Headless performance reviews

You built the review system. Now make it world-class.

Maybe HR built it. Maybe your CEO pushed it through. Maybe AI made the build cheap enough to try. The workflow now exists. Attuned adds the missing layer: intrinsic-motivation data and TalkCoach guidance, written straight into the review sheets and 1-on-1 notes your managers already open.

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Direct API integration · API calls billed at $0 · Your schema sets the rules.

YOUR PERFORMANCE STACKheadless layer

Presentation

Your review UI & evaluation sheets

your designyour workflow

Intelligence layer · Attuned API

Motivation data + AI TalkCoach guidance

11 motivatorsframing & language$0 / call

Data & identity

Your HRIS, your records, your schema

stays in place

Who this is built for

Autoliv Hitachi Nissan 100+ teams

Enterprise organisations already running Attuned for intrinsic motivation across automotive, manufacturing, and technology.

HR / people-tech product owners who own an internally built performance system and need better signal inside the workflow.
Internal vendor-tech and platform engineering teams who will own the integration and need a clean API that conforms to their schema.
Managers running real reviews and 1-on-1s, who need usable guidance in the sheet rather than a separate login.

The problem

The system exists. The hard part starts now.

AI has made it easier to build the workflow. It has not made managers better at knowing what will move a person. The sheet captures ratings and goals while the real motive force sits outside the record.

The sheet fills up. The person stays unread.

Your system records the rating and the goal. It misses the small fact that decides whether a target energises one person and drains another. Managers fill the gap from memory.

The workflow is yours now

Once a company builds its own review system, the standard software pitch loses force. The next advantage comes from the intelligence inside the fields.

The dangerous part is the sentence

The hard moment in a review is rarely the score. It is the sentence a manager writes before a person decides whether to lean in or quietly leave.

Control engineers have a name for a system that keeps reporting a calm, steady number while the thing it is meant to track quietly drifts out of range: open-loop. The gauge still works. Nothing is reading it. Most review sheets run open-loop on the one variable that actually decides whether a person stays.

Headless architecture

What your system knows next

Headless means Attuned writes into the system you already built. Your review UI keeps the workflow. Attuned adds what the UI cannot infer: the person’s motivators, the manager’s blind spot, and the sentence likely to land.

Your UI stays your UI

Managers keep working in the evaluation sheet they already open. No new login, no parallel tool.

We conform to your schema

Attuned builds to your system's specification and data model. Your architecture sets the terms.

Two inputs, written in place

Motivation assessment data and AI TalkCoach guidance arrive inside the records you already have.

1 · Attuned assessment

Each employee's profile across 11 intrinsic motivators. These are the values underneath work, judgement, and effort.

2 · Attuned API (headless)

Returns motivation data and TalkCoach guidance, structured for your schema. API calls cost $0.

3a · Direct API

Recommended. Written straight into your in-house system by your vendor-tech team.

3b · Export, rewrite, re-import

Fallback for third-party tools (e.g. kaonavi, SmartHR, HRMOS). We enrich exports; you re-import.

API integration

One call. The missing context appears in the sheet.

Your vendor-tech team owns the integration. Attuned returns a structured payload for your evaluation records: assessment facts, the manager and employee frame gap, and the words TalkCoach would put in front of the manager.

GET /v1/reviews/{employee_id}/insight

// Illustrative payload. Shape is mapped to your schema
{
  "employee_id": "emp_48217",
  "top_motivators": [
    { "key": "autonomy",  "rank": 1 },
    { "key": "feedback",  "rank": 2 },
    { "key": "progress",  "rank": 3 }
  ],
  "talkcoach": {
    "context": "q3_review · manager_gap: autonomy",
    "framing": "Lead with the proposal, not the ask.",
    "suggested_language": "I trust your judgement...",
    "sequence": ["care", "evidence", "ask"]
  },
  "api_call_cost_usd": 0
}

Built to your specification

We implement against your system's schema and field names. The payload above is an example shape.

API calls cost $0

You pay for the platform licence and implementation. Every API call stays free.

Data stays in your system

Attuned supplies the intelligence layer; your HRIS and records remain the system of record.

Direct API is the main path. For organisations on third-party tools where direct writes are not available, the export, rewrite, and re-import flow is the supported fallback (see Architecture).

Before / after

The same sheet. A better sentence.

The manager opens the evaluation sheet. The company goal is still there. Beside it sits the fact the old sheet never knew: what will make this person move.

Before

Employee

Gabriella · Product (new focus area)

Goal (set by company)

Take ownership of the product focus this quarter.

Manager note

"We need to align more on direction." Rating: meets. No further guidance.

Motivation signal

none

After

Employee

Gabriella · Product (new focus area)

Goal (set by company, unchanged)

Take ownership of the product focus this quarter.

