Cooperly vs Culture Amp
Cooperly is a Human Operating System for founder-led teams that need to understand the specific work behind a signal. Culture Amp gives HR a company-wide view of employee experience; Cooperly keeps working profiles, team context and next actions close to the people involved.
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Cooperly knows how your team really works.
Cooperly turns the people context founders keep in their heads into a living operating layer for your team — so ownership stays clear, friction shows up early and managers know when to act. Automate noticing, remembering and preparation. Never human judgement.
Notice the pattern
Profiles, Fundamentals and Pulse bring working preferences and recent signals into the same context.
Prepare the conversation
Use that context to ask about a handoff, decision or pressure before assigning a cause.
Keep judgement human
People agree what changes next. Roadmap keeps the action and follow-up visible.
Culture Amp vs Cooperly: features and fit
Cooperly is built for founder-led companies before management becomes an HR programme. Compare that job with the one Culture Amp is designed to do.
| Dimension | Cooperly | Culture Amp |
|---|---|---|
| Starting question | What does this team need from its leader next? | Starts with what employee-experience data shows across the organisation. Cooperly starts with the specific team mechanism behind the concern. |
| Listening | Pulse for regular signals; Fundamentals for a deeper team review. | Runs engagement, pulse and lifecycle surveys at scale. Cooperly uses lighter signals to locate the relationship or handoff that needs a conversation. |
| Individual context | Working profiles to prepare feedback and communication. | Builds individual context from feedback, development and performance records. Cooperly adds working preferences and current relationship context before a formal people record exists. |
| Following up | A shared team roadmap and next actions. | Turns survey and performance data into action plans and AI coaching. Cooperly turns the issue into an agreement owned by the team doing the work. |
| Organisation programmes | Focus on the operating routine of a team. | Creates one listening and performance programme across the organisation. Cooperly gives each team a direct operating tool without making HR the route for every change. |
| Benchmarks | Interpret a team's own change through profiles, Pulse, Fundamentals and its working agreements. | Shows how employee experience compares with wider benchmarks. Cooperly shows whether this team's own relationships, pressure and agreements are improving over time. |
| 1:1s and performance | Prepare a specific conversation and keep the agreement visible on the team roadmap. | Formalises feedback through reviews, calibration, 1:1s and development plans. Cooperly prepares the conversation before it becomes part of a performance cycle. |
| AI coaching | Use selected people context read-only in ChatGPT, Claude or another approved MCP client. | Uses AI inside Culture Amp's survey, review and development workflows. Cooperly sends permissioned team context to the AI client the company already uses through MCP. |
| Commercial scope | Published team subscriptions with a product trial. | Prices the selected listening and performance programme by quote. Cooperly publishes one company price for profiles, signals, roadmap and MCP. |
Starting question
- Cooperly
- What does this team need from its leader next?
- Culture Amp
- Starts with what employee-experience data shows across the organisation. Cooperly starts with the specific team mechanism behind the concern.
Listening
- Cooperly
- Pulse for regular signals; Fundamentals for a deeper team review.
- Culture Amp
- Runs engagement, pulse and lifecycle surveys at scale. Cooperly uses lighter signals to locate the relationship or handoff that needs a conversation.
Individual context
- Cooperly
- Working profiles to prepare feedback and communication.
- Culture Amp
- Builds individual context from feedback, development and performance records. Cooperly adds working preferences and current relationship context before a formal people record exists.
Following up
- Cooperly
- A shared team roadmap and next actions.
- Culture Amp
- Turns survey and performance data into action plans and AI coaching. Cooperly turns the issue into an agreement owned by the team doing the work.
Organisation programmes
- Cooperly
- Focus on the operating routine of a team.
- Culture Amp
- Creates one listening and performance programme across the organisation. Cooperly gives each team a direct operating tool without making HR the route for every change.
Benchmarks
- Cooperly
- Interpret a team's own change through profiles, Pulse, Fundamentals and its working agreements.
- Culture Amp
- Shows how employee experience compares with wider benchmarks. Cooperly shows whether this team's own relationships, pressure and agreements are improving over time.
1:1s and performance
- Cooperly
- Prepare a specific conversation and keep the agreement visible on the team roadmap.
- Culture Amp
- Formalises feedback through reviews, calibration, 1:1s and development plans. Cooperly prepares the conversation before it becomes part of a performance cycle.
AI coaching
- Cooperly
- Use selected people context read-only in ChatGPT, Claude or another approved MCP client.
- Culture Amp
- Uses AI inside Culture Amp's survey, review and development workflows. Cooperly sends permissioned team context to the AI client the company already uses through MCP.
Commercial scope
- Cooperly
- Published team subscriptions with a product trial.
- Culture Amp
- Prices the selected listening and performance programme by quote. Cooperly publishes one company price for profiles, signals, roadmap and MCP.
Why choose Cooperly as a Culture Amp alternative?
Start with the job you need the system to do.
The team conversation and the company picture.
