UKG manages your workforce. Confirm tells you how it's really performing.
UKG Pro and UKG Ready are strong workforce management platforms. But when it comes to predicting who's about to leave, identifying who's actually driving results, and coaching managers with real data — you need a dedicated performance intelligence layer.
Where UKG performance management hits its limits
UKG Pro and UKG Ready include performance management as part of a broad HCM suite. The modules handle structured review cycles, goal tracking, and development plans. But they're built for HR compliance — not predictive talent intelligence.
HCM modules are built for compliance, not insight
UKG's performance tools capture what HR needs to document — review scores, goals, development plans. They don't capture what talent leaders actually need: behavioral signals, network dynamics, and the predictive data that tells you who's about to leave or who's ready for more.
Workforce management ≠ performance intelligence
UKG excels at scheduling, time tracking, and workforce optimization — especially for shift-based teams. Performance intelligence is a different discipline. Knowing who's influencing decisions, who's at retention risk, and who's driving outcomes requires a different kind of data.
Managers get forms, not coaching
UKG gives managers review templates and workflows. Confirm gives managers personalized, data-backed guidance on each team member — tied to real behavioral patterns, not generic HR prompts. The difference shows up in retention rates.
What makes Confirm different
Confirm is built exclusively for performance intelligence. It integrates with UKG and adds the behavioral data layer that workforce management platforms weren't built to provide.
ONA: the intelligence layer UKG can't add
Organizational Network Analysis reveals the informal org: who people turn to, who connects teams, who's becoming a knowledge bottleneck, and who's quietly critical to operations. UKG shows you the org chart. Confirm shows you how the org actually works.
- Predict flight risk 3 months before resignation
- Surface hidden influencers and overlooked contributors
- Identify silos and collaboration gaps before they hurt retention
- Make promotion and succession decisions on evidence, not tenure
Integrates with UKG Pro and Ready
Confirm pulls employee and org data from UKG automatically. Keep running workforce management and payroll in UKG while Confirm adds the performance intelligence layer on top.
Real-time signals, not compliance cycles
Performance changes continuously. UKG captures HR milestones. Confirm monitors behavioral signals in real time — so you know when something's changing before it becomes a retention problem.
AI coaching backed by behavioral data
Confirm gives managers specific, actionable coaching for each team member based on ONA, collaboration patterns, and performance signals. Not a generic template — real guidance tied to each person's actual situation.
Feature comparison
When to choose each platform
Choose Confirm if you need:
- Predictive flight risk detection before resignations happen
- ONA to reveal hidden contributors and collaboration gaps
- AI coaching with real, person-specific guidance for managers
- Bias reduction in performance ratings and promotion decisions
- Continuous behavioral signals between review cycles
- High review completion (98% is typical on first cycle)
Choose UKG if you need:
- Workforce scheduling and labor management
- Time and attendance tracking
- Full-suite HCM for enterprise organizations
- Payroll, compliance, and HR administration
- Benefits management and open enrollment
- Shift-based workforce optimization
Better together: UKG handles workforce management and HR operations at scale. Confirm adds the performance intelligence layer UKG wasn't designed to provide. Companies running both get the best of operational HR and predictive talent intelligence.
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 UKG Pro and UKG Ready and syncs employee data automatically. Implementation is white-glove, not an IT project.
Confirm
- White-glove onboarding included
- UKG integration pre-built
- Change management playbook
- Manager training sessions
UKG Performance Module
- Bundled in enterprise HCM rollout
- Configuration and change management
- Dedicated implementation team
- Longer overall timeline
Pricing comparison
Confirm
Based on company size and features
- All ONA and performance features included
- UKG integration included
- Dedicated success manager
- Manager training included
UKG
Quote-based; typically $22–$45+ PEPM for UKG Pro HCM suite
- UKG Pro: enterprise HCM with full module suite
- UKG Ready: mid-market workforce management
- Performance module included in HCM tier
- Implementation services additional
Common questions
Can I use Confirm with UKG?
Yes. Confirm integrates with UKG Pro and UKG Ready. Most customers keep UKG for workforce management and HR operations and add Confirm for performance intelligence and talent decisions.
Does Confirm replace UKG?
No. UKG handles workforce scheduling, payroll, time tracking, and enterprise HCM. Confirm handles performance intelligence. They solve different problems. Most companies run both.
How is Confirm different from UKG's performance module?
UKG's performance module captures structured HR data — review scores, goals, development plans. Confirm adds what HCM platforms can't: ONA from behavioral patterns, flight risk prediction, and AI manager coaching backed by real data. Different tools, different intelligence.
UKG is expensive. Why add another tool?
Because UKG's performance module is built for HR compliance, not talent intelligence. The cost of one retained flight-risk employee typically covers a year or more of Confirm. If you're losing top performers you didn't see coming, Confirm pays for itself.
Keep UKG. Get the performance intelligence layer.
UKG manages your workforce. Confirm tells you who's thriving, who's at risk, and who's driving results before the data shows up in an exit interview.