Lattice Performance Management API

Lattice's API provides programmatic access to performance review cycles, OKR/goal tracking, employee engagement surveys, 1-on-1 meeting notes, and compensation management data for people-ops automation.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
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⚙ Agent Friendliness
57
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
84
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
80
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
0
Documentation
75
Error Messages
74
Auth Simplicity
78
Rate Limits
76

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
100
Auth Strength
82
Scope Granularity
78
Dep. Hygiene
80
Secret Handling
82

TLS enforced on all endpoints. API keys are long-lived and should be treated as secrets; rotation requires manual intervention in the admin portal. OAuth scopes provide reasonable product-area granularity but cannot restrict access to specific review cycles or employee subsets.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
85
Version Stability
78
Breaking Changes
75
Error Recovery
80
AF Security Reliability

Best When

Your organization uses Lattice as its performance and engagement platform and you want to automate review cycles, goal syncing, or surface people-analytics data in other tools.

Avoid When

You need a full HRIS or payroll system — Lattice is a performance layer that works alongside an HRIS, not a replacement for one.

Use Cases

  • Trigger performance review cycle creation and send automated review reminders based on employee anniversary dates fetched from an HRIS
  • Read completed review scores and comments to populate a manager dashboard or feed into a compensation calibration workflow
  • Sync OKR progress updates from a project management tool into Lattice goal records to keep performance data current
  • Query engagement survey results and eNPS trends to surface early signals of attrition risk to an HR analytics agent
  • Create and assign 1-on-1 meeting agendas automatically based on upcoming review cycles or goal check-in cadences

Not For

  • Payroll processing or compensation disbursement — Lattice manages compensation planning data but does not execute payments
  • Applicant tracking or recruiting workflows — Lattice focuses on post-hire employee lifecycle, not candidate management
  • Time tracking or scheduling — workforce management functions are outside Lattice's scope

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
Yes
gRPC
No
MCP Server
No
SDK
No
Webhooks
Yes

Authentication

Methods: api_key oauth2
OAuth: Yes Scopes: Yes

API key authentication is available for server-to-server integrations. OAuth 2.0 is supported for user-delegated access. Scopes map to Lattice product areas (performance, goals, surveys, compensation). Keys are generated per integration in the Lattice admin settings panel.

Pricing

Model: enterprise
Free tier: No
Requires CC: No

A developer sandbox is available via the Lattice partner program. Direct customers get API access through their existing subscription admin portal.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
cursor
Idempotent
Partial
Retry Guidance
Documented

Known Gotchas

  • Review cycle IDs are not stable across environments — sandbox cycle IDs cannot be used to test production flows without re-fetching current cycle state
  • The GraphQL schema evolves frequently with new performance and compensation features; agents must handle unknown fields gracefully or pin to a schema version
  • Employee records in Lattice use Lattice-internal IDs that must be mapped from your HRIS employee IDs — no direct lookup by email or external ID in all endpoints
  • Engagement survey responses are anonymized at the API layer when group sizes are below a configurable threshold; agents querying survey data may receive null or aggregated responses unexpectedly
  • Webhook delivery is not guaranteed to be in-order for performance review state transitions; agents must fetch current state after receiving any event rather than inferring state from event sequence

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.

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