SAAS FOUNDERS
Saas founders: deadlines slip. Engineers quit. Your 1:1s never saw it coming.
Now you can prove it.
You know something’s off. The standups sound fine. The green dots are on. But the feature that should’ve shipped two weeks ago is still “almost done,” and three people have quietly left this year. The answers are in your Slack, your email, your Zoom calls. You just don’t have time to find them. We do.
- ✓ See exactly who's shipping and who's faking it, with scored reports and detailed evidence every week
- ✓ Spot resignation signals before your engineers hand in their notice
- ✓ Uncover toxic employees, hidden top performers, and team dysfunction within weeks, not quarters
THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT YOU HEAR AND WHAT'S HAPPENING:
Your lead engineer, Monday standup:
“Sprint’s on track. Should ship by Friday.”
Two engineers stopped responding on Slack 9 days ago. Response times doubled. The feature will slip, and you won’t know until it does.
Your engineering manager, weekly 1:1:
Three engineers’ Slack activity dropped sharply this month. Two stopped answering messages and started skipping at least one standup every week. “Heads down” means checked out.
Your VP of sales, last week's all-hands:
Your best sales rep stopped following up with prospects. Close rates dropped. Two deals went cold this quarter.
These aren’t bad people. They just can’t tell you what’s really happening in a standup.
can.
THE GAP BETWEEN YOUR STANDUPS AND
REALITY
What You're Working With Now
- Standup updates where everyone says “on track”
- Annual reviews based on whatever your managers can remember from the last 12 months
- 1:1s where the answer is always “things are fine”
- Two-week notices that tell you what went wrong after it’s too late to fix
- A gut feeling that something’s wrong but no way to prove it
What You Get Every Monday
- Performance scores for every employee, updated weekly
- Flight risk alerts before your engineers give notice
- Who’s doing the work vs. who’s getting the credit
- Toxic behavior flagged with names, timestamps, and specific examples
- Team health scored weekly so you fix problems before three people quit over them
- Clear next steps so you spend Monday mornings acting, not guessing
Here's Exactly
How PERFORMANCEX WORKS
FOR SAAS COMPANIES
Every Slack message, Zoom call, and email your team sends already tells the story. We show you what it means every Monday.
We Connect
15 Minutes
Connect your existing tools: Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Asana, HubSpot and Everhour. No disruption to your agents or your clients. No IT team needed.
AI Analyzes
Last 90 Days
PerformanceX analyses the last 90 days of your team’s Slack messages, emails, and Zoom or Teams meetings at your SaaS company, and gives you a baseline for each person. Your first report lands on the next weekly run after setup. You read it and see what you have been missing.
Clarity Delivered
Every Monday
A report lands in your inbox showing exactly who’s thriving, who’s struggling, and what needs your attention. With specific examples and timestamps. No more guessing. No more 2am anxiety spirals.
PDF GUIDE
The Real Cost of Not Knowing What Your Team Is Doing
Free SaaS Founders Guide
The Trust Tax: What It Really Costs When You Can't See What Your Team Is Doing
PDF GUIDE
The Real Cost of Not Knowing What Your Team Is Doing
Why slow responses to prospects quietly kill conversion rates
The hidden “mirror effect” where one disengaged teammate drags entire product or revenue teams down
A worksheet to calculate your company’s real Trust Tax in churn, missed deals, and stalled product execution
Works With the Tools You Already Use
FROM BLIND SPOTS TO FULL PICTURE:
That customer who called, emailed, then hired your competitor? Now you’ll know exactly where the ball got dropped.
What You Have
What You See
Monday Report:
- Sarah: Hung up on 3 calls.
- Mike: Ignored urgent email.
- Tom: Offered side job.
15-Minute Setup
Connect once
Email, chat and meetings
Email, chat and meetings
No New Apps
Works with what you have
The Always-On Retrospective for Your SAAS BUSINESS
A retrospective means looking back at what happened to improve going forward. PerformanceX analyzes your team’s communications and delivers weekly reports. Never miss what matters, never waste time guessing.
Real-time:
Weekly:
One PDF per employee with scores, examples, and next steps.
Bi-weekly:
Which problems you fixed and which ones got worse since last Monday.
Monthly:
A month of evidence on every employee, ready if you need to act.
YOU BUILT A PRODUCT COMPANY. STOP SPENDING HALF YOUR TIME ON PEOPLE PROBLEMS.
Your job is product, growth, and fundraising. Not mediating conflicts, chasing status updates, and wondering who’s about to quit. Get the clarity to lead your team, not babysit it.
Report Breakdown
Page 1
Red alerts
Who needs immediate attention this week
Pages 2-10
Individual Scorecards
Performance scores for every employee
Pages 11-15
Good Behaviors
Wins worth recognizing and reinforcing
Appendix
Conversation Excerpts
Key conversation excerpts that support each finding
Example insights
Jake
Answered an after-hours message from a colleague who was stuck, with practical next steps
Mike
Replied to a client with we will get to it when we can, then no follow-up for 72 hours
Sarah
Rushed through five client requests with a promise to follow up later
Tom
PDF in your inbox at 6AM. Print it. Read it over coffee. Know exactly what to do by lunch.
