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What's New in 15Five: 2025 Releases

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Want to stay on top of what’s new in 15Five? Use the tabs below to view recent product updates organized by month or by feature—whichever works best for you! Each release includes a short description and links to relevant resources so you can dive deeper.

By Month By Feature
October 2025 Releases
  • [Review] Customizable Talent Matrix Boxes: Admins can now rename and customize Talent Matrix box labels anywhere the matrix appears, at any time. Released October 20th.
    Help Center article 💡: Analyze Review Results: Talent Matrix
  • [Review] AI-Assisted Self Reviews: Employees can now use “Draft an Answer” to generate thoughtful, first-person responses that reflect their progress and achievements. AI Assistance compiles key data from across 15Five. Including Check-ins, Objectives, High Fives, One-on-One Notes, and Kona data to draft personalized, high-quality answers grounded in real work and accomplishments. Released October 17th.
    Help Center article 💡: AI-Powered Manager Tools in Total Platform
  • [Review] Multi-Answer Questions: Admins can now enable “Allow multiple answers” on multiple-choice questions, allowing review participants to select more than one response. This update gives HR teams and managers more flexibility and nuance in collecting feedback, helping capture richer and more complete insights. Admins can also set minimum and maximum selection limits to guide responses. (Can be used in PMA but cannot be calibrated.) Released October 15th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a custom question template
  • [Objectives] Weighted OKRs:  With Weighted OKRs, HR teams can now assign different weights to Key Results and child Objectives, that impact the overall progress of the OKR. This allows for more accurate OKR tracking, alignment on what truly matters, and fairer performance assessments. Released October 14th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an objective
September 2025 Releases
  • [Review] Competency Questions in Reviews: Choose Self, Manager, or Both: Admins can now choose whether competency questions appear in self reviews, manager reviews, or both. This gives more control to tailor reviews, capture feedback from the right perspectives, and meet customers where they are. Released September 26th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a custom question template
  • [Integrations] Submit Check-ins Directly from Slack: You can now complete and submit Check-ins right inside Slack — including: Pulse, Questions, Priorities, and OKRs. Validation is built in - if something required is missing, an error will be displayed that can be corrected in Slack or via web if preferred. This update prevents employees from having to leave their Flow of Work and makes Check-ins faster, easier, and more seamless than ever. Released September 24th.
    Help Center article 💡: Use the 15Five App for Slack
  • [Review] Custom Section in Best-Self Review: Best-Self Review templates now include a Custom Questions section, allowing HR admins and managers to add and reorder their own questions alongside existing sections. This update doubles customization options, making it easier to tailor reviews to company needs while keeping templates flexible and easy to configure. Released September 24th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Decide how you want to add questions to your review cycle
  • [Review] Lifecycle Reviews – Performance Reviews Automated:  Lifecycle Reviews let HR teams automatically trigger performance reviews at key employee milestones—like Day 30, Day 60, probation completion, or anniversaries, without manual scheduling. You can now run trigger-based reviews (e.g., 90 days after hire), use pre-built templates for common milestones, and integrate seamlessly with tools like Talent Matrix, Calibrations, and AI-assisted Reviews. Plus, the new “Automated” tab inside Review Cycles makes everything easy to track and manage, ensuring feedback is always delivered at the right time. Released September 22nd.
    Help Center article 💡 : Lifecycle Reviews Overview
  • [Review] Best-Self Reviews now fully supports dotted-line reporting structures: BSR now fully supports dotted-line reporting structures, allowing participants to complete multiple upward reviews without removing previous assignments. This improvement enables more realistic review setups for complex org structures and resolves a common frustration with upward reviews. Released September 19th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Review submitted upward reviews of my team
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Linked lifecycle surveys: Manager and employee surveys in Lifecycle workflows are now clearly linked, with collapsible rows, sidebar tabs, and “sent by” details for easier context. These updates make it simpler to review, compare, and track survey responses within the full feedback loop. Released September 16th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Analyze Lifecycle Survey Results
  • [Engagement] Optional Survey Questions & User Experience Improvements: You now have more control when setting up surveys, with the ability to mark statements and comments as optional or required in a cleaner interface. Smart validation also makes it easier for employees to complete required questions, ensuring you get the feedback you need while reducing friction. Released September 16th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Create an engagement campaign
  • [Reviews] Best-Self Review feature visibility update: We've updated the Performance Reviews feature so it remains visible to account admins at all times. If turned off, admins will now see a clear option to easily reactivate it. This change ensures you never lose access to a feature you've purchased and provides clear guidance to help you get started. Released September 12th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Best-Self Review®: Feature Overview
  • [Tools: Check-in] Check-in Notifications Now Powered by Bridge: All Check-in notifications are now managed through Bridge, providing a centralized, consistent, and more reliable communication system. This update improves scalability to handle high volumes and unlocks greater flexibility for customizing notifications. Released September 11th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Manage Check-in Notifications
  • [Review] Kona data now powers AI-Assisted Reviews: We've improved AI-Assisted Reviews by pulling in data from Kona. This means managers will receive richer, more personalized AI-generated responses for their direct reports if Kona data exists. For customers who don't use Kona, the review experience remains seamless, with no changes. Released September 10th. 
