What is Candor?
Candor is an AI-powered 360-degree feedback platform that runs continuous feedback collection in the background instead of around annual reviews. After an organization uploads its org chart, Candor generates relationship-specific survey questions, collects responses, and summarizes themes for managers. It is built for HR teams that want continuous feedback as part of performance reviews, 1:1s, onboarding, and recognition without manually building each survey.
Why Candor works
Most companies still treat feedback as an annual event because building and running surveys quarterly is operationally expensive. Candor handles survey creation, question targeting, and data collection so HR runs continuous feedback at the cost of running annual reviews. The mechanism is org-chart-aware automation that keeps the workflow alive between formal cycles.
Candor features
- Org chart driven setup. Upload the org chart and Candor builds survey relationships from it so HR does not configure who reviews whom.
- Relationship-tailored questions. AI generates questions specific to a working relationship so feedback stays relevant rather than generic.
- Continuous collection. Surveys run in the background year-round so feedback exists outside the annual review crunch.
- AI summarization. Themes across feedback are summarized so managers do not need to read every individual response to act.
- HR process integrations. The platform supports performance reviews, 1:1s, onboarding, self-evaluations, and recognition from the same data.
Who Candor is for
- HR leaders at 100 to 1,000 person companies who want a continuous feedback culture without doubling team headcount.
- Engineering managers at fast-growing startups who need recurring feedback signal on their teams but lack a People Ops setup.
- Talent development teams running formal performance cycles that want richer, year-round data behind each review.
- Founders building a feedback-driven culture early who want one tool covering onboarding, recognition, and performance.
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