Cooperly puts the leader close to the team’s day-to-day context. A profile can help you frame feedback; Pulse can show a change worth discussing; Fundamentals can add a broader view of how the team is working.
Culture Amp organises survey cycles and benchmarks into a company picture for HR. That picture shows where experience differs but cannot, by itself, identify the handoff or expectation causing the work to fail. Cooperly connects the signal to those people and the agreement intended to change it. Source for The team conversation and the company picture.
Choose Cooperly when the business needs a change one team can own now. Use Culture Amp when the required deliverable is an organisation-wide listening benchmark.
Both products support action after feedback.
Cooperly combines collected signals with a roadmap for a leader to review and act on. Test whether it changes the next conversation and whether the team follows through.
Culture Amp routes survey and performance data into manager recommendations and action plans. That keeps follow-up inside the HR programme; Cooperly puts the action in the team's shared roadmap so the people involved can own it and check whether the work changed. Source for Both products support action after feedback.
Choose Cooperly when follow-up must become a visible team agreement tied to the work. Use Culture Amp when it must stay inside the engagement programme.
The company score says clarity is low. Where is it breaking?
A company score shows weak clarity but cannot locate the cause. Cooperly links it to the relevant team, dependency and handoff so the people involved can change the work.
Read the team signals
Locate the concern in the team’s own context.
Prepare the conversation
Ask the team to clarify the work behind the signal.
Agree the next step
Agree a response and review it in the next check-in.
Give the same trusted context to the AI tools your team already uses.
Cooperly makes selected profiles, signals, goals and agreements available read-only through MCP. Use that context in ChatGPT, Claude or another approved client while Cooperly keeps the permissions. AI helps with preparation; people keep the judgement.
Context Cooperly gathers
Cooperly
People Context Layer
The AI tools you already use
Claude
Claude chat and code access
ChatGPT
Contextual chat and commands
AI Agents via MCP
Linear, Notion, and compatible clients
When to choose Cooperly
Cooperly puts a team signal beside the people, handoff and decision involved. Culture Amp centres company-wide listening, benchmarks and people programmes.
Choose
Cooperly
- You need to find the people and handoffs behind a company concern.
- You want teams to turn working patterns and live signals into an agreement.
- You want change owned near the work before the next survey cycle.
Choose
Culture Amp
- Cross-company listening and external employee-experience benchmarks drive the purchase.
- Engagement, formal performance and development must follow one HR-led programme.
- You want Culture Amp's people-science support more than a team-owned relationship workflow.
Culture Amp vs Cooperly pricing
Your plan stays flat as your team grows.
One flat price for this team size. Full Cooperly access included: up to 10 people at the Teams rate, then up to 50 people across five teams at the Company rate.
Cooperly
For Companies
per person / month equivalent
Culture Amp
Selected products and service tier
Price on request
Keep people context and the review rhythm connected across several teams as the company grows. Up to 5 teams, up to 50 people. MCP and approved integrations are included.
Culture Amp quotes annually based on employee count, selected products and service tier. A 30-person total needs a quote. Cooperly publishes its company price with profiles, Pulse, Fundamentals, Roadmap and MCP included.
Official Culture Amp pricingCooperly gives an owner a known budget for turning team signals into action across the company. The price stays the same as people join within the plan limits; Culture Amp prices your chosen programme.
Prices checked . Competitor cost depends on your quote; no numerical saving is assumed.
Questions about Cooperly and Culture Amp
Cooperly helps small teams act on the relationships and responsibilities behind employee feedback. Profiles, Pulse and Fundamentals give the team context for a conversation; Roadmap keeps its next step visible. Choose Cooperly when you need action and follow-through across a growing company with one predictable budget.
Cooperly gives each team a regular way to notice friction and return to its agreements. If a survey flags a concern about collaboration, the team can use working profiles and current context to prepare a discussion, then track the next step in its roadmap. The work continues between company-wide survey cycles.
Cooperly can be used alongside the programme your company already runs. Use it for the team's working relationships and agreements while retaining any organisation-wide listening you need. You can evaluate Cooperly on one real problem without making a company-wide platform replacement the first decision.
Cooperly can give ChatGPT or Claude approved working profiles, current team signals and team memory through read-only MCP. Ask the AI to help prepare questions about the handoff or dependency you are investigating. It gives you a better starting point for the conversation; it cannot infer hidden motives from a score.
Explore Cooperly context for AICooperly helps an owner keep sight of working relationships as the company grows beyond their direct daily view. Teams use their profiles, signals and roadmaps to work on the issues locally. Up to 10 people: £240/year (£20/month billed yearly). 11–50 people: £948/year (£79/month billed yearly). MCP and approved integrations are included in both team-size plans.
See the company priceCooperly keeps the agreement in the roadmap and lets you return to it alongside later Pulse signals and team context. Ask the people involved whether the handoff became clearer or the same dependency still blocks work. That combines the signal with their experience of the change.
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