Cooperly vs Peoplebox
Cooperly is for founder-led companies of 10–50 that need a live picture of the team before they need an HR process. Peoplebox brings OKRs, reviews, 1:1s and calibration into Slack for companies it says fit best at 100–1,000 employees; Cooperly works on ownership and handoffs between the people doing the work.
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Old rule
Install OKRs, reviews and calibration like a 500-person company.
New rule
Run a 30-person company on a live team picture.
OKR cycles and 9-box calibration solve problems of scale that a 30-person company does not have yet. What it does have is two teams waiting on each other. Cooperly shows that wait and who should end it.
Read what the work already shows
Decisions, commitments and blockers already sit in Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana tasks. Cooperly proposes them as team facts; the team lead confirms each one.
Ask only what tools can’t tell
Profiles, Pulse and Fundamentals add how people work, what feels stuck and which agreement needs another conversation.
Your agents prepare. People decide.
ChatGPT, Claude and your other approved tools read the picture through MCP. The team agrees the owner and the next step.
Peoplebox vs Cooperly: features and fit
Cooperly is built for founder-led companies before management becomes an HR programme. Compare that job with the one Peoplebox is designed to do.
| Dimension | Cooperly | Peoplebox |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Seeing who owns what and where work waits between people. | Runs goals, review cycles, 1:1s and calibration for HR. Cooperly works on the handoff between reviews. |
| Company size | Built for 10–50 people. | Says its performance product fits best at 100–1,000 employees. Cooperly is sized for the stage before an HR team. |
| Goals | Goals give context to the team conversation and roadmap. | OKRs with progress synced from Jira, Asana, Notion and data tools. Cooperly uses goals to find the dependency blocking them. |
| 1:1s | Profiles and team facts prepare a specific conversation. | 1:1 meetings with AI summaries. Cooperly adds how both people work and which commitment is at stake. |
| Reviews | Not a review system. | Performance reviews, 360 feedback and 9-box calibration. Cooperly works on the cause before it becomes a review finding. |
| Sources | Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana task text, confirmed by a lead. | Pulls goal and metric progress from tools such as Jira, Asana and BigQuery. Cooperly reads team conversation for decisions and blockers. |
| Engagement | Pulse beside profiles and team facts. | Engagement surveys as a $2 add-on. Cooperly links a Pulse change to the handoff behind it. |
| AI access | MCP for ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients; read-only by default. | AI inside reviews, 1:1 summaries and hiring. Cooperly gives your own AI tools the team picture through MCP. |
| Price shape | £240/year up to 10 people, £948/year for 11–50. | Per employee: Performance Management $8, Engagement +$2, 360 +$8 each month, billed annually. Cooperly is one company price. |
Primary job
- Cooperly
- Seeing who owns what and where work waits between people.
- Peoplebox
- Runs goals, review cycles, 1:1s and calibration for HR. Cooperly works on the handoff between reviews.
Company size
- Cooperly
- Built for 10–50 people.
- Peoplebox
- Says its performance product fits best at 100–1,000 employees. Cooperly is sized for the stage before an HR team.
Goals
- Cooperly
- Goals give context to the team conversation and roadmap.
- Peoplebox
- OKRs with progress synced from Jira, Asana, Notion and data tools. Cooperly uses goals to find the dependency blocking them.
1:1s
- Cooperly
- Profiles and team facts prepare a specific conversation.
- Peoplebox
- 1:1 meetings with AI summaries. Cooperly adds how both people work and which commitment is at stake.
Reviews
- Cooperly
- Not a review system.
- Peoplebox
- Performance reviews, 360 feedback and 9-box calibration. Cooperly works on the cause before it becomes a review finding.
Sources
- Cooperly
- Slack channels, ClickUp chat and Asana task text, confirmed by a lead.
- Peoplebox
- Pulls goal and metric progress from tools such as Jira, Asana and BigQuery. Cooperly reads team conversation for decisions and blockers.
Engagement
- Cooperly
- Pulse beside profiles and team facts.
- Peoplebox
- Engagement surveys as a $2 add-on. Cooperly links a Pulse change to the handoff behind it.
AI access
- Cooperly
- MCP for ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients; read-only by default.
