Effy AI's Insights help you move from individual reviews to organization-level patterns, making it easier to spot strengths, gaps, and trends across teams.
Accessing Insights
Go to Reviews → Insights in the left navigation.
Access to Insights depends on your workspace role and sharing settings.
Available views
Heatmaps
Visualize performance scores across competencies and employees.
Quickly spot strengths and weak areas
Compare teams, roles, or departments at a glance
9-box grid
Plot employees on a performance vs. potential matrix.
Identify high performers and high-potential talent
Support calibration and succession planning discussions
Radar charts
Compare competency scores visually.
Useful for individual or role-based comparisons
Highlights imbalances across skill areas
What the colors mean (and why you can't change them)
Colors in Insights (heatmaps and other Insights views) are set automatically by Effy and aren't customizable. They're based on percentiles — each score is colored by where it falls relative to the other scores in the same report, not against a fixed number. So the same score can appear in a different color in a different report, depending on the range around it.
Effy uses a 5-color scale from red (lowest) to green (highest), split into equal percentile bands:
0–20% — red: lowest scores in the report
20–40% — light red: below average
40–60% — yellow: middle of the range
60–80% — light green: above average
80–100% — green: highest scores in the report
Because colors are relative to each report, read them as a quick "who's high / who's low here" guide rather than an absolute rating. The colors can't be edited or turned off.
Configuring Insights
You can fine-tune how Insights are calculated and displayed:
Edit competency labels (topics)
Topics are configured only in an individual review report, not in Insights. Open the report → Set up report → hover over a block that uses topics (e.g. Scores comparison or radar chart) → Block settings → Edit topics. Insights reflects the topics you set there.Question types used in calculations
Only rating-type questions are included in quantitative analysis.
Open-text responses are excluded from charts and scores.Access control
Use the Manage access button to define who can access the Insights dashboard.
Understanding percentiles
Scores in Insights can be shown as percentile rankings.
47% means the person scored higher than 47% of all rated employees for that competency
10% means the person is in the lowest 10th percentile
90% means the person is in the top 10%
Percentiles make it easier to compare results across teams and cycles, even when different forms or reviewers are involved.
Weighted scoring
Effy AI currently does not support weighted scoring.
All review types (self, peer, manager, upward) are weighted equally
If you need custom weighting:
Export raw data
Apply weights manually in a spreadsheet
Weighted scoring is on the product roadmap.