  • [Integration] Google Calendar Integration for Admins: Admins can now connect Google Calendar for their entire team, automatically syncing past events, maintaining live updates, and eliminating the need for individual user connections. This update streamlines setup, improves 1-on-1 and calendar workflows, and provides richer insights for managers. Released September 9th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Configure Google Calendar for 1-on-1s
  • [Engagement] Campaigns must now include notifications: Campaign scheduling now requires at least one notification type (Email or SMS) to be selected before launch, ensuring participants are always notified. If no notification is set, admins will see a clear error message, helping prevent mistakes and maximize response rates. Released September 9th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Create an engagement campaign
  • [People Data] Navigation refresh: We’ve updated 15Five’s navigation to create a cleaner, more intuitive experience that reduces distractions and highlights valuable content like diagnoses, results, and insights. This is a strategic step toward making 15Five feel lighter and smarter, with more UI improvements to come. Released September 5th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Navigating 15Five
  • [Training & Coaching] Cancelling Sessions for Coaches: Coaches can now cancel upcoming sessions directly, with the system automatically updating coaching actions, marking scheduling as incomplete, and removing calendar invites. This improvement simplifies rescheduling, manages overbooked slots, removes manual admin work, and keeps coaching tokens accurate. Released September 5th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Change details for an upcoming 1:1 coaching session
August 2025 Releases
  • [Kona] Automatic “Kona Users” Company Group: We’ve added a new automatic group called Kona Users that always reflects who has access to AI Coach - Kona. This release should reduce admin overhead, and makes it easier to segment and run initiatives specifically for Kona users. Released August 27th. 
    Help Center article 💡: Track Kona Access with the Kona Users Group
  • [Reviews] Download Review Data Directly from the BSR Homepage: Review Admins can now download performance data (CSV or XLSX) for ended review cycles directly from the Best-Self Review homepage. And now they can even bulk download multiple cycles at once in just a few clicks. Previously, downloading review data meant navigating into each individual cycle (time-consuming and tedious). Released August 27th.
    Help Center article 💡: Download my company's review results
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Custom Expiration Dates for Lifecycle Surveys: You can now customize survey expiration dates, this includes flexible expiration dates, and updated notification logic. Reminder notifications will now be sent automatically at the halfway point of your chosen timeframe. Released August 27th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Kona] Coaching Prompt Overhaul: We’ve reworked Kona's coaching tips to fix the biggest pain points flagged. Coaching tips now appear as clear titles + bullet points (vs. dense paragraphs), logic update to continue to refine coaching tips, participants will not get both a subject line and structured bullet summary. These updates offer fresh, non-repetitive coaching that managers can’t tune out, logic changes make it feel more accurate and encouraging, and are skimmable + action-oriented, not overwhelming walls of text. Released August 26th.
    Help Center article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
  • [Strategic Index] Salary Data from Comprehensive.io: Strategic Index and Core Attributes coverage now fully include salary data from comprehensive.io. Until now, customers bringing in salary data via comprehensive.io weren’t earning Strategic Index points for it. Not only do they get credit in the Index now, but their “salary” core attribute coverage will also improve automatically. This tightens the loop on compensation insights and makes the Strategic Index even more reflective of reality. Another step toward helping customers connect people data directly to business impact. Released August 26th.
