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ClarityLift vs Survey Platform

ClarityLift vs Microsoft Viva Glint

Microsoft Viva Glint is a Microsoft-ecosystem survey platform built around pulse cadence and engagement scores. ClarityLift is a different category. It reads ambient signals from the conversations already happening in Teams, Slack, and other channels, without sending a single survey. Glint asks employees what they think on a regular schedule; ClarityLift surfaces what they are already saying every day. The two layer cleanly: Glint runs the formal engagement program, ClarityLift runs the continuous truth-check between pulses. Microsoft-ecosystem buyers typically keep Glint and add ClarityLift, not the other way around.

Microsoft Viva GlintClarityLift
Data sourcePulse and annual surveysWork conversations (Teams, Slack)
Signal typeSelf-reported engagement scoresBehavioral signals from communication
Survey fatiguePulse cadence designed to manage it (~30% dishonest-answer rate persists)No surveys required
CadencePulse + annual surveysContinuous ambient analysis
Microsoft 365 native
Engagement score artifact
Action planning workflowBuilt-in HR action plans + libraryPattern detection + structural-change partnership
Cross-team friction detection
Communication-health signals
Privacy modelAnonymous surveys (can be de-anonymized at small scope)Aggregate-only (min group of 10), structurally prevented from individual surveillance
Setup timeWeeks (survey design + admin)Minutes (Teams admin consent)
Coexistence postureStandalone listening platformDesigned to run alongside Viva Glint, 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

Viva Glint is a strong Microsoft-ecosystem survey platform. Keep it. The pulse cadence, the engagement score, the action-planning workflow — those are the questions surveys were built for and Glint does them well within the Microsoft 365 admin model. ClarityLift adds the continuous signal layer underneath: the friction, communication-health, and retention-risk patterns that show up in the daily Teams conversation and that a survey on a cycle cannot capture in time. Run them together. Glint gives you the engagement score. ClarityLift gives you the signal that tells you whether the score is still true tomorrow.