The calibration software that replaces politics with data.
Confirm is the performance calibration software built around what employees actually do, not what managers remember. ONA evidence. AI profiles. Real-time bias detection. Your calibration cycle: hours, not weeks.
Traditional calibration is slow, political, and wrong about your people.
You gather 10 managers in a room. Each one rated their team against their own subjective bar. Now they're supposed to align on company-wide standards. What actually happens? The most vocal manager wins. People who worked remotely, switched teams, or took parental leave get quietly ranked down. Women and underrepresented employees get systematically underrated, not for performance reasons, but because visibility and advocacy aren't distributed equally.
And this is expensive. McKinsey estimates replacing one employee costs 50–200% of their annual salary. When your calibration process drives out top performers who watched someone get promoted for visibility while their actual contributions went unnoticed, you pay that cost over and over.
The fix isn't more meeting time. It's better evidence. When every calibration discussion starts from ONA data (what employees actually did, who they collaborated with, what impact they drove), the session becomes a fact-finding exercise instead of a negotiation.
"[Confirm finds] which workers are vital to the flow of information."
"An effective way of reducing bias and creating an even playing field."
"[Confirm] creates a fairer playing field by expanding leaders' visibility."
Every calibration session starts with objective evidence, not manager memory.
Confirm's active ONA surveys measure who's driving impact across your company by asking employees directly. Before your calibration session begins, every employee has a data-backed profile: cross-functional reach, influence signals, contribution patterns sourced from peer recognition. Managers arrive informed. Discussions stay grounded in facts, not recency bias.
Passive, continuous data collection
ONA runs throughout the review period with no employee surveys and no additional work. By calibration day, months of behavioral data are already synthesized.
Cross-team contribution visibility
See impact that crosses org boundaries: the engineer who mentored five others, the PM who unblocked three departments. These contributions are invisible in traditional calibration.
Real-time bias detection catches the decisions that corrupt your ratings.
Confirm flags three calibration failure modes as they happen: recency bias (over-weighting the last two months), affinity bias (rating people similar to yourself higher), and visibility bias (rewarding in-office or loud employees over actual contributors). Every flag comes with objective ONA evidence to redirect the conversation.
In-session bias flags
If a manager consistently rates their in-office team higher than remote employees, Confirm surfaces the collaboration data showing actual contributions across both groups, right in the session.
Audit trail for every decision
Every calibration outcome is logged with rationale. When employees ask why they received a rating, HR can show the evidence, not just say 'the committee decided.'
AI-synthesized profiles. Sessions that finish in hours.
Most calibration cycles take 2–3 weeks: pre-work, draft sessions, re-calibration debates, documentation. Confirm compresses this into a single working session for most teams. GPT-4 synthesizes ONA data, review history, and manager notes into concise profiles before your session. Managers show up to make decisions, not reconstruct the year.
Pre-built employee profiles
Every participant gets a concise, evidence-backed summary before the session. No more going around the room asking each manager to reconstruct the last 11 months from memory.
2.5x more top performers surfaced
When calibration is grounded in objective data, hidden high-impact employees surface. Companies using Confirm identify 2.5x more high performers than with traditional methods.
Why HR leaders replace spreadsheet calibration with Confirm
Real outcomes from companies running calibration on Confirm.
"We used to spend three weeks arguing about ratings. Now we run calibration in a single afternoon. The ONA data ends debates before they start; managers can't argue with collaboration evidence."
"We identified three flight-risk people in our engineering team two months before they would have left. The ONA data showed disengagement patterns we would have missed entirely in a traditional review cycle."
"Our performance ratings now actually correlate with business impact. Before Confirm, we were promoting the most visible people. Now we're promoting the people who actually drive results."
Performance calibration software vs. manual calibration
What changes when you replace spreadsheets and politics with a purpose-built calibration tool.
| Factor | Manual calibration | Confirm calibration software |
|---|---|---|
| Time per calibration cycle | 2–3 weeks | 2–4 hours |
| Evidence base | Manager memory, recency bias | Active ONA — peer-validated network data |
| Bias detection | None (depends on facilitator) | Real-time AI flags with evidence |
| Remote employee fairness | Systematically disadvantaged | Evaluated on actual collaboration data |
| Hidden top performers surfaced | Rarely; visibility wins | 2.5× more identified |
| Pre-session prep | Manual self-evals + manager prep (days) | AI profiles auto-generated |
| Documentation & audit trail | Spreadsheet or none | Full rationale trail, HRIS export |
| HRIS integration | Manual CSV upload | Live sync: Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, 8+ |
| Rating consistency across teams | Varies widely by manager | Grounded in shared objective evidence |
See a calibration session run in Confirm
Watch how a 200-person team ran their full calibration cycle in one afternoon using ONA evidence and AI-synthesized profiles. No spreadsheets. No three-week debate cycle. Just fast, fair decisions.
Calibration resources
Playbooks, guides, and templates for running great calibration sessions.
How to Run Calibration Sessions
Step-by-step process for running calibration sessions that produce fair, defensible results.
Talent Calibration Resource Center
Every calibration guide, template, and framework in one place. Frameworks, agendas, best practices.
Calibration ROI Calculator
Calculate time saved and accuracy gains from switching to software-driven calibration.
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