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Pulse surveys help you quickly gather targeted insights from your team. They’re lightweight, fast to create, and delivered directly in Slack by Windy. Anyone in your company — team members, admins, or HR admins — can create a Pulse, with visibility controls that determine who each person can send to.

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What Pulses are

A Pulse is a short survey that helps you understand how your team is doing right now.
You can use Pulses to ask about anything, but we have a few presets in there to help jog your memory:
  • Motivation
  • Blockers
  • AI usage
  • Workplace needs
  • All-hands feedback
  • Off-site feedback
  • Improvement opportunities
Windy generates a discussion guide for you based on your chosen topic, which you can edit before sending.

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Who can send Pulses

Everyone in Windmill can create a Pulse:
  • Team members
  • Admins
  • HR admins
Everyone can send Pulses to anyone in the company. You can additionally target groups, teams, or everyone at once.

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Creating a Pulse

1

Go to Pulses

Open the Pulses section in the Windmill sidebar.
2

New Pulse

Start a new Pulse survey.
3

Choose your Pulse Motivation

Describe why you’re running the Pulse.Alternatively, you can choose from Ideas like All Hands feedback, Offsite feedback, Office needs, or Improvement opportunities.
4

Create your Discussion Guide

Windy generates a discussion guide. Add your own or remove discussion guide topics.
5

Select Participants

Select everyone, specific people, teams, or groups. You can also specify ICs or managers within a specified team or group.
6

Set Pulse Anonymiy

Decide whether respondents will be named or anonymized.
7

Review Pulse

Set your Pulse name. The name appears in Slack and in your reporting.
After clicking Create Pulse, the Pulse is created — but not yet sent.

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Sending or scheduling a Pulse

Once your Pulse is ready, choose how you want Windy to deliver it. Click Test Pulse to test your pulse first, and click Launch Pulse to set your send schedule.

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Test Pulse

Send the Pulse only to yourself in Slack.
This lets you preview the full flow before delivering it to others.
Tests do not notify or involve the audience you selected.

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Send now

Windy immediately sends the survey to your selected audience in Slack.

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Schedule for later

Schedule the Pulse to send:
  • On a one-time date and time
  • On a recurring basis (weekly, monthly, etc.)
  • Based on a specific calendar event
  • On a schedule based on employee hire date anniversaries
Scheduling is ideal for team health checks or ongoing feedback cycles.

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Explore Pulses