Will My Answers 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 — and why it can't be

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. Your manager literally cannot see your individual responses. The app has no per-person view of pulse answers — reports show aggregated numbers only ("the team rated Claude 4.2/5"), never "Sarah rated Claude 2/5". See Who sees my answers? for the technical detail.

The closest thing to per-person data is your name being visible if you write something identifying in a free-text comment. Keeping comments tool-focused (rather than about your specific situation) keeps you unnamed even there.

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.

Since admins don't see who gave which answer, there's no retaliation surface even if they wanted one. This is deliberate.

"But what if my company still tries to use it that way?"

They'd have to actively work around the platform to do it — the aggregation isn't optional. The one pattern that yields per-person data is an admin creating a group with a single person in it; the group-level report would then effectively be that individual's data. That's visible, deliberate, and auditable — it's not a hidden feature.

If you're worried:

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. The platform doesn't track non-participation as a "signal" and won't penalise you. (Whether your company has a view on that is between you and them.)

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