AI-Assisted Reviews helps you write your self review by gathering evidence from your work as Moments and drafting answers for eligible open-text questions. Every draft is yours to edit, rewrite, or replace, and 15Five AI never submits your review for you.
If your organization uses the legacy review experience, see Submit your self review in a performance review cycle.
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Before you begin
- An admin must have selected AI-Assisted Reviews as the review experience for this cycle, and you must be included in the drafting audience configured for it.
- You must be a participant with a self review assigned in an active cycle.
Steps
- Select Reviews in the left navigation.
- Open the active review cycle.
- Select your self review to begin.
- On the entry page, choose how you want to start:
- Start drafting. 15Five AI generates answers for eligible open-text questions before you enter the review.
- Write it myself. Those answers begin blank. This does not turn AI-Assisted Reviews off. You can still draft individual answers later, use the review assistant, open the Context library, add context, and redraft.
The entry page can call out questions where there may not be enough context to draft from. You can address those gaps up front or handle them when you reach the question.
- Work through each question. Read what is there, then edit it in your own voice.
- Use the Context library to see what an answer is grounded in and to add more. It brings together Moments, 15Five Data, Notes, Files, My Context, and Company Context. Your existing permissions still apply, so you only see what you already have access to.
- Use the review assistant when you want help with a specific answer. You can ask 15Five AI to make an answer more specific, shorten or restructure it, clarify a growth area, check for bias, identify what may be missing, focus on a particular project or outcome, or improve something you drafted yourself.
- If an answer has no draft or not enough to work from, add a Note, add a File as context, review 15Five Data for a relevant record, include another applicable Moment, or write the answer yourself. You can also add context and ask 15Five AI to draft again.
- Select every required rating yourself. 15Five AI does not choose ratings.
- Submit your self review when you are ready.
What you should see
Your status on the cycle overview page updates to Submitted. Your responses are no longer editable unless a review admin re-opens your review.
Tips for a stronger self review
- Do not accept a draft as-is. 15Five AI gives you a starting point. Your voice and judgment make it yours.
- Use Moments as evidence anchors. When you claim an accomplishment, check that a Moment backs it up.
- Add what the system cannot see. Work in an unconnected tool, or context from before your review period, is a good candidate for a Note or a File in My Context.
If something goes wrong
- A draft is there but inaccurate, weak, or focused on the wrong work. See Troubleshoot: An AI draft is inaccurate or emphasizes the wrong thing.
- Part of a draft has no citation and you cannot tell what it drew on. See Why can't I see where part of an AI draft came from?
- Fewer Moments appear than you expected. See Troubleshoot: A review has fewer Moments than expected.
Not covered here
This article does not cover manager reviews or the conversation guide, which is available to your manager after both the self review and the manager review have been submitted.