Dory
The questions people were too polite to ask.
$0.80 per user / month
Live Q&A and polling for meetings. Attendees join with a code, no account, no download, ask anonymously, and upvote what they actually want answered.
Why it exists
The questions worth answering at an all-hands are rarely the ones asked out loud. Standing up in front of the company to ask why the reorg happened is a career calculation, not a curiosity, and the result is a room full of people with the same unasked question and a presenter who thinks it went well.
Dory takes the cost out of asking. Attendees join with a code, no account and no download, ask anonymously if they want to, and upvote each other. What surfaces is what the room actually wants answered, ranked by how many people want it. Presenters get a screen built to be read from the back row, and a record of what was asked when the meeting is over.
Inspired by the way this was run at Google: the parts that earned their keep, without the parts that only work at that scale.
What you get
- Q&A with upvoting, anonymity and moderation
- Multiple choice, word cloud, rating, open text and ranking polls
- Live quizzes with a speed-ranked leaderboard
- A presenter screen built to be read from the back row
How it works
- 1Open an event and share the codeNo accounts for attendees, nothing to install. A code and a link is the whole barrier, which is why people who would not have asked actually do.
- 2People ask and upvoteQuestions can be anonymous. Upvotes decide the order, so the agenda comes from the room rather than from whoever is loudest or most senior.
- 3Run the room from the presenter screenBig type, current question, what is next. Moderators can hide what crosses a line, and polls, quizzes and word clouds break up the talking.
What teams use it for
All-hands and town halls
The uncomfortable question gets asked and answered in front of everyone, which is worth considerably more than the comfortable one.
Conference talks and workshops
Attendees ask without interrupting, and you answer the popular ones instead of the nearest microphone.
Training and onboarding sessions
New people ask the basic question anonymously rather than deciding to look it up later and never doing so.
Common questions
- Is anonymous really anonymous?
- Presenters and moderators see the question, not the asker. Anonymity is the feature: an audience that suspects otherwise goes quiet, and a quiet audience is the thing this is meant to fix.
- Why is Dory priced per participant?
- Because its value is reach, not headcount. You buy a participant capacity, run as many events a month as you like, and anyone in the workspace can host. An event that outgrows the capacity is not turned away: it bills the difference at the same rate.
- Do attendees need an account?
- No. A code gets them in, which is the only reason the quiet half of the room participates at all.
- Can we moderate?
- Yes. Moderators can hide a question, and the presenter screen only shows what has been let through.
The rest of the platform
One workspace, one bill, one set of members. Add an app whenever you need it.