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What's New in 15Five: Product Releases

Ashlyn Wright
15Five Knowledge Team

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.

Release Year: 2026 

By Date By Feature
February 2026 Releases
  • [Navigation]: We have revamped the main navigation in 15Five, and added a new finder tool to be able to quickly find the page you need. Instead of having to navigate to various navigation bars to find what you need, everything is all in one left-side bar. For those that would like to have more time before using the new navigation, there is an option to revert back to the old navigation until March 30th, 2026. You can then introduce the new navigation at a later time, by March 30th.  Released February 11th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Submit 15Five Product Feedback
  • [Home] Amaya: Amaya is an AI-powered assistant within 15Five that helps HR leaders and people teams understand what’s happening across their organization and why .By asking natural-language questions, you can explore data across 15Five, combining people signals and product knowledge to surface insights, identify patterns, and guide next steps. Amaya is designed to reduce manual analysis and interpretation, helping HR leaders move from raw data to clarity faster, while still maintaining transparency into what data is used and how insights are formed.  Released February 11th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Amaya: Feature Overview
  • [Dashboard] New Insights Dashboard: The Insights Dashboard is a curated, narrative-driven experience designed to help HR leaders answer their most important people questions. It starts with clarity and builds toward confident action. Rather than requiring you to explore raw data or decide where to begin, the dashboard presents pre-defined data stories that guide you through what’s happening in your organization and why it matters. Each data story begins with a high-level question that is simple, familiar, and directly tied to outcomes leaders care about. From there, a guided series of prompts adds depth, helping you move from the headline insight into contributing drivers, relevant context, and actionable levers.  Released February 11th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Insights Dashboard: Feature Overview
  • [Review] Review Template Improvements: Question templates, rating formulas, and rubrics now show richer usage information, and templates become editable sooner after a cycle wraps up. Released February 11th.
    • "Used in X cycles" replaces "In Use" badge — Question templates, rating formulas, and rubrics now display the exact number of cycles they've been used in, rather than a simple "In Use" or "Not in Use" label
    • Cycle count visible across views — The count appears on both card and table layouts in the template configuration dashboard
    • Templates editable as soon as a cycle ends — Previously, a question template remained locked for editing until the cycle was fully locked. Now, templates become editable immediately when the cycle ends, so admins can start preparing for the next cycle sooner.
  • Templates editable as soon as a cycle ends — Previously, a question template remained locked for editing until the cycle was fully locked. Now, templates become editable immediately when the cycle ends, so admins can start preparing for the next cycle soon. Released February 10th.
  • [Kona] New Kona Coach Onboarding — We’ve launched a new, streamlined onboarding experience for Kona Coach that’s designed to be simple and seamless. After purchasing the Kona Coach, admins can go to Features → Kona Coach to set up access in just a few clicks: choose who gets access, decide whether Kona is auto-added to calls or controlled by participants, and optionally connect an admin-level calendar. Admin calendar support is now available for Kona Coach, filling a key gap and making onboarding easier for managers. HR users with Kona Coach access can now also test and experience coaching—Kona will join any HR 1:1 to provide meeting notes and coaching tips, which previously wasn’t possible to set up. Released February 7th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
  • [Dashboard] Managers and IC Group Filters: HR Outcomes and Engagement dashboards now include pre-built filters for Managers and Individual Contributors, making it faster to segment data by organizational role without creating custom groups. 
    What's new:
    • "By position" filter group — A new section in the Groups filter dropdown with two ready-to-use options: Managers and Individual Contributors
    • Automatic classification — Managers are identified by having direct reports; all other employees are classified as Individual Contributors
    • Available in HR Outcomes & Engagement — Filters can be applied across both the HR Outcomes Dashboard and Engagement Results
    • Historically accurate — Filters reflect manager/IC status at the time of the event being analyzed (e.g. Engage campaign), not just current status
      Released February 4th.
  • [Review] Question Templates Revamp: A complete rebuild of the question templates experience that makes it faster to find, build, and manage review templates. The new interface introduces a curated Question Bank for drag-and-drop question creation, support for up to 10 custom sections per template, flexible self-only and manager-only configurations within a single template, and streamlined list views with search, filtering, and in-flow previews. Admins can now archive unused templates, add rich text descriptions with attachments, and manage everything with fewer clicks. Released February 2nd.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create a custom question template

