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The best feedback is timely. Windmill is built to collect feedback when it’s most relevant: right after collaboration happens, rather than asking people to recall details months later during a review cycle. There are three ways feedback flows on Windmill:
  • Proactive feedback — Anyone can message @Windy at any time to give feedback to a colleague. For example, just Slack “@Windy, can I give some feedback to [person]” and Windy walks you through it. No need to wait for the annual review cycle or a manager to ask.
  • Requested feedback — Ask @Windy to collect feedback about you from someone specific. Managers can also request feedback about anyone in their reporting line (including skip-level reports), and either request can be scoped to a specific topic.
  • Windy-prompted feedback — When enabled, Windy uses organizational network analysis to detect when colleagues have worked together and reaches out at the right moment to ask for feedback.
This means feedback isn’t just collected during review cycles. It accumulates continuously and feeds into 1:1 context, recaps, and performance review packets over time.

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How Windy-Prompted Feedback Works

Using Organizational Network Analysis, Windy understands collaboration patterns across your connected tools. It identifies key moments when feedback would be most valuable (like right after a project ships or a cross-team effort wraps). Soon after collaboration occurs, Windy reaches out via Slack and requests specific feedback based on the actual work. Individuals simply respond in Slack, and feedback is automatically stored within Windmill.
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Shoutouts

When feedback is entirely positive, Windy can automatically turn it into a Shoutout posted to a public Slack channel. Here’s how it works:
  1. You give positive feedback to @Windy about a colleague.
  2. If the feedback is purely positive and appropriate for a public audience, Windy will ask: “Would you be okay with making this a public Shoutout?”
  3. If you say yes, Windy posts it to your designated Slack channel.
Shoutouts are a lightweight way to build a culture of recognition without any extra effort. They happen naturally as part of the feedback flow. Screenshot 2026 03 27 At 11 21 15 AM

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FAQs

You can tell Windy, post in your shared customer Slack channel with Windmill if your company has one, or email support@gowindmill.com.
For anonymous feedback, use a Pulse Survey with anonymity enabled. When you create a Pulse, you can toggle responses to be anonymous, and Windy tells participants before they begin whether responses are named or anonymous. Anonymous Pulse responses aren’t attributed to a respondent.Continuous feedback through @Windy (Proactive feedback, Requested feedback, and Windy-prompted feedback) is not anonymous — feedback is attributed to you and stored against the recipient’s profile.If you also want to control who can see Pulse responses, see Response Sharing.

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Support

If you have questions, reach out to your Windmill admin or to Windmill’s support team at support@gowindmill.com.

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