Rippling unifies systems. Confirm explains who is actually performing inside them.
Rippling is great at consolidating employee systems and admin workflows. But when your leaders need better signal on performance, influence, and risk, a unified HR stack still needs a real intelligence layer.
Where Rippling performance management falls short
Rippling brings HR, IT, and finance operations together in one platform. Its performance workflows help teams stay organized, but they do not reveal how work actually moves across the company or which people are quietly carrying the business.
Forms capture opinions, not actual work
Rippling can capture ratings, review text, and workflow steps. It cannot see how influence, collaboration, and decision-making move through your company. That's the layer that explains why some people outperform expectations and others quietly disengage.
No visibility into hidden contributors
When performance data lives inside an HRIS, the loudest self-advocate often looks strongest. Rippling does not show who connects teams, mentors others, or unblocks work behind the scenes. Confirm does.
Calibration stays vulnerable to bias
Even a well-run review workflow can still produce subjective decisions. Without behavioral evidence and bias detection, performance conversations depend too much on memory, recency, and manager confidence.
What makes Confirm different
Confirm layers performance intelligence on top of Rippling so you can keep your HRIS and improve the quality of every talent decision.
The behavioral layer Rippling does not provide
Confirm uses Organizational Network Analysis and AI to surface influence, collaboration, hidden performance, and flight risk — turning Rippling from a system of record into a foundation for smarter people decisions.
- Find high-performers who do not self-promote
- Spot disengagement before it becomes attrition
- Improve calibration with evidence instead of gut feel
- Coach managers with signals tied to actual work patterns
Integrates with Rippling
Sync employee and org data from Rippling automatically. Keep your HRIS as the system of record and use Confirm as the intelligence layer for reviews, calibration, promotions, and development decisions.
Continuous signals, not annual snapshots
Rippling captures scheduled workflow data. Confirm adds ongoing behavioral signals from how people collaborate every day, so managers can respond earlier and with better context.
Better manager decisions
Confirm turns messy people data into specific coaching recommendations. Managers get clearer guidance on who needs support, who is under-leveled, and who is ready for bigger scope.
Feature comparison
When to choose each platform
Choose Confirm if you need:
- Evidence beyond ratings and self-assessments
- Early warning on disengagement and flight risk
- Fairer promotion and compensation decisions
- Manager coaching backed by real behavior
- Better calibration without replacing your HRIS
- Higher confidence in who is actually driving results
Choose Rippling if you need:
- Unified HR, IT, and finance administration
- Payroll, benefits, and device management workflows
- Employee lifecycle automation
- Fast admin setup for modern teams
- Operational system consolidation
- Workflow automation across functions
Better together: Rippling handles employee infrastructure. Confirm helps you decide who to promote, where to coach, and how to calibrate with better evidence.
Hear from teams achieving true talent density
"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."
"We reviewed Lattice, Rippling, and Culture Amp. Confirm was the only platform designed to be light-weight, fast, and easy to use."
"You don't realize how much you miss until you have a tool like Confirm."
"With Confirm, reviews were super quick, accurate and easy to edit. Probably saved me 80% of my time typically used in writing reviews."
"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with holistic evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."
"For the first time in my 10+ years in People/HR, 100% of team members completed their self evaluations."
"Confirm has transformed the way we do performance reviews, and helped us become a more data-driven HR organization."
"Confirm is a VITAL part of how we operate as a company. It helps us keep our team more engaged than they already were."
Up and running in weeks
Confirm connects to Rippling and syncs employee data automatically. Implementation is white-glove, not a DIY side project for your HRIS team.
Confirm
- White-glove onboarding included
- Rippling integration support
- Calibration and rollout guidance
- Manager enablement built in
Rippling
- Configuration across HR, IT, and finance modules
- Review process setup inside existing workflows
- Operational automation managed by admins
- Strong on workflow orchestration, not behavioral insight
Common questions
Can I use Confirm with Rippling?
Yes. Confirm syncs employee and org data from Rippling so you can keep your HRIS workflows intact and add performance intelligence on top.
Does Confirm replace Rippling?
No. Rippling is your HRIS or workforce system. Confirm is the performance intelligence layer you add when review forms and ratings are not enough.
How is Confirm different from Rippling's performance tools?
Rippling helps you run HR workflows. Confirm helps you understand who is influential, who is overlooked, and where performance risk is building — using behavioral evidence, not just manager input.
Why do teams run both together?
Because the combination works: Rippling stores and administers employee data, while Confirm improves the quality of review, calibration, promotion, and retention decisions.
Keep Rippling. Add the intelligence layer.
Use Rippling for HR administration. Use Confirm to understand who is driving results, where risk is building, and how to make performance decisions with more confidence.