One platform. Unlimited surveys. Flat annual price.

Pricing depends on audience size, survey complexity, and Done-For-You scope. We’ll send a written quote within one business day.

The full feature list

All 78 platform capabilities in one place, grouped by area. Expand a group to see everything in it.

• Build surveys fast · 8 features

  Template library	Start from ready-made survey templates, global or your own, or build from scratch. Save any survey as a reusable template.
  12 question types	Short text, long text, number, single choice, multiple choice, dropdown, four matrix types (radio, checkbox, number, percentage), matrix dropdown, and a dedicated compensation panel.
  Smart Suggest	Type a question and the builder infers the right answer type, seeding options, help text, and matrix rows and columns automatically, with a "why this type" explanation.
  Conditional logic	Show or hide questions based on prior answers, with AND/OR rules, matrix wildcards, a visual logic graph, and a raw-expression escape hatch.
  Live preview & preview-as-viewer	See the survey render as you edit, and preview results exactly as a taker, viewer, or subscriber will see them, including confidentiality redaction.
  Customize per survey, safely	Include or exclude sections and questions for one survey without altering the shared template.
  Power tools	Undo/redo, find and replace, question snippets, bulk table edit, drag-to-reorder sections, an outline minimap, publish preflight checks, and keyboard shortcuts.
  Import from Excel / SurveyMonkey	Bring an existing survey and its historical responses in from a spreadsheet export, with automatic question-type classification and a human review queue before anything commits.

• Compensation & benefits data, done right · 7 features

  Occupation-by-level wage grids	Collect pay ranges per occupation and career level, the way compensation surveys actually work.
  BLS occupation picker	Choose from standard SOC occupations, searchable by title or code, add custom roles, or enter free-form occupations.
  Career-level templates	Prebuilt level ladders for trade, professional, administrative, production, management, and executive roles.
  Hourly & annual rate units	Respondents enter wages in their natural unit; the platform tracks the unit per role and reports hourly and annual figures without distorting the data.
  Rich statistics	10th/25th/50th/75th/90th percentiles, mean, median, min/max, standard deviation, and bell-curve distribution buckets.
  Total-compensation breakdown	Base salary, other cash, and total cash split out per role.
  Extra role data	Optionally capture headcount, average tenure, shift differential, turnover, and fill difficulty per occupation.

• Confidentiality & safe harbor · 7 features

  Automatic low-count suppression	Any question answered by fewer than N distinct businesses (default 5, configurable) is automatically redacted, so no single employer can be identified.
  Per-occupation cell protection	Even when a question clears the threshold overall, any individual occupation reported by too few businesses is independently hidden.
  Re-identification defense	Only questions you designate as filter axes can be used to slice results, preventing anyone from narrowing a filter down to a single employer.
  Consent-gated open text	"Other" free-text answers only appear in results when the respondent agrees to share them.
  Exclude questions or responses	Remove a sensitive question or an outlier response from published results with one click.
  Configurable threshold, per survey	Set the safe-harbor minimum that fits your program.
  Admin vs. audience views	Managers review complete data internally while every external audience automatically gets the protected view, and managers can preview exactly what each audience will see.

• Invite & manage participants · 8 features

  Bulk invite roster	Add participants in a structured table, paste directly from a spreadsheet, or upload a CSV with a downloadable template.
  Import roster from a previous survey	Reuse last year’s invitee list with a preview and picker.
  Participant deduplication	Existing participants are matched and reused instead of duplicated, with case-insensitive email matching and automatic business de-duplication.
  Cross-account safeguards	An email already registered to another account is flagged rather than silently attached.
  Successor mapping	Match this year’s respondents to their prior-year records to power trends and answer prefill.
  Invite by email or by link	Send branded email invitations, or generate shareable links for manual outreach.
  Throttled, staggered sending	Invitations fan out at a controlled rate to protect deliverability.
  Resend, re-invite & request-to-join	Re-send to non-responders, and let interested businesses request an invitation.

• The respondent experience · 9 features

  One-click, passwordless sign-in	Magic-link invitations drop respondents straight into their survey; corporate email scanners cannot burn the link before the person clicks.
  Autosave & save-and-exit	Answers save automatically with a live status indicator; leaving flushes any pending save so nothing is lost.
  Section navigator & progress	A clear side navigator with per-section answered counts, flexible or enforced ordering, and a configurable progress display.
  Matrix "mark N/A"	Respondents can mark a single row, or an entire matrix, as not applicable, satisfying required questions cleanly.
  Guided compensation entry	A dedicated multi-step widget: grouped, searchable occupation picker, per-role wage pages, hourly/annual toggle, and a fast roles navigator that scales to thousands of roles.
  Year-over-year prefill	Returning respondents see last year’s answers pre-filled to review and update, with a "welcome back" banner.
  Review & submit gate	A final summary shows what is complete, in progress, or missing, and only allows submission when all required questions are answered.
  Accessible & responsive	WCAG-AA-minded design, full keyboard navigation, and layouts that work on any device.
  Staff-assisted entry	Internal team members can complete or edit a survey on a respondent’s behalf.

