Will This Affect My Performance Review?

Short answer: the platform isn't built for that, and your company shouldn't be using it that way. Long answer below.

What The GAiGE is for

The platform exists to answer one question for the company: which AI tools are paying off, and which aren't?

It does that by aggregating answers across teams to spot patterns — like "Marketing rates Notion AI highly, Engineering doesn't" or "$500 of ChatGPT spend is going to people who never use it." The decisions that come out of it are about tools and training, not individuals.

What it's not for

It's not a productivity-tracking system. We don't measure how many minutes you spent on each tab, or how many AI prompts you sent.
It's not a performance-review input. The questions are about how the tool is performing, not how you are performing.
It's not a way for managers to grade individuals. The data your group leader sees is intended to help them spot training opportunities and patterns across the team.

What honest answers look like

The most useful thing you can do is answer honestly — including:

"I lost time because of it" when a tool wasted your morning
"I don't know how to use it" when you genuinely don't (this triggers training opportunities, not blame)
Low satisfaction ratings when something isn't working
Critical free-text comments (within reason — keep them professional, like you would in an email)

If three people on your team say "I don't know how to use it" for a tool, your company will run training. If twenty people across the company say "I lost time because of it", your company will probably stop paying for it. That's the system working.

"But what if my company does use it that way?"

Honest reality: once data exists, anyone with access can in principle do anything with it. The platform's design intent is program-level decisions, but we can't enforce that culturally — only your company can.

If you're worried about how your data will be used:

Ask your manager or People team directly. A reasonable answer should sound like "we look at aggregate patterns to make tool decisions, and we don't review individual responses in performance contexts."
Read your employer's internal privacy notice for The GAiGE, if they've published one. They should have.
You can decline to install the extension or skip pulses. It's not enforceable, and you won't be penalised by The GAiGE for doing so. (Whether your company has any view on that is between you and them — but the platform doesn't track non-participation as a "signal".)

What you can use it for yourself

Your personal dashboard shows your own hours-saved estimates and the tools you rate highest. Some people find this genuinely useful at performance review time as evidence of impact — "I used Claude for technical research and saved an estimated 38 hours this quarter" is a real number you can point to.

Same data, used by you for your own benefit.

Related: Who sees my answers? · Welcome — what is The GAiGE? · What data is collected and how it's used