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GlassCard vs Lattice

Lattice is performance management built for corporate HR teams and knowledge workers. GlassCard is workforce intelligence built for frontline and SMB teams — free for employees, flat-rate for employers.

The short version

Lattice is a full performance-management suite — reviews, OKRs, 1:1s, and engagement surveys — aimed at mid-market and enterprise HR teams managing salaried, desk-based employees, priced per seat with annual contracts. GlassCard is built for the other 80% of the workforce: frontline and hourly teams at small and mid-sized businesses. It's free for employees, flat-rate for employers, and uses AI to surface and score the everyday work that corporate review cycles never capture. Choose Lattice for a corporate OKR-and-review process; choose GlassCard to see and credit real frontline contribution without per-seat cost.

At a glance

GlassCardLattice
Primary audienceFrontline & SMB hourly teamsCorporate / knowledge-worker HR
Free for employeesYesNo
Pricing modelFlat per account, no per-seat feesPer-seat, annual contract, modules priced separately
AI win scoring on real work productYesReview-cycle based
Invisible-work detectionYesNo
Portable record employee ownsYesData stays with employer
Shift scheduling & time trackingYesNo
Formal review cycles & OKR cascadesLightweightYes
Engagement surveysYesYes
Setup effortDays, self-serveImplementation project
Anti-bias controls (no protected attributes stored)YesNot a stated focus

Two different workforces

Lattice is one of the strongest products on the market for corporate performance management — structured review cycles, goal/OKR cascades, 1:1 agendas, and engagement surveys, with the depth a dedicated HR team expects. It assumes salaried employees, managers who run formal review processes, and budget for per-seat software.

GlassCard is built for the workforce Lattice wasn't designed for: the line cook, the cashier, the cleaner, the hourly crew at a business with no large HR department. It captures contribution continuously from real work product instead of compressing a year into a review form, and it does so without asking a busy operator to run a corporate performance process.

Continuous record vs the review cycle

Lattice's value concentrates around review moments and goal check-ins. That structure is powerful for knowledge work, but it depends on managers and employees filling it in.

GlassCard works from data that already exists — wins logged in seconds, sales, goals, schedules — and scores it as it happens. An employee ends up with a living Career Health Score and a portable record they can see and contest, rather than a once-a-year rating held in the employer's system.

Cost and time-to-value

Lattice is a per-seat, annually-contracted platform, often with separate modules and a real implementation effort — sensible for an HR team, heavy for a 12-person restaurant.

GlassCard is free for employees and flat-rate for employers, self-serve, and live in days. There's no per-seat math and no procurement cycle, which is what makes it viable for the SMB and frontline market.

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Frequently asked questions

Is GlassCard a good Lattice alternative for small businesses?

Yes. Lattice targets mid-market and enterprise HR teams with per-seat pricing and a real implementation effort. GlassCard is built for small and mid-sized frontline teams — free for employees, flat-rate for employers, and live in days with no per-seat fees.

Does GlassCard replace performance reviews?

GlassCard replaces the annual-review bottleneck with a continuous, AI-scored record of real work. It captures wins, goals, and sales as they happen and builds a portable Career Health Score, so contribution is visible year-round rather than reconstructed once a year.

Can GlassCard handle OKRs like Lattice?

GlassCard supports SMART goals and goal tracking suited to frontline teams. It is intentionally lighter than Lattice's enterprise OKR-cascade tooling — the trade-off that keeps it usable for hourly teams without a dedicated HR function.

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