Teamper Reviews is now live. It gives small companies a structured way to run employee reviews — templates, scheduled cycles, self-reviews, and reviewer feedback — without adopting a full performance-management system.
The problem with how small companies run reviews today
Most small companies handle reviews one of two ways, and neither fits well.
The first is spreadsheets, shared docs, and email reminders. It works for one review cycle. By the second or third, questions have drifted, feedback is scattered across threads, and nobody has a clear record of what was said or when. Admin work grows quietly in the background, and structure disappears exactly when it matters most — as the team grows.
The second is buying performance-management software built for much larger organisations. These platforms solve the structure problem, but they bring competency frameworks, calibration tools, and configuration most small teams will never use. You end up managing the tool as much as the review process itself.
Teamper Reviews is built for the space between these two — enough structure to be repeatable, without the weight of a system designed for a 500-person HR team.
How it works
Reviews follows a simple three-part model:
Review Template — defines the questions used across future reviews. Set it up once, reuse it every cycle.
Review Cycle — one scheduled round of reviews. Choose the review period, then assign participants, reviewees, and reviewers.
Review — the individual workflow between one reviewee and one reviewer, from self-review through to completed feedback.
That's the whole model. No extra layers, no separate module to learn for each step.
What's included in V1
- Reusable review templates, so the same question set carries across every cycle instead of being rebuilt each time.
- Scheduled review cycles, where admins set the period and assign who's involved.
- Self-reviews, so employees can reflect and submit their own responses before feedback comes in.
- Reviewer feedback, with question-level responses and ratings where configured.
- A clear review lifecycle — planned, active, submitted, incomplete, completed, closed — so anyone can see exactly where a review stands.
- Role-based access, so each participant sees only the information appropriate to them.
- Inbox and email notifications, including alerts when new reviewer feedback is available.
- Admin roster management, for assigning reviewees and reviewers as cycles are set up.
- Deadline handling for reviews that run past their due date.
- Optional module access — Reviews is off by default and can be switched on when a company is ready for it.
Spreadsheets vs performance-management software vs Teamper Reviews
| Spreadsheets & forms | Heavy performance-management software | Teamper Reviews | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Low, but rebuilt every cycle | High — configuration, training, rollout | Low — build a template once, reuse it |
| Consistency across cycles | Drifts over time | Consistent, but rigid | Consistent by design |
| Visibility into status | Manual chasing | Full, but often more than needed | Clear lifecycle, no extra layers |
| Admin work per cycle | High | Moderate to high | Low |
| Built for | Ad hoc use | Large HR teams | Lean, growing teams |
Why this matters for growing teams
Reviews are one of the first processes that breaks quietly as a company grows. What worked with eight people — a shared doc and a few reminders — doesn't hold at twenty-five. The instinct is often to solve this by adding a bigger system. Teamper Reviews takes the other path: enough structure to make reviews repeatable and easy to track, without asking a small team to manage a platform built for a much bigger one.
It sits alongside PTO as part of the same idea — employee operations that stay lean as the team grows, not heavier.
FAQ
What is a Review Cycle in Teamper? A Review Cycle is one scheduled round of reviews. Admins set the review period and assign which employees and reviewers take part. A single Review Template can be reused across many cycles.
Do employees complete their own reviews? Yes. Each review includes a self-review step, where the employee submits their own responses before or alongside reviewer feedback.
Can reviewers rate responses, or only write comments? Both. Reviewer feedback includes question-level responses, with ratings where the template is configured to use them.
What happens if a review isn't completed on time? Teamper tracks deadlines and marks overdue reviews as incomplete, so admins can see exactly which reviews need follow-up instead of chasing manually.
Is Reviews included by default? No. Reviews is an optional module. Companies can enable it when they're ready to run structured reviews, without it affecting how PTO or other parts of Teamper work.
Try it
Reviews is available now as an optional module. If your team is still running reviews through spreadsheets or emails, this is a lighter way to make the process repeatable — without adopting software built for a company ten times your size.
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