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Allie Collins Is Making the Performance Review Face Real Life
After more than 15 years marketing SaaS, Betterworks CMO Allie Collins has arrived at a deceptively human thesis: work improves when managers get better signals, employees get timely conversations, and everyone stops pretending an annual form can remember the year for them.
Ian Gover Built Three HR-Tech Companies. His Latest Bet Is an AI Coach That Shows Up Before the Awkward Meeting
After 25 years in workplace technology, Gover stopped asking whether AI could replace a human coach. He asked what it could do for the millions of managers who never had one.
Betterworks bets everything on OKRs. Lattice made them a footnote.
Two of the biggest names in performance software chose opposite religions. One organizes the whole product around goals. The other treats goals as just another tab, and built its empire on feedback instead.
One Startup Bets on Goals, the Other Owns the Money
Betterworks turned Google's goal-setting religion into enterprise software. Papaya Global decided the real leverage was in owning the payroll payment itself. Here is how the two HR-tech bets actually differ.
Your Performance Software Is Making a Management Bet
Lattice, 15Five and Betterworks all track goals, but they begin from different ideas about how people improve. The right choice depends less on a feature checklist than on the management rhythm your company will actually sustain.