Forty questions teach your team that feedback is a tax.
Honesty drains out of long-form instruments. Response rates fall below 40%. The signal becomes uncalibrated. Palsent runs six questions, in under three minutes, with response rates above 70%.
Edition 01Workforce IntelligenceLive
A precision instrument for measuring team health.
Palsent measures burnout, attrition risk and morale the way a physicist measures temperature — continuously, with calibrated instruments. Built for HR leaders at companies of 50 to 500.
No credit cardFirst survey in <10 minSOC 2 roadmap
Calibrated for 50–500 person companiesFiled from Toronto, Canada
HR Admin
Workforce Overview
Acme Co. at a glance — key signals and what needs attention today.
Health Score
74+3.1
Healthy
Teams
12
3 flagged
Responses
8491%
of 92 sent
Alerts
3
Unresolved
Morale & Burnout · 5 cyclesTrending up
MORALEBURNOUT
Teams at risk3 flagged
Engineering · Platform58 ↓
Sales · West63 ↓
Customer Success82 ↑
Design71 →
Marketing78 ↑
Pillar breakdownWk 21
Morale81
Burnout risk58
Manager support76
Work clarity79
Cost of one engineer lost
$150k
Average replacement cost when you lose a $120k engineer — recruiting, ramp, knowledge.
Avg response rate
72%
Versus an industry average of ~38% on long-form annual surveys. Six questions earn honest answers.
Time to first signal
<48h
From the first link sent to the first risk narrative on your dashboard.
Leadership deck
1-click
One button generates a polished .pptx with AI narrative, charts, and recommended actions.
§ 01The diagnosis
Annual surveys tell you what already broke.
Five observed failures of the modern engagement instrument — and where Palsent's continuous-listening practice replaces each.
A number is not a direction.
“Engagement: 72” is the thermometer, not the diagnosis. Leadership wants the team, the cause, the action.
Annual cadence detects the problem six months too late.
By the time the report lands, the resignation email is in drafts.
“Score dropped 6” is not an instruction.
Managers need the specific next conversation. Palsent generates 2–4 prioritised actions per team.
Enterprise tools cost $30k–$80k.
Three quarters to implement, a consultant, an IT review. For a 120-person company, that math doesn't close.
§ 02Capabilities
Everything HR needs.
Nothing HR doesn't.
A focused intelligence stack. We deliberately don't ship a survey-builder kitchen sink — we ship the smallest thing that produces a leadership-grade report.
Anonymous by design
Tokenized links, no employee accounts. Results suppressed below the configured anonymity threshold — enforced at the database query layer, not the UI.
Four-pillar scoring
Morale, Burnout Risk, Manager Support, Work Clarity. Each Likert response normalised to 0–100 and weighted into a composite Team Health Score.
AI insights
Claude summarises open-ended responses, writes risk narratives, suggests 2–4 actions per team.
Role-based views
HR sees everything. Managers see their team. Executives see the rollup. Permissions enforced server-side.
.pptx export
One click produces a polished deck — cover, scorecard, narratives, alerts, actions. Reorder, edit, download.
Risk alerts that actually arrive
Score drops, subcategory breaches, AI-flagged distress signals. In-app and email. Acknowledge or resolve from the dashboard.
Executive share links
Generate a tokenized read-only URL. Your CEO gets a real-time dashboard. No Palsent account required.
§ 03The method
Four stages,
one continuous instrument.
Every Palsent workspace runs the same loop: build a six-question pulse, collect anonymously, analyse with Claude, present in a calibrated leadership deck. Automatic at every stage. Editable at every stage.
Stage 01
Build
Pick Burnout Detection, Team Health, or Manager Effectiveness — six questions, pre-calibrated. Or compose your own.
Stage 02
Collect
Tokenized link — no employee account. Responses attach only to a team. Threshold-enforced at the query layer.
Stage 03
Analyse
Claude scores morale, burnout, manager support, clarity. AI risk modifier between 0 and −15 with a justification you can audit.
Stage 04
Present
One click produces a polished .pptx: cover, scorecard, per-question slides, AI narrative, alerts, recommended actions.
Behind every burnout score is a person who has already drafted the resignation email. We built Palsent because that email should never be a surprise.
