Performance

1:1s with a shared agenda and genuinely private notes

Both of you build the agenda and the shared notes. Your private notes are yours alone — the other person cannot read them, and neither can an admin.

Free for every team. No seat caps, no credit card, no paid tier.

Private means private

Each person's private note is stored separately and is only ever returned to its author. Not to the other participant, and not to a workspace admin.

An agenda both people own

Either person can add items before the meeting, so nothing gets lost because only one of you was preparing.

Action items that carry forward

Agree something in the meeting and it stays on the record with an owner, rather than living in somebody's notebook.

Why privacy is the whole feature

A manager only writes something honest in their 1:1 notes if they are certain nobody else will read it. That is why TruePulse stores each private note as a separate record addressed to its author, and why there is no administrative view of them anywhere in the product. Being able to read everybody's private notes would quietly stop anyone writing anything worth reading.

Admins are not in the room

Workspace admins cannot read 1:1 content and cannot schedule somebody else's 1:1. A private conversation between two people is not an administrative object. TruePulse treats a request for a meeting you are not part of as though the meeting does not exist.

Admins see that it is happening, not what was said

Whoever runs the workspace can see which managers are holding 1:1s and which reports have gone months without one — who met whom, and when, with the longest gaps first. They see dates and counts only. Agendas, shared notes and private notes never appear on that screen, and no admin role can reach them. Knowing coaching is happening is a fair thing to ask; reading it is not.

The rest is shared on purpose

Agenda, shared notes and action items are visible to both of you and editable by both, so the meeting has a record neither person has to reconstruct afterwards.

Questions

Can my manager see my private notes?
No. Private notes are returned only to whoever wrote them. You can see that the other person has written one, but never what it says — and the same applies to them.
Can an HR admin read 1:1 notes?
No. There is no administrative view of 1:1 content in TruePulse at all, by design.
Can an admin tell whether managers are holding 1:1s?
Yes — an admin sees who has met whom and when, per manager, so a team that has gone months without a 1:1 is visible. It is dates and counts only: never the agenda, the shared notes or anyone's private notes.
Who can schedule a 1:1?
Either person in the pair — a manager with their report, or a report with their manager. Nobody else, including admins.

Everything TruePulse does is free

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