Ask before committing
The best time to learn is while a decision can still change.
About Polst
The people affected belong in the room.
Polst is a real-time decision platform that gives brands and organizations direct audience signal before they commit time, money, and resources.
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Our story
Built around a simple observation.
Organizations have never had more data or more ways to reach people. Yet when an important new question appears, the people whose reaction matters are often missing from the decision itself.
Polst puts that voice into the decision. It turns a business decision into a simple visual choice, distributes it across the channels where an audience already exists, and brings the responses together in one decision view. The audience gets a question that takes seconds to answer. The organization gets a clear signal while there is still time to act on it.
Every response also creates structured, first-party preference data: proprietary human signal that organizations use for decisions today and that feeds analytics, customer intelligence, and AI systems tomorrow.
How decisions get made today
- closeAudiences are heard only after the work ships
- closeDirection set on instinct and secondhand proxies
- closeEvery decision starts from a blank page
With Polst in the room
- checkAudiences are asked while the direction can still change
- checkDirect, first-party signal informs the call
- checkEvery response adds to a growing record of preference data
What we believe
Ask before you act. Learn directly. Decide with greater confidence.
Our mission
Bring audience perspective into the room earlier.
Our mission is to make direct audience input a normal part of how organizations decide, and to build the platform that connects audience preference, business decisions, and the systems that increasingly act on that data.
Make choices clear
Simple, honest questions make it easier for people to participate.
Earn trust
Useful signal depends on responsible collection, transparent context, and respect for the audience.
Our team
Experienced operators. Enterprise discipline.
Polst was founded by Silicon Valley operators with experience across data platforms, enterprise software, security, and consumer technology. That experience powers one focused platform: real-time decisions grounded in direct signal from the people they affect.
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