— Joshua Doodnauth · Founder, Palsent · 2026
§ 04Position
Not an engagement tool. A risk detection instrument.
The boundary we hold against incumbent platforms. Where they end, we begin.
Capability
Traditional tools
Palsent
What you see Monday
"Engagement: 72"
Three teams to call this week
Open-ended responses
CSV export, never opened
AI-summarised themes
Manager guidance
"Have a one-to-one"
2–4 prioritised actions
Leadership deck
You build it Sunday night
Auto-generated .pptx
Time to first insight
Weeks · sometimes a quarter
Under 48 hours
Setup
Consultant + procurement + IT
CSV upload, ten minutes
§ 05Subscription
Configure your plan.
See exactly what you save.
One panel. Pick your team size, pick monthly or yearly, and the founding-price discount stacks automatically. No per-employee math. HR Admin is the only billable seat.
Founding Price
$100/mo off forever for the first 50 customers.·Locked in at this price for the lifetime of your subscription.
Seats claimed28 of 50
1How many employees?
2Billing cadence
Your plan · Up to 250 employees · billed monthly · founding discount applied
Total saved$200/mo
Tier 01 · Starter
The full survey loop — anonymous pulses, four-pillar Team Health Scores, manager dashboards, in-app alerts.
$149 / moregular
$49/ mo
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Founding discount−$100/mo
Yearly savings (2 mo free)Switch to yearly
You save$100/mo
- Unlimited anonymous pulse surveys
- Tokenised employee links — no accounts
- Four-pillar Team Health Score
- Manager & HR Admin dashboards
- In-app risk alerts
14-day free trial · No card required
Tier 02 · Pro
The full intelligence stack — AI insight, executive dashboard, .pptx export, email alerts. The version a board reads.
$349 / moregular
$249/ mo
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Founding discount−$100/mo
Yearly savings (2 mo free)Switch to yearly
You save$100/mo
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- AI insight summaries & risk narrative
- Recommended actions per team
- Executive dashboard & share links
- One-click .pptx export
- Email risk alerts
14-day free · No card · Cancel anytime
§ 06Endnotes
Frequent questions.
Asked by HR Directors and People Ops leads during onboarding. Answered with precision and without enterprise hedging.
Q · 01What, precisely, is Palsent?+
A workforce intelligence platform for companies with 50–500 employees. Continuous pulse surveys (six questions, not eighty), scoring team health across four pillars — morale, burnout risk, manager support, work clarity — and auto-generating the AI-narrated slide deck you present to leadership.
Q · 02How is the instrument calibrated?+
Each Likert response is normalised to a 0–100 scale and averaged across its subcategory. A weighted composite produces the Team Health Score. Claude reads open-ended responses and applies a transparent risk modifier between 0 and −15, with a justification you can audit and override.
Q · 03Are employees genuinely anonymous?+
Yes. Frontline staff never receive a Palsent account. They click a tokenized link, answer six questions, and submit. Responses attach only to a team. If a team falls below the anonymity threshold (default three respondents), its score is suppressed at the query layer — not hidden in the UI.
Q · 04How long does setup take?+
Under ten minutes. Upload a CSV with name, email, team and department. Pick a template. Share the link. No implementation fees, no consultant, no procurement cycle.
Q · 05Which AI model writes the narratives?+
Anthropic's Claude, accessed server-side through a provider-abstracted interface. HR Admin reviews and edits all AI content before it appears in an exported deck or on an executive dashboard.
Q · 06What does Palsent cost?+
Starter from $149/month. Pro from $349/month. Both cover up to 250 employees. Larger bands available. Pricing is flat per band — no per-employee math, no surprise invoices. Annual billing saves ~17%. The 14-day trial is full Pro with no credit card.
Q · 07What's in the .pptx export?+
Cover, Company Health Score overview, all-team scorecard, one slide per question (chart + question text), AI risk narrative, active alerts at time of export, and recommended actions per team. Reorder, hide, or edit any slide before download.
Your next resignation
shouldn't be a surprise.
Begin a fourteen-day free trial of Palsent Pro. No credit card. First survey live in under ten minutes.