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ClarityLift vs Performance + Engagement Suite

ClarityLift vs Lattice

Lattice is a mid-market HR suite — performance reviews, OKRs, engagement surveys, 1:1 templates, career growth. The product is the cadence employees and managers fill out, quarterly or annually. ClarityLift is the continuous signal between those cycles, read from the Slack and Microsoft Teams conversations already happening. Different category. Run them alongside each other and ClarityLift becomes the leading indicator on what Lattice will surface a cycle late.

LatticeClarityLift
Primary buyerHRBP / People OpsCHRO / VP People
Data sourceForms (reviews, surveys, 1:1s)Work conversations (Slack, Teams)
Signal typeSelf-reported opinions + manager ratingsBehavioral signals
CadenceQuarterly review + biannual engagement + biweekly 1:1Continuous ambient analysis
Performance reviews
OKRs / goals
1:1 templates
Engagement surveys
Cross-team friction
Communication health
Retention-risk leading indicatorLagging (next survey)Continuous (this week)
Privacy modelAnonymous surveys (HRIS-linked at admin layer)Aggregate-only (min group of 10), structurally prevented from individual surveillance
Setup timeWeeks (survey + review cycle design)Minutes (connect platforms)
Coexistence postureMulti-module HR suiteDesigned to run alongside Lattice, not replace it

For the rest of the C-suite

What the CFO and CEO will ask

The HR champion does not write the check. These are the framings to hand the people who do.

For the CFO

The economic case

  • Cost of voluntary turnover is already in your P&L

    Gallup puts the global cost of disengagement at $8.8T per year — about nine percent of global GDP (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025). Voluntary turnover is the visible piece. Every retained mid-tenure employee is a recruiting fee plus a ramp curve plus an institutional-knowledge transfer your finance team does not have to absorb.

  • Continuous signal vs. point-in-time survey ROI

    A once-a-year engagement survey gives you one data point. ClarityLift surfaces the same shape of signal continuously, on the daily collaboration data that already exists. The math the calculator at /roi runs is the headcount × voluntary-quit rate × earlier-detection delta — every input cited.

  • Contract consolidation, not stack expansion

    Aggregate signal that your survey vendor cannot produce. Aggregate dashboards your HRIS cannot generate. Most mid-market customers consolidate bolt-on listening or analytics tools when they bring ClarityLift in alongside their existing survey program.

Run the numbers at /roi

For the CEO

The risk and value framing

  • Validates the survey you are already running

    The survey gives you what people say. ClarityLift gives you the daily signal that tells you whether the survey result matches what is actually happening on the team. Coexist with Culture Amp, Lattice, Glint, or whatever is already in place — no rip-and-pull, no team-wide change-management lift, and no asking the CEO to walk back the survey program they already approved.

  • No individual surveillance, by construction

    Aggregate-only with a structurally enforced minimum group size of ten. No DMs ingested, ever. No individual scores, no per-person dashboards, no ability for an admin to flip a switch and see one employee. The privacy posture is a design constraint, not a policy choice — independently verifiable in our public privacy architecture documentation.

  • Compliance posture is defensible

    Retention-zero on message text. HRIS connector-level whitelist that never requests protected-class fields. We deliberately avoid the language and feature shape that triggers the Colorado AI Act high-risk scope. Every claim on the privacy page is tied to a code-level invariant we can show counsel.

Read the privacy architecture

The bottom line

Lattice owns the formal performance + engagement program. Keep it. The review cycles, OKRs, 1:1 cadence, and engagement scores are workflow products with HR accountability, audit trails, and historical benchmarks — Lattice does them well and ClarityLift does not try to. ClarityLift adds the continuous signal layer underneath: the friction, disengagement, and retention-risk patterns that show up in the daily communication weeks before the next Lattice cycle catches up. Run them together. Lattice gives you the cycle. ClarityLift gives you the weeks in between.

Alternatives to Lattice

If Lattice is not the right fit, here's the honest shortlist of products that overlap in the same buyer conversation.

  • Continuous ambient signal from Slack and Microsoft Teams conversations — runs alongside Lattice, fills the gap between engagement cycles with daily behavioral data. Aggregate-only, no surveys.
  • Survey-first engagement platform with action-planning library — direct competitor to the Lattice Engagement module if you want a deeper survey + benchmarking layer and lighter performance + OKR coverage.
  • 15Five
    Mid-market HR suite very close to Lattice — performance + engagement + 1:1s. Choose between them on UI preference, pricing terms, and HRIS integration depth rather than feature set.
  • Microsoft-ecosystem pulse-survey platform — engagement surveys with action planning and engagement scores. Replaces the Lattice Engagement module specifically for Microsoft 365 buyers.
  • Enterprise survey platform with broad XM capabilities. Heavier and pricier than Lattice, deeper analytics, more flexible question design — for orgs that have outgrown Lattice Engagement.