AI Performance Review & Self-Appraisal Writer

About the AI Performance Review & Self-Appraisal Writer

Write a self-appraisal, a manager review, peer feedback or upward feedback from two things you already have: a rating for each competency and your own evidence. Choose the competencies — communication, quality of work, ownership, teamwork, leadership, customer focus, problem solving, adaptability, planning and delivery, job knowledge, or your company’s own — rate each one on a 5, 4 or 3-point scale (with your company’s own rating names if you like), and jot down what happened, one note a line.

Each comment is written as you type, in the situation–behaviour–impact style: an opening that matches the rating, your notes turned into examples in the review’s voice (“Led the migration → finished two weeks early” becomes “For example, Sam led the migration (result: finished two weeks early).”), and a next step. Nothing is invented: where a note is missing the comment says [add an example], and where no result is given, [add the impact]. Choose the voice (“I” for a self-appraisal, “you”, or the person’s name and their pronoun), the tone and the length, and press Another wording for a different phrasing.

The checks read every comment for vague praise (“great job”, “team player”), personality labels (“abrasive”, “stubborn”), gender-coded and age-related words — with the Inclusive Language Checker’s rules and a suggested rewrite — wording that contradicts the rating, a top or bottom rating with no example, and your HR system’s character limit. Add SMART goals for the next period and an overall summary worked out from the ratings. Draft with AI rewrites one comment into polished prose on your own device, from the same rating and notes.

Without a pass, the free preview shows the first competency comment in full and an outline of the rest; a Pro pass gives the whole review, the rewrites and Copy, Word and PDF.

Common uses

• Writing your own self-appraisal before the review meeting, with every claim backed by an example.
• Writing reviews for a team at the same standard: the same scale, tone and structure for everyone.
• Peer and upward feedback that is specific and kind, without vague praise or personality labels.
• Turning a year of notes into review comments and SMART goals in the format your HR system asks for.

How each comment is written

The comment follows the situation–behaviour–impact pattern described by the Center for Creative Leadership: the situation, the observable behaviour, and its result. The opening sentence matches the rating (a different one for each of the ten built-in competencies and each rating level); each evidence note becomes one example, with a note starting “During…”, “In…” or “When…” kept as its situation and the part after → kept as its result; then a next step — your own “to develop” note, or a suggestion for that competency (for a strong rating, a stretch). A detailed comment ends with one more line. The words of your notes are kept as you wrote them.

SMART goals

A goal is checked against the letters of SMART as the University of California’s guide for managers and employees defines them: specific (what will be accomplished, starting with an action), measurable (the data that shows it), achievable (doable with the skills and resources — your call and your manager’s, so it is not checked), relevant (here: linked to the competency it develops) and time-bound (the time frame). Each goal becomes one sentence: “By the end of June, Sam will run a monthly SQL clinic for the sales team, measured by six sessions held.”

What the checks look for

• Vague praise — “great job”, “team player”, “hard worker” in a sentence with no fact: say what was done and what changed.
• Personality labels — “stubborn”, “arrogant”, “difficult to work with”: describe what happened, when, and its effect.
• Gender-coded words — “bossy”, “abrasive”, “emotional” judge the person and can carry stereotypes; the APA’s guidance on gender asks writers to avoid them.
• Age-related words — “digital native”, “young and energetic”, “set in their ways” are about age, not performance (APA on age). Age is a protected characteristic at work in many countries: in the US the ADEA protects people aged 40 and over, and in Great Britain it is one of the characteristics the Equality Act 2010 protects.
• The Inclusive Language Checker’s gender and age rules (“chairman”, “manpower”, “the elderly”), with a replacement you can apply.
• Contradictions — notes that read more critical than “Exceeds expectations”, or more positive than “Needs improvement”.
• No example behind a top or bottom rating, absolutes (“always”, “never”), placeholders left in, and your character limit.

Draft with AI, on your device

Press Draft with AI on a comment and the AI rewrites that comment — made from your rating and notes — into one polished paragraph in your tone and length, keeping your numbers and placeholders. It runs in your browser: your browser’s built-in AI where it has one, otherwise an AI model that gets ready on your device the first time (its files come from MySmartCoPilot and stay in your browser). The draft stays beside your comment until you press Use this; numbers that are not in your notes and placeholders it dropped are pointed out. AI can still get things wrong: read every draft before you use it.

Limitations

• The comments are written in English. The checks look for listed words and patterns: they cannot judge fairness, and a comment can pass them and still be unfair.
• Notes are turned into sentences by simple rules: a note that does not start with a verb is quoted as an example (“One example: …”). Read every comment and edit it where it reads awkwardly.
• Draft with AI needs your browser’s built-in AI or a browser with WebGPU for the on-device model (for example a recent Chrome or Edge on a computer).
• Your notes are not kept in this browser: save them as a file before you close the page.

Privacy

On this device; the AI model downloads once

Everything happens in your browser, and nothing you type is uploaded. Your notes, names and goals stay in this page only; the review type, scale, tone, length and competency list are kept in this browser for your next visit. Draft with AI runs on your device.