Ideas

A poll tells you what won. It cannot tell you whether anyone cares, or whether the winning option scraped through against people who would fight it. A Quadplot captures the choice, the conviction behind it and the confidence in it at once β€” which is what a decision actually turns on.

Office policy

Full remote, hybrid, core days, or full time in. Anonymity is what makes the answers usable.

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Charitable giving

Four causes, one budget. Passion is the right thing to measure here.

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Family holiday

Four destinations. Everyone answers without negotiating first.

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Community vote

One public link, hundreds of answers, and a density map instead of a comment thread.

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Rebrand scope

Leave it, refresh, redesign, or start over. Distinguishes appetite from taste.

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Bug triage

Four defects, limited time. Passion and confidence rarely point at the same one.

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Feature cut

Ship, shrink, park, or kill. Identifies who will push back before you announce it.

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Wedding venue

Four venues, two families. Positions become visible without anyone having to argue for them.

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Market entry

Four markets or none. Strong feeling with low confidence about an unfamiliar market is worth catching early.

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Roadmap priority

Four initiatives, one quarter. Shows which one the team would actually staff.

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Sponsorship spend

Four ways to spend the same budget. Confidence usually splits harder than preference.

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Book club pick

Four titles. Enthusiasm predicts who actually reads it.

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Merger or independence

Merge, partner, acquire, or stay as we are. The clearest case for measuring conviction alongside choice.

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Course selection

Four electives, one cohort. No pressure to follow the loudest voice.

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Hiring level

Senior, junior, contractor, or hold the role. Surfaces whether the disagreement is about the work or the budget.

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Product naming

Four candidate names. Confidence separates the name people believe in from the one they merely like.

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Board decision

Four courses of action. Directors answer anonymously, which is often the only way to get their real position.

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Conference talk

Four abstracts, one slot. Ask the people who would sit in the room.

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Team rituals

Standups, retros, demos, or none. Ask before cancelling.

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Tool consolidation

Standardise, allow choice, cut one, or leave it. Teams have strong preferences and thin evidence.

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Launch timing

This quarter, next quarter, when a milestone is met, or no date yet. Confidence shows whether the date is planned or hoped for.

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Client relationship

Keep, renegotiate, scale back, or end it. Answers people will not give in a meeting.

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Open source licence

Four licences. Contributors hold strong views and rarely volunteer them.

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House move

Move now, move later, renovate, or stay. Two people, one picture.

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Support model

In-house, outsourced, hybrid, or self-serve. Cost and quality pull in opposite directions.

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Fundraising decision

Raise now, raise later, bootstrap, or take debt. Shows which option the team backs and how confident they are in it.

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Pricing change

Raise, hold, discount, or repackage. Useful when the team has more opinion than data.

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Budget cuts

Four candidates for the cut. Reduces the personal cost of saying which one.

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Vendor selection

Four shortlisted vendors. Tells you whether the preference is strongly held or a default.

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Technical debt

Rewrite, refactor, patch, or leave it. Engineers with strong views and low confidence are the ones worth debriefing.

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