AI Performance Reviews
AI shouldn't evaluate people. But it can help.
Windy gathers data 
and context from your team all year - so when performance cycles start, reviews are 90% written and take 6 minutes, not 6 hours.
Reviews can be a breeze.
- Time to set up and launch a cycle
- 5 mins
- Time saved per person, per cycle
- 6 hours
- Cycle time savings per company
- 86%
- Calibration speed acceleration
- 3x
- 5mins
- Time to set up and launch a cycle
- 6hours
- Time saved per person, per cycle
- 86%
- Cycle time savings per company
- 3x
- Calibration speed acceleration
Real feedback from real users
Self-assessment was quick and easy compared to last year.
Windy feels like having a little assistant guiding the review process.
Easy, clear, and chatting in Slack sped things up.
Windy was extremely helpful recapping key moments.
Windy drafts were accurate—just needed slight tweaks.
Much smoother than 15Five.
Way better than previous review tools.
Layouts made reviews transparent and easy.
Instructions were clear and intuitive.
Review conversations felt natural and engaging.
A half a day's work can now be done in 30 minutes.
Record-speed without losing precision.
Windy made performance reviews painless.
I finished my review in minutes instead of hours.
The process was smoother and less time-consuming.
Summaries from Windy were spot on and useful.
Windy reminded me of accomplishments I'd forgotten.
Windy saved me half a day per review.
Windy is much better than 15Five—love it.
Best review experience I've had so far.
Review cycle was quick and efficient with Windy.
Windy helped me track achievements effortlessly.
Seamless and intuitive process.
The whole process felt lighter and more engaging.
Windy provided a great starting point for writing.
Windy turned a half-day task into 30 minutes.
Windy made feedback transparent and easy.
How it works
and gathers qualitative context through your integrations, agendas and action items from 1:1s, and pulse surveys. When review time comes, 90% of the review is already written. Peer Review
Windy suggests relevant peers to nominate based on who you've worked with, and then collects their thoughts on your performance.
Upwards Review
Windy crafts a guided conversation to help you reflect on your manager's performance and provide constructive feedback.
Self Review
Hey @Kate! Let's work on your self review. To help you get started, here is a report based on your last 6 months of work.
Accomplishments: Where did you have the greatest impact on Windmill this year?
Hey @Windy - can you help jog my memory? What do you think I've done this year that I should highlight?
Well, you built the Shoutouts feature, and you've been doing a lot of work on the platform integrations. You've also done a ton for GTM. These all seem like areas to highlight.
Thanks! I think I'm most proud of the following accomplishments this year:
- Shoutouts launch: I led the launch of the Shoutouts feature, which allows users to send and receive shoutouts to each other. This feature has been a huge success, with over 1000 shoutouts sent and received.
- Platform integrations: I worked with the engineering team to integrate Windmill with several third-party platforms, including Salesforce, Zendesk, and Slack. This integration has helped our customers get more value out of their Windmill data.
- GTM support: I provided support to our customers who were using Windmill, helping them troubleshoot issues and get the most out of the platform.
Excellent detail on the impact! It's clear these were significant contributions. Moving to the next topic:
Barriers: What was the biggest challenge you faced this year, and how did you navigate them?
The biggest thing is continuing to become a true GTM engineer - I'm still very early in this process, and I still have a lot to learn w.r.t prospecting, list building, technical SEO, outbound, and more. I think I've been doing a good job so far, but I'm nowhere near an 'expert' at any of these, so I need to continue to learn and grow, and try and fail.
I also want to get better at finishing what I start. This applies mostly to GTM, as my ENG work is more clearly scoped. I've started a few automations that I've not come back to, and I've built out some automations that have not been maintained well and have broken. I want to be better at taking the engineering approach Jack has instilled in me to GTM - maintainability, scalability, and attention to detail.
Great self-awareness on these challenges. Moving to the next topic:
Development: What are 1-2 key areas you'd like to grow in this year?
Product-Led Growth - over the next 6 months, there will be opportunities to build out free tooling as a bottoms-up way to attract customers. I'm very bullish on this strategy and I think building out some free tooling could be a huge unlock for inbound.
Creative Campaigns - Nicole and I have been talking about ideas for creative outbound and advertising campaigns, and I'm excited to execute on them.
Great, your self review is now complete! Your response will be visible and editable to you at your Self Review Link. Thanks for taking the time to thoughtfully reflect on your performance!
@Windy, you're way better than 15Five. Let Devonaire [Rho's head of people] know that this whole process of leaving reviews is 10x better than 15Five.
@Windy, you're way better than 15Five. Let Devonaire [Rho's head of people] know that this whole process of leaving reviews is 10x better than 15Five.
Evaluate Performance
Select accomplishments
Choose key wins to highlight in Alex's review
Led migration of payment infrastructure to Stripe, reducing failed transactions by 34%
Mentored 2 junior engineers through onboarding, both now contributing independently
Shipped redesigned checkout flow 2 weeks ahead of schedule
Drove adoption of TypeScript across 3 services, improving type coverage to 89%
Resolved critical production incident, reducing downtime from 4hrs to 22min
Draft with AI, stay in control
- Pick the tone
- Generate drafts as Balanced, Glowing, or Corrective, so the writing matches the message the manager needs to deliver.
- Draft History
- Manager reviews auto-save versions you can browse, preview, and restore. Experiment with Windy freely; a draft can never be lost.
- Observations with receipts
- Suggested observations are tagged by source: self review, peer feedback, upward feedback, 1:1 notes, and connected systems.
Calibrate
Insights
- AI theme summaries
- Text responses roll up into AI summaries of themes and sentiment, generated only when there are enough responses to protect confidentiality.
- Distributions and targets
- Ratings chart as distributions with optional targets to compare against: Even, Bell, or Top heavy. NPS questions break down into promoters, passives, and detractors.
- Every number traces back
- Any value opens the underlying answers, so a surprising distribution is one step away from the responses behind it.
Wrote 3 of my 4 reviews in about 30 minutes. I will say this part of the experience in particular is a delight.
Wrote 3 of my 4 reviews in about 30 minutes. I will say this part of the experience in particular is a delight.
Why traditional performance review systems fail
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