Performance Management Software for Irish and European HR Teams

Ratings, written feedback, development notes and 360° comments are personal data about identifiable employees, and in Ireland and across the EU the GDPR applies to all of it. That changes what a sensible evaluation looks like. Before anyone asks whether the review form is pleasant to use, someone will ask what the lawful basis is, who can see what, how long records are kept and how an employee gets a copy.

CLEAR Talent is a specialist performance and development platform that runs alongside your HRIS. It holds performance data — goals, competency assessments, reviews, feedback and development plans — not payroll, and it was built with the data-rights side of that record in mind rather than retrofitted.

The EU AI Act treats AI used to evaluate workers’ performance as a high-risk use, which puts human oversight, transparency and record-keeping at the centre of how HR should use it. Ava, the AI assistant built into CLEAR Talent, was designed around those principles: she drafts review narratives from the evidence already in the platform and summarises 360° feedback, while the manager writes and owns the review.

Your employees’ data is never used to train models for other customers, and Ava runs on isolated tenants. CLEAR Talent does not certify your compliance with the Act; the team will work through specifics with your compliance function.

When an Irish employer manages underperformance, the process is judged on fair procedures as much as on the outcome: whether the expected standard was clear, whether the employee knew about the shortfall and whether they had support and time to improve. That depends on a dated record built up across the year, not notes assembled after the decision.

CLEAR Talent is not a disciplinary or PIP system, and the formal case file belongs in your HR process. What it holds is the evidence that file relies on — goals and check-ins, competency ratings with the behaviour behind them, 1-on-1 development notes and a performance journal — and, as the EU Pay Transparency Directive asks employers to explain pay progression with objective, gender-neutral criteria, the documented reasoning behind each rating.

CLEAR Talent publishes its plans. The Basic plan is USD 39 per month for 1 admin user and 10 staff users; the Pro plan is USD 295 per month for 3 admin users and 50 staff users, with published rates for each additional user. Annual billing saves 15%, there is a free 1-month trial, and larger organisations move to a quoted Enterprise plan.

Prices are published in US dollars, and there is no separate euro price list. If your finance team needs to budget or be invoiced in euro, raise it with the team before you commit.