Our Story

We are a Vancouver-based agentic performance management startup backed by top Seattle-based investors. While we use the latest AI technology, we are not new to this space. In 2010, we built 7Geese, the world’s first OKR and continuous performance management platform. We grew it into one of the market leaders, serving hundreds of global customers, before being acquired in 2020 by Paycor, a U.S.-based Human Capital Management company.

After our acquisition, we spoke with hundreds of business leaders and managers. The message was clear: Performance management tools aren’t helping managers build high-performing teams. Managers see these systems as extra work to maintain, not as a way to drive performance. They’re compliance systems, used because they’re mandated, not because they drive impact. We saw an opportunity to fix that using AI.

Performance management should actually improve performance. Research shows the most important factor is timely performance conversations between managers and their teams. Topicflow is designed to make that possible by delivering contextual coaching insights to managers directly into Slack and Microsoft Teams. We make performance reviews and calibration fast, fair, and data-driven, so managers spend less time on admin and more time coaching.