Performance Management Software for Technology Companies
Most engineering organisations run two performance systems: a levelling framework that lives in a wiki, and a review cycle that lives somewhere else entirely. CLEAR Talent puts them in the same place — so the ladder that defines a senior engineer is the ladder people are actually assessed and promoted against.
- Or annual goal cycles
- Quarterly
- Competency scales
- Role-specific
- iOS & Android access
- Web + mobile
The career ladder and the review, in one system
Engineering ladders usually start well and then drift. The document describing what a staff engineer does gets refined in one place while promotion decisions get argued in another, and after two reorganisations nobody is confident the two still agree.
CLEAR Talent holds the ladder as role profiles: the competencies each level requires, with behavioural indicators describing what that level looks like in practice. Assessments run against the profile, so a promotion case becomes a comparison against a published standard rather than a persuasive document.
Quarterly goals, annual decisions
Quarterly and annual cycles side by side
Run OKRs on a quarterly rhythm and keep the annual cycle for compensation and promotion. Goal scores roll up automatically instead of being retyped at year end.
Enforced linkage
Strategic Linked Goals requires every individual goal to connect to a parent objective, so a squad cannot quietly optimise for something the company stopped asking for.
Weighted priorities
Configurable weightings and automatic scoring make it explicit which goal matters most, instead of leaving five equal-looking objectives on a page.
Context between cycles
Continuous feedback and structured check-ins keep the discussion attached to the goal while it is still live.
Peer feedback engineers take seriously
Engineering teams already run informal peer review; the hard part is turning it into something comparable. CLEAR Talent structures 360° input against the competencies in the role profile, with configurable rater groups covering managers, peers, direct reports and cross-functional stakeholders.
Raters are anonymised within their group and minimum-rater thresholds apply, so feedback stays candid and the output is a prioritised set of strengths and development areas rather than a wall of quotes.
Level consistently across squads
The same title means different things to different managers, and nobody notices until promotion season. Calibration sessions bring managers to a shared standard, working from the goal scores, evidence-backed competency ratings and 360° input already held in the platform.
Ava assembles that evidence into a first-draft narrative and summarises multi-rater feedback into themes — which removes the blank page without removing the decision. Every AI output is labelled, editable and approved by a human, and every edit is logged.
Built for teams spread across time zones
Web, iOS and Android
Reviews, feedback and check-ins from a laptop or a phone, with biometric sign-in, push notifications and offline support.
16 languages
AI-generated feedback, summaries and recommendations reach each person in the language they prefer to work in.
An org chart that keeps up
Departments, locations, roles and reporting lines are first-class concepts, with bulk import and staff transfers for when the structure changes again.
Multi-entity support
Run several legal entities on one platform — useful for groups that have grown by acquisition as well as by hiring.
Frequently asked questions
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Does Ava write the review for us?
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