The HR you own
Why we built this.
The most useful things about your career — honest feedback and a real record of your growth — get locked inside whatever company you happen to work for. We think they should be yours.
A note about who built this
We kept watching the same thing happen everywhere: the honest feedback never got said out loud, the reviews and development plans stayed behind, and every job change meant starting the story over. The growth was real. None of it was portable. OffbookHR is the HR we wished we'd owned at every one of those jobs — feedback the company never sees, and a record that leaves with you.
— The team behind OffbookHR
Your career data is locked inside your employer's systems
Your performance reviews, 360 feedback, and coaching notes live in whatever HR platform your employer picked this year. When you change jobs — and the average tenure is under four years, so you will — none of it comes with you:
- The feedback you received. Gone.
- The growth you demonstrated. Gone.
- The patterns in how you show up at work. Gone.
Average tenure is under four years. You will leave.
Every job change is a hard reset on your professional development.
This is not just inefficient. It is backwards.
Why this actually works.
Three pieces that have to be in place at the same time. Most products give you one. We built the loop.
The person
Owns the record. Captures feedback, reflections, goals, and growth as they actually happen — not what last year's performance review said about them. The data follows the person, not the org chart.
The team
Gives honest feedback. Anonymously, on a short set of questions. Because the company can't see any of it, people actually tell the truth — often for the first time in their careers.
The loop
Closes outside HR. People see what their team says. The team sees behavior change. None of it touches the company's systems, gets calibrated against a competency model, or ends up in a performance review packet.
Each piece on its own is incomplete. Together they're what real development actually looks like — and what enterprise HR has never been able to deliver, because the company is in the room.
What we believe.
Career development belongs to the person, not the company. The data — what you've reflected on, the feedback you've received, the goals you've set — should follow you across every job, the same way your skills do. A system that resets every four years isn't broken in some subtle way; it's backwards by design. The company is paying for the tool, so the company owns the data, so the tool is built to serve the company. We think the tool should be built to serve the person it's actually about.
The honest version of feedback only exists in places where the employer can't see it. Every system that funnels feedback through HR turns into theater — calibrated, sanitized, packaged for a performance review. Real feedback is sharper than that, and it only comes out when the people giving it know it isn't going to be used against anyone. The whole platform is built around protecting that.
How OffbookHR is different
Every existing platform sells to HR. The tools you've heard of — BetterUp, Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five — are bought by companies for $100–500 per employee per month, and your data stays with the company when you leave. OffbookHR flips both halves: individuals buy it, individuals own the data. That's the whole shape of the difference.
| Platform | Price | Who buys | Who owns data |
|---|---|---|---|
| BetterUp | $100-500/employee/mo | Enterprise HR/L&D | Employer |
| Lattice | $11-17/employee/mo | HR | Employer |
| Culture Amp | $9-14/user/mo | HR | Employer |
| 15Five | $9-15/employee/mo | HR/managers | Employer |
| OffbookHR | Free | You | You |