Warning
£16k–£38kest. / year
Unmanageable Workload (Burnout Risk)
Company-wide, workload is unmanageable.
High confidence
Private beta · now taking applications
Build a better workplace — before it costs you.
Pulsory asks your team how things are really going, anonymously, then shows you exactly what to improve, from culture and communication to the policies you might be missing. So you can act early, while problems are small and cheap to fix.
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The problem
You usually find out when it's too late.
Most business owners are the last to know when something's wrong. Not because people don't care, but because telling you is awkward, risky, or feels pointless.
An open door isn't an easy conversation
“Nothing, honestly. It's fine.” Most people would sooner say that than tell the person who signs their payslip what's really wrong. It's not about trust, it's just hard to say out loud.
You hear it secondhand, or not at all
The useful stuff travels slowly. A team lead who needs more support than they're getting. A rota that's quietly grinding people down. By the time it reaches you, it's been softened, or it's already a resignation.
The exit interview is the wrong conversation
People are at their most honest on the way out, when saying it costs them nothing. What comes out is often something small. Something that was fixable months earlier, if anyone had known it was there.
What it costs
You're already paying for it.
Losing someone doesn't arrive as a single bill. It's the advert, the interviews, the training, the shifts everyone else covers, the weeks before the new person is up to speed. It's spread across your year, which is exactly why it's so easy to miss.
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Finding someone new
The advert, the agency fee, and the hours you spend sifting and interviewing.
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Covering the gap
Overtime, agency cover, and shifts the rest of the team quietly absorb.
Most cost estimates stop about here
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Training them up
Onboarding costs you two people's time, not one.
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Waiting for them to get up to speed
Weeks, sometimes months, before they're as quick as the person who left.
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The knowledge that walks out
The shortcuts, the regulars' names, the workarounds nobody wrote down.
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The drag on everyone else
A short-staffed team is a tired team. That's usually when the next person starts looking.
What it actually costs you
Most businesses never add this up.
Only 17% of organisations ever work out what staff turnover actually costs them.
CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Report, 2022
So it never shows up as a problem to fix. It just sits in your costs, quietly, year after year.
The answer
Pulsory asks the questions you can't.
Pulsory sends your team a short, completely anonymous survey, then turns what they say into plain-English insights you can actually act on.
Because it's anonymous, and because it isn't coming from you, people tell the truth. And because it runs on a schedule, you hear about things while they're still small enough to fix cheaply.
You don't need an HR department, a data export, or a spreadsheet to get started. Add your team and it works from day one. Share your own figures later, like what training costs you and how long it takes, and the estimates get sharper still. Until then we use published UK benchmarks, so you always get a usable number.
I worked in the hospitality industry for over a decade. I was asked to fill in a survey maybe four or five times, and it felt more like an audit than a genuine attempt to resolve issues. That's why I built Pulsory.
Why Pulsory
Why Pulsory?
Built for small and growing businesses that want to look after their people, without needing an HR department, a data team, or a big budget to do it.
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We're on your side
Findings are written to help you fix things, not to tell you off. Even when a problem points at leadership, it's framed as what your team needs rather than what you got wrong.
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It works from day one
No HR system to plug in, no data export, no consultant. Add your team and your first survey can go out the same day. Adding your own numbers later, like training costs and how long people take to get up to speed, sharpens the estimates. Leave them out and we use published UK benchmarks instead, so it's useful either way.
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Cost figures built from your numbers
Every estimate uses your real training costs, how long people take to get up to speed, and the knock-on effect on the rest of the team. And if we can't work something out properly, we tell you, instead of inventing a figure.
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Anonymity that's absolute, including from me
Answers are stored with nothing that could identify a person, and anything under five responses is hidden completely. Not “we promise not to look.” There's genuinely nothing to look at.
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Your team sees what changed
Next time they open a survey, the first thing they see is what happened because of the last one. That's the difference between people filling in a form and people believing it's worth their time.
How it works
Set it up once. We handle the rest.
Four steps from your team list to something you can actually act on.
STEP 01
Add your team
Upload a list or add people one by one. No HR system to connect, nothing to configure.
STEP 02
They answer, anonymously
Everyone gets their own private link by email, or a QR code to scan if they don't have a work email. Short questions, a few minutes, on any device.
STEP 03
We find the patterns
When the survey closes, Pulsory looks across every team and site to work out what's really going on and what it's costing you.
STEP 04
You get clear insights
Plain-English findings, what to do about them, and a task you can hand to someone to make sure it happens.
Every survey covers six areas: the day-to-day job · their manager · their team · the company · trust and fairness · wellbeing and future Plus any questions of your own.
What you get
Everything you need to act, in one card.
Each finding tells you what's happening, how sure we are, what it's likely costing you, and one clear thing to do about it. Open it up and you can see exactly how we got there.
