Windmill vs. Paylocity

Windmill is the first performance review system people actually like. Powered by AI, it synthesizes all your 1:1 conversations, project work, and feedback throughout the year into reviews that write themselves. Employees respond to quick prompts in Slack instead of staring at blank forms trying to remember six months back. Managers walk in with the full story. HR finally has a process that doesn't need constant nudging. Companies using Windmill cut down time by 83% per cycle time and report 93% employee satisfaction with the process.

Paylocity is an award-winning HCM platform that brings HR, Finance, and IT together in one connected system, covering payroll, benefits, talent management, time and labor, spend, and IT provisioning on a single employee record. Cut manual HR tasks, run payroll faster, and get new hires up and running sooner. Get full visibility across expenses, accounts payable, corporate cards, and procurement in one place. Automate account creation and manage IT provisioning without juggling separate systems. AI is built into everyday workflows across all three.