Textio
What is Textio?
Textio is an AI writing platform for HR and people teams that turns rough notes into clearer feedback and recruiting language. It combines Textio Feedback, Textio Recruiting, real-time guidance, responsible AI, actionable feedback, and ATS Setup Guides & Workflows to help managers write reviews, coaching notes, and job posts with less guesswork. Customers include Teachstone, Micron, T‑Mobile, Upwork, Duolingo, and Zendesk.
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At a glance
- Textio is best for HR and people leaders who need faster, more consistent feedback and recruiting language.
What does Textio do?
Textio helps managers and HR teams turn rough notes into clearer, more actionable feedback with guided writing workflows. In Textio Feedback, users can drop in informal notes, clean them up fast, and shape performance reviews, self-assessments, peer feedback, and upward feedback with real-time guidance. In Textio Recruiting, the same AI approach supports job-post writing and interview feedback so teams can focus on skills and consistency instead of guesswork. The product is built around responsible AI, with risk detection, tone adjustment, and feedback organization helping users produce work-safe language without adding process. At scale, Textio says more than 100,000 managers use the feedback product, 2,700 employees at Micron use Textio, and the company has trained its AI on over 1+ billion HR documents with 10 million new records added every month. Textio also shows enterprise-grade security and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance, and it offers no public API.
Why use Textio?
- Textio combines recruiting and feedback workflows, so teams can standardize language across the talent lifecycle.
- Its responsible AI approach is built for HR use cases, with bias mitigation and safety checks designed into the product.
- The platform is trained on over 1+ billion HR documents, giving its guidance a field-specific foundation.
- Customers like Micron and Velera report measurable gains in feedback quality and writing efficiency.
- Enterprise security and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance make it easier to evaluate for regulated environments.
Who is Textio for?
- People operations teams who want clearer performance feedback without adding extra process.
- People managers who need help writing actionable reviews and coaching notes.
- Talent acquisition teams who want more consistent, inclusive recruiting language.
- HR administrators who need governance, reporting, and user permissions across teams.
- Interviewers who need structured feedback that focuses on skills instead of bias.
What are Textio's key features?
Textio Feedback
Draft performance reviews and coaching notes with guidance tuned on 1+ billion HR documents, helping teams write feedback twice as fast and improve quality.
Textio Recruiting
Create job posts and recruiting messages with inclusive language checks and risk detection, backed by 30+ AI models and 10 years training its AI.
responsible AI
Use multi-layer bias mitigation and triple-verifies AI output to reduce risky wording, which matters when HR teams need defensible, compliant writing.
real-time guidance
Get inline suggestions while writing in Textio Recruiting or Textio Feedback, so managers can fix tone and wording before sending.
actionable feedback
Turn rough notes into clearer coaching language with feedback organizer tools, helping managers spend less time rewriting and more time managing.
ATS Setup Guides & Workflows
Connect recruiting workflows to Workday, HRIS, and performance management system setups, so teams can keep writing guidance aligned with existing processes.
Enterprise-grade security
Support enterprise use with enterprise-grade security controls, important for handling employee and candidate content across large organizations.
What does Textio integrate with?
- performance management system
- HRIS
- Workday
What are Textio's use cases?
Managers writing better reviews
People managers use Textio to turn rough review notes into clearer, more actionable performance feedback, using Textio Feedback and actionable feedback to make coaching specific enough for employees to act on. Real-time guidance helps them tighten wording before sending, so reviews are faster to write and easier to understand.
Inclusive recruiting language
Talent acquisition teams use Textio to draft job posts and hiring messages with more consistent, inclusive wording, using Textio Recruiting and inclusive language to reduce biased phrasing. With Risk detection and responsible AI, they can catch language issues early and publish roles that attract a broader candidate pool.
Structured interview feedback
Interviewers use Textio to capture skill-based notes right after interviews, using interview feedback and Feedback organizer to keep comments structured and comparable across candidates. Real-time guidance helps them avoid vague or biased language, so hiring teams get cleaner input for decisions.
Governed writing at scale
HR administrators use Textio to roll out writing standards across teams, using ATS Setup Guides & Workflows and Enterprise-grade security to support controlled adoption. Textio Admin Resources helps them manage permissions and reporting, so governance stays consistent as more managers and recruiters use the platform.
How does Textio work?
- Connect your performance management system or HRIS, then use Textio Feedback or Textio Recruiting to start from the right workflow. ATS Setup Guides & Workflows help admins map the first process quickly.
- Draft a review, coaching note, job post, or interview comment in the editor. Real-time guidance and Shortcut prompts surface better wording as you type, without slowing the writer down.
- Review suggestions from Risk detection, inclusive language, and responsible AI to catch bias, tone problems, or unclear phrasing before anything is shared with employees or candidates.
- Use Feedback organizer, Writing with Textio Feedback, or Writing with Textio Recruiting to standardize output across teams. HR administrators can apply Textio Admin Resources to manage permissions and reporting.
- Keep improving with Enterprise-grade security and Textio Recruiting Guidance as more managers and interviewers adopt the system. Over time, teams write faster, produce stronger feedback, and make more consistent decisions.
Frequently asked questions
What is Textio?
Textio is an AI writing platform for HR and people teams that turns rough notes into clearer feedback and recruiting language. It combines Textio Feedback, Textio Recruiting, real-time guidance, responsible AI, and actionable feedback tools to help managers write reviews, coaching notes, and job posts with less guesswork. Customers include Micron, Upwork, Duolingo, and Zendesk.
What is Textio used for? Who is it for?
Textio is used for Textio Feedback, Textio Recruiting, and responsible AI. It's built for People operations teams, People managers, and Talent acquisition teams.
Does Textio have an API and what does it integrate with?
Textio doesn't publish a public API. It integrates with performance management system, HRIS, Workday.
Editor's read
Check whether your rollout needs Workday, HRIS, or performance-management workflow alignment, since Textio's setup guides and workflows are built around those connections. Also verify that the lack of a public API is acceptable for your stack.
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