A 360° review asks the people who work with someone — peers, reports, their manager — what they actually think, anonymously, and turns the answers into something that person can use. In a large company that is an annual programme with a consultant attached. In a company of thirty, it is a thing one person has to set up between everything else.
The awkward part at this size is anonymity. With six raters, a comment can identify its author by tone alone, and everybody knows it. That is why nothing here shows a response attributed to anyone, and why written comments stay hidden until enough people have answered — four, by default, and you can see the exact thresholds before you run anything.
What running one actually involves
Pick who is being reviewed and who is reviewing them. Timbre works out the rater sets and sends each person a unique link — no accounts, no logins, nothing for a rater to install.
Reminders go out on their own. In our experience chasing non-responders by hand is the step that quietly kills a small-company 360, so it is automated from the start.
When responses land, the AI reads every written answer and produces the write-up: what people value about this person, one or two areas worth working on, and a manager-facing coaching plan with a 30/60/90 structure. That is the part that would otherwise cost you an evening per person.
What it costs
$49 a month, or $470 a year, for up to 50 people, with every feature included — the AI analysis, the trends, your branding, the exports. There is no headcount arithmetic to do and no feature held back for a bigger plan.
Fourteen days free with everything switched on, and no credit card to start. If you would rather see it working before signing up at all, the live demo needs no account.
If you already have feedback lying around
Most companies do — last year's engagement survey, exit interview notes, an export from another tool. You can paste or upload it on day one and get the AI reading of it in about a minute, without running a survey first. It also tells you what is worth asking next.
Questions people ask
How small is too small for 360 feedback?
Below about six raters per person, anonymity gets hard to guarantee no matter what tool you use — a comment starts to identify its author. Timbre handles this by withholding written comments until a minimum number of people have answered (four by default, adjustable down to two for genuinely small teams, with a warning about what you are trading). Scores still show. Under six people in total, an honest conversation probably beats a survey.
Do the people giving feedback need accounts?
No. They get a unique link by email, answer, and are done. They never create a password and they do not count toward the 50 people on your plan.
How long does it take to set up?
Twenty minutes for a first campaign if you have your people in a spreadsheet. You can describe what you want in plain English and have it drafted for you, or build it step by step. If you would rather not do it alone, a person will set it up with you — that is included, not an upsell.
Can managers see who said what?
No. Nothing in the product attributes a response to a person, for any role, including the platform operator. The anonymity page sets out exactly how that is enforced and is honest about where the guarantee currently rests on the application rather than the database.
$49/month
Up to 50 people · every feature · price locked for 12 months