Performance

Run Stress-free Performance Reviews

For managers who want full control over their review process. Build it on your own terms – set goals, configure surveys, collect team feedback, and monitor everything in one place with automatic reminders.

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Process

Simplify Performance Review in 3 Easy Steps

Set Process

Create flexible review forms tailored to your needs. Define different question sets for self-assessment, peer review, or managerial evaluation, using open questions, rating scales, and multiple choice.

Collect Feedback

Launch performance review cycles for the entire company or selected teams. The system automatically sends reminders, and you'll monitor progress in real-time without the need for manual checking and chasing.

Analyze Results

Gather all reviews in one place. Managers can create objective summaries that become the foundation for constructive conversations about next steps and employee development – and turn straight into goals for the next period, in the same system.

Features

Tools for Effective Feedback and Employee Development

Build a process tailored to your organization's needs - you can create an advanced 360-degree review process, or keep it as simple and flexible as you need.

Goal setting and progress tracking

Set goals for the next period, follow progress at a glance and comment on the work as it happens. Every goal has an owner, a deadline and a clear closing status. Read more.

Flexible review questionnaires

Create custom forms with different question types (text, scale, single/multiple choice) and define your own rating scales. Read more

Set any performance review model: 90°, 180°, 270°, 360°

Design a process that includes self-assessment, manager reviews, subordinate feedback, and peer review

Managing response visibility and anonymity

Set who sees responses (with author, anonymously, or not at all), separately for process managers and evaluated individuals. Read more

Advanced reviewer management

Freely assign reviewers or let employees volunteer themselves. Set limits on how many reviewers each person can have

Precise participant management

You have full control over who participates in reviews – you can also exclude selected individuals from the process to ensure impartiality

Admin panel with progress monitoring

Track progress in real-time, manage the entire process, and send automatic reminders with one click

Individual reports and manager summaries

Give employees access to their results, and provide managers with tools to create consistent, confidential summaries

Print-ready review report (PDF)

Export employee's review results to PDF for a clear, visual layout - with charts, summaries, and a breakdown by question category.

Full integration with Calamari ecosystem

Manage reviews in the same intuitive place where your employees manage time off and attendance

Knowledge included

Methods, cadence, how to have the conversation – read a full guide to running performance reviews well. Visit the Performance Reviews Academy

Feedback from clients, partners, and contractors

Allow external stakeholders to submit reviews via a shareable form link without requiring a Calamari account. Read more

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Capabilities

Full Control Over the Performance Review Process

Forget about rigid, top-down processes. Calamari gives you complete control over employee evaluations. From setting goals and choosing a global framework to precisely defining roles and groups, down to every detail of the questionnaire — you are free to shape a process that perfectly fits your organization's needs and culture.

Use context of the goals you've set

Walk into the conversation with the full picture – check how the previous period's goals went: what got delivered, what stalled, and why. Right after the review, set goals for the next period, in the same system. Performance review stops being a once-a-year form and becomes a checkpoint in an ongoing cycle.

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Create Any Evaluation Scenario

In Calamari, you design the process with flexible employee evaluation form creator. Conduct annual, quarterly, or even project-based reviews. Our tool supports all key methods:

90-degree review (manager to employee)
180-degree review (+ self-assessment)
270-degree review (+ peers)
360-degree review (+ direct reports or clients)
Custom Performance Reviews

Flexible Roles and Review Groups

Define who reviews whom with surgical precision. Create independent groups of reviewers and reviewees – you can evaluate an entire department, invite people from different teams, or even exclude specific employees from the process. You're in charge.

The method of selecting reviewers? That’s up to you too:

Assigned by an administrator
Automatically selected by the manager
Volunteer-based nominations

Named, Anonymous, or Confidential — You Set the Rules

Most tools treat anonymity as a simple on/off toggle. Calamari gives you three visibility modes:

Named
Anonymous
No access

set independently for managers and reviewees.

You can even let reviewers decide for themselves whether to sign their feedback, or override visibility on individual questions. Learn how anonymous reviews work in Calamari →

Review Questionnaire on Your Terms

We don't impose ready-made templates. Create a questionnaire that reflects your organization's values and goals. Use various question types (open-ended, scale, single/multiple choice) and define your own rating scale to get the exact feedback you need.

Preview button in creator lets you check exactly how the form will look through different perspectives. Visibility rules are respected, so you'll catch any gaps before going live. Edits update instantly, no save needed.

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Full Automation and Simplicity

Focus on people, not paperwork. Calamari automates the entire process – from sending invitations and reminders to collecting responses. You have a constant overview of the progress, and after the cycle ends, each employee gets access to their individual summary.

External feedback from clients and partners

The most valuable feedback often comes from outside your company – from the clients and partners your employee actually works with. Your external reviewer submits feedback through a secure link, without creating a Calamari account, and you can assign questions that appear only in the external review. See how external feedback works →

In Development

Save Time with Smart AI Summaries and Work in One Place

Our platform not only collects data but helps you understand it. Use AI to instantly generate summaries from dozens of responses, saving managers hours of work.

