Engineering performance reviews backed by GitHub, Jira, and Linear evidence. Not just weekly check-ins and AI-drafted summaries.
We surface the data. The manager still does the thinking.
15Five's current platform is AI-forward. Their pricing page lists AI-Assisted Performance Reviews, AMAYA AI Thought Partner, and AI Synthesized Feedback as core features of the Perform tier. For teams that treat reviews as a coaching artefact, AI drafting replaces the thinking that happens while the manager is actually writing.
15Five's published integrations are HRIS, SSO, Slack, Jira, and Salesforce. GitHub and Linear are not listed. Jira alone does not carry engineering review evidence, and the product is not designed to pre-populate reviews from code-level activity.
15Five's original weekly-check-in model and its current AI layer both depend on employees actively submitting content. When participation drops, reviews go back to memory. Progresify's evidence-based model produces data for reviews even when the check-in box is empty.
15Five built something category-defining. Their original weekly check-in idea (what did you ship, what is blocking you, what do you need from me) turned performance management from an annual ritual into a weekly conversation, and plenty of people-ops teams still run that playbook successfully.
The current 15Five is AI-forward. The pricing page lists AMAYA, AI-Assisted Performance Reviews, AI Synthesized Feedback, and an Insights Dashboard as the major features of the Perform and Total Platform tiers. Reviews are marketed as faster to write because AI drafts them. That is a deliberate product bet, and for HR-led organisations who are time-starved on manager bandwidth, it is a reasonable bet.
For engineering-led SMBs it trades the wrong thing away. When AI writes the draft, the manager becomes an editor. A lot of the coaching judgement happens while the manager is actually writing, not when they are reviewing a summary generated from check-in text. Worse, the check-in text itself is often thin because engineers are shipping code not writing journals, and 15Five does not integrate with GitHub or Linear to backfill the evidence.
Open a 1:1 or review in Progresify and the evidence panel is on the right, populated from GitHub, Jira, and Linear automatically. PRs shipped, tickets closed, goals touched, cycle-time anomalies for the period. The manager does not switch tabs to go find the work. The data is just there.
We pre-fill the evidence. We do not pre-fill the prose. There is no AI-drafted self-review, no bot-generated peer feedback, no auto-summarised performance narrative. The act of writing the review is where the manager does the thinking, catches their own recency bias, and shapes the coaching message. This is the Manager-In-Control principle and it is the single most important thing that separates Progresify from 15Five.
If you want the AI to do more of the review writing, 15Five is the more opinionated product in that direction. If your team treats performance reviews primarily as a people-ops analytics exercise, 15Five's engagement surveys and heat maps are deeper than anything we are planning. If non-engineering teams (sales, customer success, marketing) are a day-one requirement, 15Five handles them today and we do not.
Progresify is the right call when the buying decision sits with engineering leadership, when the team is 20 to 200 people, and when the failure mode you are fixing is a manager writing a review for an engineer without any view of what that engineer actually shipped. That is the problem we work on.
Progresify ships through Q2 2026. The waitlist gives you a slot in early access, a walkthrough of the evidence panel against your real GitHub workspace, and visibility into pricing as it publishes. If a 15Five renewal is approaching and the AI-drafted-reviews direction does not match how your engineering managers want to work, this is the right week to evaluate the alternative.
All claims about 15Five on this page are sourced from 15five.com and 15five.com/pricing as of April 2026. If any detail is out of date, email contact@progresify.dev and we will correct it.
GitHub, Jira, Linear evidence in reviews
Native, auto-linked per report
Review-writing model
Manager writes, we pre-fill evidence
Goals and OKRs
First-class, linked to PRs and tickets
OKRs and Goals (Perform tier)
1:1 meetings
Web agenda with evidence panel
Text-based check-ins and agendas
AI features
Not a feature, by choice
Pricing
Transparent, SMB-first with MVP
Engage $4, Perform $11, Total Platform $16 per user/month, billed annually
Target sweet spot
Engineering-led SMBs (20-200)
US mid-market, HR-led
Compliance
SOC 2 on roadmap
Progresify
Transparent, SMB-first, launching with the MVP. Meaningful free tier, no surcharges on the core loop.
15Five
Engage $4, Perform $11, Total Platform $16 per user/month, billed annually (as of February 2026).
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