    Help Center article 💡: Strategic Index: Feature Overview
  • [Engagement] Refined targeting options in Engage campaigns: HR admins can now target campaigns using hierarchy, manager, and location attributes. Targeting by "Groups" remains unchanged - customer can still create campaigns targeting certain groups.We already provide stronger, more reliable targeting in 15Five through groups. This change simplifies targeting, reduces risk, and ensures consistency across campaigns. Demographic attributes will no longer be available when selecting “Specific groups” for campaign targeting. Released August 26th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a targeted engagement campaign
  • [Kona] Onboarding improvement- Smart Reminders to Finish Kona Setup:  We’ve added automated reminders to help managers complete Kona onboarding. This should help with higher onboarding setup, fewer errors from incomplete or incorrect setup, and managers getting insights faster.  Released August 25th.
    Help Center article 💡: Kona by 15Five: Setup and Support Guide
  • [Engagement] Exclude Scheduled Lifecycle Surveys for certain employees: Admins can now exclude any upcoming scheduled survey before it goes out.  Changed your mind? No problem — you can also re-include an excluded survey at any time Released August 21st.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Engagement] Delete upcoming notifications: HR admins can now delete upcoming notifications in an active Engage campaign. This gives more control during live campaigns and helps avoid sending reminders that are no longer needed. Released August 21st.
    Help Center article 💡: Make Changes to an Active Engagement Campaign
  • [Best-Self Review®] Manager Effectiveness Questions Now Included in Upward Reviews: The 15Five upward review template in BSR now includes our 8 Manager Effectiveness questions, by default. Released August 20th.
    Help Center article 💡: What are 15Five's Manager Effectiveness Competencies?
  • [Transform & Action Plans] Transform Content Access Revoked Warning: We’re surfacing a warning in 15Five UI when an Action Plan can’t move forward because a user lost Transform content access. This situation occurs when an assigned user in an Action Plan has their Transform access revoked before they can complete the action(s) leaving them stuck without any clear indication as to why. Released August 18th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an Action Plan
  • [Kona & Slack] Monthly Manager Effectiveness: We’ve had lots of requests to give managers a clear view of how they’re doing on their focus areas. We’re starting with a simple first phase: a monthly Slack ping that includes their current Focus Area progress, behavior frequency benchmarking from the past 30 days, quick spotting for behaviors that are thriving or need support.  Released August 18th.
    Help Center article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
  • [Pricing] Pricing and Packaging Changes: We've added more to our Perform package! Perform now includes the HR Outcomes Dashboard, Manager Effectiveness, Action Plans, Strategic Index, and AI Assisted Reviews. That's a whole lot more to get the most out of 15Five. Perform now also has the ability to add-on Kona and Compensation. Looking to add Kona or Compensation to your account? Contact Support.  Released August 13th.

  • [Behaviors & HR Outcomes Dashboard] AI Summaries: Now Showing by Default at AI Coach Insights Behavior Drawer. You’ll now see AI Summaries automatically in the Behavior drawer — no clicks needed when viewing unfiltered data. Released August 8th.

    Help Center article 💡: Use the HR Outcomes Dashboard
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Revamped dashboard: We’ve made it easier for HR to track, manage, and take action on Lifecycle Surveys without leaving the Surveys list. These updates give HR more control over automated surveys with early issue detection (e.g., low response rates, paused surveys), faster interventions in just a few clicks, time saved managing multiple surveys at scale, easy preview & management of surveys from the overview page. August 7th.
    Help Center article 💡: Trigger a Manual Lifecycle Survey
  • [Filters & Manager Effectiveness] Cohort filtering: We’ve now added cohort filtering to the Manager Diagnosis page — so you can now slice manager data by business unit, team, or level in seconds. Released August 1st.
    Help Center article 💡: AI Coaching Focus Areas and Behaviors: Overview
July 2025 Releases
  • [Compensation & HR Outcomes Dashboard] Compensation Insights: Now live in the HR Outcomes Dashboard, Compensation Insights help you tie pay to outcomes like engagement, performance, and retention. Use real-time benchmarks and employee perception data to spot risks, promote equity, and make smarter, fairer comp decisions. Released July 28th.
    Help Center article 💡: Explore Compensation Insights in the HR Outcomes Dashboard
  • [Engagement] Exclude participants from an active campaign: Forgot to exclude someone from your campaign? No problem! HR Admins can now exclude participants after a campaign has launched. Released July 9th.
    Help Center article 💡: Make Changes to an Active Engagement Campaign
  • [Engagement] Organizational Commitment reporting added to Statements Report: You can now view employee responses to three key Organizational Commitment statements—focused on pride, loyalty, and intent to stay—directly within the Statements Report. This new section helps you assess emotional connection and retention risk across your organization. Released July 2nd.
