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Confirm vs. Engagedly

Engagedly tracks what your people did. Confirm tells you who's about to leave.

Engagedly runs reviews, goals, and engagement surveys. Confirm predicts flight risk 3 months in advance and coaches managers on what to do about it. One platform captures the past. The other helps you change the future.

3mo flight risk predicted in advance
40% reduction in calibration bias
4–6wk implementation (vs 8–12 for Engagedly)
Trusted by CHROs at Canada Goose · Foursquare · Thoropass · Trillium Flow
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What Engagedly actually is

Engagedly is a broad talent management platform built for performance reviews, OKR management, 360 feedback, and employee engagement surveys. It's a solid all-in-one system for companies that need comprehensive HR tooling in a single platform.

That breadth is both its strength and its limitation. Engagedly captures what happened: completed reviews, goal progress, survey scores. It doesn't predict what's about to happen: who's quietly burning out, who's starting to disengage, or which manager needs a coaching conversation before they lose someone. For that, you need a different approach.

Where reactive performance management falls short

Engagedly helps you manage performance. The problem: most performance management is backward-looking. By the time an engagement survey flags a problem, the employee is already interviewing elsewhere.

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Flight risk surfaces after the fact

Engagedly's engagement surveys and feedback tools help you understand what's happening. They don't predict what's about to happen. The first signal is often someone's LinkedIn going active — too late to act.

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Coaching happens during reviews, not when managers need it

Engagedly's coaching tools help managers write better reviews. Confirm coaches managers year-round — in Slack, when a team member shows early disengagement signals, before the review cycle starts.

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Hidden contributors stay invisible

Engagedly shows you goal completion and review ratings. It can't show you who unblocked three teams last quarter, who everyone turns to for advice, or who's carrying more than their title suggests.

What makes Confirm different

Confirm uses Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) and behavioral signals to surface what review forms and surveys can't: how work actually gets done, who's at risk, and what managers should do next.

The Confirm Difference

ONA: See what managers and surveys can't

ONA maps real collaboration patterns across your org: who people go to for help, who drives decisions, who connects siloed teams. This reveals true impact and early risk signals that neither reviews nor surveys can capture.

  • Identify hidden high-performers before they're headhunted (Canada Goose found 30% were invisible to leadership)
  • Spot disengagement weeks before someone updates their LinkedIn
  • Make promotion decisions based on behavioral evidence, not opinions
  • Catch flight risk 3 months in advance — time to intervene

Real-time manager coaching, not just review templates

Confirm's Slack and Teams bots proactively coach managers throughout the year. "Sarah's engagement is down 15% vs. two weeks ago. She's collaborating less with the eng team. Schedule a 1:1 this week." No waiting for review season to surface what's already broken.

Calibration grounded in network data

Confirm's AI-assisted calibration surfaces ONA data alongside ratings — so when managers disagree on someone's performance, there's actual collaboration evidence to resolve it. No more debating gut feelings in calibration sessions.

Faster implementation, less to configure

Engagedly's 8-12 week implementation reflects how many modules need configuring. Confirm's 4-6 week timeline means faster time to value. Your HR team gets flight risk data and ONA insights before your first review cycle closes.

Feature comparison

Confirm performance management software logo
Engagedly
Flight risk prediction
✓3-month advance warning
✗ Reactive signals only
Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)
✓Maps real collaboration patterns
✗ Not available
Real-time AI manager coaching
✓Slack/Teams coaching year-round
Review-cycle coaching only
AI-assisted calibration
✓ONA data reduces bias ~40%
Manual calibration with guidance
Performance reviews
✓50% faster, 98% completion rate
✓Flexible cycles
360-degree feedback
✓Integrated with ONA insights
✓Full 360 module
Goal / OKR management
Basic goal tracking
✓Full OKR framework with alignment
Employee engagement surveys
Pulse surveys + sentiment
✓Full survey platform
Implementation time
✓4-6 weeks
8-12 weeks typical
Pricing model
All features included, one price
Per-user + module add-ons
HRIS integrations
✓Workday, Bob, BambooHR, Rippling, ADP
✓Broad HRIS compatibility
Best fit
Mid-market, retention-focused HR teams
Enterprise with dedicated HR ops, OKR-heavy culture

Which platform fits your situation

Choose Confirm if you:

  • Are losing people you shouldn't be losing
  • Have managers struggling to coach their teams effectively
  • Want to identify hidden high performers before they leave
  • Need fast implementation (under 6 weeks)
  • Want all features included in one transparent price
  • Prioritize prediction and early intervention over platform breadth

