v.1.50.4 (17/09/2026)

New Features 

An approval step before a review is finalised

Reviews can now pass through a third party before they complete. Once the reviewee and reviewer have filled in their sections, the review goes to HR or a senior approver, who is the one to finalise it. Reviewers can be prevented from completing a review themselves, so nothing reaches the employee until it has been signed off

Improvements

Employee development features now sit in one module

Objectives, skills, training and the rest of the development tools have been brought together under a single Development menu, in the same way performance management is already grouped.

Company Documents can be hidden from selected security groups

A new security group setting controls whether the Company area of Documents is visible. Turn it off and Company Documents disappears from the Documents menu and from the tabs in Files, while personal documents keep working as normal. This stops people uploading personal paperwork into the company area, and is useful where company files already live on an existing intranet.

Select all when assigning an objective to your team

Managers setting the same objective for everyone they manage can now tick Select all rather than choosing each person in turn.

Personal details and emergency contacts can be made read-only

A new person setting stops employees editing their own personal details, emergency contact and next of kin, so the record stays as HR entered it. Where editing is allowed, the employee's manager is notified when a change is made.

Managers can be hidden from their own succession plan

A new toggle in People & Groups, "Disable Manager view of themself in Succession Planning", removes a manager from the Succession Planning Dashboard table when they have a manager of their own. They keep full visibility of the people they are planning for.

The review panel colour can be changed to match your brand

The blue panel in the review screen is no longer fixed. It can be set to a colour of your choosing, so reviews sit alongside the rest of your branding.

Departments, Sites and Regions added to the Settings menu

These three areas are now linked directly from the Settings menu rather than being reached through another screen.

A reworked 9-box grid with filters and manager access

The 9-box grid dashboard has been rebuilt and can now be filtered by team, review template and date range. Managers can be given access to it, and the grid respects their visibility permissions, so each person sees only the people they are entitled to see. The grid's labels are also available to AI Assist, and a prompt can now be narrowed to a specific review template or period.

More accurate AI Assist reporting

AI Assist now excludes leavers from reports and figures unless you ask for them, shows people's names rather than their internal ID numbers, and tells the difference between training objectives and training logs. Reports built from a prompt should now match what you would get from the equivalent report in the platform.

AI Assist remembers the data it has already looked at

AI Assist now carries the data it has retrieved from one message to the next, instead of starting again each time you reply. You can refine a report over several messages, and answers come back faster and cost less to produce.

Reviewee lists limited to the people you manage

When a manager adds a review, objective, task or worksheet, the person list now shows their direct reports rather than everyone on the platform. The full list still appears for anyone with the Everyone permission.

Scored and option questions can be reordered

Drag-and-drop reordering only worked on text questions. Scored and multiple-option questions can now be moved into any order.

Response times showing on survey reports

Some responses came through without a "Date Time Of Response", leaving a blank column on the report. Every response now records the date and time it was submitted.

Deleted people no longer counted in dashboards

People who had been deleted were still appearing in the objectives and reviews dashboards and in the figures behind them. Deleted records are now excluded everywhere, and offboarding closes off any objectives and reviews left open.

Changing an email address no longer creates a second account

When someone's email address changed in the connected HR system, the sync created a new person record rather than updating the existing one. The change is now applied to the same record, so history and permissions stay intact.