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Keep it — add ProHQ

ProHQ vs Peoplebox

AI-powered OKR, performance and talent-management platform. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process — offline, in the field, in your team's language — and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: India · 2019
PRICING MODEL: Per-user/month tiers in USD plus custom enterprise, with a card-required trial; mid-to-premium global per-seat pricing, not India-discounted.
BEST FOR: Mid-market and enterprise people teams wanting OKR alignment and performance reviews on top of an existing HRIS.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What Peoplebox is genuinely good at.

OKR and goal alignment

Connects employee goals to org strategy through goal hierarchies — its original core product.

Slack/Teams-native

Runs reviews, check-ins, 1:1s and OKRs inside Slack/Teams, a frequently praised workflow.

Real talent AI (Nova)

AI does concrete work — resume screening, review compilation, 360 synthesis and 9-box generation.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

Peoplebox

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work — not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

✓

Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens — site, road, shop floor — with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

✓

One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to — not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process — included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

Peoplebox is genuinely AI-forward for OKRs, reviews and hiring — but it's a thin performance layer that overlays an existing HRIS, with no payroll, core HR or field capability. It models review cycles, not the whole operation, and lives in Slack for desk workers. It's the furthest of this set from a process engine for a field business.

Not core HR or payroll

It sits on top of an HRIS rather than replacing it — no payroll, leave or statutory compliance.
Narrowest scope

A performance/OKR layer, not a model of the whole operation — even narrower than core-HR tools.
Not a process engine

It models OKRs and review cycles, not arbitrary operational processes as a state-machine.
Not offline/field

A Slack-based knowledge-worker tool with no field or frontline capability.

THE INDIA REALITY

India-built in Bengaluru but positioned globally, not as an India-localized tool — no payroll or PF/ESI/TDS at all, USD per-seat pricing, and no confirmed Hindi support.

KEEP IT — ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

If you want OKRs and AI-driven reviews, Peoplebox can sit alongside ProHQ while ProHQ runs the actual operation — onboarding, approvals, field tasks and finance — as one process. Peoplebox layers performance on top; ProHQ is the operating system underneath.

INTEGRATION

Bring your Peoplebox data with you

Peoplebox is integration-first by design, with connectors to HRIS/ATS/CRM and Slack/Teams; ProHQ feeds employee records and goal/assignment data so reviews reflect what actually happened in the process.

Need to keep Peoplebox in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding — which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching Peoplebox, on the process engine

Where Peoplebox leads today, here's what we're building — so it works offline and in the field too:

OKR/goal tracking tied to people and stages
Performance review cycles through approvals
1:1 and check-in notes attached to assignments

THE VERDICT

Sharp AI performance layer — but it rides on top of an HRIS, nowhere near your operation.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from Peoplebox for how you work. That conversation is free.

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