This guide explains what to expect when you write your self review in a cycle using AI-Assisted Reviews. 15Five AI gathers evidence from your work and drafts answers for eligible open-text questions. You decide what is accurate and what to keep, and 15Five AI never submits your review for you.
In This Guide
- What stays in your hands
- What 15Five AI drafts from
- How writing works
- What happens after you submit
What stays in your hands
- 15Five AI drafts open-text questions. It does not choose ratings.
- Every draft can be edited, rewritten, or removed. There is no requirement that your final answer keep any of the original draft.
- You can choose to write an answer yourself instead of starting from a draft.
- 15Five AI never submits a review. You submit when you are ready.
What 15Five AI drafts from
Evidence from your work is gathered as Moments. Your admin sets a performance period for the cycle, and that period sets the boundary for what can become a Moment. Not everything inside the period becomes one.
Moments can come from connected work tools such as Slack, Jira, Asana, Google Drive, Kona, and others, and from certain 15Five activity including check-ins, objectives, and 1-on-1 activity. Connected work tools are optional.
Some things do not become Moments but can still inform a draft. High Fives are the clearest example: they do not currently produce Moments, but you can include them for a specific question through 15Five Data. If you do not see a High Five show up as a Moment, that is expected.
While writing, you can open 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.
If there is context 15Five does not have, such as work in a tool that is not connected, add it yourself as a Note or a File. It becomes part of what 15Five AI can draft from.
How writing works
When you open your self review, you choose how to start. Start drafting generates answers for eligible open-text questions before you enter the review. Write it myself leaves those answers blank, and does not turn AI-Assisted Reviews off. Either way you can 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, so you can address those gaps up front or handle them when you reach the question.
The review assistant is available while you write. 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 wrote yourself.
For the full walkthrough, see Write a self review with AI-Assisted Reviews.
What happens after you submit
Your manager writes their review of you through the same process, working from evidence about your work rather than memory alone. They select their own ratings, and they complete a preview and final-check step before submitting.
Once both your self review and your manager's review have been submitted, and if conversation guides are enabled for the cycle, your manager gets a conversation guide to help them prepare for the review conversation. From it they can create an Individual Development Plan that writes through to Growth Studio. An IDP is not a Performance Improvement Plan.
Key Rules
- AI drafting applies to self, manager, and additional-manager reviews. Peer and upward reviews can be part of the same cycle, but they do not receive AI drafting, Moments, or review assistant.
- Only work inside the performance period your admin set is eligible to become a Moment.
- Your existing permissions apply inside the Context library.