Pulseby Defib
Feel the room.
Live polling for meetings. Everyone answers now, from their own phone, and the result lands on the big screen. Ask. Tap. Watch it land.
Shock your meetings back to life.
Every meeting has a heartbeat. Most of them flatline. Defib makes Pulse and Offbeat: anonymous polls that get the whole room answering, live on the big screen or in people’s own time.
Try a live poll opens a public demo at defib.live. A simulated room answers alongside you, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Could this meeting have been a poll?
The enemy is the flatline.
- The meeting that could have been a poll
- The silence after “any questions?”
- The same three people answering everything
- The survey nobody opens
One person talks, eleven check their phones, and nobody says what they think. Defib makes the tools that put a pulse back in the room.
What does the room really think?
X-Ray is the answer. Eight more tools in Pulse back it up, and all nine are in the app today.
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The answer
X-Ray
See what the room really thinks. Then see what it thought it thought.
After answering, each person taps the answer they expect to be the most popular. The result shows what the room thinks beside what it guessed, and names the biggest gap. It works on yes or no and pick-one questions, and only totals are ever shown.
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Clear!
Everyone answers. Then everyone sees, at the same moment.
Mark a question as a decision moment and nobody sees the result while voting is open, the host included: only how many have answered. One press reveals it to everyone at once, so nobody copies the boss. The host can then record what was decided in a decision log.
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Murmur
A quiet way to say what nobody says out loud.
Three quiet buttons on the voter’s page: “We’re off track”, “I’m lost” and “We could stop here”. The host is told only when enough people have the same one pressed, and never who or how many.
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Shock deck
Wake up a quiet room in one tap.
Thirty ready-made warm-ups, energy checks, quick opinions and fun questions. Pick one and it opens for voting in the live session straight away, or press “Surprise me”.
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Crash cart
A whole meeting’s questions, ready-made.
Nine kits that each create a complete session in one go, with its questions already written. Open it and start asking.
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Triage
Let the room cut the agenda.
Paste today’s agenda, from two to ten items, and the room votes on which ones really need covering. Pulse then names the item the room wanted least.
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Jolt
Someone in the room is arguing the other side. Nobody knows who.
Pulse secretly gives one person, or two in a room of 12 or more, the job of making the best case against the plan. Every phone gets the same sealed card, so anyone can push back. Push-backs show on the big screen with no name, and the room then votes: did that change your mind?
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Discharge
Done early? Ask, then give the time back.
The host asks the room “Discharge early?” and every phone gets a one-tap vote: Yes or Not yet. A meeting that ends before its planned length shows the minutes it gave back.
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Vitals
Every repeating meeting has a heartbeat.
When a repeating meeting ends, each phone gets one anonymous tap: “Was this worth your time?”. Vitals shows each meeting series as a heartbeat line with a score from 0 to 100 and one word: Healthy, Weak or Flatlining.
The figures and meeting names in these drawings are samples, invented for this page.
What we promise.
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Anonymous by design
No names and no sign-in for voters. It is the first thing we say and the last thing we would trade away. How anonymity works
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Thirty seconds to the first vote
A code, a tap, a result. Voters install nothing and create no account.
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The room gets louder
Quiet people answer. The loud ones see they are not the whole room.
Every voice, on the beat or off it.
One polling family in two tempos.
Offbeatby Defib
Answers in their own time.
The same poll, sent by email and open for as long as you choose. The results go out when it closes. The poll that waits for you.
- 0names, sign-ins or IP addresses stored for voters
- 6characters to join: one code, or scan the QR
- 0apps to install, for the host or the room
- 3languages on every screen: English, Spanish, French
Where it earns its place.
Any meeting where the honest answer is worth more than the polite one.
All-hands and town halls
Ask the whole company one question and watch the answer build on the big screen. The quiet majority finally shows up.
Live with PulseRetros and stand-ups
Pace, mood, what to stop doing. Ask the same questions each sprint and see how the answers move.
Live with PulseTraining and workshops
Check what landed before people leave the room, or send the question afterwards and let them answer when they are ready.
In their own time with OffbeatClient reviews
Ask clients how it is really going, without putting anyone on the spot in front of their own team.
In their own time with Offbeat
Two things to play with.
No account, nothing stored, nothing sent.
No names. No sign-in. Just your honest take.
Voters never create an account, and we store no names, IP addresses or device details for them. Not for the host, not for an admin, not for us.
Get early access.
Pulse and Offbeat are in early access. Admissions are open: open a free workspace in a couple of minutes. The free plan is the only plan, and there is nothing to buy. Questions first? Write to us.