Migrating from Culture Amp to Confirm
Culture Amp's survey science is genuinely strong. Its fundamental limit: every insight depends on what employees choose to share. Confirm adds the layer underneath — behavioral data showing how people actually work, without asking anyone to fill out a form.
Two paths for Culture Amp teams
Culture Amp teams typically choose one of two migration paths:
Full replacement
Move all engagement surveys and performance management to Confirm. Migrate all historical Culture Amp data. Single platform for all people analytics.
Add Confirm alongside
Keep Culture Amp for engagement surveys. Add Confirm for performance management and ONA. Confirm pulls survey data from Culture Amp so insights are unified.
Why teams move beyond Culture Amp
All insights are survey-dependent
Culture Amp's analysis is only as good as survey participation — and surveys only capture what people are willing to share. Managers game ratings. Disengaged employees skip surveys. The signal you need most arrives last, if at all.
Surveys are retrospective
By the time a quarterly survey shows declining engagement, the employee has already been mentally checked out for months. Culture Amp tells you what happened. ONA tells you what's about to happen.
No predictive capability
Culture Amp analyzes historical data well. It doesn't detect early retention risk from behavioral signals, surface hidden high-performers, or proactively coach managers. The gap between analytics and action stays wide.
What transfers from Culture Amp
Historical survey scores, trend lines, and driver analysis export. Your benchmark continuity stays intact.
All completed review cycles, ratings, and written feedback migrate to Confirm's review archive.
Peer feedback, upward feedback, and self-evaluation history exports and imports cleanly.
Goal history and active objectives migrate. Connected to review cycles in Confirm going forward.
All employee profiles and org structure migrate and sync with your HRIS ongoing.
Custom competencies and career frameworks you've built in Culture Amp recreate in Confirm during setup.
The Culture Amp migration process
Data export from Culture Amp
Culture Amp exports are clean and well-structured. We export survey history, review cycles, goals, and employee data. If you're keeping Culture Amp for surveys, we set up the API integration so Confirm pulls your survey data automatically.
Confirm setup & import
Configure review cycles, competencies, and performance frameworks. Connect your HRIS. Import historical data. Enable ONA collection. Validate data accuracy with your HR team.
Training & go live
Train HR admins and managers. Launch to full team. ONA insights supplement your survey data from day one — behavioral signals alongside what employees self-report.
Culture Amp migration questions
We love Culture Amp's survey benchmarking. Do we lose that?
If you switch fully to Confirm, you lose Culture Amp's external benchmarking database. Confirm has engagement surveys, but the benchmark library is smaller. If benchmarking is critical, keeping Culture Amp for surveys and adding Confirm for performance is the right path.
Will our historical engagement scores transfer?
Yes. Culture Amp's historical survey data exports cleanly. Your trend lines and historical benchmarks carry forward into Confirm's analytics.
How does Confirm's ONA compare to Culture Amp's manager effectiveness tools?
Culture Amp's manager effectiveness tools are survey-based — asking employees to rate their managers. ONA reveals manager impact behaviorally — who turns to this manager for help, how communication flows, whether their team is disengaging. Same question, different data source, different level of honesty.
Can we phase the migration — performance now, surveys later?
Yes. Many Culture Amp teams move performance management to Confirm first (reviews, calibration, ONA) and evaluate the survey switch separately. We can configure a phased approach that lets you make that decision on your timeline.
Ready to see what's beneath the survey data?
Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly how Confirm's ONA surfaces what Culture Amp can't — and walk through your migration options honestly.