Verdo vs Polly: decisions, not surveys

Polly is a survey and feedback platform, and a broad one. Verdo is a decision tool. The surfaces overlap — both put a question in Slack and collect answers — but they are built for different jobs, and the difference is everything after the votes come in.

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Last verified: 28 September 2026

The honest version

Polly does surveys, pulse checks, standups, suggestion boxes, word clouds and trivia. It has anonymous responses, scheduled and recurring polls, CSV export, Google Sheets and Jira integrations, webhooks and an API. It has been around a long time and it is good at what it does.

Verdo does one thing: it takes a decision from “someone should pick” to “this is what we picked, here is who owns it, and here is whether it worked.” That means single-choice voting, a majority or consensus rule fixed before anyone votes, an optional owner, a status that outlives the vote, and a review a month later. A polling tool has no reason to carry any of that, which is exactly why it doesn't.

Side by side

Capability
Polly
Verdo
Primary job
Surveys, pulse checks, standups, feedback and engagement.
Decisions: one question, a method, a rule, an owner and an outcome.
Polls in Slack with live results
Yes, plus surveys, standups, word clouds and suggestion boxes.
Yes — one decision at a time, by design.
Anonymous responses
Yes, on paid plans.
Anonymous mode hides choices while keeping participation visible.
Scheduling, recurrence and close time
Polls can be scheduled and set to recur.
A deadline that closes the decision and applies the authority rule automatically.
Export and integrations
CSV export, Google Sheets, Jira, webhooks and an API on paid plans.
CSV and JSON export, Zapier and signed webhooks on Pro. Audit log export is planned for Business.
Optional named owner
No concept of an owner — a polly has a creator, not someone accountable.
Optional at creation. When named, tagged in Slack and the person the outcome review goes to.
Authority rule fixed before the vote
Results are reported; what counts as agreement is left to you.
majority or consensus — set at creation and applied automatically.
Decision lifecycle after the vote
A polly closes and reporting begins; there is no status model for what happened next.
Active · Decided · Implemented · Stalled · Superseded · Reversed — logged and searchable.
Outcome review
No prompt to revisit whether a result led anywhere.
30 days on, the owner gets one DM: Success, Partial or Failed.
Searchable decision log with audit trail
Response history and analytics, oriented around reporting on feedback.
Full-text searchable decision log; every mutating action writes an audit row.
Pricing shape
Free tier capped by monthly responses, then per-licence pricing.
$49 per workspace per month, any number of people. 7-day free trial, no free tier.

Polly capabilities as described on polly.ai, its help centre and its Slack Marketplace listing, 28 September 2026. Polly is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Verdo. Products change — verify current pricing and features on their site before deciding on this table alone.

Use Polly when

  • You want to know how people feel — pulse surveys, retro feedback, eNPS.
  • You run team rituals: standups, icebreakers, suggestion boxes.
  • The question is a measurement, not a choice.
  • Nobody needs to be accountable for what the answers imply.

Use Verdo when

  • The question is “which one?” and someone has to own the answer.
  • You need it closed by Friday, not “whenever people get to it.”
  • You will be asked in three months why you chose what you chose.
  • You want to know whether the decision actually landed.

Frequently asked questions

Is Verdo a Polly alternative?
Not a replacement — a different tool. Polly is a survey and engagement platform: pulse checks, standups, retro feedback, suggestion boxes, word clouds. Verdo does none of that. If you need to know how your team feels, Polly is the right product and Verdo will disappoint you. If you need the team to decide something and have the decision stick, that is what Verdo is for.
What does Verdo do that Polly doesn't?
Four things, all downstream of the vote: a named owner accountable for follow-through, an authority rule fixed before voting so the result is not reinterpreted afterwards, a status model for what happened to the decision (implemented, stalled, superseded, reversed), and a 30-day outcome review asking the owner whether it worked. Polly is not missing these by oversight — a feedback tool has no reason to carry them.
Does Polly support anonymous polls?
Yes, on its paid plans, and thoroughly — responses can be anonymous even to the person who sent the poll. Anonymity is not a point of difference between the two products; Verdo has an anonymous mode too.
Can I run both in the same workspace?
Yes, and most teams that use Verdo also keep something like Polly. They answer different questions: Polly for “how was the sprint?”, Verdo for “which vendor do we go with, who owns it, and did it work?”
How does the pricing compare?
Polly prices per licence with a free tier capped by monthly responses. Verdo Pro is $49 per workspace per month whatever your headcount, with a 7-day free trial and no free tier. Per-seat pricing penalises you for including people in a decision, which is the opposite of what a decision tool should encourage.

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