What's more, the performance review module is an integral part of Calamari. This means one system, one login, and one seamless interface for all key HR processes – from leave management and attendance tracking to feedback.

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Overview

Performance is More Than HR.
It's a Strategy for your Business.

Performance isn't just an investment in soft HR, but an action with direct impact on financial results, operational stability, and your company's ability to compete in the market.

Organize easy performance process

Forget about complicated processes and dozens of Excel files. We give you a simple, ready-to-use tool that guides you step-by-step, allowing you to implement fair reviews even if you're doing it for the first time.

Most importantly, you shape this order – adapting the process to your company, not the other way around. This allows you to implement a fair evaluation system, even if you're doing it for the first time.

Automate the feedback process

Our system, which you can configure in minutes, automatically sends reminders and collects feedback in one place. This way, you and your managers can focus on people development rather than administration.

Deliver data that builds a stable team

Regular feedback increases engagement and reduces turnover, which is a huge saving. Even simple review data will help you make better, objective decisions about promotions or bonuses, building a culture of trust and keeping your best people in the company.

‍Flexible anonymity settings make employees feel safe sharing honest opinions — and honest feedback is better data.

Turn review outcomes into concrete action

A review nothing follows from is a cost. The value comes from what happens next – goals with an owner, a deadline, and visible progress. The employee knows what's expected, and the manager sees whether things are actually moving, reacting the moment a goal gets flagged as at risk, not after the deadline's already passed.

That's the difference between a once-a-year review and real performance management.

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What is the Performance Review module and what is it for?

Performance Review is a new module in Calamari that streamlines the performance evaluation process. It was created based on our clients' needs who wanted to easily configure surveys, collect team feedback, and monitor the entire process in one place.

We're tired of running performance reviews in spreadsheets/forms. How exactly can Calamari help?

We get it. Our Performance module is designed to replace the chaos of spreadsheets/separate forms with one intuitive, automated tool. Instead of manually tracking progress and chasing people for answers, the system automatically sends reminders and gathers all feedback in a single, clear dashboard. This allows you to focus on what truly matters: conversations and people development, not administration.

Can I set goals for employees after a review?

Yes. Goals are a separate part of the Performance module – you can set them for yourself, or delegate them from the top as a manager or admin. Every goal has an owner, a description, a deadline, and a progress bar that the employee updates and the manager comments on. Permissions follow your org structure: employees see their own goals, managers see their reports' goals, and admins see all of them.

How flexible is the review process? Can we tailor it to our company's unique needs?

Absolutely. Flexibility is at the core of our module. You can create any cycle you need—from simple check-ins to a full 360° Performance Review, including self-assessments, peer reviews, and managerial evaluations. We give you the tools to build custom forms with different question types (text, scale, multiple-choice) to create a fair process that perfectly matches your organizational culture.

Not sure where to start? Our free Performance Review Academy guides you step by step through designing a review process tailored to your organization – built specifically for companies with 15–300 employees.

Does your HR system allow for anonymous reviews?

Yes – you have full control over who sees the responses and whether they are signed. When configuring a review session, you can set visibility separately for those managing the process (manager, administrator) and for the person being reviewed.

You have three modes to choose from:

response with the reviewer's name and surname,
anonymous response,
or no access to responses.

What's more, you can enable an option where the reviewer themselves decides whether they want to respond openly or anonymously.

This is a solution for companies that want open feedback but don't want to force it on people who don't yet feel comfortable with it.

You can also override visibility at the level of an individual question – for example, most questions can be open, but a question about cooperation with the manager can be anonymous.

Want to learn more? See how anonymous performance reviews work in Calamari – including per-question visibility, reviewer-controlled anonymity, and separate settings for managers and reviewees.

Can I invite people from outside the company (clients or partners) to leave a review?

Yes. External feedback is a separate review type alongside self-assessment and peer review – you turn it on with a single switch during session setup, and you can assign it its own questions, different from the ones your team sees.

An external reviewer doesn't need a Calamari account: you add them by name, and the system generates a unique, secure link to the form. Just copy it and send it over – the link works in any browser, even in incognito mode, and the responses land in the same session as the rest.

What is the real business impact of implementing Performance Reviews?

This is more than a "soft HR" tool; it's an investment with a direct impact on your business results. A process of regular, fair feedback is proven to increase employee engagement and reduce costly turnover. The data you gather helps you make better, objective decisions about promotions and bonuses, which builds a culture of trust and helps you keep your best people.

Want to see how this plays out in practice? Our free Performance Review Academy walks you through designing a review process that drives real results, with ready-to-use templates and checklists.

Who is the Performance module for? Is it a good fit for our organization?

It’s designed for any company that wants to transform performance reviews from an annual chore into a valuable, organized process that drives growth. Thanks to its flexibility, it’s a perfect fit for both dynamic, growing teams and established organizations of any size, even if you're implementing a formal review process for the first time.