Private preview · For managers & team leads
Reviews built from evidence, not memory.
Aploma is where you keep the weekly record of every person on your team. Log each 1:1 in a couple of minutes — and it becomes the evidence behind their review, development plan and salary decision.
In private preview — a few teams at a time. No sales call.
The problem
Most reviews are written the week they're due.
Six months of someone's work, reconstructed from memory on a deadline. Everyone involved can feel it.
Recency bias
Half a year gets compressed into the last few weeks anyone remembers. Early wins quietly disappear.
Notes nobody re-reads
1:1 notes are scattered across docs, Slack DMs and memory — so agreed actions slip and every 1:1 starts cold.
A framework in a deck
Levels and values exist on a slide but never touch a real conversation, so promotion cases come down to gut feel.
How it works
A little every week. Nothing to rewrite at review time.
Everything is measured against your company's own framework — its levels, values and impact areas — so each cycle builds on the last instead of starting from a blank page.
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Every week
Capture the 1:1
What shipped, what was hard, what you agreed. Each piece of evidence is tagged to your framework, and open action items carry into the next 1:1.
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Every month · every half-year
Roll it up
Checkups and performance reviews link the evidence you already have instead of retyping it. Trends show up early — not at review time.
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When it counts
Decide with a trail
Promotion, development plan, salary: each decision comes with the record that supports it — one you can share with the person it's about.
What's inside
Everything a manager's week needs, in one place.
Built for anyone who leads a team and runs 1:1s — engineering, product, design, sales or support — with roughly 3 to 15 people.
Cadence at a glance
See who is overdue for a 1:1, a checkup or a review — today, not the week it's late.
Actions that carry over
What you agreed in a 1:1 follows into the next one until it's actually done.
Development plans
Goals move from planned to demonstrated, each one backed by the evidence that proves it.
Calibration grid
Everyone on the team against the same criteria on one screen, before the calibration meeting rather than during it.
Shared with your team
Each person sees the notes you choose to share about them, read-only — so the review holds no surprises.
Your framework, not ours
Bring your own levels, values and impact areas. Cadences and thresholds adjust to how your company works.
Why it exists
Built by an engineering manager who ran 1:1s off a weekly changelog for years. Aploma is that practice, made into a tool — so the evidence is already there when the decision is due.
Aploma is in private preview.
Tell us a little about your team and how you run 1:1s today. We'll reach out when there's a spot.