A weekly rhythm
One-minute check-ins and 1:1s with a shared agenda keep people and managers in touch.
Check-ins that clear obstacles, 1:1s, feedback, pulses, objectives, career paths and reviews in one place, building a record each employee owns. Every input leads somewhere, and managers get a lighter week, not another dashboard.

One-minute check-ins and 1:1s with a shared agenda keep people and managers in touch.
Objectives and career paths show what's next and what counts, backed by evidence.
Feedback, vouches and confidential pulses, with results that come back to people.
One Brief, at most three interruptions a day, and AI assistants that prepare drafts.
Nine connected parts, each built so that what people share comes back to them.
Check-ins
Members share mood, wins and anything in their way. Managers see it, respond and clear the way, so nothing goes into a void.

1:1s
A steady rhythm, topics both people add, and commitments that carry over until they're done.

Feedback
Ask the people who saw your work, let colleagues vouch for what they've seen, and see what your input changed.

Pulses
Short, confidential team questions. People answer from an email in a minute, results appear only once enough people answered, and teams see what changed because of them.

Objectives
Company, team and personal objectives on your own Seasons, with progress that comes from real work.

Career paths
Career tracks describe what each role looks like. People work toward a target role with evidence and their colleagues' vouches.

Self-assessments & readiness reviews
At the end of each Season, people reflect on their objectives before talking with their manager. When someone is close to their next role, a readiness review brings every view together.

Growth Record & recaps
Everything adds up: wins, feedback, recognition and evidence, each with its source. Reviews stop relying on memory.

Analytics
Participation, objectives, help, feedback, careers and celebrations in one view, compared with the last Season and the same time last year.

Managers & HR
Growth is designed around managers' time, and gives the People team what it needs without exposing individuals.

Connected
Each part of Growth feeds the next, and the tools your company already uses stay in the loop.
How one win travels
Obstacles, feedback and pulse requests and their reminders arrive by email in working hours, within a daily limit. Pulses can be answered straight from the email, without signing in.
People ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about their week, their objectives or their next 1:1, and let them prepare check-ins and objective updates. Nothing is saved until they approve it in MeritForge.
Bring in people, teams and managers, import each person's current role from XLS or CSV so career paths start from today, and export pulse results to Excel.
Turn a check-in win into a Spark, use recognition as evidence for objectives and career claims, and let Growth actions earn Honor and XP that count toward Treasury rewards.
Pricing
Growth costs at most $4.25 per seat per month on average, or $5.15 with Recognition, and the average drops as your team grows. The first 10 seats are free in every package.
See all pricesGrowth brings check-ins, 1:1s, feedback, pulse surveys, objectives, career paths, self-assessments and readiness reviews into one place. Every input leads somewhere, everything adds up in a Growth Record each employee owns, and managers get a lighter week instead of another dashboard.
On the team's rhythm (weekly, fortnightly or monthly), people share their mood, a win and anything in their way in about a minute. Mood is shared only with the direct manager and never compared with others. Managers mark check-ins as seen, reply in a short conversation and can take topics to the next 1:1.
The obstacle goes to the manager, who answers it and can commit to an action with a date. If nobody answers, MeritForge sends reminders and can escalate it to the next manager or the People team. Open obstacles are also suggested for the next 1:1, so nothing goes into a void.
Each pair has a steady rhythm and a shared agenda both people add to, with suggested topics such as open obstacles or recent check-ins. There are shared notes, private notes for each person and commitments that carry over until they are done. When a manager is away, a covering manager can run the 1:1s.
Pulses are confidential by design. Results appear only after a minimum number of people have answered, they are shown for the group and never per person, and anyone can choose Prefer not to say. Managers can record an action and share a “You said, we're doing” update, and the next round shows what changed.
Yes. Company, team and personal objectives have key results measured as numbers, thresholds or done and not done, with confidence kept separate from status. Progress can be backed by evidence and colleagues' confirmations, and managers validate objectives at checkpoints and at the end of each Season.
Career tracks describe each role as observable expectations. People choose a target role and show they meet each expectation with evidence and colleagues' vouches, and a reviewer decides. Every role and signature achievement earns an insignia. Ready-made career templates are available in English and Spanish.
Yes, with readiness reviews. The employee reviews themselves first against the target role, up to five colleagues add private input, and the manager rates each expectation with reasons. The review ends in Ready or Not yet, and the manager decides when to share it. At the end of each Season, self-assessments prepare the conversation.
The Growth Record collects each person's wins, feedback, recognition, contributions and evidence, each linked to its source, plus a recap every Season. It has no score or ranking. It is visible to the person, their manager chain and the People team, and the person can see who opened it.
It changes what they rest on. Instead of a once-a-year review written from memory, managers and employees arrive with a Season of check-ins, feedback, objectives and evidence, a self-assessment and, when someone is close to their next role, a readiness review.
Yes. Growth works on its own. If you also use Recognition, check-in wins can become Sparks, recognition can count as evidence, and Growth activities can earn Honor and XP.
Growth is designed around managers' time. Your week and the Manager Brief show what needs each person in one place, items clear themselves once handled, and MeritForge sends at most three interruptions a day. AI assistants can also prepare check-ins and updates for approval.
Free templates
The career frameworks, readiness questions, pulses and feedback templates that come with Growth, free to read and copy.
All free templatesBuild the loop
From weekly check-ins to readiness reviews, every step adds to a record people own, and every role and achievement earns an insignia worth keeping.
Add MeritForge Recognition so wins from check-ins, 1:1s and objectives become Sparks, forged badges and titles, and recognition counts as evidence for growth.