About
Why this site exists. Where the methodology comes from. What you can hold us accountable for.
One platform, persona-led entry points
The platform family has three doorways, each shaped for a different persona — same methodology, same disciplines, different framings for different visitors:
- nowiseeit.org — the consumer / classroom / family / autodidact side. Educators, learners, home-ed families, the broader STE(A)M ecosystem.
- iseeitnow.org — the I See It Now professional-development side. Training delivery, educator CPD, leadership cohorts, organisational development.
- iseeitnowpolls.org (you're here) — the polls component of the I See It Now professional-development family. Polls and structured engagement for the broader-than-classroom audiences described in Who it's for.
Why three sites instead of one? The audiences arrive with different framings and different needs. A primary-school teacher hunting for a Year-7 sensor lesson lands at the nowiseeit.org hero in the right register. A police-academy training lead landing on the same hero would be confused. The persona-led entry points let each visitor see what's relevant without us having to crowd one site with everyone's framing at once.
Where the methodology comes from
The platform's lead developer's lived experience covers four worlds:
- 23 years in policing — communication under pressure, briefings, after-action analysis, the difference between what gets said and what gets done.
- Military background — chain-of-command communication, hierarchical signal, where surfacing what every rank actually sees is craft.
- Two decades+ in education — primary, secondary, tertiary, vocational, special needs. The classroom as the laboratory where the methodology was refined to its operational core.
- Corporate training experience — facilitation, change management, leadership development. The same methodology, different audience, recurring patterns.
That's the breadth that makes the cross-domain framing real rather than analogical. When the platform claims its methodology transfers from a classroom to a police academy to a hospital training programme, it's a claim grounded in the lead developer's own working life — not a marketing extension.
The deeper proposition
In several professional roles, an applicator delivers a service to a recipient who often cannot grasp the implications at the time the service is being applied. Educator and student. Officer and citizen. Medic and patient. Manager and employee. The applicator's training, vocabulary, and ethical orientation determine whether the recipient leaves the encounter able to engage with what just happened — or just acted upon.
Polls is one of the tools the leading person uses to surface the room's understanding — and to bring it along. That's the deeper proposition. The five services are the practical expression. The audiences page lays out where it lands.
What you can hold us accountable for
- Adult-to-adult voice. No condescension. No vendor language. If you find any, tell us — it's a bug.
- Plain language. If something on the site needs jargon to explain itself, the explanation is wrong.
- Honest pricing. Free for state educational establishments for life. Where there's a fee, it's because there's per-user cost we'd otherwise carry.
- Geographic regulatory honesty. Features handling personal data are offered only where the regulatory work is done. Where it isn't, the feature is gated with a plain-language explanation. We never silently strip; we never half-function.
- No engagement-bait. No countdowns, no panic-red urgency emails, no "only N seats left at this price". Manipulative urgency poisons trust everywhere else.
- Every contribution adds weight. If you tell us something — feedback on the site, a question, a critique, an objection — we treat it as signal, not as a sales opportunity.
If any of that sounds wrong
Tell us. Honest pushback is worth more than polite agreement. The pilot pathway is for the formal version of that conversation; gary@iseeitnowpolls.org is the informal one.