Looking for a Culture Amp alternative?
Culture Amp tells you how employees felt last quarter. Confirm tells you who's about to leave — three months before it happens. HR teams make the switch when they're tired of measuring problems they could have prevented.
Why HR teams leave Culture Amp
Three patterns we hear from almost every team that makes the switch:
"We're paying for four separate modules and still don't have the full picture"
Culture Amp is sold as Engage, Perform, Develop, and People Analytics — each a separate SKU, each with custom pricing you only learn after a sales call. Teams that start with engagement surveys find they need to add performance reviews as an add-on, then development, then analytics. The modules don't integrate deeply, so you end up with separate dashboards telling separate stories with no clear thread connecting engagement scores to actual performance outcomes.
With Confirm: One platform with performance reviews, ONA behavioral data, AI coaching, and engagement all connected. You see how a team's collaboration patterns relate to review scores, which relates to retention risk. The data tells one story instead of four.
"Our surveys show everyone's 'engaged' — and then someone unexpected quits"
Culture Amp measures sentiment. Employees fill out a survey saying they're satisfied, rate their manager highly, and check the boxes — and then they leave six weeks later. Survey data is self-reported, retrospective, and affected by what employees want HR to think. Behavioral signals don't lie the same way. Someone who is quietly disengaging reduces collaboration, changes communication patterns, and starts pulling away from cross-functional work — all of which show up in ONA data before they ever fill out an exit survey.
With Confirm: Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) tracks how employees actually work — who they collaborate with, who goes to them for help, where they fit in the informal org. When those patterns shift, Confirm flags it. Flight risk identified 3 months before the resignation letter, on average.
"We've been onboarding for two months and still aren't live"
Culture Amp is built for enterprise HR teams with dedicated implementation resources. It's a capable platform, but getting it configured — connecting to your HRIS, setting up survey cadences, training managers on the dashboards, building your review framework — takes time. Third-party data puts their average time-to-live at 2.6 months. For a mid-market HR team running lean, that's a long runway before you see any value.
With Confirm: White-glove implementation included at every tier. HRIS integration, cycle configuration, manager training, change management playbook — all handled by your dedicated success rep. Average time to go live: 5 weeks. G2 ranks Confirm #2 for ease of implementation (Culture Amp ranks 19th).
Confirm as your Culture Amp alternative
Where Culture Amp measures, Confirm predicts. Here's the breakdown:
🔮 Predictive, Not Reactive
Culture Amp: Surveys measure how employees feel after the fact. Insights are historical — great for trend analysis, limited for early intervention.
Confirm: Behavioral signals from ONA identify flight risk, burnout patterns, and performance shifts up to 3 months before they escalate. Act before you're reacting.
🧠 Behavior Over Opinion
Culture Amp: Survey responses reflect what employees choose to share. High-risk employees often give neutral answers to avoid friction.
Confirm: ONA maps actual collaboration, communication patterns, and network centrality — signals that shift predictably before someone disengages or leaves.
🤖 AI That Coaches in Real-Time
Culture Amp: Manager dashboards show engagement scores and suggested actions after survey cycles complete.
Confirm: AI coaching agents work directly in Slack and Teams, alerting managers to specific people and specific situations as signals emerge. No waiting for the next survey cycle.
⚡ Fast Implementation
Culture Amp: Average 2.6 months to go live. G2 implementation rank: 19th.
Confirm: Average 5 weeks to go live. G2 implementation rank: #2. White-glove onboarding included for all customers.
📊 One Platform, Full Picture
Culture Amp: Engage, Perform, Develop, and People Analytics are separate modules with separate pricing and separate dashboards.
Confirm: Performance reviews, ONA, engagement, AI coaching, and analytics in one connected platform. One login, one story.
🎯 Built for Teams Under 2,000
Culture Amp: Built for 200+ enterprise orgs with dedicated People teams and implementation resources. Heavyweight for mid-market.
Confirm: Built for lean HR teams at 100–2,000 employee companies where you need fast setup, strong support, and insights that drive decisions — not just dashboards to stare at.
What you get with Confirm
What customers say after switching
"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with some evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."
"By using Confirm, we now know who the influencers are, the high and low performers, who needs help, and what to do to keep the best."
"Confirm helps me support our organization with a holistic view of performance and the different dimensions of it. You can use much more data around talent, and this is going to help you make the right decisions."
Is Confirm the right Culture Amp alternative for you?
Confirm is a good fit if...
- You want to predict retention risk, not just measure satisfaction after the fact
- Your team is under 2,000 employees and HR runs lean
- Survey fatigue is a real problem — employees are tuning out
- You want implementation done in weeks, not months
- Managers need coaching on specific people, not generic dashboards
- You're tired of paying for features across disconnected modules
Culture Amp might be a better fit if...
- Benchmarking against 6,000+ other companies is central to your program
- You have a dedicated People Science team and want deep survey customization
- Your org is 5,000+ employees with enterprise implementation resources
- You need deep cultural metrics for board-level people reporting
How switching works
Confirm is ranked #2 Easiest to Implement on G2. Here's what the process looks like:
Connect your HRIS
We integrate with Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, and most major HRIS platforms. Your employee data, org structure, and review history transfer automatically.
We configure your setup
Your dedicated success rep builds your review framework, sets up ONA, and connects to your communication tools. You review and approve — no DIY configuration required.
Manager training and launch
Live training for managers and execs. Change management playbook included. 100% of Confirm reviewers on G2 rate setup 10/10 for ease of implementation.
Ongoing support, no extra charge
Your success rep stays with you for the long run: quarterly reviews, HR advisory, and access to best practices from 100+ HR leaders in the Confirm network.
Common questions about switching
How long does migration take?
Most teams are live in 5 weeks. We handle HRIS integration, data migration, cycle configuration, and manager training. Your HR team's lift during setup is minimal by design.
Do we lose our Culture Amp survey data?
No. We export your historical survey results and benchmark data during migration. You keep a full record of past engagement scores and trends for continuity.
What about Culture Amp's benchmark database?
Culture Amp's benchmarking against 6,000+ companies is genuinely useful for teams that do board-level people reporting. If that's core to your program, factor it in. Most mid-market teams find that internal trend lines matter more than external benchmarks for day-to-day decisions — and Confirm gives you those, plus behavioral signals surveys can't capture.
Can we run a pilot before committing?
Yes. Many customers run Confirm with one team or department first. We support parallel evaluation and make it easy to expand when you're confident.
See what HR teams see when they switch
30-minute demo. We'll show you what ONA looks like for a team your size, how the AI coaching works, and what implementation actually involves.