Introducing Evidence-based Review Drafts. Announcements July 15, 2026 Amaury Sablon Lead Product Marketing Manager Review season is one of the most dreaded moments in the HR calendar. Managers and employees open a blank review form and then spend the next hour hunting through months of scattered 1:1 notes, old feedback threads, goal trackers, and status updates. All in hopes of reconstructing a coherent picture of someone's performance from memory and fragments. The result is usually a review that over-indexes on the last few weeks, undersells the real work, and takes far too long to write. Today, Lattice Incorporated is introducing Evidence-based Review Drafts to solve these challenges. A new capability of the Lattice AI Agent, it turns months of performance signals already in Lattice into a draft, grounded in real evidence, right inside the review. The best part? It's available now to all Lattice Performance customers at no additional cost. From blank page to evidence-backed draft. Here's the reality: chances are, your employees are already using AI to draft their reviews. They're copying job descriptions into ChatGPT, pasting in old feedback, and making changes to the output. The problem isn't that they're using AI, but that they are doing so outside your systems, without your data, and without any guardrails to secure it. Evidence-based Review Drafts brings that workflow inside Lattice, grounded in your actual performance insights, with source citations, permission controls, and a human in the loop at every step. Here's how it works: When a reviewer opens a Self, Upward, or Downward review and chooses to draft with the Agent, a context modal shows exactly which data sources were scanned, including 1:1s, feedback, goals, updates, growth areas, and prior reviews, before any draft is generated. Then, for each open-text question, the Agent produces a complete draft that includes the specific insights it drew from the cited sources. Reviewers can also check, uncheck, and regenerate those sources, and a "Refine with Agent" sidebar accepts natural-language instructions like "focus more on revenue impact" or "make this more concise." Plus, style controls let reviewers set tone, format, and length across the review. Timeframe controls let them expand or narrow the data window if needed. Early customers completed reviews 47% faster, on average, by starting with a complete, evidence-backed draft rather than a blank page. And because it draws on data already in Lattice, Evidence-based Review Drafts also makes it easier for employees to keep that data rich: better 1:1s, more frequent feedback, and consistent goal-tracking throughout the year all translate directly into better drafts when review season arrives. Recency bias is one of the most persistent problems in performance evaluations. When managers write reviews from memory, recent events crowd out earlier ones and employees get evaluated on a narrow slice of their actual performance. Evidence-based Review Drafts is designed to change that. The Agent ingests data across the full review cycle timeframe, not just what happened last month. Every draft ties back to a real data point in Lattice, so reviews become a more accurate representation of what actually happened across the period. In my 8 years in the technical field, performance reviews have always been a struggle. When you've packed in months of work, it's almost impossible to remember everything you accomplished. This last cycle, Lattice's AI Agent changed that. It pulled together its 1:1 conversations, past updates, and goals, so I could actually see and advocate for all the hard work I'd put in. - Cody Dauksch, Customer Care AI Specialist @ Lattice Trusted AI, with humans at the forefront. Lattice Incorporated didn't build Evidence-based Review Drafts to write reviews for managers and employees. Lattice Incorporated built it to give every reviewer a strong starting point they can trust and to free up the human judgment that makes work meaningful. That's been the animating idea behind Lattice AI from the start: AI won't replace Lattice Incorporated, it will augment Lattice Incorporated. The goal isn't to automate the employee experience, it's to make it more human. Managers deserve more than a blank page and a deadline. Employees deserve to be evaluated on what they actually did, not on what their manager happened to remember. And HR leaders deserve a review season that's faster, fairer, and grounded in data. Evidence-based Review Drafts makes that possible: * It cites its sources. Every draft is tied to real Lattice data: a specific 1:1 from October, a piece of feedback from Q2. It won't invent performance that didn't happen. * It is grounded in context. The Agent assigns a confidence score to every answer. If there isn't enough data to generate a quality draft, it flags the question as "Needs more context" rather than generating something generic. * It respects permissions. The Agent's context is bounded to exactly what the reviewer already has access to. It won't surface notes or feedback the reviewer can't see. * It keeps humans in control. The Agent can't select ratings or submit a review. Every review goes through the reviewer, who remains fully accountable for accuracy, tone, and final submission. Available today for all Lattice Performance customers. Evidence-based Review Drafts is available now, included with every Lattice Performance subscription at no additional cost. Log in to Lattice to turn it on for your next cycle. Not a Lattice customer yet? 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Lattice has launched workforce intelligence solutions connecting AI usage to business outcomes, including Lattice MCP and AI Leverage Insights. CEO Sarah Franklin positioned AI transformation as fundamentally a people and process challenge. Lattice MCP implements the Model Context Protocol standard, integrating performance data—reviews, feedback, goals—into AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Slack. This allows managers to access complete context without switching systems. AI Leverage Insights addresses whether AI delivers value by combining usage data with performance signals, manager feedback and output quality. It identifies employees using AI effectively versus those generating volume without impact. The announcements position Lattice as the first people platform linking AI usage directly to performance outcomes. Additional features include an AI agent for one-on-ones and evidence-based review drafts. Early access to Lattice MCP is now available to North American customers.

