Lattice Just Made Performance Data Talk to Your AI — and Measure Its Own ROI

At Lattiverse 2026 in San Francisco, Lattice made two announcements that could change how HR leaders think about performance management and AI measurement. First: Lattice is now the first performance platform to implement MCP — the Model Context Protocol — meaning managers can pull live performance data directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, and other AI tools without switching tabs. Second: AI Leverage Insights, a new feature designed to answer the question most organizations still can't: is our AI investment actually working? This episode breaks down what MCP means in practice for managers — no more tab-switching to reconstruct employee history before a review — and why Lattice's AI ROI signal is different from the token-count dashboards that currently pass for AI analytics in most organizations. We also connect Lattice's performance-side innovations to the hiring side of the talent lifecycle, where OVI's AI-native ATS handles CV screening and audio-only candidate interviews — creating a quality-signal chain that runs from first screen to performance review.