms.txt