Culture Amp vs Effy AI

Culture Amp is an employee experience platform for employee engagement, performance management, and employee development. Engage includes survey templates, pulse, onboarding, and offboarding surveys, benchmarking, AI comment summaries, and action plans. Perform covers continuous feedback, performance reviews and calibration, one-on-one conversations, development plans, goals, and performance insights. AI Coach is included in every plan and provides insights, guidance, and tailored action plans within Engage and Perform. Integrations include HRIS systems, Pave for compensation, Slack and Microsoft Teams for flow-of-work features, and LifeLabs Learning and Go1 for learning resources. A Developer API connects people data to other systems and supports bespoke analysis. Culture Amp says it encrypts data at rest and in transit and uses AWS and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. All products are billed annually; pricing depends on employee count, product, and service tier, and is available on request. Every customer has 24/5 chat and email support, training resources, and support guides. Founded in 2011, Culture Amp is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Effy AI is web-based performance management software for employee reviews, goals, engagement, and workplace satisfaction. It supports 360, peer, upward, self, probation, and annual review workflows, with forms and processes that can be customized. AI features generate review summaries and reports, assist with writing, and send reminders. Goals and OKRs can be cascaded from company to team to individual, with progress tracking and links to reviews.

Its Slack app sends reminders, captures feedback and kudos, and syncs workspace people; it is included in all plans. Effy AI skills can connect to Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot through MCP. A 1-on-1 skill can prepare manager notes using employee context and connected tools including Gmail, Google Calendar, Granola, Zoom, Fathom, and Slack. The free plan covers up to five users with no time limit. Paid pricing starts at $2/user/mo (annual).