Zenefits simplifies HR admin. Confirm tells you who's actually performing.
Zenefits is built to make benefits, compliance, and HR administration easy for growing companies. When you're ready to go beyond basic review forms and actually understand your talent — who's at risk, who's driving results — you need a dedicated performance intelligence layer.
Where Zenefits performance management falls short
Zenefits is optimized for benefits administration, onboarding, and HR compliance for SMBs. Its performance features are basic — review forms, goal tracking — and that's by design. It wasn't built to be a performance intelligence platform.
Basic review forms, nothing more
Zenefits performance tools are designed for simplicity — manager ratings, self-assessments, basic goal tracking. For a growing company making real talent decisions, this isn't enough. You need behavioral data, not just documented opinions.
Designed for small teams, limited as you grow
Zenefits works well for early-stage HR admin. As your company grows and talent decisions get higher-stakes — who to promote, who's a retention risk, who's ready for more responsibility — you need more than a simple review module.
No visibility into how people actually work
Zenefits shows you org chart structure and tracks review completion. It doesn't show you who's influencing decisions across teams, who's becoming isolated, or who's quietly critical to operations. Those signals come from behavioral data — not forms.
What makes Confirm different
Confirm is built for performance intelligence at every stage of growth. It integrates with Zenefits and adds the behavioral data layer that HR admin platforms don't provide.
ONA: the intelligence Zenefits can't add
Organizational Network Analysis reveals the informal performance layer — who people go to, who connects teams, who drives results quietly. This is what determines who should be promoted, who's at flight risk, and who's being underestimated.
- Catch flight risk 3 months before it becomes a resignation
- Find hidden high-performers before competitors recruit them
- Make promotion decisions on evidence, not seniority
- Coach managers with data on each person's actual patterns
Integrates with Zenefits
Confirm pulls employee and org data from Zenefits automatically. Keep using Zenefits for benefits, compliance, and HR admin. Confirm layers performance intelligence on top.
Grows with you
Zenefits is right for early HR admin. Confirm is right for the performance decisions that get harder as you scale. When your team hits 50, 100, 200+ people, Confirm scales with you.
AI coaching for growing managers
First-time managers and growing teams need coaching backed by data. Confirm gives managers person-specific guidance tied to behavioral signals — not a generic HR template.
Feature comparison
When to choose each platform
Choose Confirm if you need:
- Performance intelligence beyond basic review forms
- Flight risk prediction before resignations happen
- ONA revealing hidden contributors and collaboration patterns
- AI manager coaching backed by behavioral data
- Bias reduction as your team scales
- High review completion rates (98% typical)
Choose Zenefits if you need:
- Benefits administration and health insurance management
- Simple HR compliance for small and growing teams
- Onboarding workflows and document management
- Payroll processing for SMBs
- Time off and PTO tracking
- Easy-to-use HR admin for early-stage companies
Better together: Zenefits handles benefits and HR admin. Confirm handles performance intelligence. Many growing companies start on Zenefits and add Confirm when talent decisions start mattering more than HR admin efficiency.
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 Zenefits and syncs employee data automatically. White-glove onboarding included.
Confirm
- White-glove onboarding included
- Zenefits integration pre-built
- Change management playbook
- Manager training sessions
Zenefits Performance
- Basic form template setup
- Self-service configuration
- Standard support documentation
- Limited customization
Pricing comparison
Confirm
Based on company size and features
- All ONA and performance features included
- Zenefits integration included
- Dedicated success manager
- Manager training included
Zenefits
Essentials (~$8), Growth (~$16), Zen (~$27) per person per month; performance features included in Growth and above
- Essentials: core HR and compliance
- Growth: adds performance reviews and compensation
- Zen: adds scheduling and advisory access
- Payroll available as an add-on
Common questions
Can I use Confirm with Zenefits?
Yes. Confirm integrates with Zenefits to pull employee and org data automatically. Most customers keep Zenefits for benefits and HR admin and use Confirm for performance intelligence.
Does Confirm replace Zenefits?
No. Zenefits handles benefits, compliance, and HR admin. Confirm handles performance intelligence. They serve different functions. Most companies run both.
How is Confirm different from Zenefits performance features?
Zenefits offers simple review forms and goal tracking. Confirm adds ONA from behavioral data, flight risk prediction, and AI coaching backed by how work actually flows. Simple forms tell you what happened. Confirm tells you what's happening right now.
We're small. Is Confirm right for us?
If talent decisions are starting to matter — promotions, retention, identifying who's critical — Confirm is right for you. Many customers start at 50-100 people. The earlier you have behavioral data, the better your talent decisions.
Keep Zenefits. Add the performance intelligence layer.
Zenefits handles HR admin. Confirm handles the harder questions: who's driving results, who's at risk, and who's ready for more — before the answers show up in exit interviews.