The five services
Each tuned for a specific kind of moment. One admin surface across all five.
Base Day1 — quick decisions
Closed-question polls run on a single screen. The room sees the question, picks an option, and the result lands in front of everyone. Useful when the question is well-formed and the goal is to land a decision the room can stand behind.
- Use it when: the question is concrete and the room needs to commit to a direction.
- Don't use it when: you don't yet know what the question is — that's where FFA comes in.
- Live at: base.iseeitnowpolls.org
FFA — open contributions, surfaced honestly
Free-for-all open submission. Anyone in the room can type a contribution; the facilitator surfaces them as they arrive. Crucially: contributions can be anonymous, so the room hears what people actually think — not the rehearsed version they'd say if their name was attached.
- Use it when: you need honest signal — what people are noticing, worrying about, or quietly seeing differently from the leadership view.
- Don't use it when: you already know the question and just need to land a decision — Base Day1 is the tool then.
- Why it works for high-stakes contexts: the anonymity is what unlocks the contribution. Officers, employees, students, patients — they speak more honestly when the contribution stands on its own rather than on their position in the room.
Meeting Mode — meetings that move
A structured agenda is shown to the room. As each item is discussed, the facilitator captures the decision live; the room sees what was agreed and what's outstanding. The meeting ends with a clean record of what was actually decided — not somebody's reconstruction days later.
- Use it when: you have an agenda and want the room to leave with a shared record of decisions and owners.
- Don't use it when: the meeting's purpose is open exploration with no agenda — FFA fits that.
HQ Admin — one surface, many rooms
When you're running polls across multiple sessions, departments, classrooms, or cohorts, HQ is the single admin view. Configuration, history, response export, and access control all live here. Designed so the operator can see at a glance what's happening across the whole programme without having to log in to each instance separately.
- Use it when: the polling is part of a larger programme — a curriculum, a multi-week leadership cohort, a department-wide review.
- Cross-cutting feature: response data exports cleanly for follow-up analysis. The platform's discipline on data: only operational metadata is logged for support purposes; user contributions stay where the user expects them.
AI Bridge — optional AI assistance, transparent when on
An optional layer that summarises open submissions, drafts follow-up questions, or surfaces patterns across many responses. Off by default. When on, every AI touch is named — the user knows when AI is reading, what it's reading, and what comes back. Honest about cost: non-English processing uses more tokens; we tell users plainly.
- Use it when: you have a lot of open contributions and need help spotting themes — but the AI is summarising, not deciding.
- Don't use it when: the personal-data sensitivity is high enough that AI processing would compromise trust. The platform offers it; the operator decides where it fits.
- What never happens: AI does not make decisions. Suggestions come with reasoning shown so the operator (and the room, if surfaced) can dissent.
Not sure which fits your context?
The interactive find-your-fit demo asks where you'd use polling, how often, and at what scale; suggests one or two of the five services that fit; and shows the reasoning trail so you can disagree.