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Balloon is a science-backed platform that unlocks ideas and feedback from teams by eliminating groupthink from collaboration and providing psychological safety. Balloon’s workflow results in prioritized insights that reflect the entire group, leading to stronger decisions and uncovered opportunities. Organizations are able to share and vote on input anonymously, which eliminates costly biases, increases thought diversity, and amplifies the strongest insights from their teams. Our platform ensures that you’re truly uncovering a group’s collective intelligence, hearing every idea and piece of information on a level playing field – from ICs to managers to leadership. This creates more trust among teams and reveals hidden opportunities, while also allowing leaders to move forward with confidence. Master Asynchronous Work - Balloon’s Flights feature enables teams to share ideas, collaborate, and evaluate input when it’s most convenient for individuals - regardless of time zones or schedules Amplify Unheard Voices - Introverts and anyone whose voice might go unheard in the workplace are able to participate without interruption, judgment, or fear, offering new perspectives and a truly inclusive process for the whole team Align in Record Time & Eliminate False Starts - The Balloon Score shows leaders the overall buy-in of the group on a particular idea or initiative, so they can avoid false starts and move forward with confidence Unlock True Data - By eliminating costly group dynamics Balloon ensures that leaders have the most accurate data, so they know exactly what’s going on in their organization

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Starting at $112.00

1 Admin Seats Per Month

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Starting at $562.00

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Balloon Demo - Start collaborating asynchronously

Flights are flexible, timed, and staged, so team members can share and evaluate ideas whenever is most convenient for them, which helps teams stay highly productive whether they’re remote or on-site. Start with a templated, editable Flight Plan developed by industry experts, or create your own.

Balloon Demo - Harness your entire team’s brainpower

The first stage of the flight is where teams contribute and collaborate. Balloon allows for anonymous input, creating psychological safety and giving all team members (loud and quiet) a chance to share freely. Balloon’s unique Collaboration Feature allows introverts and others time to collaborate...

Balloon Demo - Conquer groupthink and evaluate input based on merit

On Balloon, team members decide which ideas they support and which should be a top priority. Balloon’s research-backed Approval Voting System removes harmful group dynamics entirely, ensuring idea evaluation is based on merit—not on seniority, loud voices, ego, or other costly cognitive biases. T...

When insights are evaluated on merit, leaders can better understand the group. This is denoted by the Balloon Score, or approval rating, which shows leaders the overall buy-in of the group on each idea shared during the flight, so teams can quickly agree on the right direction, leaders can make i...

Balloon Demo - Start Focused Discussion with Expert Templates

We’ve partnered with some of the world’s preeminent business leaders, researchers, and experts to develop in-app templates, so you can ensure meaningful, focused discussion with pre-vetted question sets.

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Sally T.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2022

"Time saver, Bias-Buster, Overall Excellent way to gain insights from your team"

5/5

What do you like best about Balloon?

The "pumping up" of each other's ideas allows better insights on employee sentiment (vs surveys), and the expert-led questions allow better question asking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balloon?

Would love to have a mobile functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Balloon:

Use it at least monthly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balloon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowing what the individual team members ideas, questions, concerns are, as well as where there is "collective" energy, worry, etc. Also allows me to harness their ideas without them worrying about "if it's a dumb idea" or that anyone will judge them since it's anonymous Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Gabe J.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/20/2022

"Fantastic tool for creative thinking and teams"

5/5

What do you like best about Balloon?

Balloon is a fantastic tool for gathering creative ideas and helping surface input from every corner of a team or organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balloon?

I used to wish for more options to export and further organize responses, but love that there's now a CSV option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/6/2022

"A feedback tool for the hrybid workplace era."

5/5

What do you like best about Balloon?

The ability to get real-time, action-orientated feedback from teams around the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balloon?

No downsides. More integration with existing workplace tools would be great to gain feedback throughout pockets of the day and meet users where they're spending time - slack, teams, zoom, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Austin B.

Coach | Founder

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/2/2021

"Balloon paves the way for better work!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Balloon?

Balloon is uniquely able to source authentic insights from a group of people on any range of topics. It's more effective than a traditional survey. It accelerates productive meetings by facilitating unbiased conversation. And best of all, it's really simple to use. This is the type of tool that helps transform org cultures by ground-swelling the learning mindset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balloon?

There could be some additional features built to encourage follow through on the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.