What's a Pulse?

A pulse is a very short survey — usually four or five questions — that pops up in the bottom-right of your browser when you're on an AI tool's website. It takes about ten seconds.

Why "pulse" and not "survey"

Surveys are the long, dread-filled form your company sends you once a year. We didn't want to build that. A pulse is closer to the heart-rate idea: a brief check-in while you're using the tool, when the answer is fresh in your mind, that takes a few seconds and asks only what's necessary.

What it asks

It branches based on your first answer.

If you used the tool today, you'll see:

1. Did you use {tool} today? (yes)
2. How much time did you save?
3. Which areas did it help with? (speed, accuracy, decisions, repetitive tasks, research…)
4. How satisfied are you with it? (1–5)
5. Anything else you want to add? (optional free text — most people skip)

If you didn't use it today, you'll see:

1. Did you use {tool} today? (no)
2. Why not? (no need, don't know how, not working for me, forgot, other)
3. Anything else? (optional)

That's it. Two-question path if you didn't use it, four or five if you did.

How often you'll see it

Once per day at most, per tool. So if your company has four AI tools and you visit all four in a day, you might see four pulses spread across the day — but you won't get spammed for the same tool.

If your company has set the cadence to weekly or fortnightly (some do), it'll be even less frequent.

You don't have to answer every time

A pulse can be dismissed by clicking outside it or pressing escape. There's no penalty. The next one will appear at its scheduled time. That said — if you skip every pulse, the data your company gets becomes less useful, which is what they're trying to avoid in the first place. Even one or two answers a week makes a meaningful difference.

Why the questions are bucketed (not free-form)

You'll notice "How much time did you save?" gives you choices like "Up to 30 mins", "30–60 mins", "1–2 hours", rather than asking for a precise number. That's deliberate — nobody actually knows precisely how much time they saved, and asking for a number invites people to over- or under-claim. Buckets are honest, easy to pick, and aggregate cleanly.

Why "I lost time because of it" is an option

Because sometimes a tool wastes your morning rather than saving it. We genuinely want that data — it's how the company learns which tools to drop. There's no judgement attached to picking it.

A note on the free-text comment

Your name is never shown next to your comment. Admins see comments anonymously — the text only, with no attribution. But if the comment itself identifies you (e.g. "as the only person on the finance team who uses Claude…"), the words themselves can give you away.

Rule of thumb: keep the comment about the tool, not about your specific situation. Short, tool-focused comments are the most useful anyway. If you'd like to be sure you can't be identified, the best move is to not write anything in the comment field at all — it's entirely optional.

See Who sees my answers? for the full privacy picture.

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