Revealio

# Revealio - Blind reveal for any decision a group needs to make honestly Revealio is a blind-voting tool built around one simple mechanic: everyone answers privately, and nothing is revealed until all answers are in. No one sees what anyone else typed until the simultaneous reveal - so no one anchors on the first number, the loudest opinion, or the boss's guess. ## Why this matters Any time a group is asked a question one-by-one or in the open, the first answer becomes a magnet. Whoever speaks first sets an anchor, junior voices soften their honest guess to match the senior one, and "whatever works for me" becomes the easiest way to avoid friction. Blind, simultaneous reveal removes that dynamic entirely - everyone commits before seeing anyone else's answer. ## Not just planning poker Most blind-voting tools on the market are built specifically for Scrum story-point estimation, with fixed card values (1, 2, 3, 5, 8...). Revealio takes free-text answers to *any* question, which means it works just as well for: - Sprint estimation and planning poker (the classic use case) - Salary negotiations and compensation discussions - HR and candidates state numbers simultaneously, no anchoring - Interview panels scoring candidates independently before comparing notes - Retrospectives, where honest sentiment beats polite consensus - Workshop kickoffs, to surface how much the room actually agrees before discussing - Pricing decisions and internal debates on ambiguous calls - Personal and social use: picking a restaurant, settling a group trivia answer, deciding where to go on a trip, or any moment a group of friends or family wants an honest, unbiased read on "what does everyone actually think" instead of the first person's opinion steering the room Because the input is plain text rather than a fixed card deck, Revealio is really a general-purpose "ask a group anything, get an unbiased answer" tool - planning poker is just one specific case of a much broader use. ## How it's different from the alternatives - **vs. classic planning poker tools** (PlanningPoker.com, Jira-native voting): fixed card values, single use case. Revealio takes any question and works for any group decision, not just story points. - **vs. Slido / Mentimeter**: these show results building up live as votes come in - which reintroduces anchoring the moment the first bar starts growing. Revealio shows nothing until everyone has answered. - **vs. survey tools** (Google Forms, Typeform, SurveyMonkey): built for async, one-way data collection, not real-time group sessions with everyone watching the reveal happen together. - **vs. Miro/Confluence voting plugins**: heavyweight, bundled into a bigger platform, requiring setup. Revealio is a focused, single-purpose tool you can start using in under 30 seconds. ## Frictionless by design No account, no download, no setup. Create a room, get a 5-character code, share it, and start. Anyone can join from a browser on any device. An optional free account (magic-link login, no password) unlocks persistent rooms, manual reveal control, unlimited participants, and CSV/PDF export for teams that want a permanent record - but the core blind-reveal experience stays free and account-free for everyone, from a two-person salary chat to a twelve-person retro. Live emoji reactions, automatic answer statistics (average, median, spread) and a distribution chart on reveal, and support for running multiple rounds in one session round out the experience - all without ever showing anyone's answer before the group is ready to see it together.