Qualtrics is genuinely powerful survey and experience-management software, built for organisations doing serious research at scale.
- ›When you need a research platform
- ›When you do not
- ›What actually determines whether surveys work
- ›Where Brainis fits
When you need one
Complex study design, advanced statistics, large-scale customer and market research alongside employee work, and a team that knows how to use it. At that level the capability is real and the price follows.
When you do not
If what you want is to ask your team how things are going a few times a year and act on the answers, the constraint is never survey sophistication. It is follow-through.
Most engagement programmes fail at the same point: the survey runs, results are summarised, nothing visibly changes, and the next response rate drops. No amount of statistical capability addresses that.
What actually determines whether surveys work
Real anonymity, with minimum group sizes enforced in reporting so small teams cannot be identified. This is what makes answers honest.
Short and consistent instruments, so trends exist.
Visible follow-through: share results including the bad ones, name two or three things you will act on, say what you will not act on and why, and report back before the next survey.
See employee engagement surveys for the detail.
Where Brainis fits
Engagement OS covers pulse surveys, eNPS, mood check-ins, a feedback inbox and exit interviews, with minimum group sizes enforced. It sits alongside People OS, so engagement data sits next to the operational signals — workload, missed one-on-ones, overdue training — that usually explain it.
Included on every plan from $29 a month with no per-employee charge.
The honest gap: no advanced research design, no customer-experience management, and none of Qualtrics's statistical depth. If you are running real research, use a research tool.
FAQ
How often should we survey?
Annual or semi-annual full survey plus monthly or quarterly pulses. Weekly surveys produce fatigue that looks like disengagement.
Do we need external benchmarks?
They are interesting and rarely change what you do. Your own trend and your variance between teams are more actionable.
What response rate is healthy?
Above 70% for a full survey. A falling rate is itself the finding — usually that previous surveys changed nothing.
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