Betterworks Alternative

Goals tell you what. ONA tells you who.

Q: Does Betterworks have calibration?

Yes. Betterworks has a calibration feature that lets HR teams view and adjust rating distributions across teams. What it lacks is collaboration data. Betterworks calibration is based on manager ratings and goal completion. Confirm's calibration incorporates ONA signals (who employees actually worked with, who relied on them, and who they enabled) giving you a fuller picture before finalizing ratings.

Betterworks built its platform on OKR tracking. Confirm shows you who actually made those goals happen, and who's quietly carrying the team.

2.5x more top performers identified

4x more underperformers caught early

50-75% reduction in review cycle costs

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What Betterworks actually is

Betterworks started as an enterprise OKR platform and has expanded into a broader performance management suite. It does goals well: cascading OKRs, weekly check-ins, Slack nudges when targets drift. Its calibration, feedback, and review features were added later to round out the product.

That origin matters. The core data model in Betterworks is goal progress. Every performance signal (review scores, calibration views, AI summaries) traces back to how people tracked against their objectives. That's powerful for goal alignment. It leaves a gap when you need to understand collaboration, influence, and contribution that never showed up in a key result.

The problem with goal-centric performance management

Betterworks helps you align goals. But goals capture a fraction of what makes someone valuable. The connector who unblocked three teams? The mentor who developed two future leaders? That work doesn't show up in OKR dashboards.

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Goals miss invisible contributions

The employee who hit 80% of goals but mentored half the team and prevented two major fires might score lower than the lone wolf who hit 100% while creating silos.

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Easy goals, inflated ratings

Savvy employees learn to set achievable targets. Meanwhile, your ambitious contributors who aim high and hit 90% of stretch goals get penalized compared to sandbagging peers.

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Calibration without collaboration data

Betterworks calibration shows you how rating distributions compare across teams. It can't show you who was actually central to cross-functional projects or who everyone turns to for answers.

What makes Confirm different

Confirm uses Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to measure the full performance picture: goal completion AND how work actually gets done across teams.

The Confirm Difference

ONA: The performance picture beyond the scorecard

ONA reveals collaboration patterns: who people rely on, who drives decisions, who connects teams. This shows impact that goals alone can't capture.

Find hidden contributors who enable others' success
Identify collaboration bottlenecks and silos
See who's actually influential vs. who's just visible
Make fairer promotion decisions with complete data

Goals + Impact together

Confirm doesn't replace goals. It completes them. See goal progress alongside collaboration data for the full performance picture.

AI-powered coaching grounded in network data

Confirm helps managers act on insights with AI-generated coaching recommendations based on each employee's actual network impact, not just their self-reported updates.

Lightweight by design

Betterworks is built for enterprise complexity. Confirm is built to get out of your team's way. Reviews run faster, completion rates are higher, and managers spend time on conversations rather than tool training.

Feature comparison

Betterworks

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)

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Collaboration impact measurement

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Hidden performer identification

✓

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Calibration with collaboration data

✓

Ratings only

AI-powered manager coaching

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AI summaries

Goals & OKRs

✓

Performance reviews

✓

Continuous feedback

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Engagement surveys

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Self-serve pricing

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Enterprise quote

Hear from teams achieving true talent density

Joe Bast

VP People & Operations, Thoropass

"We launched on a Monday, and by Saturday morning we had 98% of performance reviews done. I don't know that I've ever seen that level of completion in that amount of time."

Kit Krugman

SVP, People and Culture, Foursquare

"We reviewed Lattice, Rippling, and Culture Amp. Confirm was the only platform designed to be light-weight, fast, and easy to use."

Jess Johannson

CHRO, Canada Goose

"You don't realize how much you miss until you have a tool like Confirm."

Doug Kitani

CEO, Trillium Flow

"With Confirm, reviews were super quick, accurate and easy to edit. Probably saved me 80% of my time typically used in writing reviews."

Joanna Yeoh

Director of People, Nansen

"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with holistic evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."

Julia Psitos

VP People & Talent, Alfred

"For the first time in my 10+ years in People/HR, 100% of team members completed their self evaluations."

Carrie Carroll

Director of People Operations, QuotaPath

"Confirm has transformed the way we do performance reviews, and helped us become a more data-driven HR organization."

Joe Soltis

CEO, ChoiceLocal

"Confirm is a VITAL part of how we operate as a company. It helps us keep our team more engaged than they already were."

Common questions

Can I use Confirm alongside Betterworks?

Yes. Many companies use Betterworks for OKR tracking while using Confirm for ONA-powered performance insights. The combination gives you both the "what" (goals) and the "who" (collaboration impact).

Does Betterworks have calibration?

Yes. Betterworks includes calibration that shows rating distributions across teams. The limitation is that its data is manager ratings and goal completion, with no view into collaboration patterns. Confirm adds ONA signals to calibration so you know who actually drove results before you finalize the ratings.

Does Confirm support OKRs?

Yes. Confirm has full goals and OKR functionality built in. You can consolidate tools or use Confirm's goals alongside its ONA capabilities.

How is ONA different from 360 reviews?

360 reviews ask people to rate colleagues, which creates gaming and bias. ONA analyzes actual collaboration patterns through brief survey questions about who people work with and go to for help, more objective and less burdensome than continuous 360 feedback.

Is employee data safe?

Yes. Confirm is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. ONA data is aggregated and anonymized; we never show individual communication content.