Built from real HR consulting, not a pitch deck

The origin

Almaware is a software consultancy from Bergamo, Italy. For years we built systems for a company in the labour-market sector — and something kept happening: their clients followed our work. They asked who built it, and whether we could build for them too.

The recurring request was always the same: performance management that people actually use. Not a 40-module HR suite, not a spreadsheet graveyard — a tool that runs review cycles, keeps objectives honest, and connects results to rewards without a consultant on retainer.

So we built it as a product. TalentRewards is that answer: the tool we kept being asked for, built once, properly, for everyone who asked.

What we believe

Performance management should be honest and lightweight. Reviews exist to make people better at their jobs, not to produce paperwork. Objectives should be visible, feedback should be continuous, and when performance drives pay, the math should be transparent and auditable.

And software for people data should be European by design: hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant from the schema up, with AI that assists humans instead of judging them — the way the EU AI Act says it should work.

Why EU-first matters

Most performance tools are built elsewhere and retrofitted for Europe. We did the opposite: EU hosting, GDPR workflows (consent, export, erasure, retention) and native-language support for English, Italian, Spanish, German and French are design constraints we started from — including AI that writes feedback in the author's own language, because feedback in a second language is worse feedback.