Ordo – Outcome-Based Performance & Compensation System
Full-Stack Engineer
A full-stack performance management platform that enables clear goal setting, evidence-based execution tracking, fair evaluations, and transparent performance-linked payouts—built entirely on Next.js with a strong audit and access-control foundation.
"Performance systems earn trust when incentives, evaluations, and payouts are measurable, explainable, and permanently traceable."
Problem
Most performance management systems rely on subjective reviews, opaque scoring, and disconnected compensation workflows, leading to misaligned incentives, distrust, and disputes between employees and management.
Solution
Built a unified performance system where goals are measurable, progress is verifiable, evaluations are structured, and compensation is directly derived from performance—fully auditable and protected by strict role-based access control.
Architecture
A single full-stack Next.js application using the App Router and server actions for backend logic. Authentication is JWT-based using jose, with Prisma handling database access and schema migrations. PostgreSQL is hosted on Neon. Core domains include roles, goal templates, goals, check-ins, evaluations, payouts, notifications, and audit logging. The system emphasizes strong invariants, snapshot-based calculations, and immutable audit records. Deployed on Heroku with a production custom domain.
Key Features
- ✓Role-based goal templates and structured goal creation
- ✓Automatic goal scoring and point-based performance system
- ✓Progress tracking with check-ins and proof of work
- ✓Evaluator approvals, edits, and structured evaluations (0–100%)
- ✓Performance-linked compensation (cash, deferred, equity)
- ✓Snapshot-based payout computation for traceability
- ✓Strict role-based access control (Employee, Evaluator, Admin)
- ✓Append-only audit trail with field-level diffs
- ✓Automated reminders and policy breach alerts
- ✓Executive dashboards for performance insights
Deep Dive
Ordo is a full-stack performance management and compensation platform built entirely on Next.js.
Employees create goals from predefined role-based templates, ensuring alignment with company priorities. Each goal automatically carries a point value, making performance comparable across roles.
Execution is tracked through structured check-ins where employees log progress and attach proof of work. Evaluators approve goals, record 0–100% performance evaluations, and must provide reasons for edits or overrides. All changes are captured with field-level diffs.
At the end of a cycle, Ordo converts performance scores into payouts. Admins configure payout weights (cash, deferred, equity), and the system computes earned amounts while snapshotting all inputs and outputs for future verification.
The platform enforces strict role-based access, maintains an append-only audit trail for every write operation, and sends automated reminders and alerts for deadlines, overdue evaluations, and policy breaches.
Leader dashboards surface execution health, alignment with priorities, and performance trends across teams.
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Duration
Multi-phase (V1–V3)
Team Size
1 person
Impact
Designed and implemented a transparent, auditable performance system that directly links goal execution to compensation, reducing subjectivity and disputes.