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Drafting and structuring employee performance reviews with AI

Use AI to accelerate the full performance review cycle—processing raw feedback and 1:1 notes into structured strengths and growth areas, generating first-draft review narratives, and improving specificity to reduce vague, generic language—while the manager retains full editorial control and accuracy.

Why the human is still essential here

The manager or HR leader must supply accurate source material, verify every claim, and edit so the review reflects real judgment and context; AI is a drafting accelerator, not an evaluator.

How people use this

Lattice AI review first draft

Managers use Lattice AI Writing Assist to pull in goals, feedback, and prior review inputs and generate a structured first-draft review response in the company's format.

Lattice AI (Writing Assist)

Culture Amp AI Coach manager review draft

In an active performance cycle, a manager uses Culture Amp AI Coach to synthesize self/peer feedback into a balanced draft manager review that can be shortened, expanded, or re-toned.

Culture Amp AI Coach

Copilot-in-Word draft from 1:1 notes

A manager pastes 1:1 notes and key outcomes into a Word template and uses Microsoft 365 Copilot to draft the review narrative and bullet examples for editing.

Microsoft 365 Copilot (Word/Teams)

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How I Use AI to Write Performance Reviews in 15 Minutes

The exact prompts, process, and principles I follow — plus why the human part still matters most

Let me be honest: I used to dread performance review season.

Not because I didn’t value feedback — I did. But because writing 30+ thoughtful, specific, actionable reviews while also doing my actual job felt like running two marathons simultaneously. In my years leading HR at various tech companies, I watched managers procrastinate, copy-paste generic phrases, or worse — rush through reviews so fast they became meaningless.

Then I started experimenting with AI. And it changed everything.

Not in a “robots replaced me” way. In a “I got 80% of the grunt work off my plate so I could focus on the 20% that actually matters” way.

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Lana WrayHR leader
Feb 23, 2026