  • [Review] Edit Question Short Names in the Talent Matrix: Cycle admins can now create and edit question short names directly from the Talent Matrix within Calibration sessions—no extra navigation required. A new “Edit question short names” option is available in the question dropdown inside the Calibration Talent Matrix, making updates faster and more intuitive. This experience is consistent with Team and Company Results, using the same familiar short-name edit modal, now seamlessly integrated into the Calibration workflow. Released: February 2nd
    Help Center Article: How to run a calibration session in 15Five

January 2026 Releases
  • [Review] Review Results: View participants by PMA response: View exactly which participants selected each PMA response in Best-Self Review® results by clicking into stacked bar chart segments. This makes it easier to move beyond aggregate data and take more informed, targeted action. Released January 30th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Analyze Review Results: Private Manager Assessment Reporting
  • [Review] New Settings Step in Review Cycle Creation Wizard: The review cycle creation wizard now includes a new Settings step that brings key configuration choices into the main setup flow, helping admins review and confirm details before launching. This dedicated step surfaces visibility, peer review, upward review, and feedback release settings with clear, at-a-glance summaries of current values. Admins can also make changes inline by selecting Edit on any section, and settings only appear when relevant-so, for example, peer review options display only if peer reviews are included in the cycle. Released January 29th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle
  • [Review] Extended Character Limit for Opinion Scale Descriptions: Opinion scale labels in Best-Self Review® opinion scales can now include descriptions up to 500 characters, giving admins more space to clarify what each rating represents. To support longer text, tooltips shown during review fill out are now wider (350px instead of 200px), making the expanded descriptions easier to read
    at a glance. Released January 28th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create a custom answer template for performance
  • [Review] Reviews Ul Simplification: We've streamlined the review cycle creation experience and ratings formula screens with clearer, more concise language to make setup faster and easier to understand. As part of this update, step names have been simplified-"Review milestones" is now labeled Timeline, and "Review participants" is now Participants—to better reflect their purpose. Review type descriptions for Self, Manager, Peer, and Upward reviews have been shortened and made more scannable, while "Performance ratings formula" has been renamed to Ratings formula across all screens for consistency. In addition, pro tips and guidance content have been refreshed with clearer explanations and improved formatting to help admins move through setup with greater
    confidence. Released January 27th.
  • [Review] View Participants from Review Summary: Admins can now see exactly who's included in a review cycle without leaving the summary step. When creating or editing a cycle, the summary now shows the total participant count, and a new View participants link opens a drawer with the full list-making it faster to confirm participation at a glance. Released January 27th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle
  • [Review] Clearer Column Labels in Review Progress Export:
    Column headers in the review progress spreadsheet export now use “not started” instead of “unsubmitted” (for example, “Self reviews not started” rather than “Unsubmitted self reviews”). This update applies across all review types, including self, peer, upward, manager, and additional manager reviews. The change makes review status easier to understand at a glance—“not started” more clearly indicates reviews that haven’t been begun, while “unsubmitted” could be mistaken for reviews that are already in progress but not yet submitted. Released January 24th.
  • [Review] Customizable Performance Designation Mappings: HR admins can now customize how review answers and rubric levels map to Top/Middle/Bottom performance designations, with real-time counts and a live preview of employee distribution before saving changes. This ensures performance insights in the HR Outcomes Dashboard accurately reflect each organization’s unique standards, rather than a fixed, one-size-fits-all scale. Released January 13th.
  • [Admin] Employee Impersonation: HR Admins can now securely view 15Five from an employee’s perspective using read-only, privacy-safe impersonation. This makes it easier to troubleshoot issues, support onboarding, and validate workflows without accessing private content or taking actions on behalf of employees. Released January 19th.
    Help Center Article 💡:User Impersonation in 15Five
  • [Admin] "Reviewer" → "Manager": All references to Reviewer now display as Manager throughout the platform. Released January 16th.
  • [Review] File Attachments in Review Answers: Best-Self Reviews now support file attachments directly within responses, making it easier to provide richer, more contextual feedback. Released January 13th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Submit my self-review
  • [Review] 15Five Recommended Performance Ratings Formula and Rubric: All companies now have a pre-configured performance ratings formula and rubric, making it easier to launch performance reviews without starting from scratch. This includes the 15Five Recommended Performance Rubric, a 3-tier rating scale (Above Level: 80–100, At Level: 31–79, Below Level: 0–30), and the 15Five Performance Framework, a ratings formula linked to our recommended Self & Manager Review template. Released January 10th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and manage performance ratings formulas
  • [Engagement] Engagement Results: Filter open-text feedback by statements: Filter open-text feedback in Engagement survey results by custom statements, allowing you to view sentiment (Positive, Negative, Neutral, Mixed) for individual questions. This makes it easier to analyze how specific topics are resonating and quickly identify areas that may need attention. Released January 9th.
    Help Center Article :bulb:: Analyze Engagement Results: Feedback Report
  • [Review] Performance Ratings Formula Builder: Set exact percentages for Self and Manager Review weights with simple number inputs. Clearer step names and guidance make it easier to understand settings and their impact on ratings. Released January 8.
    Help Center Article 💡: Performance Ratings+ Overview