Attention
£6k–£22kest. / year
Individual Experience is a concern across multiple sites
Below a healthy level at 4 of 4 sites. A systemic pattern rather than one bad site.
Medium confidence
Good
£30k–£79kest. value / year
Exceptional Management Quality: A Core Retention Asset
Manager relationship is exceptional. Your most powerful, cost-effective retention tool.
Medium confidence
Example insights. Figures are illustrative.
Then what?
It doesn't stop at the insight.
Knowing what's wrong is only useful if something happens next. So Pulsory helps you act on it, then tells you whether it worked.
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Turn it into a task
Create an action straight from any insight. Give it an owner and a due date, and Pulsory keeps track of it. No more findings that everyone nods at and nobody owns.
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Find out whether it worked
When you create the action, Pulsory saves where you were starting from. Next cycle it tells you what actually moved. “Trust in leadership up 11 points” is a very different conversation from “we tried something.”
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Set a target and watch the trend
Set goals for your People Score or any single area, then track them over time, with a clear view of what improved and what slipped since last cycle.
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Your team sees what changed
Next time they open a survey, the first thing they see is what happened because of the last one. That's the difference between another form to fill in and something people can see the point of.
And because they can see it working, they answer honestly again.
Only 12% of organisations collect data to check whether their retention efforts actually worked.
CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Report, 2022
Built for real teams
Made for the way businesses actually work.
Multiple sites, staff without work emails, managers who each need their own view. None of that needs a workaround.
Every site in one place
Run one location or twenty. See the whole business at a glance, drill into any single site, and compare them side by side.
No email? No problem
Staff without a work email just scan a QR code to take the survey, ideal for kitchens, floors and shop floors.
The right view for each manager
Give area and site managers their own dashboard, scoped to just their people, with exactly the same anonymity protections. Managers never see their own scores.
Completely anonymous
Anonymous, and we can prove it.
Your team will only tell you the truth if they know it can't be traced back to them. So we built it so it can't be, then made sure you can see that for yourself.
Who they are
Your employee list
Name
Email
Used once, to send each person their own private survey link.
What they said
Their answers
No name
No email
Stored with nothing that could ever point back to a person.
What you see
Grouped insights
Minimum 5 people per groupAlways combined, never individual, so no one can be singled out.
- Managers never see their own scores. Only people above them in the chain do.
- Nothing under five responses is ever shown. Not to managers, not to owners, not to us.
- Even I can't see who said what. There's nothing stored that would let me.
Encrypted in transit and at rest Google Cloud infrastructure UK GDPR aligned Never sold or shared
FAQ
Questions? We've got answers.
The things people usually want to know before applying.
Is it genuinely free?
Yes. When you join you get a full year of free access, no matter when the beta itself ends. No cost, no credit card, no setup fee.
What happens after that, and am I locked in?
Pulsory will be a paid product, priced per site. You get a full year free from the day you join, and we'll give you plenty of warning well before anything changes. You'll never be charged by surprise.
How is this different from other tools?
Most employee survey tools are built for large organisations with an HR team to run them. Pulsory works from day one with no HR system to connect, builds its cost estimates from your own training and pay figures, hides anything under five responses completely, and doesn't stop at the diagnosis: you can turn any insight into a tracked action and see next cycle whether it worked.
Do I need HR data or an HR department to get started?
No. No HR system to plug in, no data export, no consultant. Add your team and your first survey can go out the same day. HR data does make it better though: give us your real training costs, how long training takes and your pay figures, and the financial estimates get noticeably sharper. If you don't have those to hand, we fall back on published UK benchmarks, so you still get a usable number from day one.
Can I or my managers ever see how an individual answered?
No, never. You only see results grouped together, and only once at least five people have replied. Managers never see their own scores either, only people above them do.
My team is small. Can people still be identified?
No. Any group with fewer than five responses is hidden entirely. You'll see a note explaining why, but never the scores underneath.
What if my employees don't have email addresses?
No problem. Staff without a work email can take the survey by scanning a QR code, which suits kitchens, floors and shop floors.
How much of my time does this actually take?
Setup is around fifteen minutes. After that Pulsory sends the surveys, chases responses, scores them and writes the insights. Your job is reading them and deciding what to act on.
Beta access
Free for your first year.
We're letting in a small number of businesses to begin with. No cost, no catch, we just want your honest feedback.
Private beta
£0 for a full year
Pulsory will be a paid product, priced per site. Join the beta and you get a full year of full access, free, however pricing lands afterwards.
- ✓ Unlimited employees, sites and managers
- ✓ Anonymous surveys, by email or QR code
- ✓ Insights with real cost estimates
- ✓ Track progress, set goals, prove it worked
- ✓ Turn insights into tracked actions
- ✓ Complete, built-in anonymity
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Find out what your team really thinks.
Apply to join the beta. If it's a good fit, we'll set you up and you'll see your first insights in no time.