• Notifications & reminders · 8 features

  Invitations & welcome emails	Branded survey invitations and combined welcome-and-invite messages for first-time participants.
  Automated reminders	Configurable nudges to respondents who have not started or finished, "closing soon" reminders, and outstanding-count digests to owners.
  Submission receipts	Respondents get a confirmation the moment they submit.
  Results-ready notices	Owners and submitting respondents are notified automatically when results are compiled and released.
  Weekly running-survey digest	A Monday summary of in-flight surveys with CSV attachments.
  Owner activity notifications	Survey launched, taker submitted, closing soon, closed, results ready, late response, member added, and weekly digest, each individually toggleable.
  Email delivery tracking	Live delivery status (sent, delivered, bounced, failed) plus opens and clicks flow back onto respondent rows and the activity feed.
  Trustworthy by design	Enumeration-safe flows, per-account branding, timezone-aware dates, and a security receipt whenever a password changes.

• Results, analytics & auto-reporting · 9 features

  Reports build themselves	When a survey closes, results compile automatically into a full internal view and a safe-harbor-protected audience view, then wait on your release.
  Aggregated dashboards	Histograms, stacked bars, matrix heatmaps, and compensation panels, with Charts / Data / Both view modes.
  Compensation panels	Median wage ranges, respondent counts, percentiles, and per-occupation search and sorting.
  Powerful filtering	Slice results by chosen values, AND across questions, OR within a question, and control which questions are filterable.
  Year-over-year trends	Multi-year trend series, compare mode, and deltas by percent, points, or value, sourced from the linked predecessor survey.
  Respondent & business views	A participating-businesses roster with configurable column visibility, plus searchable open-text responses.
  Cohort summary	Invited, submitted, in-progress, and not-started counts, response rate, submission dates, and top industries and job titles.
  Excel export	A multi-sheet workbook with per-section, per-respondent detail for internal analysis.
  Fast at scale	Results are cached with status-aware freshness so large surveys stay responsive.

• Control who sees results · 7 features

  Role tiers	Owners, managers, internal viewers, external subscribers, and respondents each get exactly the right level of access.
  Per-respondent access grants	Grant results access to specific respondents; optionally restrict results so only granted respondents can view them.
  External subscribers	Offer paid results access to non-members, scoped to only the surveys they are granted.
  Scheduled, per-audience release	Release results to takers, subscribers, and viewers now or on a future date, and revoke just as easily.
  "Who can see results" console	One screen listing every viewer, taker, and subscriber, each with a plain-English explanation of why they can or cannot see results yet.
  Release-gated notifications	Access-granted emails only send once results are actually available to view.
  Individual releases	Turn access on or off person by person, with a full audit trail of every release action.

• Accounts, teams & branding · 7 features

  Your own branded space	Each organization gets its own account with a custom URL for members to sign in and participate.
  Role-aware dashboards	A live operations home with an active-survey hero, response-rate and health scoring, a needs-attention feed, and a merged activity stream.
  Owner onboarding checklist	Guided setup for org details, contact info, timezone, team, and branding.
  Team management	Invite and manage admins, owners, members, and survey-takers, with role-escalation safeguards.
  Branding (beta)	Add your logo and brand colors to respondent-facing and email surfaces.
  Account settings	Organization details, timezone, and granular per-event email notification preferences.
  Platform administration	A cross-account overview and a create-account flow for onboarding new organizations.

• Security, reliability & administration · 8 features

  Hard multi-tenant isolation	Every request is scoped to its account; cross-account data access is structurally impossible.
  Full audit trail	Every survey and account change is stamped with who and when, and each survey carries a complete lifecycle timeline.
  Abuse protection	Rate limiting on sign-in, password reset, email change, and bulk grants; staggered invitation sending; enumeration-safe authentication.
  Secure account flows	Current-password re-verification on change, signed multi-step email changes, security-receipt emails, and account suspension controls.
  Injection & spoofing guards	Sender addresses restricted to your own domain, uploaded logos sanitized, and all dynamic content whitelisted.
  Hardened hosting	Strict Content-Security-Policy and standard security headers, with locked-down file access.
  Always-fresh app	Open browser tabs detect a new release and seamlessly reload on the next navigation, never mid-answer.
  Operational monitoring	Health checks for uptime monitoring and automated error-log alerting to the ops team.

Add-ons

Expert help when you want it

Ph.D. methodology review

by Dr. Michelle Cobb

Before launch, Michelle reviews your full instrument: every question, the answer formats, the section flow, and the methodology behind it. You get specific recommended changes, and nearly every review produces them.

Starting at $1,500 per survey, quoted up front

Results presentation

for boards, councils, and memberships

When your results compile, our team presents the findings to the people you answer to: what the data says, what changed year over year, and what it means for your region or industry.

Quoted per engagement

Both add-ons attach to either tier. Schedule a demo to talk it through.

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