- Peoplebox
- AI inside reviews, 1:1 summaries and hiring. Cooperly gives your own AI tools the team picture through MCP.
Price shape
- Cooperly
- £240/year up to 10 people, £948/year for 11–50.
- Peoplebox
- Per employee: Performance Management $8, Engagement +$2, 360 +$8 each month, billed annually. Cooperly is one company price.
Why choose Cooperly as a Peoplebox alternative?
Start with the job you need the system to do.
A process for the company you will be.
Cooperly starts with the team you have: who is waiting on whom, which decision has no owner, and what people say in Pulse.
Peoplebox builds the HR layer a larger company needs: OKRs, reviews, calibration and compensation, with its sweet spot at 100–1,000 employees. Cooperly is for the stage before that layer pays off. Source for A process for the company you will be.
Choose Cooperly when you are 10–50 people and the problem is ownership. Choose Peoplebox when HR needs one performance process across a larger company.
A form delivered in Slack is still a form.
Cooperly reads decisions and blockers from Slack channels and asks a lead to confirm them.
Peoplebox delivers reviews, surveys and check-ins inside Slack so people can answer without logging in. People still fill them in; Cooperly reads what they already wrote. Source for A form delivered in Slack is still a form.
Choose Cooperly when you want the picture without new forms. Choose Peoplebox when you want HR forms delivered where people work.
A green OKR over two teams waiting on each other.
The quarterly goal showed on track, synced from the task tracker. In Slack, two teams had been waiting on each other for a week. Cooperly proposes the dependency as a blocker, the lead confirms it, and Fundamentals shows the team’s weakest area: unclear ownership.
Find the weak area
Run Fundamentals to find the weakest area.
Read the blockers
Read the confirmed blockers between the two teams.
Agree the owner
Agree an owner and record it on the roadmap.
Give the same trusted context to the AI tools your team already uses.
Cooperly makes selected profiles, signals, goals and agreements available through MCP. Use that context in ChatGPT, Claude or another approved client while Cooperly keeps the permissions. Claude changes Cooperly only after you confirm a preview. 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 gives a 10–50 person company a live team picture. Peoplebox runs OKRs, reviews, 1:1s and calibration for larger companies.
Choose
Cooperly
- You are 10–50 people and do not want an HR process yet.
- Teams wait on each other and nobody owns the dependency.
- You want one company price and MCP for your own AI tools.
Choose
Peoplebox
- You have an HR team and need OKRs, reviews and calibration.
- You are moving past 100 employees.
- You also want AI hiring in the same platform.
Peoplebox 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
Peoplebox
Performance + Engagement
Calculated for 30 people
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.
This uses Peoplebox Performance Management at $8 plus Engagement at $2 per employee each month, billed annually; 360 adds $8. Peoplebox does not publish a monthly or free plan. Cooperly includes Pulse, Fundamentals, profiles, Roadmap and MCP in both team-size plans.
Official Peoplebox pricingPeoplebox prices each module per employee. Cooperly is one company price for the whole team picture.
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Questions about Cooperly and Peoplebox
Cooperly suits a 10–50 person company that needs to see ownership and handoffs before it needs OKR cycles and calibration. Peoplebox says its performance product fits best at 100–1,000 employees.
Cooperly uses goals as context for the team roadmap and conversations; it is not an OKR system. If you run OKRs, keep them where they are and use Cooperly to find what is blocking them.
Cooperly connects to ChatGPT, Claude and other approved clients through MCP. Ask which dependency is blocking a goal and get an answer from confirmed facts. Access is read-only by default; Claude and Codex can write after you confirm a preview.
Connect Cooperly to ChatGPTCooperly pricing: 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. Peoplebox Performance Management plus Engagement is $10 per employee each month, billed annually: $3,600 a year for 30 people.
Compare prices at your headcountCooperly is run by the founder and team leads. Leads confirm facts and prepare conversations; there is no review cycle to administer.
Cooperly keeps working when you add one. Profiles, Pulse and team facts stay useful between review cycles, and your HR system keeps the formal record.
Add OKR cycles and calibration when you have an HR team to run them.
Try Cooperly with a real team.
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