Culture Amp vs StaffCircle

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.

StaffCircle brings performance management, employee development, engagement and culture, workforce analytics, and frontline communication into one platform. Its Performance Management module includes check-ins, reviews, SMART objectives, 360 appraisals, real-time feedback, competency alignment, and reports. Employee Development covers development plans, skills assessments, succession planning, career pathways, training logs, and skills-gap analysis. The optional Employee Engagement add-on includes surveys, recognition, a newsfeed, social intranet, people insights, and employee communications. StaffCircle describes its audience as HR, L&D, and people leaders in mid-sized and multi-site organisations, typically with 50–1,000 employees. The service runs as a web app that can be added to iOS and Android home screens, but is not distributed through app stores. Listed integrations include Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Zapier, Power Automate, HRIS connectors, an API, and webhooks. StaffCircle lists paid plans, but no starting price; one displayed plan is £3.85 a year, billed annually, with a one-off £2,600 setup fee for that estimate.