Employee Reviews

    Reviews that record the year, not the last two weeks

    Capture a note in seconds — type it at your desk, or dictate it on the move. Objectives are agreed, not assigned. No ratings to argue about — just a clear, dated record both sides recognise.

    • Type or dictate

      A note in twenty seconds

    • No ratings

      Nothing to argue about

    • Private stays private

      Never carried forward

    • Dated all year

      No recency bias

    Why annual reviews fail

    The failure is nearly always the record, not the conversation.

    Nothing is written down until review week, so the year collapses into recency bias.

    Notes are typed or dictated as things happen and stamped with the date they occurred.

    A rating becomes the conversation. The work, the context and the fix get lost.

    No scores at all. Feedback is grouped into themes drawn from the notes themselves.

    Objectives are pasted in and never acknowledged, so nobody can prove what was agreed.

    Each objective is accepted or declined by the employee, with a reason on the record.

    Every row above is recorded and dated, so the record speaks for itself later.

    The product

    Capture in seconds, review in minutes

    On the left, the capture surface a manager actually uses from their phone. On the right, the review that assembles itself from those notes.

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    Capture a note

    Priya N. · today

    Picked up the Harrow handover at two hours' notice and got the client back on side — worth putting in the review

    Save note Client work Private note
    • 14 JanClient work

      Picked up the Harrow handover at two hours' notice and got the client back on side.

    • 02 FebReliability private

      Second stand-up missed this month. Flagged it gently — childcare pressure mentioned.

    • 27 FebTeam

      Ran the onboarding session for two new starters without being asked.

    Review · Priya N. · 2026 cycle

    24

    Notes

    5

    Themes

    None

    Ratings

    Themed feedback

    Client work9 notes
    Team6 notes
    Reliability4 notes

    Objectives

    • Own the Harrow account end to end

      Accepted by employee

    • Lead one onboarding session per quarter

      Accepted by employee

    • Move to the earlier stand-up slot

      Declined — Childcare — proposed 10:00 instead

    The unbroken record

    Review → Improvement plan → Mediation, as one case chain

    Nothing is retyped and nothing is lost. Each stage carries the last one forward with its dates intact — so the story a tribunal would ask for already exists.

    1. Stage 1

      Review

      • 14 JanVoice note logged — client handover
      • 02 MarObjective proposed
      • 04 MarObjective accepted by employee
      • 28 MarReview closed
      Explore review
    2. Stage 2

      Improvement plan

      • 01 AprPlan opened from review
      • 15 AprCheckpoint 1 — summary written
      • 29 AprCheckpoint 2 — partially met
      • 13 MayOutcome: escalated
      Explore improvement plan
    3. Stage 3

      Mediation

      • 16 MayRoom opened, plan carried in
      • 18 MayIssues agreed: 2 of 3 green
      • 24 MayMemorandum signed
      Explore mediation
    Only accepted objectives and shared facts carry forward to the next stage.
    Private manager notes never move. They stay in the review, full stop.

    How it works

    01

    Import your org

    One CSV: people, job titles, departments and reporting lines. See exactly what will change before anything is saved.

    02

    Capture notes as you go

    Type a note at your desk or dictate one on the move. Either way it is logged through the year with a date, not scrambled together the night before the review.

    03

    Agree objectives

    Objectives are proposed, and the employee accepts or declines each one with a reason. Nothing is imposed silently.

    The rules we hold to

    No ratings

    No 1–5 scores, no forced distribution, no stack ranking. Ratings create arguments about the number instead of the work.

    Private notes stay private

    A manager's private note is never shared with the employee and never flows into a plan, a letter or a mediation room.

    Type it or say it

    Type at your desk when the person sits two metres away. Dictate walking between meetings, on site or at end of shift. Transcription happens in-app, not in a third-party notetaker.

    One defensible record

    Every note, objective and acknowledgement is timestamped, so the review reflects the year rather than the last fortnight.

    Included: one-click HR letters

    When a review is closed, the follow-up letter is drafted straight from the record — the facts already logged, nothing invented.

    • Drafts only — the system never sends anything
    • Facts come from the record, never from guesswork
    • Statutory checklist for accompanied and appeal rights
    • Download, check, and self-certify when you send it
    See HR letters

    Where reviews lead

    Most reviews end there. When they don't, the record carries forward — only the objectives the employee accepted, never a private note.