Culture Amp
by Culture Amp · Performance & Learning
Employee experience platform for engagement surveys, performance reviews and AI-assisted people coaching.
Updated August 2026 · By the ERP Research Editorial Team · Independent and vendor-neutral.
- Works with
Workday
SAP SuccessFactors
Oracle PeopleSoftADP Workforce NowBambooHRDayforcePersonioSlack+1 more- Deployment
- Cloud
- Company size
- SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
- Pricing
- Quote-based, annual subscription
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Australia
Overview
Culture Amp is a cloud-based employee experience platform combining engagement surveys, performance management and AI-assisted coaching. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2009, it targets HR and People teams at mid-market and enterprise organisations that want a single system for listening to employees, running performance cycles and turning both into action. The company reports serving 6,000+ organisations and roughly 25 million employees.
The platform is built around two core products, Engage and Perform, which can be licensed separately by company size tier (under 200, 200-999, or 1,000+ employees). Engage covers survey design (40+ ready-to-use templates), pulse surveys, onboarding/offboarding and DEI surveys, engagement benchmarking against Culture Amp's aggregate customer dataset, retention insights, and a Performance Culture Quadrant diagnostic that maps how culture relates to performance outcomes. Perform covers continuous feedback, performance reviews and calibration, 1-on-1 conversation tools, goal management, 360-degree feedback, Shoutouts (peer recognition), and employee development plans. AI Coach, launched across both products, summarises survey themes and past review/feedback data, drafts and helps refine performance reviews, and offers guided role-play preparation for difficult manager conversations, drawing on what Culture Amp describes as 1.6 billion data points from its customer base.
Culture Amp does not connect into ERP financial modules; its integration surface is HRIS/HCM data sync (native connectors for systems including Workday, BambooHR, Dayforce and Personio, plus API and SFTP connections to SAP SuccessFactors, ADP Workforce Now, Oracle PeopleSoft and others) together with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Pave (compensation), and learning partners Go1 and LifeLabs Learning. Every plan includes AI Coach, a multilingual platform, SSO, HRIS integrations and SOC 2/GDPR compliance.
Screenshots & demo
Demo video from the vendor's YouTube channel. Screenshots sourced from Culture Amp.
Features & capabilities
Engage (Employee Listening)
Survey-driven insight into engagement, culture and retention.
- 40+ ready-to-use survey templates
- Pulse surveys
- Onboarding and offboarding surveys
- DEI survey
- AI-generated comment summaries
- Retention insights
- Engagement benchmarking against Culture Amp's customer dataset
- Performance Culture Quadrant diagnostic
Perform (Performance Management)
Continuous feedback and structured review cycles.
- Continuous 360-degree feedback
- Performance reviews and calibration
- 1-on-1 conversation tools
- Goal management aligned to strategic objectives
- Shoutouts (peer recognition tied to company values)
- Employee development plans
- Performance insights and reporting
AI Coach
AI assistance layered across Engage and Perform.
- Survey theme summarisation and action-plan drafting for managers
- Custom communications drafted for Slack, email and executive summaries
- Performance data summaries drawn from past reviews, peer feedback, Shoutouts and self-reflections
- AI-drafted, editable performance review write-ups
- Guided role-play preparation for difficult conversations
- Contextual recommendations grounded in a customer's own engagement and performance data
Platform, Security & Integrations
Infrastructure shared across every plan.
- HRIS data sync (native and API/SFTP connectors)
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Multilingual platform
- Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations
- Developer API (docs.api.cultureamp.com)
- SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 and GDPR compliance
Common use cases
- Running company-wide engagement, pulse and DEI surveys with AI-summarised themes for people leaders
- Benchmarking engagement results against Culture Amp's aggregate customer dataset by industry and size
- Running structured performance review and calibration cycles with AI-drafted review write-ups
- Tracking goals and 1-on-1 conversations between managers and direct reports
- Syncing employee roster data automatically from an existing HRIS such as Workday, BambooHR or SAP SuccessFactors
- Using AI Coach to prepare managers for difficult performance conversations via guided role-play
- Measuring onboarding and offboarding experience and exit sentiment through dedicated survey types
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Combines employee listening (Engage) and performance management (Perform) on one connected data model rather than as separate point tools
- Performance Culture Quadrant diagnostic explicitly links engagement/culture data to performance outcomes
- AI Coach is grounded in a customer's own survey, review, feedback and Shoutouts data rather than generic templates
- Broad HRIS connectivity (native connectors plus API/SFTP) covering both mainstream SMB HR systems and enterprise HCM suites like Workday and SAP SuccessFactors
- B Corp certified, which the company positions as part of its people-science-led brand
ERP integrations
Automated employee data extract via SFTP; API integration also supported
Feedback, Shoutouts and insights surfaced in the flow of work
Pricing
Priced by number of employees (tiers: under 200, 200-999, and 1,000+), product chosen (Engage and/or Perform), and service tier. Billed annually; request-a-quote only, no published per-seat rate. AI Coach, multilingual support, SSO, HRIS integrations and Shoutouts are included in every plan. Get an independent shortlist with pricing guidance below.
Technical & security
- Hosting
- SaaS (multi-tenant)
- Compliance
- SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR, CCPA
- Mobile app
- No
- Languages
- Multilingual (specific language count not published)
About the vendor
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Australia
- Employees
- ~955
- Ownership
- Private (venture-backed; ~$258M raised; ~$1.5B valuation as of July 2021 Series F led by Salesforce Ventures)
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Culture Amp — frequently asked questions
Does Culture Amp integrate with SAP SuccessFactors?
Yes. Culture Amp syncs employee data from SAP SuccessFactors via SFTP or API, and maintains a dedicated SAP partner page describing the integration.
Does Culture Amp integrate with Workday?
Yes, Workday is one of Culture Amp's native HRIS connectors, used to automatically sync employee and org data into the platform.
How is Culture Amp priced?
Pricing is quote-based and depends on employee count (under 200, 200-999, or 1,000+ tiers), which product(s) are purchased (Engage and/or Perform), and service tier. All plans are billed annually and there is no published per-seat rate.
What is AI Coach?
AI Coach is Culture Amp's AI layer across Engage and Perform. It summarises survey themes, drafts and helps refine performance reviews from a manager's existing review, feedback and Shoutouts data, and offers guided role-play to prepare for difficult conversations.
Does Culture Amp connect to financial ERP systems?
No. Culture Amp's integration surface is HRIS/HCM data sync (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, ADP and others) plus collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams; it does not integrate into ERP financial or procurement modules.
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