Introducing Enso™ by Culture Amp: Turns Trusted People Science Intelligence Into Leader-Approved Actions

Culture Amp's new agentic AI partner offers continuous, confidential employee listening, insights, and action planning for AI-forward organizations

• Enso brings Culture Amp's people science to every leader, continuously - the insights, comparisons, and trust that make people data reliable, to be inside Slack, Claude, and ChatGPT.
• Built for AI-forward organizations, Enso adds what general-purpose AI can't generate on its own: confidential employee signals, measured reliably over time and benchmarked against thousands of organizations.
• Enso turns that intelligence into leader-approved action, helping teams clear the obstacles that slow work down before they show up as missed goals, burnout, or attrition.

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON and MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Culture Amp, the leading employee experience platform, today announced Enso™ by Culture Amp, an agentic AI people partner designed to help make every leader more effective. Enso brings the power of agentic insights, coaching, and assistance, grounded in Culture Amp's people science, to the tools where work already happens; it will first be available in Slack, Claude, and ChatGPT.

AI-forward organizations have already given AI access to their documents, calendars, code, and conversations. Their agentic assistants can summarize a thread, draft a plan, and book a meeting. What those tools can't see is how the people doing the work are actually doing: whether a team is stretched, whether priorities are landing, whether a strong performer is quietly disengaging.

That signal rarely surfaces in a Slack channel or a project tracker. Employees are unlikely to volunteer it to their manager or to their company's AI. And a single comment, read once, can't tell a leader whether something is a blip or a pattern. Enso is built to close that gap.

Enso™ puts people back in focus for AI-forward organizations

Enso brings the foundations of Culture Amp's people science to every leader continuously each day. Working where teams already communicate, Enso helps leaders:

• See what matters early. Agentic support provides continuous, confidential check-ins that flag challenges as they emerge, such as when team sentiment and project progress no longer align.
• Understand the why. Enso asks targeted follow-up questions to find the root cause, whether it's competing priorities, unclear direction, or overwork. It then recommends a response and explains the people science behind it.
• Turn decisions into action. Enso prepares 1:1 agendas, prepares talking points, schedules huddles, updates team goals, and follows up on commitments. Leaders approve actions individually or set permissions for routine work.

"Most AI-forward companies have already given agentic AI a seat at the table for their work. What's been missing is a clear and trusted understanding of the people doing the work," said Caroline Rawlinson, CEO of Culture Amp. "Culture Amp is a trusted partner who manages sensitive people data for thousands of customers, and has spent over a decade helping organizations understand how to optimize employee engagement and performance. AI lets us turn that intelligence into action. By helping leaders see what needs attention, decide how to respond, and act in the flow of work, Enso strengthens leadership effectiveness where it matters most."

Enso™ builds on Engage, Perform, and Culture Amp's broader AI strategy

Enso works in tandem with Culture Amp's established products. While point-in-time surveys (Engage) establish a reliable baseline, Enso operates continuously in the flow of work between survey cycles, ensuring insights remain current. Each reinforces the other: baseline data gives Enso deep, trusted context, while continuous signals refine and sharpen future survey strategy.

Transitioning from AI productivity to effective leadership

Every company and every economy is looking to AI to boost productivity. But the returns depend on whether people have the clarity, capacity, and support to use it well. Research shows organizational factors like culture and support are twice as likely to drive AI value as individual AI skills alone. Meanwhile, 33% of workers experienced 15 major changes last year, an unprecedented pace for leaders and teams to absorb.

"How effectively a company works together has roughly twice the impact on AI returns as any individual's skill with the technology," said Rawlinson. "For CEOs and CFOs, Enso isn't another tool competing for budget. It's what helps every other AI investment deliver."

For leaders and employees, that means:

• A voice that counts. A two-minute, confidential check-in that is actually acted on, rather than an annual survey that feels distant.
• Clearer priorities. Fewer surprise pivots and less time spent on work that no longer matters.
• Better conversations. Managers who arrive at 1:1s prepared and focused on what each person needs.
• Problems fixed earlier. Overload and unclear direction addressed before they become burnout or resignations.

Enso operates within defined organizational boundaries and uses only the data sources an organization authorizes. It takes action only with explicit leader approval or configured permissions, and every recommendation is grounded in people science, so leaders can validate, question, and explain it before acting.

Enso will initially be available in Slack and AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT, in North America in early 2027, with additional regions to follow. To learn more about Enso and get in touch with our team, visit https://www.cultureamp.com/enso.

About Enso™ by Culture Amp

Enso is powered by Culture Amp's Culture Intelligence, which includes an empirically grounded map of the factors that drive performance at work. Drawing on 1.6 billion employee data points, the proprietary methodology reveals how factors such as clarity, workload, manager support, and growth are interconnected, rather than isolated indicators. When engagement declines on a team, Enso combines team context, continuous listening results, and the rich history contained in our Culture Intelligence to identify both visible and less obvious contributors to the trend.

Enso's personalized insights help leaders address the underlying drivers of engagement, not just the symptoms, and take more targeted action to improve the employee experience.

Read more about Enso on our blog.

About Culture Amp

Culture Amp builds the leadership and culture practices that drive high performance, turning people insights into action in an AI-native world. Powered by 15 years of People Science research and insights from 1.6 billion data points from more than 21 million employees across 8,900+ organizations, CultureOS™ connects engagement, performance, employee experience, and culture data into an always-on intelligence layer. Culture Amp's agentic AI turns that intelligence into action, helping leaders identify emerging issues, understand what is driving them, and follow through in the flow of work, with leaders always in control. Major League Baseball, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonald's, and Nasdaq trust Culture Amp every day.

More information can be found at www.cultureamp.com.

SOURCE Culture Amp