Ideal for: Mid-market growth companies (50–5,000 employees) with retention challenges or manager capability gaps

Choose Engagedly if you:

  • Need a comprehensive all-in-one talent management platform
  • Want OKR management as a core feature
  • Have a strong employee engagement strategy (surveys are central)
  • Need deep customization and flexible configuration
  • Have a dedicated HR operations team to manage implementation

Ideal for: Enterprise companies with dedicated HR ops, or organizations with comprehensive talent management programs where OKRs and engagement are strategic pillars

Where Engagedly wins — and we'll say so

If OKRs are central to how you run the business, Engagedly's goal framework is more mature. If running company-wide engagement surveys and action planning programs is a strategic priority, Engagedly is purpose-built for it. And if you need 10,000+ employee scale with extensive customization, Engagedly has more configurability. Confirm is more focused — and intentionally so.

Hear from teams achieving true talent density

Joe Bast, VP People & Operations at Thoropass — Confirm customer

Joe Bast

VP People & Operations, Thoropass

"We launched on a Monday, and by Saturday morning we had 98% of performance reviews done. I don't know that I've ever seen that level of completion in that amount of time."

Kit Krugman, SVP People and Culture at Foursquare — Confirm customer

Kit Krugman

SVP, People and Culture, Foursquare

"We reviewed Lattice, Rippling, and Culture Amp. Confirm was the only platform designed to be light-weight, fast, and easy to use."

Jess Johannson, CHRO at Canada Goose — Confirm customer

Jess Johannson

CHRO, Canada Goose

"You don't realize how much you miss until you have a tool like Confirm."

Doug Kitani, CEO at Trillium Flow — Confirm customer

Doug Kitani

CEO, Trillium Flow

"With Confirm, reviews were super quick, accurate and easy to edit. Probably saved me 80% of my time typically used in writing reviews."

Joanna Yeoh, Director of People at Nansen — Confirm customer

Joanna Yeoh

Director of People, Nansen

"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with holistic evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."

Julia Psitos, VP People & Talent at Alfred — Confirm customer

Julia Psitos

VP People & Talent, Alfred

"For the first time in my 10+ years in People/HR, 100% of team members completed their self evaluations."

Carrie Carroll, Director of People Operations at QuotaPath — Confirm customer

Carrie Carroll

Director of People Operations, QuotaPath

"Confirm has transformed the way we do performance reviews, and helped us become a more data-driven HR organization."

Joe Soltis, CEO at ChoiceLocal — Confirm customer

Joe Soltis

CEO, ChoiceLocal

"Confirm is a VITAL part of how we operate as a company. It helps us keep our team more engaged than they already were."

What switching from Engagedly looks like

Most Engagedly migrations complete in 4-6 weeks. Here's what the process looks like:

Week 1

Setup & data migration

Connect to your HRIS. Employee records, org hierarchy, and historical review data migrate in 3-5 days. No manual entry from your team.

Weeks 2–3

Configuration & pilot

Configure review templates. Run ONA baseline. Pilot with one department. Train managers (2 hours per manager). Coaching bots go live in Slack or Teams.

Weeks 4–6

Full rollout

Company-wide launch. First flight risk data visible. Deactivate Engagedly when your contract allows — most customers wait until after one full review cycle.

Can run in parallel: Many customers run both platforms for one review cycle so HR can compare outputs directly before switching fully.

Common questions from Engagedly customers

Will we lose our review history?

No. Confirm imports your historical review data from Engagedly or your HRIS. You keep your records, and we use the history to train initial models and identify baseline engagement patterns.

What if we're still in our Engagedly contract?

You can run both systems in parallel during one review cycle. Most contracts allow termination with 30-90 days notice. The retention savings from preventing even one departure typically justify the termination fee.

Can we pilot Confirm with just one team?

Yes. Start with one or two departments, run a review cycle, and measure results before rolling out company-wide. Confirm's lightweight setup makes this straightforward.

How is ONA different from Engagedly's 360 feedback?

360 reviews ask employees to rate each other on competencies — which creates social pressure and recency bias. ONA maps actual collaboration patterns by asking who people go to for help and decisions. Behavioral signals, not opinions. Takes 8-10 minutes per person per cycle.

What if we need OKR management after switching?

Confirm has basic goal tracking. If OKRs are critical, most customers either run Confirm alongside a lightweight OKR tool, or find Confirm's goal tracking sufficient. A small segment keeps Engagedly's OKR module active while using Confirm for everything else.

Is our data secure?

Yes. Confirm is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. Network analysis data is aggregated and anonymized. No individual communication content is ever accessed or stored.

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