Lattice is your all-in-one HR platform. CultureWise is your culture system.
Lattice is a strong HR platform: performance reviews, goals, 1-on-1s, and engagement surveys for your People team. Culture is a feature in that world. In ours, it's the whole product: a system your CEO installs so the whole company practices a shared way of working every week.
Lattice keeps culture in a tab. CultureWise makes it the system.
Lattice is built for the HR function: reviews, goals, and a survey. It even calls itself your team's daily destination, but that daily surface is manager tooling in service of performance. Culture is framed as an outcome, not the product.
What you get
- Performance reviews, succession, and calibration
- Goals and OKRs with progress tracking
- Engagement and pulse surveys as one module
- Compensation and growth add-ons that stack on top
- Bought and run by HR / People Ops
What you get
- 25–40 Fundamentals: the specific behaviors that drive your success
- One practiced company-wide every week, a rhythm not a report
- Structured coaching and the Culture by Design methodology
- Software: weekly lessons, kudos with SBI, reporting
- Run by the CEO and every manager, not just HR
CultureWise vs Lattice
CultureWise is the only tool built to build your culture. Lattice is a full HR platform where culture is one module among many.
| Capability | CultureWise | Lattice |
|---|---|---|
| What it's built to do | Build your culture | Manage performance and goals |
| Is culture the product or a feature? | The whole product | A survey tab, an output of reviews |
| Who it's built for | The CEO and every manager | HR / People Ops |
| Gives everyone a shared way to work | Yes | No, it measures and reviews |
| Needs a separate HRIS | No, it stands alone | Sits on top of one |
| Time to see a difference | Weeks | Tied to review cycles |
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Practice beats measurement
"Limited value outside performance management."
HeartCount, in an independent review of Lattice
That's exactly right, and it's the right scope for a performance platform. Building culture is a different job, and it's the one CultureWise is built for.
Proof it sticks
It's not just words on a wall. It's the standard we hold ourselves to every single day.
The Fundamentals have become second nature. I don't have to force it. That tells me this has stuck.
We were already successful. But the Fundamentals made us better.
It's made the most significant impact to our culture since our founding almost 40 years ago.
A strong culture is not only part of the transformation. It drives it.
CultureWise turned our values into behaviors. Now people know what good looks like.
Common questions
Is CultureWise a performance-management tool like Lattice?
No. Lattice manages reviews, goals, and comp for the HR team. CultureWise builds a shared way of working across the whole company.
Can I use CultureWise with Lattice?
Yes. Keep Lattice for reviews and goals, and use CultureWise for culture. Many companies run both.
Does CultureWise replace our HRIS?
No, and it doesn't need to sit on one. It complements your existing HR tools.
Who is the buyer for CultureWise?
The CEO and every manager, not just People Ops.
Isn't culture just an engagement survey?
A survey measures how people feel. CultureWise gives your team a clear way of working and the habits to practice it, then you watch the scores move.
How fast do we see a change?
Momentum starts on day one and holds through weekly practice.
Good companies have good cultures by chance. World-class companies build them by design.
See how CultureWise builds your culture alongside the HR tools you already run.