Questions SaaS Founders Ask
How do I know if my engineers are shipping or just looking busy?
Your engineers are on Slack all day. Green dots are on. Standups sound fine. But the feature that was due last Friday still isn’t done. PerformanceX shows you who’s writing code, who’s resolving blockers, and who’s spending their day in side conversations that go nowhere. You see response times, collaboration frequency, and weekly output scored against the rest of the team. No more guessing who’s contributing and who’s performing for the camera.
My engineering manager says the team is fine. How do I verify that?
Managers filter. It’s not malicious. They want to look good, they want to protect their people, and they don’t always have full visibility themselves. PerformanceX gives you the same data your manager has, plus everything they can’t see: how their team communicates when they’re not in the room, who’s disengaging, and whether “fine” means productive or just quiet.
I think one of my senior engineers is doing the bare minimum. Can PerformanceX show me?
Yes. We score every employee weekly based on their communication and collaboration activity across Slack, email, Zoom, and your project tools. If your senior engineer’s output, responsiveness, and peer collaboration have dropped, you’ll see it in Week 2 with specific examples and timestamps. Not a gut feeling. Proof.
Is my VP of Sales underperforming or are market conditions really that tough?
PerformanceX analyzes your sales team’s email follow-up times, call frequency, prospect responsiveness, and close behaviors. If your VP is blaming the market but their team stopped following up with warm leads three weeks ago, you’ll see it. If market conditions genuinely shifted and your team is working harder than ever, you’ll see that too. Either way, you stop guessing.
I have 1:1s every week. I already know what's going on.
You know what they tell you in 1:1s. That’s not the same thing. When your engineer says “everything’s fine,” PerformanceX shows you if that’s true. One founder told us “I know my team inside and out.” In the first report, he discovered his most trusted manager had been taking credit for a junior’s architecture work for 8 months. The data shows what 1:1s can’t.
Why do my best engineers keep leaving?
Because they’re tired of covering for people who aren’t pulling their weight, and nobody seems to notice. Your 10x engineers don’t quit over salary. They quit when accountability disappears. PerformanceX shows you who’s carrying the load so you can fix the imbalance before your best people start taking recruiter calls.
I know this employee is a problem, but I can't prove it.
This is the number one reason founders reach out to us. You feel it in every meeting. But when you try to explain it to your co-founder or your lawyer, you’ve got nothing concrete. PerformanceX gives you timestamped evidence: declining response times, dropped collaboration, negative interactions, missed commitments. You go from “I think” to “here’s exactly what happened on Tuesday at 2pm.”
How do I document performance issues for termination?
PerformanceX generates weekly performance reports with scored metrics, specific examples, and timestamps for every employee. If you need to let someone go, you already have months of documented evidence showing the decline, the conversations that happened, and the chances they were given.
Won't my team freak out about being monitored?
PerformanceX isn’t hidden, and it’s not surveillance. Every employee gets a weekly scorecard with wins, areas to improve, and clear next steps. Managers get the same report plus team-level insights. Your best engineer won’t tell you they’re burned out from covering for a teammate. Your manager won’t admit two people on their team can’t stand each other. PerformanceX gives you the same visibility you already have into your product metrics and your pipeline. Your people deserve that same level of attention. The result? Problems get addressed in real time instead of piling up.
Can AI really evaluate my employees fairly?
PerformanceX doesn’t make judgments. It shows you what happened, when, and between whom. Every score is based on observable, measurable activity: response times, collaboration frequency, follow-through on commitments, peer interactions. There’s no personality bias, no recency bias, no “who’s loudest in the meeting” bias. The AI reads the data. You make the decisions. That’s fairer than any annual review your managers have ever written.
Isn't this a bit much for a 30-person startup?
At 30 people, this matters most. Every single person has an outsized impact on culture, shipping speed, and retention. A single toxic employee drives turnover and leaves the teammates around them checked out. At your size, you can’t absorb those losses. But you can see them coming.
What tools does PerformanceX integrate with for SaaS companies?
Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Asana, HubSpot and Everhour. If your team communicates through it, we read it.
What if some of my team uses personal devices?
PerformanceX monitors company-owned tools and accounts, not personal devices. If your engineers use company Slack, company email, and company Zoom, we analyze all of it. If someone does all their work through a personal phone and a personal Gmail account, we won’t have visibility into that activity.
How long until I see results?
Your first report lands on the next weekly run after setup, with a baseline for each employee. After full deployment, your first weekly reports land the following Monday. Most founders tell us the first report alone changes how they think about their team. Each week you get a complete picture of who’s thriving, who’s struggling, and what needs your attention.