understand your team without watching them
most team tools give you a dashboard, not a signal. jollygig surfaces what your team is actually experiencing — without tracking who said what.
if you manage people, you've probably felt it: your team is quiet in standup, someone seems off, the last two sprints felt rough — but when you ask, everyone says it's fine. you're mostly guessing.
the obvious fix is a survey. the obvious problem with surveys is that people don't trust them. if the tool logs who said what, your team knows it — and they'll answer accordingly.
the surveillance problem
most pulse-survey tools promise anonymity but store a user id next to every response. that means someone with enough access can, in principle, trace an answer back to the person who gave it. your team may not know the technical details, but they sense the structure — and they answer accordingly.
jollygig doesn't store a user id with responses. structurally, there is no connection to trace. your team can say what's actually true without working out what it might cost them. that changes the signal. we explain the mechanism in detail in the pulse-survey guide.
what you actually see
jollygig doesn't show you a list of team members with scores next to their names. it surfaces population-level patterns — named shapes like "growth-blocked" or "in their element" — that describe what's happening in your team as a whole.
those patterns come with action plans: concrete things you can do about the conditions driving the signal, not just a metric to watch. the goal is to give you something to do, not something to feel anxious about. for a walkthrough of how to read those signals, see reading team-health signals.
the minimum-five floor
if fewer than five team members respond, jollygig shows nothing. not a partial result, not a warning — nothing. the floor is enforced at the database, not in the interface. this isn't a policy you can adjust; it's a structural property of how the product works.
this matters for trust: your team knows that even if they're one of five, the math prevents their response from narrowing down to them. it also means you need real response rates — another reason getting anonymity right structurally is worth the effort. the full reasoning is in the five-person rule.
pricing that doesn't punish small teams
jollygig charges flat per team — $39 a month billed annually ($49 monthly) on the starter tier, regardless of headcount. there's no per-seat pressure to trim your invite list. invite everyone. the signal improves when you do.
see the full pricing breakdown. groups, the anonymous cross-team rollups for people who run several teams, come with the growth plan; starter doesn't include them.
and when you're also asked for a date
managers get asked how the team is doing and when the work will be done, often in the same meeting. jollygig scheduling answers the second question the same way team health answers the first: with a range and an honest chance instead of one number. link a workspace to your team and the forecast can notice when the team behind it is strained, without naming anyone. use both and scheduling is 20% off.