Try AI on Your Survey Without Losing Your Own Wording

Anyone who has clicked an "Improve with AI" button on a draft knows the feeling three seconds later:

Your original question was slightly rough, or maybe a little leading, so you asked the assistant to clean it up. The rewrite comes back grammatically smooth—and completely drained of the specific reality you were asking about. Your question about "whether the new Thursday release cutoff is making Friday on-call worse" turns into "To what extent do you feel supported by our current engineering deployment processes?"

In most form builders, once you accept an AI pass across a 10-question survey, getting Question 4 back to what you had twenty minutes ago—without losing the three good edits you made on Questions 6, 7, and 8 since then—means hitting Ctrl+Z fifteen times and hoping for the best.

So cautious survey authors stop clicking the button. Or they keep a scratchpad Google Doc open in another tab just to protect their own wording.

We built History in the InviziPoll poll builder so you never need the scratchpad.

01Every edit is a named, inspectable step

While your survey is a draft, the History tab at the top of the poll builder tracks a clean timeline of how the survey got to its current state—without noisy keystroke-by-keystroke clutter.

Each entry tells you what changed and how it happened:

• Your own edits in the builder — grouped into sensible saves (for example, "Reworded 1 question", "Added 2 questions", or "Changed question 3 to 1–5 scale").
• In-app Assistant actions — when you click Bias check every question or apply a suggestion from the Assistant pane, it lands as a single labeled entry with a sparkle badge.
• Connected AI assistants (Claude or ChatGPT over MCP) — when you ask Claude or ChatGPT to add a question or rework a draft from your chat window, it shows up in History with a plug badge (for example, "Edited 1 question, added 1 — You, through Claude").

02Focused diffs show only the questions that actually moved

Clicking any entry in History doesn't dump two full copies of your survey side by side and leave you playing spot-the-difference.

Instead, the entry expands to show only the questions that changed in that step:

• Word-by-word before and after on reworded prompts and option lists, with removed words struck through and new wording highlighted.
• Explicit +Q added and -Q removed badges when a question was inserted or deleted.
• Position changes (for example, "Q5 (was Q2) — moved") when you reordered the flow.
• Scale and type changes when a Yes/No prompt was switched to a 5-point Likert scale or an open-text follow-up.

If a 12-question bias sweep touched only two leading prompts, the diff card shows those two questions and notes "10 other questions unchanged."

03"Undo just this change" vs. "Restore this version"

Because real survey editing isn't strictly linear, every entry in History gives you two ways to roll back:

1. Undo just this change — Reverts only the questions touched in that specific step while keeping the unrelated edits you made afterward. If an AI bias sweep smoothed out Question 3 too much ten minutes ago, you can undo that sweep without losing the two new questions you wrote after it.
2. Restore this version — Rolls the entire draft back to look exactly the way it did at that point in time.

And because Restore or Undo is itself just another entry added to the top of History, you can even undo an undo if you decide the rewrite was better after all.

04Focused bias checks that tell you why—and when to remove a question instead

We applied the same philosophy to how the in-app Assistant proposes changes in the first place:

• One card of changed questions, not a wall of green checkmarks. When you run Bias check every question, the Assistant only lists the questions that actually had a leading verb, a double-barreled clause, or an unbalanced scale. If every question is already neutral, it simply tells you No biased wording found.
• Identifying questions trigger removal, not polite rewording. If you click Reduce bias on a question that asks for an employee's name, email, employee ID, or one-person role, rewriting it into softer words won't make it safe. The Assistant flags why the question can identify the respondent and gives you a one-click Remove this question? button instead.
• Your edits always win if two tabs collide. If you have a draft open in the builder while a connected assistant like Claude tries to save an edit to an older snapshot, InviziPoll blocks the stale overwrite and prompts the assistant to re-read your latest draft first.

05Why History locks the moment responses can arrive

Once you publish a survey and responses start arriving, the questions lock. Neither you nor a connected AI assistant can rewrite Question 2 halfway through a live pulse, because changing a question after half the company has answered corrupts the aggregate results—and could be used to probe late respondents differently from early ones.

If you want to iterate on a live survey for next month's pulse, click Duplicate as draft (or ask your connected assistant to copy it as a new draft), and a fresh History timeline starts from there.

Also worth a look: How to reduce survey question bias with AI, Why we left your Employee ID question out, and Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your employee surveys.

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