Web-first, manager-in-control, and priced for engineering-led SMBs outside the Slack bubble.
We surface the data. The manager still does the thinking.
Windmill's own comparison page says Windmill lives in Slack. If your team is on Teams, Discord, or Google Chat, or you simply prefer that sensitive review conversations sit outside a daily chat workspace, that lock-in is a cost.
Windmill publishes that self-reviews are 80% written by the time they are due. For teams that treat reviews as coaching, edit-mode loses some of the thinking that happens while the manager is actually writing the words.
Windmill describes its goal tracking as monitoring project management data automatically, with Windy flagging at-risk goals early. Inferred goals work well for some teams. Teams running formal quarterly OKRs usually want explicit owned objects their team commits to.
Windmill built a credible thing. They connected performance reviews to real work in GitHub, Jira, and a long list of other tools, and they put a public price tag on it. We agree with the premise.
If you evaluated Windmill and hesitated, it was probably for one of six reasons. Every one of them is a design choice on their side. Windmill is Slack-first and AI-first. Progresify is web-first and manager-in-control. Same evidence-based thesis, opposite product philosophy.
Windmill's own comparison page says Windmill lives in Slack, and that self-reviews, peer feedback, and 1:1 agendas happen in your team's daily workspace. The Windy bot runs the workflow through Slack DMs and threads.
That works if you are a Slack-heavy US tech company. It does not work as well if your team is on Microsoft Teams, Discord, or Google Chat (common in UAE enterprises and Indian SMBs), or if you prefer that sensitive performance conversations sit outside the same interface your team uses for bug reports and standups. Progresify is web-first. Reviews live in a dedicated, auditable web app.
Windmill's value prop is AI-drafted content. Their science page states that self-reviews are 80% written when it is time, and markets a cycle-time reduction of 86%. Managers receive drafts with wins, development areas, and examples pulled from tools and peers. They edit and publish.
For some teams that is exactly what they want. For teams that treat reviews as a coaching artefact it trades something away. When the 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 draft.
The Manager-In-Control Principle. Progresify pre-fills the evidence block, not the prose. Open a review form and you see the PRs, tickets, goals, and incidents the direct report touched in the period, auto-generated, sourced, timestamped. The manager still writes every sentence of the narrative. The evidence is in service of the manager's judgement, not a replacement for it.
Windmill describes its goal tracking as monitoring project management data automatically, with Windy flagging at-risk goals and check-ins happening through conversation rather than meetings. That is a real design.
It works less well when your team runs formal quarterly OKRs. Inferred progress is fuzzy. Employees cannot see goals as first-class objects they own, update, and explicitly link to work. Progresify has explicit goals and key results as first-class objects. Employees set them, managers approve them, and key results link to specific GitHub PRs, Jira tickets, and Linear issues. Progress updates itself when linked work ships, but the goal is always a visible, owned artefact.
Windmill's public customer stories, pricing in USD, and positioning all point to US tech companies on Slack Enterprise. That is fine. It is not the whole market.
Progresify is built for UAE, India, and the US from day one. That means pricing and billing that work in INR, AED, and USD. Product decisions that do not assume Slack-first tooling. Support timezones that cover GST+4 and IST alongside PST and EST. Roadmap integrations that include self-hosted GitLab (common in Indian enterprises) and Bitbucket (common in UAE shops). If you are an engineering manager outside the US Slack-Enterprise bucket, Progresify is built for your context rather than translated into it.
Windmill's pricing is public and we respect that. The first 10 seats are free, then $10 per seat/month. At 100 people that works out to $750 per month ($9,000 per year) on Windmill's own published math.
Progresify pricing launches with the MVP. We are committing to a meaningful free tier that is not capped at the first 10 seats, transparent per-user pricing that stays competitive at 20 and at 200 people, no module surcharges for the core loop of goals, 1:1s, reviews, and integrations, and modular add-ons only for genuinely separate products. Exact numbers publish when billing opens.
Windmill's public materials do not describe a native HRIS. That is a choice that works for 20 person startups, but it usually means you run Windmill alongside Personio, BambooHR, or HiBob with manual employee sync.
Progresify is modular. Our employee directory is deliberately lightweight because we expect you to already have an HRIS, or to not need one yet. When you buy Personio or HiBob for payroll and leave, Progresify sits next to it for performance. When you do not, Progresify's directory is enough to run 20 to 200 people without friction.
All claims about Windmill on this page are sourced from gowindmill.com (home, science, and the windmill-vs-lattice comparison page) as of April 2026. Every claim about Progresify maps to the live product or the published 90-day roadmap. If anything here is out of date or inaccurate, email contact@progresify.dev and we will correct it.
Interaction surface
Web-first, Slack notifications optional
Slack, with the Windy bot as the primary interface
Review-writing model
Manager writes, we pre-fill the evidence block
AI drafts, manager edits and publishes
Goals and OKRs
First-class owned objects, linked to PRs and tickets
Inferred from tool activity
Engineering integrations
GitHub, Jira, Linear today; Bitbucket, GitLab, PagerDuty on roadmap
GitHub, Linear, Asana, Figma, Notion and others (15+)
1:1 meetings
Collaborative web agenda with an evidence panel
Slack threads with AI-drafted agendas
Target geographies
UAE, India, and the US from day one
Published customer stories and pricing are US-centric
Pricing
Transparent, SMB-first, launching with the MVP
First 10 seats free, then $10 per seat/month
Compliance
SOC 2 on roadmap
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant
Non-Slack teams
Web app works standalone on Teams, Discord, Google Chat, or no chat tool
Core workflow depends on Slack
HRIS integration path
Modular, plays well with Personio, HiBob, BambooHR
No HRIS mentioned in Windmill's public materials; manual employee sync
Progresify
Transparent, SMB-first, coming with MVP
Windmill
First 10 seats free, then $10 per seat/month. For 100 people: $750/month, $9,000/year (gowindmill.com).
We don't think Progresify is right for every team. Here's when to pick which.
Pick Windmill if
Pick Progresify if
Windmill's way: hand the workflow to an AI bot in Slack. Progresify's way: put the evidence in front of the manager and let them do the thinking. If the second sounds like you, we would love to show you the product.
