Product Updates

Cleaner Evaluation Form PDFs: Grouped Reviewer Responses

Written by Katherine Allen | Jun 2, 2026 4:46:10 PM

A PDF export should make an evaluation easier to read, not harder. That sounds obvious, but repetitive formatting had been getting in the way for a while. Flo is the fastest shipping company in the legal talent industry, and this kind of polish is exactly where that speed shows up: a real friction point, identified and fixed.

The problem

When multiple reviewers selected the same response on an evaluation form, the exported PDF listed each one on its own line. So if three reviewers all answered "Yes" to a competency question, you would see:

  • Reviewer / Yes
  • Reviewer / Yes
  • Reviewer / Yes
Multiply that across a multi-reviewer evaluation with a dozen competency questions, and the PDF ballooned fast. Scrolling through pages of repeated identical responses made it harder, not easier, to pull out the signal. Professional Development and HR teams told us the exports were getting unwieldy, especially for evaluations with larger reviewer pools.

What we shipped

We updated the evaluation form PDF export to group identical reviewer responses and display them as a single consolidated entry. Instead of three separate "Reviewer / Yes" lines, you now see something like:

  • Yes (3), Marcus · Suzanne · Thomas

The count tells you how many reviewers chose that response, and the names are listed right alongside it. Nothing is hidden or averaged away. If a reviewer added a comment to their response, that response still appears on its own line so the comment stays attached to the right person. The grouping only applies when responses are identical and uncommented, so no detail is lost.

Why it matters

For Talent and HR teams, evaluation PDFs are working documents. They go into review meetings, get shared with practice group leaders, and sometimes end up in a lawyer's personnel file. A shorter, better-organized export is easier to read in the room and easier to archive.

The change also scales well. A five-reviewer evaluation might save a page or two. A fifteen-reviewer evaluation could save considerably more. The larger the review panel, the bigger the payoff.

And because commented responses still display individually, reviewers who took the time to write something do not get collapsed into a number. The format rewards specificity without penalizing everyone else with extra pages.

This is one piece of a broader round of PDF improvements coming over the next few weeks. If you are running evaluations today and want to see how this looks in your own setup, book a demo and we can walk through it with you. And if something in your export workflow is still slowing you down, keep telling us. This gets better the more you push back on it.