For your reports

Your work, on the record.

Your manager asked you to use this. Here is what is actually in it for you — and what it is not.

The deal runs both ways

A tool you resent is a tool nobody fills in past March, so it is worth being straight about the trade. You spend about two minutes a week writing down what you did. In return, your manager stops assessing you from memory.

That is a better bargain than it sounds. The single most common way good work goes unrewarded is that the person who would have argued for you could not remember it clearly enough to argue.

What you get

A record nobody has to remember

Everything you did, dated, in your own words, with what it achieved. When a promotion, a raise or a new opportunity comes up, the case for you already exists and somebody else can read it.

An answer to "what would it take?"

Your growth plan says where you are heading, how close you are as a number, and exactly which behaviours and skills are still in the way. "Be more senior" becomes a list you can actually work through.

Skills somebody actually stood behind

You claim the skills you have. Your manager sets the level, against work they watched. A level somebody validated carries weight in a way a self-rating on a CV never has.

One-to-ones that continue

You raise talking points before the meeting and they stay on it until they are dealt with. What you agreed last month is still there this month, with the date you first agreed it.

No surprises in a review

You have read everything in it as it went in. A review whose contents you are seeing for the first time is a management failure, and this makes it structurally hard to have one.

Praise that does not evaporate

Recognition from colleagues lands on your timeline and stays there, instead of scrolling out of a channel by Thursday.

What it is not

The reasonable worry about a tool like this is that it is surveillance with a nicer font. It is worth saying plainly what it does not do.

It does not track activity

No hours, no keystrokes, no commit counts, no screen time. The only thing in it is what a person chose to write down about work they are proud of.

There is no hidden file on you

Everything your manager records about you — expectations, assessments, your growth plan, the evidence behind it — is visible to you. There is no private manager scratchpad, deliberately: a note you cannot read is a note you cannot correct.

Nothing scores you automatically

AI suggests which skills and behaviours a piece of work relates to. It never rates you, ranks you against anyone, or decides whether you are doing well. Those are your manager's judgments, recorded as theirs.

It does not cost you anything

Your account is free on every plan. Only managers pay.

How to get value out of it in five minutes a month

Write it the day it happens

Not the week it happens. Two lines while you still remember the number beats a paragraph reconstructed in November.

Lead with what changed, then how

"Cut onboarding time from three days to four hours by scripting the environment setup" — not "worked on onboarding". The impact is what somebody can argue from.

Log the unglamorous things too

The incident you quietly prevented, the colleague you unblocked, the review that caught something. This is the work that is most invisible and most missed at review time.

Read your growth plan before your check-in

It takes a minute and it changes the conversation from "how are things?" to "here are the two things I want to close this quarter."

Stop writing reviews from memory.

Set up your first report in about ten minutes. Free forever for teams of five.

No credit card. Your reports never pay.