Pietential

Pietential is a science-backed wellbeing intelligence platform that measures what truly matters and transforms how organizations understand and support their people. For employers aiming to boost engagement, retention, and performance, the company addresses a fundamental question: How are our people really doing? By combining scientific rigor with practical clarity, Pietential provides leaders with a continuous, data-driven view of holistic wellbeing across their workforce.

Measuring What Drives the HR KPIs That Matter

HR metrics such as engagement, performance, and retention are critical to organizational success—but they are lagging indicators. Pietential focuses instead on the foundation of these metrics: employee wellbeing. Its psychometrically validated, reliability-tested assessment is grounded in Maslow’s “Hierarchy” of Needs, re-engineered as a dynamic five-domain (and 20 subdomain) model that captures the whole person rather than a fleeting sentiment about the company.

Pietential is the only fully objective, unconflicted (free of upsell bias), psychometrically validated employee wellbeing platform on the market. There are no hidden referrals to paid coaching or point solutions—every recommendation reflects employee needs alone. This objectivity is core to the platform’s credibility with HR leaders, CFOs, benefits consultants, and—most importantly—employees.

From Insight to Action in Real Time

Pietential’s Wellbeing Intelligence Platform (WIP) transforms a market of static surveys into live, actionable wellbeing intelligence. Companies can be up and running with Pietential in about 30 minutes, with no mandatory integrations. Employees take a brief (about five-minute) assessment and receive instant visualizations of their wellbeing, along with deep insights into their scores, an AI wellbeing companion (MyMazlow™), and guided self-development exercises in the Actualize It™ section.

Organizations, in turn, gain a real-time picture of wellbeing via dashboards that reveal patterns across individuals, cohorts, departments, or entire populations. The platform’s monitoring capabilities—built for longitudinal studies and rapid gap analysis—allow HR teams to see changes as they occur. Whether used monthly, quarterly, or in response to key events, Pietential provides early warning of risk and evidence of program impact.

Just as importantly, Pietential can show conclusively whether existing point solutions, EAPs, or wellbeing programs are improving wellbeing—and for whom—at a fraction of what companies already spend on their HR tech stack.

Supporting High-Burnout, Wellbeing-Focused Industries and Companies

Pietential helps organizations in sectors where wellbeing is both critical and at risk—such as healthcare, education, and professional services—as well as workplaces with young, diverse, and highly engaged workforces. A fast-scaling company can use Pietential to detect dips in belonging and safety among new hires—insights that traditional engagement surveys often miss. By surfacing these early indicators, leaders gain a clear picture of where support is needed and which employee groups are at higher risk of disengagement or turnover.

A Partner for the Future of Work

With rapid, zero-integration deployment and multi-modal adoption (both top-down and employee-driven), Pietential is built to scale from small businesses to global enterprises. The company is already partnering with leading payroll and benefits providers to bring science-backed wellbeing intelligence to millions of employees.

“Pietential believes, as do millions of organizations worldwide, that employee wellbeing isn’t a perk or an afterthought; it is the foundation of every key HR outcome,” says John Starling, co-founder and CEO. “Moreover, measuring what matters helps organizations focus resources where they make the greatest difference to the growth of their people—and that grows their organizations.”