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Pioneering performance management since 2010.

Over 15 years of building, scaling, and learning what helps people perform. Now we’re bringing reviews and coaching into the tools teams already use.

  1. 2010
    7Geese

    We built 7Geese and served over 500 companies, including Fortune 500 organizations.

  2. 2020
    Paycor, a Paychex company

    Paycor acquired 7Geese. As Paycor Talent Development, we scaled our work to thousands of customers.

  3. Today
    Topicflow

    We’re bringing that experience to AI-powered reviews and coaching, without the manual upkeep.

Three waves of performance management software

  1. 1990–2010s

    Annual reviews

    HRIS vendors

    Paper forms became digital. Performance management remained a yearly exercise in looking back.

  2. 2010–2025

    Continuous performance

    7Geese, Lattice, 15Five

    Goals, feedback, and coaching became ongoing. Managers still had to record notes and keep another system updated.

  3. 2025–Future

    In the flow of work

    Topicflow

    AI connects work data, drafts reviews, and handles follow-ups in the tools people already use.

Managers need support that fits into their work.

With 7Geese, we helped companies make goals, feedback, and coaching an ongoing practice. But keeping that practice going still depended on managers updating another system.

We built Topicflow to reduce that effort. It uses context from the tools teams already work in to prepare reviews, support coaching, and follow up on commitments.

Explore the Topicflow Method

Our investors

Backed by leading investors in the Pacific Northwest who believe in building thoughtful products for modern teams.

  • Founders’ Co-op
  • Fortson VC
  • Ascend

Meet our founding team.

Our founders have worked together for more than a decade, from the founding team at 7Geese through its acquisition by Paycor to founding Topicflow. Based in Vancouver, Canada, they bring years of experience building performance management software.

Topicflow founders Max Parmentier, Amin Palizban, and Tony Angerilli together in Vancouver
From left: Max Parmentier, Engineering · Amin Palizban, CEO · Tony Angerilli, CTO

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