Motivation signal added by API

Autonomy ↑Feedback ↑Progress ↑

AI TalkCoach suggestion

Reframe "we need to align" to "Here's my proposal; if you're OK with this, I'll move." Open with trust: "I trust your judgement. What I need to see now is more of your judgement in motion."

Difficult feedback

The review lives or dies in the hard sentence

TalkCoach is AI coaching built on the science of intrinsic motivation. It reads the gap between how a team member sees the world and how the manager does. Then it gives the manager the framing, language, and sequence for the conversation everyone has been circling.

Both profiles in context

TalkCoach already holds the manager's and the report's motivator profiles before the conversation begins.

Name the gap

Where your autonomy is high and theirs is low; where their feedback need is load-bearing. The gap is where misreading happens.

Separate care from frustration

It tells you to start with the care, so the message does not arrive loaded with frustration and none of the intent.

Give framing, language, sequence

Use the output nearly verbatim, or adapt. Four steps. No HR degree required.

TalkCoach · reading the frame gap

The gap Manager runs on high Autonomy. The report's load-bearing motivator is Feedback. "We need to align" reads as vague pressure. She needs a clear next move.

Framing Drop the alignment ask. Lead with a concrete proposal and an explicit signal of trust.

Suggested language "I trust your judgement. What I need to see now is more of your judgement in motion. Here's my proposal; if you're OK with this, I'll move."

Role-based value

What changes for each team

HR / people-tech owners

Performance system owners

The custom system starts producing better review conversations.
Goals stay company-owned; process adapts per person.
Solves the gap where the system exists but operations do not run.

Internal vendor-tech

Platform / integration engineers

A clean, documented API mapped to your schema.
No metered call costs to budget or monitor.
Your stack stays the system of record.

Managers

Running reviews & 1-on-1s

Specific guidance in the sheet they already use.
Framing and language for hard conversations.
Minutes to use; no second login to learn.

Implementation

Four steps from internal tool to serious review system

A joint effort between HR planning, which owns the process, and vendor-tech, which owns the integration.

Scope & schema

We review your evaluation sheet structure and data model, and agree the field mapping.

Week 1–2

Assess motivators

Employees complete the Attuned assessment across 11 intrinsic motivators.

Week 2–4

Integrate

Your team wires the API (or export flow) so data and TalkCoach guidance land in the sheet.

Week 3–6

Run reviews

Managers open the sheet and the guidance is already there. Setup is a one-off; use is minutes.

From cycle 1

Pricing

Price the layer like leverage

The licence covers the motivational intelligence. The implementation covers your schema. API calls stay at $0 because the value is in the review getting better, not in counting calls.

Platform licence

$30,000 / year

Up to 5,000 employees. The motivational intelligence layer for your performance system.

11-motivator assessment for all covered employees
AI TalkCoach guidance
Direct API access

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Implementation

$20,000–$35,000 one-time

Integration to your schema, via direct API or export flow. Scoped to your system's complexity.

Schema mapping & field design
Direct API or export, rewrite, re-import
API calls: $0

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Over 5,000 employees

Custom enterprise

Volume pricing and tailored deployment for larger headcounts and multi-system estates.

Everything in the platform licence
Volume-based pricing
Dedicated integration support

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Optional: managed rewrite / import support

For companies using the export route, we handle enrichment and re-import each cycle.

$5,000 / review cycle

Prices shown in USD. API calls stay at $0 on every plan.

FAQ

Questions from HR and engineering

Do we have to replace our performance management system?

Your system keeps the screen, workflow, permissions, and records. Attuned supplies motivation data and TalkCoach guidance through the API.

What does "headless" actually mean here?

It means Attuned provides the intelligence layer through your review interface. Your evaluation sheets and 1-on-1 notes stay the surface managers use; Attuned writes into them.

How much do API calls cost?

Zero. You pay for the platform licence and a one-off implementation. Every call stays free, so your vendor-tech team can ignore per-call budgeting.

We use a third-party tool. Can we still integrate?

Direct API is the main path and is built for in-house systems. For third-party tools where direct writes are not available, the supported fallback is export, rewrite, and re-import: we enrich your exported sheets with motivation data and guidance, and you re-import them. Optional managed support handles this per cycle.

What does the assessment measure?

It maps each person across 11 intrinsic motivators: the psychological needs that shape how someone works, decides, and keeps going. A motivator profile is a value hierarchy, which makes it useful when wording goals, feedback, job plans, and incentives.

Who owns the integration, HR or engineering?

Both, in their own lanes. HR planning owns the process and field design; your internal vendor-tech team owns the technical integration. Attuned builds to your specification and supports both teams.

Get started

Your system can route the review. Now teach it to read people.

Book a technical demo with your HR and engineering leads. We'll walk the API, the schema mapping, and the before/after on a sample review sheet.

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API calls billed at $0 · Direct API or export fallback · Built to your schema