ThoughtExchange
Audience response software
Decision-making software
Employee engagement software
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What is ThoughtExchange
ThoughtExchange is a feedback and engagement platform that collects open-ended input from large groups and uses participant rating to surface prioritized themes. It is used by organizations for employee listening, change management, leadership Q&A, and stakeholder consultation across live sessions and asynchronous campaigns. The product emphasizes qualitative idea collection at scale and ranking-based prioritization rather than only multiple-choice polling.
Scales open-ended feedback
The platform is designed to gather large volumes of written input from many participants in a single exchange. This supports use cases where organizations need breadth of ideas rather than a limited set of predefined answers. Compared with slide-based polling tools, it is oriented toward collecting and organizing qualitative comments at scale.
Built-in prioritization via rating
Participants can rate others’ responses, which helps identify themes and priorities without requiring facilitators to manually tally results. This approach supports decision-making workflows where leaders need a ranked view of what matters most to the group. It also reduces reliance on real-time moderation to surface the most relevant contributions.
Supports live and async use
ThoughtExchange can be used during meetings, town halls, and events, as well as in asynchronous listening campaigns. This flexibility helps teams include distributed or shift-based employees who cannot attend a single live session. It fits both one-time engagements and recurring pulse-style feedback cycles.
Less suited to gamified polling
The product focuses on idea collection and prioritization rather than quiz-style interactions. Organizations looking for game mechanics, rapid-fire trivia, or highly visual slide-based presentations may find it less aligned with those use cases. For event engagement, it may require pairing with separate tools for entertainment-oriented interactivity.
Requires thoughtful prompt design
Open-ended exchanges depend heavily on well-crafted questions and facilitation to avoid vague or duplicative responses. Teams may need internal guidance on how to structure prompts, timing, and follow-up communications. Without this, results can be harder to interpret than structured survey instruments.
Not a full event platform
While it can support event feedback and audience input, it is not positioned as an end-to-end event management system. Capabilities such as registration, agenda management, exhibitor management, and virtual venue features typically sit outside its core scope. Organizations running complex events may need additional event software alongside it.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Engagement+ | Custom pricing — contact sales | Exchanges (anonymous multi-way conversations); Surveys (quant & qual); Templates; Analytics; Advisor (AI-powered); Multi-language support; Privacy modes (Anonymous or Classic). |
| Engagement360 | Custom pricing — contact sales | Everything in Engagement+ plus additional seats/leader licenses; Unique participant IDs; Upgraded security (SSO, domain restriction); Advanced templates; Additional survey question types and branching; Advanced analytics; Advanced privacy (Confidential/Anonymous/Classic). |
| E360 (Enterprise) | Custom pricing — contact sales | Enterprise-grade features, advanced analytics, custom reporting & integrations, upgraded security and privacy; tailored onboarding and support. |
Seller details
ThoughtExchange, Inc.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Private
https://www.thoughtexchange.com/
https://x.com/ThoughtExchange
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thoughtexchange/
