Lattice, the performance-management platform, announced this week it has acquired Pando, a just-in-time performance tool, and named Pando founder and CEO Barbra Gago as its new chief marketing and strategy officer. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The deal folds Pando’s competency-based approach to employee progression, evidence-based calibrations and real-time performance signals into Lattice’s existing continuous-feedback platform. Pando had worked with more than 100 companies before the acquisition.
“The next era won’t be defined by which companies deploy the most AI. It will be defined by which companies invest in the performance of their people,” said Sarah Franklin, Lattice’s CEO, framing the deal as a bet on performance infrastructure over raw AI deployment.
The acquisition lands in a performance-management category that has spent the past two years bolting AI features onto legacy review cycles rather than rebuilding around them. Pando’s real-time, workflow-embedded signals are a different architecture bet: performance data captured continuously, in the flow of work, rather than reconstructed from memory at a twice-yearly review. That bet only pays off if managers actually act on the signals as they arrive, which is the same manager-capacity question surfacing across HR tech this week; see Leadership Readiness Has Become AI Adoption’s Real Bottleneck.
For HR leaders evaluating performance platforms, the acquisition is a signal to watch vendor roadmaps for consolidation around continuous, real-time performance data rather than periodic review cycles, and to weigh whether internal pay-and-promotion governance, a recurring gap noted in Pay Decisions Without Governance Are Costing Millions, is ready to absorb faster-moving performance signals without creating new blind spots.
Source: Lattice
