Performance management for wherever your team is today.
From structured, audit-ready reviews to goals, feedback, development, and compensation planning, Sprout meets your team where it is, connected with Sprout HR.
Why performance management with Sprout?
Sprout's performance management solution runs on your Sprout HR data from day one, no separate roster to build. Goals and reviews stay visible in Sprout HR, always up to date, with a direct link through whenever it's time to act.
What Sprout can do for performance management
The tools your HR team needs to run structured reviews, strengthen governance, and connect performance to growth.
Items marked Pro are available within Sprout Perform Pro. Some capabilities require additional modules. The full Perform vs. Perform Pro breakdown is further down this page.
Every review, logged and defensible from day one.
- Self-assessments and manager evaluations
- Weighted KPI scoring
- HR approval loop with discrepancy detection
- Digital sign-off, logged and stored
- AI-assisted review writing
- AI-generated 360 review summariesProAvailable through the AI Features Add-On
Keep probationary evaluations structured, documented, and audit-ready.
- Structured probationary evaluation workflow
- Audit logs retained for every cycle
- Role-based views for HR and managers
- Secure, Azure-hosted records with retention
Cascade strategy into goals people can actually see.
- KPI management with weighted scoring
- OKR, MBO, BSC, and KRA frameworksPro
- Goals visible from company level down to individualPro
- Real-time progress trackingPro
Turn review results into a real development plan.
Everything on this tab is part of the Talent Add-On.
- AI-guided individual development plansPro
- Linked directly to review dataPro
- Tied to career paths and competency frameworksPro
Spot your next leaders before you need them.
Everything on this tab is part of the Talent Add-On.
- Competency frameworks that define what the next role needsPro
- Team effectiveness dashboards surface skill gaps and readinessPro
- Career pathing built on performance and development dataPro
See performance and engagement clearly, company-wide.
- Cycle reports and score-gap detection
- Team effectiveness dashboardsProTalent Add-On
- Skill-gap and development-need visibilityProTalent Add-On
- Company-wide reporting across departments
So, which one fits your team?
You've just seen what's possible across both solutions. This isn't a scored assessment, just a quick pointer based on what's true for your team right now.
What your team needs to run matters more than headcount, though package eligibility and pricing can vary by headcount too.
We want to… simplify and streamline performance management using the 9-box [feature in Perform Pro]. When we looked at Sprout's products, we were impressed with who you have partnered with. From a technology point of view, it was an easy choice.
Mathan SelvarajahDirector of Information Management, Smartsourcing · BPO / Outsourcing · 650+ employees
Two solutions, one Sprout ecosystem
Both draw from the same Sprout HR record, so which one you start with just depends on where your team is today.

Sprout Perform
Best for teams automating performance management for the first time, moving off spreadsheets and paper appraisals into structured, audit-ready review cycles.
- Self-review, manager evaluation, and HR sign-off in one structured workflow
- AI-assisted review writing that drafts and refines evaluations for you
- KPI management with weighted scoring
- Score-gap detection, role-based views, and cycle reports for HR oversight
- Quick to activate since it draws on employee data already in Sprout HR

Sprout Perform Pro
Best for organizations ready to maximize performance management, using workforce data for goal alignment, career development, and defensible pay decisions.
- Goal cascading across OKR, KPI, MBO, BSC, and KRA frameworks
- 360-degree feedback gathered from managers, peers, and direct reports
- AI-assisted review writing and summariesAI Features Add-On
- Engagement surveys and structured 1:1s
- Individual development plans linked to career pathsTalent Add-On
- Compensation and promotion planning with an audit trailCompensation Add-On
- Connects with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, HubSpot, Workday, Google Calendar, and Salesforce, with SSO and enterprise API support for everything else in your stack
Check a few boxes on the left. We'll show you which solution fits, and why, right here as you scroll.
Common questions
Performance management resources
Symptoms you've outgrown spreadsheets and basic HR reviews
How to recognize when a manual review process is holding your team back.
Coming soonWhy Smartsourcing chose Sprout for connected performance management
Why a 650+ employee BPO chose an integrated approach to performance management.
Coming soonPerformance Readiness Check
A short self-check on where your performance program stands today.
Coming soonHR Experts: IDP and Compensation
How development plans feed into fair, defensible reward decisions.
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