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Employee Pulse Platform

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Employee Pulse Platform

Lightweight pulse surveys with anonymous comments, manager dashboards, and trackable action items so engagement scores translate into change.

  • Full planning bundle — BRAND, MRD, BRD, PRD, DESIGN
  • Branded styleguide — typography, color, components
  • 4 previewable mockups

Cloning copies the full plan into a new project you own — edit it freely.

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Styleguide and mockups

A look at the brand palette and screen-level mockups that ship with this plan. Cloning copies all of them into your project.

Style guide

Styleguide

What this blueprint gives you

The “pulse → comments → action” loop, deliberately built so the number on the dashboard isn’t the end of the work. Short, frequent surveys; protected anonymous comments; manager dashboards that show the right cohort without exposing individuals; and explicit action items that close the loop so engagement scores actually move.

Built for HR or people-ops teams at 50–2,000-person organizations that want to run a credible engagement program without an enterprise platform. Five planning documents (BRAND, MRD, BRD, PRD, DESIGN) at senior-team depth, covering anonymity guarantees, cohort rules, manager training, and the action-tracking layer that separates this from a survey tool.

Planning documents

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Each blueprint includes the senior-level planning files. These cards show the opening text before you clone the full bundle.

Brand Guidelines Document

BRAND.md

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BRAND — Employee Pulse Platform One line The pulse, the comments behind it, and the actions that close the loop — so the score on the dashboard means something. Who it speaks to HR or people ops leaders at organizations of 50 to 2,000 people who have inherited an annual engagement survey nobody acts on. They want a credible cadence (short, frequent, well designed surveys), comments their employees actually trust, and dashboards that managers can use without breaking anonymity or hiding bad news.

Design Specification Document

DESIGN.md

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DESIGN — Employee Pulse Platform Information architecture Employee: Survey (current round, if any), Round history (what I answered when, no answers stored back to me beyond the current composition window). Manager: Cohort overview (score per dimension, trend, response rate); Comments (themed, threshold protected); Actions (open + closed for this cohort). HR admin: Program (rounds, question library, audience), Cohorts (org tree, imports), Comments queue (moderation, redaction), Action follow thro

Market Requirements Document

MRD.md

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MRD — Employee Pulse Platform The problem Most engagement surveys are an annual ritual that wastes everyone's time. HR runs a 50 question survey; results come back three months later; a deck circulates; managers nod; nothing changes. By the time the next survey runs, the most disengaged people have already quit. Employees stop responding because they've never seen evidence the answers mattered. Managers see scores but no comments, or comments but no context, and have no real workflow to translat

Business Requirements Document

BRD.md

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BRD — Employee Pulse Platform Business outcomes 1. Program credibility. The headline outcome: employees believe the program, evidenced by sustained response rates and willingness to comment. 2. Manager follow through. % of cohorts with at least one closed action item per round. 3. Score movement that correlates with action. A signal that the loop works — dimensions where actions were taken show measurable trend improvement over 2–3 rounds. 4. HR time saved per round. Compared to a manually run c

Product Requirements Document

PRD.md

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PRD — Employee Pulse Platform Phase 0 — Foundations Org account + roles: admin (HR), manager (cohort), employee , optional exec viewer . HRIS style import: CSV upload that defines org tree, reporting lines, function/location/tenure attributes. Cohort engine: derive cohorts from the org tree (manager + direct/indirect reports; function group; office; tenure band); per round cohort snapshots preserved. Authentication: SSO (basic SAML/OIDC) for admins and managers; email magic link for employees; o

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