    Help Center article 💡: Analyze Engagement Results: Statements Report
June 2025 Releases
  • [Engagement] Results now auto-release after campaigns end: If you select the "Release results automatically" setting during campaign creation, results will now be automatically released—and emails sent—to individuals with results visibility within ~2 hours of campaign completion. If your team selected "controlled access" during setup, HR Admins will be notified first and can manually grant access when ready. Released June 27th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an Engagement Campaign
    Help Center article 💡:     Share engagement campaign results
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Delete sent surveys: Account Admins can now delete accidentally sent or duplicate Lifecycle Surveys—manual or automatic—right from the Sent Surveys table. Released July 25th.
    Help Center article 💡:     Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Tools: Check-ins] Check-in notifications reinstated: In May 2025, we disabled Check-in notifications by default in an effort to reduce noise, but the impact and your feedback made it clear we needed a different approach. We’re owning that, and we’re making changes. As of today, four core Check-in notifications are enabled by default. All other Check-in notifications are off by default. Released June 23rd.
    Help Center article 💡: Manage Check-in Notifications
  • [People Data] Visibility into core attribute coverage: HR Admins can now track how complete their key people data is in the new "Core Attributes" section of People settings—complete with coverage percentages and warning icons. Released June 17th.
    Help Center article 💡: Overview: People Attributes in 15Five
  • [Strategic Index] 📊 NEW: Strategic Index now available in 15Five: Track how strategically your organization is using 15Five across outcomes like performance, engagement, and retention. Released June 16th.
    Help Center article 💡: Strategic Index: Feature Overview
  • [Action Plans] Action Plans now auto-close when all actions are done: When the final action item in an Action Plan is completed, the plan auto-closes and sends a notification to the creator and HR Admins. Released June 12th.
    Help Center article 💡: Action Plans: Tool Overview
  • [Best-Self Review®] Private Manager Assessment (PMA) questions now added by default: PMA questions are automatically included in Self & Manager review question templates—providing consistent, high-quality data. Released June 11th.
    Help Center article 💡: What is the Private Manager Assessment (PMA)?
    Help Center article 💡: Decide how you want to add questions to your review cycle
  • [Manager Products: Kona] Kona now supports Microsoft Teams meetings: Kona can now join MS Teams meetings, expanding its compatibility beyond Zoom and Google Meet. Released June 5th.
    Help Center article 💡: Kona by 15Five: Setup and Support Guide
  • [Best-Self Review®] Control default Review Admin access for HR Admins: You can now choose whether HR Admins automatically have Review Admin permissions for review cycles, giving you more control over access. Released June 3rd.
    Help Center article 💡: Manage Review Admins
May 2025 Releases
  • [People Data] Demographic attributes are now enabled by default: Demographic attributes (Birth Date, Ethnicity, Gender, Race, and Salary) are automatically turned on for new accounts and customers using the HRIS Connector, making it easier to start analyzing demographic data from day one. Released May 30th.
    Help Center article 💡: Populate Demographic Attributes
  • [Manager Products: Kona] 🐾 NEW: Kona by 15Five is here: Kona is your AI-powered coaching assistant that joins 1-on-1s, takes notes, generates action items, and delivers personalized coaching tips—helping managers grow in the flow of work. Released May 21st.
    Help Center article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
    Help Center article 💡: Kona by 15Five: Setup and Support Guide
  • [HR Outcomes Dashboard] Performance Outcome is now automated: The Performance Outcome in the HR Outcomes Dashboard is now fully automated—automatically including recent review cycles, intelligently assigning performance designations, and providing live coverage insights. Released May 20th.
    Help Center article 💡: Configure the HR Outcomes Dashboard
    Help Center article 💡: Measure Performance Using the HR Outcomes Dashboard
April 2025 Releases
  • [Best-Self Review®] HR Admins now have Review Admin permissions by default: HR Admins automatically receive Review Admin permissions, allowing them to create, manage, and view review cycles without manual configuration. Released April 21st.
    Help Center article 💡:     What to Expect: I'm an HR Admin
    Help Center article 💡:     Manage Review Admins
  • New navigation experience launched in 15Five: The redesigned sidebar makes it easier to navigate by focus areas—like Outcomes, Surveys, and Performance—so you can take action faster. Released April 11th.
