15Five Public API

Name: 15Five Public API API
Brand: 15Five Public API
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★ Only Publicly Available SpecHR recruitingEmployee Managementbearer11 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Read 15Five performance data and create objectives or recognition entries so an agent can keep goals, check-ins, and team feedback in sync with other HR systems.

Quickstart

Get started with 15Five Public API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create a 15Five objective"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with 15Five Public API API.

Retrieve user profiles and roster data from 15Five for syncing with HRIS systems

Create and read OKR-style objectives so agents can roll up goal progress across teams

Send peer recognition by posting High Fives on behalf of employees

Pull check-in answers and the questions they were asked to summarise weekly status

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Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Spec

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for 15Five Public API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for 15Five Public API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. 15Five is a continuous performance management platform that helps managers and employees track objectives, run weekly check-ins, gather feedback through reviews, and recognise teammates with High Fives. The Public API exposes 11 read and write operations across users, objectives, high fives, questions, answers, and reports so that performance data can be pulled into other HR systems or surfaced to AI agents. It is a focused performance-management surface rather than a full HRIS, designed for syncing engagement and goal-setting data with downstream tools.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use 15Five Public API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Sync Performance Data Into a Central HR Warehouse

People-ops teams running 15Five alongside other HR tools often need a unified view of objectives, check-ins, and recognition events. The 15Five Public API exposes read endpoints for users, objectives, answers, questions, high fives, and reports so an ETL job can pull performance signals on a schedule and load them into a warehouse for analytics. Authentication is bearer-token based and the surface is small enough to map cleanly to a star schema in a few hours.

Fetch all users via /user, then for each user retrieve their objectives via /objective and load the combined dataset into a destination table

Automate Peer Recognition From Chat or Workflow Tools

Teams that want to drive engagement often wire recognition into the tools where work happens — Slack shoutouts, retro boards, or sales-win automations. POST /high-five lets an automation create a recognition entry in 15Five whenever a trigger fires elsewhere, so every public thank-you is also captured in the performance record. Reads on /high-five let downstream dashboards aggregate recognition trends by team or manager.

Call POST /high-five with the recipient user ID and message to record a recognition event, then verify the entry exists by listing recent high fives

Manager Briefing Bot for 1:1s and Reviews

Before a manager meets with a direct report, they need a quick snapshot of objectives in flight, the most recent check-in answers, and any standing questions. The Public API surface — /objective, /question, /answer, and /report — gives an agent everything it needs to generate that briefing without the manager opening 15Five. The API is read-mostly for these resources, so the agent can pre-compute summaries on a cadence.

For a given user ID, fetch their objectives, latest answers, and most recent report, then synthesise a one-page briefing with open goals and recent feedback themes

AI Agent Performance Operations Through Jentic

An AI agent connected to Jentic can drive 15Five performance workflows alongside other HR tools without bespoke integrations. With 15Five operations indexed in Jentic, the agent searches by intent — for example creating an objective or fetching a report — and Jentic returns the right operation with input schema. Bearer credentials stay in the Jentic vault, so the agent never sees the raw token.

Search Jentic for 'create a 15Five objective', load the schema for POST /objective, then execute it with a title, owner user ID, and target date

Key Endpoints

11 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for 15five public api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/user

List all users in the workspace

GET

/user/{userId}

Retrieve a single user by ID

GET

/objective

List objectives

POST

/objective

Create a new objective

GET

/objective/{objectiveId}

Retrieve an objective by ID

POST

/high-five

Post a peer recognition entry

GET

/answer

List check-in answers

GET

/report/{reportId}

Retrieve a single performance report by ID

GET

/user

List all users in the workspace

GET

/user/{userId}

Retrieve a single user by ID

GET

/objective

List objectives

POST

/objective

Create a new objective

GET

/objective/{objectiveId}

Retrieve an objective by ID

POST

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

15Five bearer tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents call 15Five through scoped Jentic execution requests, so the raw Authorization header never enters the agent's context or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent — for example 'create a 15Five objective' or 'get check-in answers for a user' — and Jentic returns the matching operation among the 11 endpoints with its input schema, so the agent picks the right call without browsing the spec.

Time to first call

Direct 15Five integration: 1-2 days to handle bearer auth, pagination, and resource-by-resource client code. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search for the intent, load the schema, execute the call.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Leapsome

Leapsome covers performance reviews, OKRs, and engagement in a single platform similar to 15Five.

Choose Leapsome when the customer already runs reviews, learning, and engagement surveys in one place rather than a check-in-first tool.

Complementary

BambooHR

BambooHR is the system of record for employee data that often feeds the user roster used in 15Five.

Use BambooHR when the agent needs the authoritative HR record — employment status, manager, department — to enrich or filter 15Five performance data.

Complementary

Gusto

Gusto handles payroll and benefits while 15Five handles performance, so the two are commonly paired.

Pair with Gusto when an agent needs to combine pay, tenure, or benefits context with performance signals from 15Five.

Alternative

Workday Performance Enablement

Workday Performance Enablement covers goals and performance reviews inside the Workday HCM suite.

Choose Workday Performance Enablement when the customer is a Workday HCM shop and performance must live inside their existing employee system of record.

FAQs

Specific to using 15Five Public API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for 15Five Public API?

15Five does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call 15Five Public API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the 15Five Public API use?

The API uses HTTP bearer authentication. Every request must include an Authorization header in the form Authorization: Bearer <token>, where the token is generated from a 15Five admin account. When you call 15Five through Jentic, the bearer token is held in the Jentic vault and the agent receives a scoped execution context rather than the raw token.

Can I create objectives programmatically with the 15Five Public API?

Yes. POST /objective creates a new objective and GET /objective lists existing ones, with GET /objective/{objectiveId} for a single record. This makes it possible to provision OKRs from a planning tool or roll quarterly goals down from a parent system without manual entry in 15Five.

How do I send a High Five to recognise a teammate through the API?

Call POST /high-five with the recipient and message in the request body. Reading existing recognition is done with GET /high-five. This is useful for piping shoutouts from chat tools — when a recognition message is detected upstream, the agent posts the high five so it lands in the employee's performance record.

What are the rate limits for the 15Five Public API?

15Five does not publish rate limits in the OpenAPI spec, so production integrations should implement exponential backoff on HTTP 429 responses and cache read-heavy resources such as /user and /question where possible. If you hit limits, reduce concurrency on bulk syncs and stagger jobs across off-peak windows.

How do I summarise check-in data for a manager through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search Jentic for an intent like 'get 15Five check-in answers for a user', load the schema for GET /answer (and GET /question for the prompts), and execute against the target user ID. The agent gets back the answer payload it can summarise without ever holding the bearer token directly.