For line managers
Pulse gives you a thirty-second weekly read on your team — and quietly hands you the opening lines for the conversations that actually matter.
The weekly loop
A two-minute weekly nudge, totally anonymous. Most teams hit 70%+ response rates within a fortnight.
Sentiment trends, recurring themes, and any sharp dips bubble up to the manager view. No raw answers, only patterns.
Monday morning, you see the one thing worth your time this week — with a coaching card if a conversation is suggested.
You open the right 1:1 with the right opener. Capture the follow-up. Move on. That's the whole loop.
What's in the toolkit
One short read in your inbox: how your team's feeling, what's moved since last week, and the one thing worth your attention today. No dashboard archaeology.
Plain-English nudges based on what your team has actually said. Not a generic 'engagement is down 3%' — a specific 'workload pressure is the recurring theme in Design this fortnight.'
When the conversation needs to happen, Pulse hands you a coaching card: how to open it, what to listen for, what to avoid saying. Not a script — a starting point.
Capture what you agreed in the 1:1, track the one or two follow-ups, and let everything else fall away. No new admin to dread.
If something is beyond what a 1:1 should hold — clinical, safeguarding, crisis — Pulse points you and your team member to the right place (EAP, GP, Samaritans), clearly.
You won't see things you shouldn't, you won't be asked to be a therapist, and the data is anonymous enough that no-one's testing you on it. The goal is calm, not surveillance.
A coaching card
Every card is plain English, short, and rooted in what the data actually shows. Use it verbatim, rewrite it, or ignore it — your call.
"I've been thinking about how heavy the last couple of sprints have felt. What's the bit that's wearing you down most right now?"
The difference between "busy" and "stuck" — and whether they're protecting anyone else from the same load.
Jumping to fixes. Promising headcount you can't deliver. Reframing it as a resilience issue.
FAQs from managers
Most of our best managers aren't. Pulse is built for the project lead, the team of seven, the engineering manager who just wants their team to be okay. You don't need training — you need the right prompt at the right time.
No. Never. Pulse shows team-level patterns only, with a minimum sample size before anything is reported. Your team can be candid because nothing is attributable.
Thirty seconds on Monday morning to read the digest. The 1:1 conversations are ones you'd be having anyway — Pulse just makes sure you're having them about the right things.
Pulse points both you and the team member to the right professional resources (EAP, Samaritans, NHS 111) immediately. You're not asked to be the first responder — you're asked to notice and route.
Free for teams up to 15 people. No card, no contract. You'll see your first read within a week.