Lattice is a full people management platform built on forms, reviews, and structured processes. Hear is a passive intelligence layer that reads Slack — no setup, no surveys, no manager overhead.
| Feature | Hear | Lattice |
|---|---|---|
| Slack integration (passive) | ✓ Fully passive | ✗ Not available |
| AI burnout detection | ✓ Automated alerts | ⚡ Engagement surveys only |
| Real-time team health monitoring | ✓ Continuous, automatic | ✗ Point-in-time surveys |
| Sentiment & energy tracking | ✓ Daily, per-team | ✗ Not available |
| Performance reviews | ✗ Not applicable | ✓ Full review cycles |
| Goal tracking (OKRs) | ✗ Not applicable | ✓ OKRs & goals |
| 1:1 meeting tools | ✗ Not applicable | ✓ Structured 1:1s |
| Surveys required | ✓ None | ✗ Constant |
| Setup time | ✓ ~5 minutes | ✗ Weeks of configuration |
| Manager effort required | ✓ None (automated) | ✗ High (ongoing) |
| Silo detection | ✓ Cross-team analysis | ✗ Not available |
| Pricing (100 people) | ✓ $49/mo flat | ✗ ~$1,100+/mo |
| Free tier | ✓ Free forever | ⚡ Sales demo only |
Lattice takes weeks to configure — review cycles, OKR frameworks, competency matrices. Hear takes 5 minutes. Connect Slack and you're done.
Lattice surveys your team quarterly. Hear reads every conversation every day. You get continuous health signals, not stale snapshots.
Lattice can't see the declining energy in Slack messages 6 weeks before burnout peaks. Hear can. That's the difference between prevention and exit interview.
Lattice runs ~$11/person/month. That's $1,100/mo for 100 people. Hear is $49/mo flat — same team, same insights, fraction of the cost.
Lattice and Hear solve different problems. Lattice is an HR platform built for structured people processes — performance cycles, OKRs, career ladders. If you need all that, Lattice is a good fit.
Hear solves the specific problem of not knowing how your team actually feels day-to-day. No surveys. No process. No manager effort. It reads Slack and surfaces the truth — burnout risk, recognition gaps, team silos — automatically.
Many teams run both: Lattice for annual reviews and goal setting, Hear for continuous daily health monitoring. They're complementary, not competing.
No surveys, no setup, no forms. Just connect Slack and get AI-powered team health insights in minutes.
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