Why engineering managers leave Lattice
Lattice did the category a favour. They turned performance management from an annual HR ritual into a continuous loop of 1:1s, goals, feedback, and reviews. They built a deep, configurable platform that works well for HR-led organisations of 200 to 2,000 people. If that is your context, Lattice is a serious tool and you should keep evaluating it.
The picture changes at 20 to 200 people, where the buying decision sits with engineering leadership. Three things tend to break the evaluation.
First, the setup is heavier than it looks. Review templates, competency frameworks, and cycle configuration are powerful, but they need an HR admin with time to learn the system. A 60 person engineering org rarely has that admin. Second, the pricing is hard to pin down. Lattice publishes a $4,000 annual minimum and an $8 per user per month rate for Performance or Goals when purchased unbundled, with the full suite priced by quote. That makes budgeting a back-and-forth with sales. Third, once it is installed, the workflow still asks managers to remember what each engineer shipped over the last quarter, because Lattice has no native connection to GitHub, Jira, or Linear.
What Progresify does differently
Progresify is built around a single design choice. The evidence belongs in the workspace where the manager is already running the conversation.
Open a 1:1 in Progresify and the agenda is on the left, an evidence panel on the right. The evidence panel is populated automatically with the direct report's recent PRs, ticket throughput, in-flight goals, and any cycle-time anomalies for the period. The same is true when you open a review form. The manager does not switch tabs to GitHub, does not page through Jira filters, does not try to remember whether the Q1 platform migration was already shipping when the last review happened. The data is there, sourced and timestamped.
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. We surface the data. The manager still does the thinking.
Honest tradeoffs
Progresify does not replace Lattice for every team. Lattice's calibration tooling, the template library, and the breadth of non-engineering use cases are genuinely deeper. If you need 9-box calibration sessions across a 1,500 person org, or your sales and marketing teams expect the same review experience as engineering, Lattice is the right call today.
Progresify is the right call when the buying decision sits with engineering leadership, when the team is between 20 and 200 people, and when the failure mode you are fixing is "I have no idea what each of my engineers actually shipped this quarter, so my reviews are vibes." That is the problem we work on.
What is next
We are shipping the MVP through Q2 2026. The waitlist gets you a slot in the early-access cohort, visibility into the pricing as it publishes, and a 1:1 walkthrough of the evidence panel running against your real GitHub workspace. If a Lattice renewal is on the horizon and the per-seat math is getting painful, this is the right week to take a look.
All claims about Lattice on this page are sourced from publicly available materials (lattice.com and linked product docs) as of April 2026. If any detail is out of date, email contact@progresify.dev and we will correct it.