See sample results without recruiting anyone

The most convincing moment in the product is watching anonymous results decrypt in your own browser. On a brand-new workspace that moment is behind a real obstacle: you have no respondents yet, so every poll you create sits locked; the sample poll gets you past that in about two minutes.

#How you get it

When a new workspace owner first opens the admin app, and the workspace has no polls yet, InviziPoll creates the sample for you and takes you straight to it. If that didn't happen, or you deleted it, click See sample results on the dashboard's getting-started checklist. Once a sample exists, the button reads Open sample results.

#What it creates

The sample is one poll titled Team pulse (sample), with five questions and eight made-up responses:

The answers are written to look like a plausible team rather than a flattering one: a mix of high and middling scores, one low one, and a spread of workload ratings. The open-text answers repeat a few words across respondents so the theme summary has something to show.

When it's ready you land on the poll's results, already unlocked, with every chart decrypted in your browser. Try what you'd do on a real poll: download a PDF or CSV and read the written answers. The sample shows all eight answers at once. A real poll shows its first results once three more than its minimum group size have answered, then releases new answers in random groups with a few always held in reserve until it closes.

#Why it's a real poll

The sample isn't a mock-up or a screenshot. It's created the same way as any other poll:

1. Your browser generates the poll's keypair. Poll keys are always made in the browser, for a sample or for anything else.
2. Your browser encrypts the eight canned answers. To that poll's public key and submits them the ordinary way.
3. The results page decrypts them. The way it decrypts every poll: on your device, with your keys.

We store only the encrypted answers. What you see is the actual results experience, not a demonstration of one.

#What the sample doesn't do

Because the data is made up, the sample is kept out of anything that would treat it as real:

• It doesn't count toward your plan's poll limit.
• It doesn't appear in dashboard statistics, the response sparkline, or the attention and momentum panels.
• It sends no lifecycle email. You won't get a "your results are ready" message about it.
• It carries no response-count attestation.
• Its respondent page shows a sample-poll banner and no conversion footer, so opening it yourself isn't counted as anyone's traffic.

Every admin surface labels it: the poll page carries a notice saying it's a sample with invented answers, and the poll list shows a Sample badge next to the title. The poll list can also hide samples.

#Limits and housekeeping

• One per workspace.
• Short-lived by design. The sample closes seven days after it's created, and its responses are deleted thirty days after that.
• Already full. Its respondent cap is eight, and the eight made-up answers fill it, so it can't be turned into a real poll by sharing its link.
• Delete and re-create. On the sample's page, click Delete sample (or More actions, then Delete poll). The dashboard button goes back to See sample results, and clicking it creates a fresh sample.

The sample has no demographic questions. Filtered breakdowns need at least five responses in a group before they show anything, and eight answers would only demonstrate the locked state.

#Related

• Viewing results
• Open text questions
• Creating your first poll
• Billing, trial, and tier limits