    Help Center article 💡: Navigating 15Five
  • [Engagement] Controlled results access for Engagement: Preview what a teammate will see before sharing results and selectively release results based on individual, access level, or group to maintain confidentiality. Admins can now also choose during campaign setup whether results should be released automatically or shared manually with specific individuals. Released April 9th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an Engagement Campaign
    Help Center article 💡:     Preview Engagement results as another person
    Help Center article 💡: Share engagement campaign results
  • [Engagement] Benchmarks by industry, size, and region added to Engagement: Compare your engagement, eNPS, and statement scores to similar companies for sharper, more relevant insights. Released April 4th.
    Help Center article 💡: Benchmarking in Engagement Campaign Results
March 2025 Releases
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Preview Lifecycle Survey Recipients: Admins can now preview who will receive a Lifecycle Survey during setup or in the campaign summary. Released March 31st.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Set Manager Visibility for Lifecycle Surveys: Control whether managers can see responses for their direct reports—improving data governance and trust. Released March 31st.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Drag & Drop Lifecycle Survey Questions: Reorder Lifecycle Survey questions easily with a drag-and-drop interface during setup. Released March 25th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Send Lifecycle Surveys to Specific Groups: Target surveys more precisely by selecting specific groups or excluding others. Released March 17th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Engagement] Access Engagement Survey Templates from Lifecycle: Launch Engagement surveys faster using templates directly from the Lifecycle Surveys interface. Released March 17th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create a Lifecycle Survey
  • [Engagement and Lifecycle Surveys] New Navigation for Surveys: Engagement and Lifecycle Surveys are now housed under a single “Surveys” menu in the main nav.
    Help Center article 💡: Navigating 15Five
February 2025 Releases
  • [Engagement] Create engagement campaigns in 15Five: New engagement campaigns are now created directly in 15Five, rather than in the legacy Engage Portal. Released February 28th.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an engagement campaign
  • [Engagement] New campaigns no longer appear in the Engage Portal: The campaigns list in the Engage Portal is now frozen—new campaigns will only be visible in 15Five (Surveys > Engagement). Released February 28th.
  • [Engagement] Campaign change history moved to 15Five: The “Campaign change history” tab is now located in 15Five to support easier access and tracking. Released February 28th.
    Help Center article 💡: View my engagement campaign change history
  • [Engagement] Legacy Engage login page deprecated: Users now access Engagement exclusively through the main 15Five app via the left-hand navigation. Released February 28th.
    Help Center article 💡: Navigating 15Five
  • [Engagement] Track Engagement Survey Progress: Monitor real-time survey-wide participation and compare response rates across groups. Released February 12th.
    Help Center article 💡: Track engagement campaign response rates
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] 🌟 NEW: Lifecycle Surveys: Collect feedback across the employee journey—onboarding, milestones, and exit. Released February 6th.
    Help Center article 💡: Lifecycle Surveys: Feature Overview
  • [Engagement] Update which employees receive engagement surveys in bulk: We added a new "receiving_surveys" field to bulk import CSVs, allowing you to easily control which employees are included in engagement campaigns. Released February 4th.
    Help Center article 💡: Bulk import or update people
  • [Engagement] Control the visibility of open-text feedback: Admins can now choose whether open-text engagement responses are visible to all results viewers or only admins. Released February 3rd.
    Help Center article 💡: Configure Engagement Feature Settings
January 2025 Releases
  • [Actions] Managers Can Modify Target Groups for Action Plans: Managers can edit who their plan targets—including individuals, teams, or groups. Released January 31st.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an Action Plan
  • [Actions and Engagement] Recommended Actions Based on Engagement Results: 15Five now recommends actions when drafting Action Plans from survey insights. Released January 23rd.
    Help Center article 💡: Create an Action Plan based on engagement survey results
  • [Engagement] No legacy reporting for new campaigns: Legacy reporting options are no longer available for engagement campaigns that begin on or after January 20th. Reports for campaigns launched before that date remain accessible. Released January 20th.
    Help Center article 💡: Analyze engagement campaign results
  • [Engagement] Manage organization, people, and group settings in 15Five: Settings previously managed in the Engage Portal—like organization details, employees, and groups—are now managed directly in 15Five. Released January 20th.
    Help Center article 💡: Configure Engagement feature settings
  • [Manager Products: Coaching] Reschedule 1:1 Coaching Sessions: Managers can now reschedule Transform coaching sessions directly in 15Five. Released January 17th.
    Help Center article 💡: Change details for an upcoming 1:1 coaching session
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