Pulse survey software for HR and People teams
Asked is pulse survey software for HR and People teams. You send the same three to five questions every week or month, employees answer by text, voice or video in about a minute, and AI groups the answers into themes with sentiment and quotes, so you see what changed since the last round without reading every comment.
Why a pulse needs more than a score
A pulse survey is only useful if it is short and regular. That is also why most of them go stale. A five point scale tells you morale dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 and says nothing about why. By the third round, people stop answering because nothing visibly changed.
The fix is one open question per round that people can answer out loud. Staff who will not type a paragraph will say two honest sentences about their workload while walking back from a meeting. Themes pulled from those answers give you the reason behind the number, and the quotes give you something concrete to bring to managers.
- Keep every round to five questions or fewer so completion stays high.
- Repeat two or three rating questions every round so the trend is comparable.
- Rotate one open question each round, for example workload, manager support or tools.
- Share what you heard and what you will change before the next round goes out.
What Asked does for pulse surveys
- Rating questions and open questions in one short survey, with open questions answered by voice, video or text.
- Anonymous links, so staff answer without logging in or creating an account.
- Automatic transcripts for every recording, searchable across rounds.
- Themes with sentiment and the exact quotes behind each theme.
- A fresh survey per round or per team, read separately or together.
- Share by link, email, QR code or a message in your chat tool, and export to CSV and PDF on every plan.
- Webhooks on Business and up to push finished responses to your own systems.
Pick the questions
Describe what you want to check, for example "how is workload and manager support after the reorg". Asked drafts the survey with two ratings and one open voice question, and you edit it.
Send it on a fixed day
Post the link in your all hands thread or email it every other Tuesday. Same day, same questions, so the trend line means something.
Staff answer in a minute
They tap a rating and record a short voice note or type. No login, no app.
Read the themes and close the loop
Open the summary to see what is rising, what is fading and the quotes behind it. Tell the team what you will fix before the next round.
Who buys pulse survey software
- HR and People leads at companies with 50 to 1,000 employees who outgrew spreadsheets and a form tool.
- Operations managers with shift or field teams who need answers that take a minute on a phone.
- Heads of engineering and product who run a monthly team health check.
- Managers rolling out a reorg, a return to office or a new tool who need an early read.
- Teams that also need onboarding and leaving feedback, covered on the employee survey software page and in exit survey software.
Pulse survey approaches compared
| Approach | Spreadsheet or form tool | Engagement suite | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | An hour per round | Weeks of rollout | Minutes |
| Open answers | Typed, mostly skipped | Typed | Voice, video or text |
| Reading the comments | Manual | Varies by plan | Automatic themes with quotes |
| Who is counted as a seat | Per editor | Often per employee | Only your team, never respondents |
| Best for | A one time check | Large programs with many modules | Regular pulses with honest open answers |
Engagement suites cover performance reviews, goals and org charts, which Asked does not. If you need only the pulse and want to hear the reasons, a focused tool is simpler and cheaper to run.
Pulse survey software pricing
Employees who answer never count as seats, so you pay for the team that reads results. Starter is $49 a month or $24 billed yearly with 5 active surveys and 500 responses a month. Growth is $129 a month or $64 billed yearly with 25 surveys, 2,500 responses and 5 seats, enough for a 200 person company pulsing every two weeks. Business is $299 a month with 15 seats. See pricing for every plan.
FAQ
Pulse survey software sends short, frequent surveys to employees and tracks the answers over time. Asked does this with a link: staff answer ratings and open questions by text, voice or video, and AI turns each round into themes, sentiment and quotes you can compare with the previous round.
Every two to four weeks works for most teams. Weekly suits a fast change such as a reorg or a launch, while quarterly is too slow to count as a pulse. Keep the same days and the same two or three rating questions so the trend stays comparable.
Three to five. Use two or three rating questions you repeat every round and one open question that changes. Anything longer drops completion, and a long survey stops being a pulse and becomes an annual engagement survey.
Yes. Staff open the link in a browser and answer without a login. Anonymous links and reporting by team size keep individual answers private. Voice answers are transcribed, so share with your team how recordings are stored and who can listen.
Asked starts at $49 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, with voice and video answers and AI themes on every plan. Pricing is per workspace, so employees never count as seats. Growth at $129 a month suits companies of a few hundred people.
Find out what your team thinks before the next all hands
Describe the check you want to run and Asked drafts the pulse survey, ready to send today.