Maybe HR built it. Maybe your CEO pushed it through. Probably AI made the build cheap enough to try. Now you’ve got an internally built performance review software system. Attuned adds the missing layer: intrinsic-motivation data with our customized LLM guidance, written straight into the review sheets.
Direct API integration · API calls billed at $0 · Your schema sets the rules.
The problem
AI has made it easier to build your own software to match your desired workflow. It has not made managers better at knowing what will motivate a person. Your performance review sheets capture ratings and goals while the real motivating force sits outside these reviews.
Your system records the rating and the goal. It misses the small fact that decides whether a target energizes one person and drains another. Your managers try to fill the gap from memory. Or from gut feel.
You’ve built your performance review with the structure that you want. Now the next advantage comes from adding Attuned’s unique intelligence data to help your managers lead every single member of their teams.
The hard moment in a review is not always the score. It is how a manager words that score, and whether the person reading it leans in or quietly leaves.
Picture a dashboard light that never comes on while the engine quietly overheats. That’s how many of your employees feel sitting through their performance reviews. Because their manager doesn’t have the motivation data to understand them as an individual.
Headless architecture
Headless means Attuned writes into the system you already built. Your review UI is the workflow you designed; Attuned supplies the motivation data and coaching guidance it cannot infer: the individual employee’s motivators, the manager’s blind spot, and the sentence likely to resonate the most with that individual, even when the feedback is tough.
Managers keep working in the evaluation sheet they already open. No new login, no parallel tool.
Attuned builds to your system's specification and data model. Your architecture sets the flow.
Motivation assessment data and AI TalkCoach guidance will be accessible inside the records you already have.
Each employee completes the Intrinsic Motivation Assessment, profiling them across 11 intrinsic motivators.
Returns motivation data and TalkCoach guidance, structured for your schema. API calls cost $0.
Recommended. Written straight into your in-house system.
Fallback for third-party tools. We enrich exports; you re-import.
API integration
Your team owns the integration. Attuned returns structured data for your evaluation records: motivation assessment facts, the manager and employee communication gap, and the words TalkCoach would put in front of the manager.
// Illustrative payload. Exact shape maps to your schema.
{
"employee_id": "emp_48217",
"top_motivators": [
{ "key": "autonomy", "score": 92, "rank": 1 },
{ "key": "feedback", "score": 88, "rank": 2 },
{ "key": "progress", "score": 81, "rank": 3 }
],
"talkcoach": {
"cycle": "q3_review",
"manager_gap": "autonomy",
"framing": "Lead with the proposal, not the ask.",
"suggested_language": "I trust your judgment.",
"sequence": ["care", "evidence", "ask"]
}
}We implement against your system's schema and field names. The payload above is an example shape.
You pay for the platform license and implementation.
Attuned supplies the motivation data and coaching guidance; your HRIS and records remain the system of record.
Direct API is the main path. For organizations 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 manager opens the evaluation sheet. The company goal is still there. Beside it sits the insight your old sheet never knew: what will motivate this individual.
Difficult feedback
Our customized LLM, 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 difficult conversation everyone has been avoiding.
TalkCoach already holds the manager's and the report's motivator profiles before the conversation begins.
Where your autonomy is high and theirs is low; where they rely on feedback to stay motivated. The gap is where misreads happen.
It tells you to start with the care, so the message lands the way you intended.
Use the output nearly verbatim, or adapt. Four steps. No psychology degree required.
Role-based value
Performance review owners
Platform / integration engineers
Running reviews & 1-on-1s
Implementation
HR owns the process, and your engineering team owns the integration.
We review your evaluation sheet structure and data model, and agree the field mapping.
Week 1–2Employees complete the Attuned assessment across 11 intrinsic motivators.
Week 2–4Your team wires the API (or export flow) so data and TalkCoach guidance land in the sheet.
Week 3–6Managers open the sheet and the guidance is already there. Setup is a one-off; use is minutes.
From cycle 1Pricing
The license covers the assessment and TalkCoach guidance. The implementation covers your schema. API calls stay at $0 because the value is in the review getting better, not in counting calls.
Up to 5,000 employees. Motivation data and AI coaching for your performance system.
Integration to your schema, via direct API or export flow. Scoped to your system's complexity.
Volume pricing and tailored deployment for larger headcounts and multi-system estates.
For companies using the export route, we handle enrichment and re-import each cycle.
Prices shown in USD. API calls stay at $0 on every plan.
FAQ
Get started
Book a demo with your HR and engineering leads. We'll discuss the API, the schema mapping, and the before/after on a sample review sheet.
Zero usage fees · Fits the system you already run · Live in weeks