One AI-native performance management platform that runs entirely inside Microsoft 365, with agentic AI that flags rating bias, aligns goals and spots flight risk before review season even starts.
Digital Workplace eXcellence (DWx)
PerformanceIQ
Product
Thabo M. · Q3 Review
Calibrated · 6 peer inputs · goals 90% on track
Lerato K. · Q3 Review
Talent Risk Radar: flight-risk signals climbing, act now
Sipho D. · Q3 Review
Rated "Exceeds", recency-bias and rating-inflation detected
The AI reads the evidence, not just the rating. The third review looks glowing, and the score is inflated before calibration even begins.
What it delivers
AI-drafted summaries, automated reminders and pre-populated assessments compress weeks into hours.
Dynamic OKR cascading keeps every individual goal connected to strategy as priorities shift.
In-the-moment tools, nudges and 1:1 tracking replace once-a-year surprises.
Talent Risk Radar surfaces at-risk employees months before traditional processes would.
Reviews land once a year, weeks after they would have mattered. By the time a rating is written, the moment to coach has already passed.
Recency bias and rating inflation quietly distort calibration, and no one has a systematic way to catch it before scores lock in.
Sensitive performance and salary-linked data scatters across third-party HR SaaS your IT team cannot see, govern or secure.
DWx PerformanceIQ replaces the sprawl with one platform that runs inside Microsoft 365, and adds agentic AI that flags bias and forecasts flight risk before review season. The engines advise; your people decide.
They do not wait for review season, they anticipate, adapt, and surface intelligence the moment it matters. No employee is ever auto-rated; humans always make the final call.
Flags declining performance patterns early from feedback frequency, goal-progress velocity and engagement signals, before they become problems.
Checks alignment from individual to team to organisation in real time, flagging misaligned objectives and orphaned goals as strategy shifts.
Flags potential rating bias across demographics, teams and managers with confidence scores, reading distribution patterns and language sentiment.
Drafts evidence-based review summaries from a full year of continuous feedback, cutting review-writing time by 70%.
Suggests personalised development actions from skill gaps, performance data and career aspirations: learning paths, mentors, stretch assignments.
Real-time flight-risk scoring from performance trends, engagement signals and feedback sentiment, surfacing retention alerts before top talent walks.
Configurable Review Cycles annual, quarterly or continuous, custom rating scales
OKR / KPI Goal Cascading org to team to individual, live roll-up
360-Degree Feedback multi-rater, anonymous peer input
Calibration Panels drag-and-drop talent grids, distribution curves
Real-Time Dashboards live goal, review and feedback data
Continuous Feedback & 1:1 Tracker in Teams, flows into reviews
PIP Workflows milestone tracking, evidence logging, HR oversight
Skills Matrix & Competency Mapping gaps and capability heatmaps
Manager Coaching Nudges proactive check-in and recognition prompts
DWx LearnIQ Integration review gaps trigger personalised learning plans
Compared with the platforms most teams bolt on around Microsoft 365: Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Lattice, 15Five.
| Capability | DWx PerformanceIQ | Third-party performance SaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Runs inside your Microsoft 365 tenant | ||
| Zero employee data leaving your environment | ||
| Priced per tenant, no per-seat SaaS fees | ||
| Agentic AI bias detection and flight-risk scoring | ||
| AI-drafted review summaries from continuous feedback |
HR Director
“Show me calibration distributions, bias flags and flight-risk scores across every department, without chasing five different reports.”
Line Manager
“Draft my review summaries from the feedback I gave all year, nudge me when someone needs attention, and check my goals actually align.”
Employee
“I want to know where I stand all year, not just at review time. My goals to matter, my feedback to count, and my growth path to be clear.”
A commitment-free call to map your process and compliance needs against the platform.
We deploy the SharePoint Framework solution into your tenant and configure the Azure OpenAI engines. Nothing leaves your environment.
Your teams work in the tools they already use. The agentic engines run proactively from day one; humans approve every consequential decision.
Enterprise-grade · Microsoft-native
Built on Azure OpenAI with no black-box dependencies and no data lock-in. PerformanceIQ runs in your Azure subscription in South Africa North. Employee performance data, some of the most sensitive data you hold, never leaves your environment, keeping you the data controller under POPIA.
Azure paid direct to Microsoft. First Digital does not mark up Azure.
Per tenant
Azure consumption billed direct by Microsoft. No per-seat fees.
The official DWx PerformanceIQ product explainer, the same one-page brief our team hands over.
Stand PerformanceIQ up in your tenant, on your real teams. Watch the AI flag bias and draft an evidence-based review before calibration even starts.
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