Most survey platforms are very good at collecting responses and produce a dashboard. The hard part is what comes next — deciding what to do, getting it to the person who can do it, and knowing next cycle whether it worked.
Almost every organisation has run a survey whose results were presented once and never acted on. The failure is rarely the instrument. It is the gap between a dashboard and a decision.
Three things close that gap, and a platform has to do all three or none of them matter: the result has to name a priority, the priority has to reach whoever can change it, and the next cycle has to show whether it moved. A dashboard alone leaves all three to the reader.
What each stage looks like in the product: how it works.
Both halves of what determines performance, scored separately.
Purpose & Meaning, Leadership & Trust, Connection & Belonging, Growth & Enablement.
Energy & Vitality, Recovery & Sleep, Focus & Attention, Resilience & Calm — the half most platforms do not ask about.
Comparing wellbeing tools rather than survey tools? employee wellbeing platform.
Capacity data touches sleep, energy and strain, which makes it more sensitive than engagement data. No result is displayed for any group under five people, including through cross-filtering, and individual responses are never visible to any manager.
Storage, retention, processing and sub-processors: trust and security.
The two halves in detail: the employee engagement survey and the employee capacity survey.
Buyers arrive at this decision from different directions, so each of these pages answers the question in the language it was asked in. One product underneath, one 55-statement instrument, one cycle.
The physiological side of experience, not only sentiment.
The value story: output an organisation can repeat.
What all five have in common: capacity and engagement measured together, then read on the Thrive Matrix.
Figures come from thrive at work’s own validation study (n=10,000+, 2025–26), fielded across the US and Europe. Each comparison states its own basis, and they are not interchangeable.
These are associations measured within a single cross-sectional study, not causal claims. No score is displayed for any group of fewer than five people.
A 30-minute call with the research team covers what a first measurement would surface, and how your sector compares.