Release Year: 2025

By MonthBy Feature
December 2025 Releases

  • [Review] Kickoff Email Setup During Cycle Creation: Kickoff email settings have moved from Advanced Settings to an auto-expanded step in the cycle creation flow, making it easier for admins to review and decide how or if the cycle is communicated. Released December 31.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle

  • [Review] Cloning draft question templates in Reviews: Draft question templates can now be cloned, this removes an artificial restriction and lets admins freely duplicate draft question templates, iterate on them, and build out all templates for different review types while templates are in draft state. Released December 29.
    Help Center Article 💡: How to clone and edit a question template in Best-Self Review®

  • [Tools Check-in] Check-in questions no longer live under the Settings (gear) menu: We’ve updated navigation so you won’t see “Check-in questions” in the Settings dropdown anymore. Released December 18.
    Help Center Article 💡: Manage Check-in questions

  • [Review] Review Milestones Calendar Changes: We have a quick update after our recent milestone calendar release. Now you will select the start and end dates for your cycle vs cycle duration, and have the option to toggle the between a calendar and date list view when selecting milestone dates. Released December 18.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle

  • [Review] Updated billing logic for review cycle participants: We’ve updated how billing works for users participating in review cycles to make setup more flexible while ensuring accurate billing. Users no longer need to be billable before being added to a review cycle—invited and newly created users will automatically convert to billable status once they participate in a cycle. To prevent billing inconsistencies, billing changes are locked while a user is active in a review cycle. This update applies to all accounts and helps streamline review setup without disrupting billing accuracy. Released December 17.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle

  • [Review] Default visibility for Best-Self Review and PMA: New 15Five accounts now start with updated default visibility for Best-Self Review® and PMA to better support manager and hierarchy access from day one. Reviews now default to Hierarchy visibility, and PMA visibility for the manager hierarchy is ON by default, so managers and managers-of-managers can automatically view Reviews and PMAs for their reporting chain. This aligns with how most organizations expect review visibility to work, making first-time setup more intuitive and reducing the need for manual configuration. Existing customers aren’t affected—these defaults apply only to newly created accounts, and visibility settings can still be adjusted anytime. Released December 12.
    Help Center Article 💡: Configure Best-Self Review® feature settings

  • [Review] Review Milestones Calendar: Review admins can now configure milestones in a clean calendar view, drag + drop dates to edit, auto-resolve errors, and download PNG/PDF timelines for easy sharing. Released December 10.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create and launch a review cycle

  • [Calibrations] Multi-Section Review Insights: Calibration sessions now support selecting multiple review sections at once, making it easier to compare and evaluate talent holistically. Facilitators can choose several sections and see all corresponding answers displayed together in both the Talent Matrix and the Answers table. This improvement removes the limitation of viewing one section at a time and enables richer, cross-section insights during calibration conversations. Released December 6.
    Help Center Article 💡: How to run a calibration session in 15Five

