Permission to speak freely

Ask the question your people won't answer in a survey.

Candid Response has a short, honest conversation with each person, then hands you the themes and the feeling underneath them. Anonymous by architecture, never tied back to a name.

Pay only for responses, never for questions. No setup fees, no retainer. by Mind Measure.

A real conversation, in the browserAnonymous
How did the move to the new office actually land for you?
Honestly it's the commute. The space is fine, it's the extra hour each way.
That's useful. Is it the time itself, or what the time costs you at home?
Stored as a paraphrase. The words above are never kept.

The problem

Most ways of asking don't get you the truth.

Surveys breed performative answers and town halls reward the loudest voice. So the decisions that unsettle people get made without really knowing how people feel.

Pulse surveys

Low trust and scale fatigue, so answers turn performative. People tell the form what it wants to hear.

Town halls

Dominated by the confident voices. Everyone else stays quiet, and the quiet is where the useful signal sits.

AI research tools

Built for consumer panels and product discovery. The wrong category for internal honesty.

How it works

Three steps. No survey in sight.

1

Ask one question

You set a single topic. The setup itself is a conversation, so the agent already understands your company when the campaign goes out.

2

Your people have a conversation

A link opens a five minute chat in the browser. The agent holds one topic and asks why, not just what. No account, no download.

3

You get a synthesised report

Themes, sentiment, and paraphrased samples, assembled from everyone who took part, once enough people have to protect each of them.

See it in action

A conversation, not a form.

This is exactly what the person answering sees: a calm, spoken conversation with Allie on one topic, the whole thing on screen in their own words.

  • ·Allie holds one topic and asks why, not just what.
  • ·Spoken, in the browser. No app, no account, no form to fill.
  • ·Every answer becomes an anonymous paraphrase, never your words.
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Finish

Three ways to run it

One conversation app. Three kinds of campaign.

Flagship

Anonymous

Questions people will not answer in a survey. The organisation sees paraphrased themes in aggregate only, and never who said what.

For sensitive, high stakes honesty

Named private

Know who responded, still protected in the report. An invite layer shows invited, started and completed, never joined to the answer text.

For a closed group with completion visibility

Rehearsal and release

Give people a room to think before they share. They have a private conversation, edit a summary, then choose what reaches you, and how.

For ideation before workshops or pivots
Compare all three campaign types

Privacy by architecture

Anonymity isn't a policy line. It's how the system is built.

The honest answer to the question every buyer asks, can someone identify themselves by what they said:

We store paraphrases, not their words. We do not attach identity to answers. And reports never show slices smaller than five.

01
Paraphrase only

The AI paraphrase is stored. The verbatim transcript is discarded after extraction.

02
No identity on the answer row

No user, no email, no token that can be joined back from a response.

03
A minimum group size of five

No theme, slice or sample is ever shown below five contributions.

04
Cohort sizes are clamped

Wherever a narrow group could leak a headcount, the display is clamped.

What you get

The report is the thing you're buying. Here it is.

Not a stock photo of colleagues at a laptop. The actual artifact: themes, the sentiment underneath, a sample of paraphrased answers, and an export.

Themes ranked by how much they came up
Sentiment read on each theme
Paraphrased samples, never verbatim
Export to PDF or CSV
Leadership trust, before the restructure
54 of 80 conversations · anonymous · June 2026
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Overall sentiment

Constructive 46%Mixed 34%Concerned 20%

Themes

Commute and the new location31 mentions
Clarity on the timeline24 mentions
Trust in how it was decided18 mentions
Paraphrased sample

“Not against the move itself, but worried about the commute and what it means for the school run. Would feel met if there were a couple of remote days.”

Minimum group size of five enforced on every slice.
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Pricing

The number is on the page. The whole category hides it.

Transparent pricing shouldn't be a novelty. In this category, it is. You pay per response, with no setup fees and no retainer, and no contact-sales wall for self-serve. Buy a credit pack and run it.

The part no one else does

You pay for responses, not questions.

Send your question to 100 people and 30 take part. That is what you pay for: 30 conversations. Nothing for the 70 who stayed quiet, and nothing just to ask in the first place.

Question sent to100 people
Took part30 conversations
You pay for30 · not 100
Self-serve

For a small team asking one question.

£4/ conversation
Credit packs from 25
  • Anonymous mode
  • Full report and export
  • Run it yourself in minutes
Start a campaign
GrowthPopular

More campaigns, every mode.

£3.20/ conversation
Credit packs from 250
  • Everything in self-serve
  • Named private mode
  • Rehearsal and release mode
Start a campaign
Enterprise

For scale and a branded portal.

Custom
Volume pre-buy
  • Everything in growth
  • Branded portal and SSO
  • Priority support
Talk to us

Figures shown are illustrative, to confirm before launch.

How we compare

We don't compete with the AI research crowd on panel size. We compete on price, honesty, and what you actually pay for.

candid response
AI research platforms
Survey tools
Public, transparent pricing
Contact sales
Tiered seats
Pay per response, not per seat or send
Per seat licence
Per seat licence
No setup fees
Varies
No annual retainer
Sometimes
Anonymous by architecture
A real conversation, not a form
For panels

Where it fits

Reach for it just before a decision that will unsettle people.

The choices that quietly damage trust are the ones made with too little real sense of how people feel. These are the moments.

Relocating the office

Understand the commute and childcare worry before you sign the lease.

Moving to a four-day week

Hear the texture under the headline yes or no.

A restructure

Find out whether the change actually landed, in people's own framing.

Return to office

Get the real objection, not the one safe to say out loud.

Pre-vetting a pivot

Give people a room to think before the offsite.

Trust in leadership

Ask the thing a town hall will never surface honestly.

Permission to speak freely.

Ask the question that matters, the way people will actually answer it. Start a campaign yourself, or talk it through with us first.