AI TALENT CONVERSATION FACILITATOR
Zed,
For organisations that refuse to leave high performance to chance.
Zed holds the structure and facilitates a range of talent and performance conversations. From goal setting and performance check-ins to mid-year alignments and year-end reviews, development conversations, stay and exit interviews. Zed's innovation is in the facilitation, guiding these conversations with structure, neutrality, and most importantly, consistency.
But Zed also transcribes, analyses, scores, and remembers, capturing high quality data while saving managers and HR time when review season arrives. She supports managers to have better conversations, employees to get clearer direction, and HR to access real-time, comparable performance data.
For organisations that refuse to leave high performance to chance.
The problem Zed solves.
The talent or performance conversation between a manager and direct report is a crucial moment of connection, realignment, mentorship, and data collection. Yet it remains the weakest point in our talent and performance management strategy.
The Manager
Managers carry the entire system. Yet often busy, under-skilled, unconfident or new, they reschedule, rush, or skip the conversation. Their direct reports, strategy alignment, high performance and HR pay the price.
Without data, organisations cannot fairly identify talent. Who's a star, who needs developing, who’s at risk, or needs to exit. Nor can they see, in real time, how a business unit is tracking against goals. Performance becomes visible at the end; too late to make a change.
The Consistency
Without a consistent approach, applied consistently, data behind talent decisions is uneven. Some direct reports have conversations, others don't. Feedback and scoring vary by manager. Talent reviews lose their rigour.
The Data
Integration is possible with your HRIS
Where every other system has invested in the dashboard, the rating, the form, and the calibration, Zed invests in the moment that creates performance in the first place: the conversation between a manager and a direct report. Held with structure, neutrality, and consistency, every time.
Zed:
How Zed helps?
Initiates and schedules the conversation;
Structures and facilitates the conversation;
Captures, transcribes, and analyses;
Scores, documents and remembers; and
Schedules the next conversation
The talent conversations Zed holds
Performance Management
- Goal setting
- Mid-year goal check-ins
- Performance check-ins
- Performance reviews
- Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
Career Conversations
- Probation conversations
- Development conversations
- Aspiration conversations
Stay & Exit Interviews
- Stay interviews
- Exit interviews
Zed is fully customisable to your conversation processes, procedures, structures, scoring metrics, language, methodology, culture and vibes. Zed facilitates the full range of talent and performance conversations.
Built by people who've done this work.
Zed is built by practitioners who have spent years inside organisations, on the real problems talent leaders and HR face every day.
Facilitator, qualified Attorney, and workplace culture specialist with 14+ years of experience designing high-stakes talent conversations in the world's largest organisations.
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Technical co-founder and entrepreneur building the AI infrastructure behind Zed, drawing on years of experience shipping products at the intersection of software and human insight.
Connect on LinkedInRun to the Monster, a talent and culture training and consultancy whose work spans organisations including Nedbank, Standard Bank, ABSA, BMW, and Toyota.
WHO’S BEHIND ZED
Built for the busy, messy, human reality of high-performing organisations.