  • [Action Plan] Download Action Plans: You can now download Action Plans directly from the Action Plan menu, making it easier to review, share, and store progress. The new Download option appears for Action Plans that are in progress, completed, or archived. Downloads follow existing visibility rules, and any user who can view an Action Plan can download it—no extra permissions required. The exported file includes key details like action description, type, owner, impacted person, and all relevant dates. Released December 3rd.
    Help Center Article 💡: Action Plans: Tool Overview
  • [Admin] Quick Help Panel/Resource Center: In our new Quick Help panel, you can view various ways to connect with 15Five, designed to get you in contact with the best expert for the help you need. In our Quick Help panel you can quickly start a live chat, schedule a live call with an expert, get quick links to detailed articles, see recent releases, and provide our Product Team feedback. Released December 2nd. 
    Help Center Article 💡: Contact 15Five
November 2025 Releases
  • [Engage] Engage Notifications Enhancements: Engage campaign notifications—invites, reminders, and final reminders—can now be delivered via Slack. Notification copy across email, SMS, and Slack is fully customizable at the global or campaign level, including rich text editing for email and Slack. This gives admins more control, improves visibility, and supports higher participation. Released November 27th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Create an engagement campaign
  • [Kona] Kona Recording: We now rely solely on meeting captions from Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. This eliminates recording notifications and enhances privacy. Kona only uses transcriptions and does not have access to meeting recordings. This update addresses the primary privacy concern customers raise regarding Kona. Released November 22nd.
    Help Center Article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
  • [Engage] Smarter sentiment analysis in Engage open text Feedback: Sentiment detection for open text comments in engagement campaigns just got smarter — it’s now sharper, more accurate, and context-aware. With this update, sentiment generation for all open text responses has been improved, providing more precise classifications as positive, negative, mixed, or unavailable. The analysis now takes into account both the answer text and the corresponding question response (for example, eNPS score + comment) to determine the true sentiment. This enhancement ensures stronger alignment between what’s written by employees and what’s displayed in the app, offering HR teams deeper and more reliable insights into engagement feedback. Released November 18th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Analyze Engagement Results: Feedback Report
  • [Feedback] HR admin controls for Feedback: HR Admins now have expanded access to feedback across the entire company. Once this feature is enabled, they can view all real-time and historical feedback requests and responses in one place. In addition, HR Admins can now download feedback data directly from the Feedback page in CSV or XLSX format, making it easier than ever to analyze and share insights across the organization. Released November 12th.
    Help Center Article 💡: Configure Feedback feature settings
  • [Lifecycle Surveys] Download Lifecycle Survey Answers: HR admins can now download answers from any Lifecycle Survey directly from the Overview page. The export includes: Employee data (Name, Title, Email), Responder data (Name, Email), Submitted date, Perspective (Employee or Manager), All questions and answer (including text responses). This gives admins flexibility to analyze Lifecycle data in their own tools and uncover deeper insights with ease. Released November 3rd.
    Help Center Article 💡: Configure Feedback feature settings
October 2025 Releases
  • [Kona] Kona Meeting Assistant: The new, fully integrated AI assistant for 15Five Total Platform and Perform turns weekly 1:1 conversations into fair, accurate, and fast performance reviews, directly tackling workflow friction, manager effectiveness, and feedback bias to boost employee productivity. Released October 31st.
    Help Center Article 💡: Kona: Feature Overview
  • [Engage] Improved Group and Attribute Accuracy: Engage now includes group and attribute updates made on the campaign’s end date in final results. By using segments from one day after the campaign ends, late changes are automatically captured — ensuring data is clearer, more accurate, and up to date without the need for manual fixes. Released: October 31st.
  • [Engage] Introducing Drivers in Engagement Campaigns: We’re making it easier than ever to understand what’s really driving engagement in your organization. The new Drivers tab in Engagement Campaigns helps you see engagement through the lens of key themes — things like Feedback, Autonomy, and Psychological Safety — before diving deeper into individual statements. Released October 29th.
    Help Center Article💡: Engagement drivers
  • [Engage] Engagement Flow Confidentiality Rules: Now, confidentiality rules in Engagement Flow reporting to better protect employee anonymity. Specifically, flow lines between campaigns will now be hidden when the number of new participants or employees who left falls below the organization’s confidentiality threshold (3–5 people). Released October 24th. 
    Help Center Article 💡: Analyze Engagement Results: Engagement Report
  • [Review] Hire Date Filtering Now Fully Excludes Review Participants: When using the “Filter participants by hire date range” option in reviews, excluded new hires are now fully removed from the review cycle. They will no longer have reviews written about them or be assigned to write reviews of others. Released October 23rd.  
    Help Center article 💡: Create a review cycle
  • [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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