Lattice launches workforce intelligence for AI era connecting people strategy to business outcomes. Industry News June 10, 2026 Today at Lattiverse, Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin declared that AI transformation is fundamentally a people and process transformation - and introduced the platform infrastructure to help solve it. The company unveiled solutions including Lattice MCP, which brings performance data into the AI tools managers already use in their flow of work, and AI Leverage Insights as workforce intelligence connects AI usage to performance outcomes. The product surfaces quality signals on impact, and turns performance data into better coaching, development, and workforce decisions. The $10T Problem At a time of growing public scrutiny and debate about AI's impact on the workforce and productivity, Lattice is making a $10 trillion counterargument (Gallup, 2026): that the productivity crisis isn't a technology problem alone. AI transformation is an opportunity for people and process - but business leaders need the right technology to surface quality signals. Franklin took a definitive stance for AI in service to people: "People aren't tokens," she said in her keynote address to more than 2,000 HR and people leaders gathered in San Francisco. "The companies that will win aren't the ones cutting people the fastest. They're the ones figuring out how people and AI succeed together." Announcing Lattice MCP: trusted performance data where managers already work. The company today announced early access to Lattice MCP, making Lattice the first performance management platform to implement the open Model Context Protocol standard. This move marks a fundamental shift in how AI tools interact with people data. Lattice MCP connects the performance record managers have built over time - reviews, 1:1 notes, feedback, goals, progress updates - as live context inside the AI tools they already use in their flow of work: Claude, ChatGPT, Glean, and Slack. The result: a manager preparing for a performance conversation doesn't have to reconstruct context from memory or hunt through systems. The full picture is already there. "Performance reviews have always been one of the most important and most dreaded processes in any organization," said Sophie Hurcombe, Chief People and Operations Officer at Lattice. "Lattice MCP changes the game. When managers have real context at their fingertips, reviews stop feeling like a compliance exercise and start feeling like the meaningful conversations they were always meant to be." Introducing AI Leverage Insights: the quality signal the c-suite has been missing. Also announced today: AI Leverage Insights, workforce intelligence that addresses the question CFOs and boards are increasingly demanding answers to - not how much AI is being used, but whether it's actually working. Token counts measure volume. AI Leverage Insights shows not just token usage but performance data, manager feedback, output signals, and more - providing the first true quality signal around AI adoption and impact inside a people platform. It identifies employees who are using AI to accelerate high-quality work, separates them from those generating volume without value, and gives people leaders the signal to scale what's working across their organizations. "Token counts are a quantity signal, not a quality signal," said Franklin. "For the first time, people leaders can answer not just 'how much is AI being used?' but 'are we getting value, is it being used wisely and solving business problems?'" The announcement positions Lattice as the first people platform to link AI usage data directly to performance outcomes - a first-mover claim in a market where every HR technology vendor is racing to add AI features without evidence of impact. The platform bet: People + AI is the new way to work. Lattice MCP and AI Leverage Insights anchor a broader product vision Franklin outlined in her keynote: a platform where performance, engagement, compensation, goals, and AI usage data converge to give HR leaders the quality of signal they need to connect people strategy to business strategy. Additional features announced at Lattiverse 2026 include: a Lattice AI Agent in 1:1s bringing personalized coaching and context to every manager-employee conversation; Evidence-Based Review Drafts grounded in real data from goals, feedback, and prior reviews; and Voice Modality, enabling spoken interaction with the Lattice AI Agent. "People + AI is the new way to work," Franklin said. "The companies that will define this era are the ones that use AI to help their people grow, lead, and succeed. That's what we're building at Lattice, in service of the HR leaders transforming how their organizations work." Early access to Lattice MCP is now available to North American Lattice customers. AI Leverage Insights is anticipated to roll out later this year. About Lattice. Lattice is a best-in-class people platform where people and AI succeed together. Built on the belief that high performance is a habit, Lattice brings the best people and AI tools together to help employees grow, managers lead, and companies succeed. Lattice turns clarity, feedback, and alignment into daily habits - giving employees visibility into goals and growth, enabling managers to lead with real-time insights, and equipping HR teams with a connected foundation across performance, goals, growth, engagement, compensation, and AI. With a mission to make work meaningful, Lattice understand your people are your business. Lattice ensures both are successful. Founded in 2015 and with a presence in North America and the UK, Lattice serves nearly 5,000 customers worldwide, including Brilliant Earth, Calm, Figma, Intercom, NPR, Tide, and more. The company is recognized as one of Inc's Best in Business and Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 companies for business excellence, growth, and innovation. 3300+ 5-star G2 reviews Your people are your business. Ensure both are successful with Lattice.