Culture-first performance

Performance management that starts with your culture.

Sageo turns your values into a competency framework, then gives your managers the structure to run 360 reviews, shape development plans, and stay connected through monthly 1:1s. The AI drafts; your people decide.

Get Started

$7 per seat / month. Add your whole team free for 14 days. Cancel anytime.

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The Sageo home dashboard showing org-wide performance at a glance

Built for scaling teams

  • From 10 to 1,000 people
  • Any review cadence
  • Calibrated with an audit trail
  • Your values, weighted in

How It Works

From Your Values to a Running Review Cycle

Four steps. Most teams finish the setup in about an hour.

Set your Cultural Foundation

Enter your values and levels. Sageo turns them into a behavioral standard that applies to everyone.

Set your Cultural Foundation
Generate competency frameworks
Add your people
Launch your first cycle
See the full walkthrough

Try each step yourself, or explore the real product.

Why Sageo

The Framework Every Other Tool Assumes You Already Have

Performance platforms operationalise a competency framework you are expected to bring with you. Sageo is the only one that generates it, from your culture, and then powers everything you build on top of it: reviews, plans and 1:1s that your people run.

HR consultancy

Three to six months and a five-figure invoice for a static matrix that starts aging the day it lands.

Enterprise suites

Powerful once configured, but the competency architecture is your problem to solve first.

Spreadsheets

No calibration, no audit trail, no visibility. A compliance exposure waiting to be found.

Sageo

Your values become a working, editable framework in minutes. Calibrated, auditable and owned by you.

Monthly 1:1s

Performance Is a Conversation

Scores only go so far. Sageo keeps managers and reports talking: reports raise what matters to them before the meeting, managers respond, and nothing gets lost between months.

  • Reports raise points before the meeting
  • Managers approve or respond in one place
  • Every 1:1 leaves a written trail both sides can see
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1:1 · Sofia and Ingrid

Sofia · Product Designer

I want to own the onboarding redesign end to end. Can we make that a Q3 goal?

Raised for next 1:1

Ingrid · Engineering Manager

Approved. Bring a scope outline on Thursday and we will size it together.

Approved

Next 1:1: Thursday, 10:00

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From your values to a working framework

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Configurable levels per ladder, IC and manager tracks

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Self, manager, peer, and upward feedback

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Monthly 1:1s a year, created automatically

Compliance

Ready for Europe's New Rules

European regulation is turning structured, auditable performance management from good practice into a requirement. Sageo was designed for it from day one.

From 2027

EU Pay Transparency Directive

Pay and progression decisions must rest on objective, gender-neutral criteria, documented and reportable.

Every decision in Sageo traces back to a documented competency framework with consistent, calibrated scoring.

High-risk AI

EU AI Act

AI that evaluates employee performance is classified as high-risk, demanding transparency, human oversight and auditability.

A person reviews and approves every AI output, and calibration keeps an immutable audit trail.

Privacy

GDPR

Employee personal data needs a lawful basis, minimisation and real safeguards.

Employee names and personal identifiers are stripped out automatically before content is sent to the AI.

Sageo is built to support your compliance work. It does not replace legal advice.

Deepti Gupta, Co-founder at Sageo

Deepti Gupta

Co-founder

18+ years building people functions from the ground up at Myntra, Freshworks and Dream11, scaling teams from 100 to 2,500 people and designing company-wide performance and compensation systems. Sageo automates the frameworks she has built by hand throughout her career.

Vinayak Ravi, Co-founder at Sageo

Vinayak Ravi

Co-founder

19+ years of B2B SaaS go-to-market leadership. He built the organic growth engine at Freshworks through its rise to a public company and has led demand generation at some of the sector's fastest-scaling software startups.

People Strategy

Want It Built With You?

Sageo also runs a founder-led advisory practice for growth-stage companies: fractional CHRO leadership, structured sprints and coaching, delivered by the people who built the product.

Explore People Strategy
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One culture-first performance system

Generated in minutes. Owned by you.

The Sageo team, together