Performance Calibration · Gusto

You're growing fast. Time to get calibration right before it gets messy.

Gusto customers are typically companies that are doing everything right—clean payroll, good benefits, compliant hiring. Performance calibration is the next piece to get right. Confirm integrates with Gusto to add ONA data, AI profiles, and bias detection to your growing team's calibration process.

Performance calibration software integrated with Gusto for growing startups and SMBs

At 50 people, informal reviews work. At 100, they stop.

When your team was 20 people, you knew everyone's work. Reviews were basically a formalized version of conversations you were already having. Calibration happened naturally because leadership had direct visibility into everything.

At 75 people, that breaks. Managers are seeing less of each other's teams. Review quality varies by manager. The engineer who keeps getting pulled into firefighting gets a middling review because their metrics look average. The person who's great at self-promotion gets rated higher than their actual contribution justifies.

This is the exact moment Confirm is designed for. Before calibration becomes a political exercise. Before inconsistency compounds across review cycles. When you're still small enough to build good habits rather than fix bad ones.

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Day to connect Confirm to Gusto
50%
Faster first calibration vs. starting from scratch
3x
More contributors recognized in first calibration cycle
100%
Of decisions documented—no more "we just felt it"

Your Gusto employee data, ready for calibration.

Confirm pulls your Gusto employee roster automatically. No spreadsheets, no manual exports, no copying employee lists before every review cycle. When a new hire goes through Gusto onboarding, they appear in Confirm within minutes. Calibration prep that used to take an afternoon takes five minutes.

Gusto employee data syncing to Confirm calibration platform for growing teams

AI profiles that do the manager prep work.

Most Gusto customers running Confirm for the first time have managers who've never done structured calibration. Confirm's AI-generated profiles arrive before the session, summarizing each employee's behavioral evidence from Slack, email, calendar, and GitHub. Managers come prepared instead of trying to remember six months of work in the 30 minutes before the meeting.

AI-generated calibration profiles helping first-time Gusto calibration managers

Establish fair calibration from day one.

The fairness problems that plague large company calibration—recency bias, proximity bias, gender-coded language—start small. Confirm's bias detection catches these patterns in your first calibration sessions, before they become embedded in your culture. Companies that start with Confirm early build the calibration muscle the right way from the beginning.

Bias detection establishing fair calibration culture for Gusto teams from day one

On Gusto? Add real calibration before you need to fix bad habits.

See why forward-thinking enterprises use Confirm to make fairer, faster talent decisions and build high-performing teams.

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