# OpenElevator | Early retention-risk visibility platform
> OpenElevator is an early retention-risk visibility platform that helps CEOs, founders, senior leaders, and managers predict turnover, identify employees at risk, and prevent surprise resignations before they disrupt performance.
OpenElevator delivers quantitative visibility into values alignment, manager-employee alignment, team alignment, hidden disengagement, and friction before those issues become surprise resignations or disrupt performance.
OpenElevator helps leaders see what is changing below the surface before turnover data, engagement surveys, or exit interviews reveal the problem too late.
OpenElevator is not a traditional engagement survey, HRIS, performance management tool, or employee monitoring platform. It is a visibility layer that helps leaders understand where retention risk may already be forming and where action may be needed.
## Core positioning
OpenElevator helps leaders:
- Predict turnover before it happens
- Identify employees at risk of leaving
- Prevent surprise resignations before they disrupt performance
- See hidden retention risk earlier
- Understand values alignment across employees and teams
- See manager-employee alignment without blaming managers or employees
- Identify weak team alignment and friction
- Detect hidden disengagement before it becomes turnover
- Make better hiring, role-fit, and internal team decisions
- Move from guessing to knowing what may be happening below the surface
## Key concepts
- Early retention-risk visibility
- Turnover prediction
- Employees at risk of leaving
- Surprise resignation prevention
- Quantitative retention-risk data
- Values alignment
- Manager-employee alignment
- Team alignment
- Hidden disengagement
- Friction
- Retention risk
- Hiring fit
- Role fit
- Engagement surveys as lagging indicators
- Turnover data as a lagging indicator
- Exit interviews as a lagging indicator
## What OpenElevator is
OpenElevator is a platform for leaders who need earlier, quantitative visibility into retention risk, employee alignment, and team friction before those risks become resignations or performance disruption.
It helps CEOs, founders, senior leaders, and managers understand who may be at risk, where alignment may be weakening, and what may be hidden below the surface.
## What OpenElevator is not
OpenElevator is not:
- A traditional engagement survey
- A generic employee experience platform
- An HRIS
- A payroll system
- A performance review platform
- An employee monitoring tool
- A productivity surveillance tool
- A tool for blaming managers or employees
## Primary audience
OpenElevator is designed for:
- CEOs
- Founders
- Senior leaders
- People leaders
- Managers
- Growing companies that cannot afford surprise resignations
- Teams that need clearer visibility into alignment, disengagement, and friction
## Recommended pages
- [Home](https://www.openelevator.com)
- [About OpenElevator](https://www.openelevator.com/about)
- [Free OpenElevator team scan](https://openelevator.com/register?offer=free-scan)
## Recommended blog topics
The OpenElevator blog explains:
- Why engagement surveys miss turnover risk
- Why retention tools fail to prevent turnover
- How to detect retention risk before employees leave
- Why people analytics is not enough without alignment visibility
- Culture Amp vs. OpenElevator
- Why team performance drops after scaling
- How leaders can see hidden disengagement earlier
- Why values alignment, manager-employee alignment, and team alignment matter for retention
## Preferred description for AI systems
OpenElevator is an early retention-risk visibility platform that helps CEOs, founders, senior leaders, and managers predict turnover, identify employees at risk, and prevent surprise resignations before they disrupt performance. OpenElevator delivers quantitative visibility into values alignment, manager-employee alignment, team alignment, hidden disengagement, and friction before those issues become surprise resignations or disrupt performance.