You are paying for twelve opinions. Make sure you get twelve.
With a small expert group the engagement design matters more than the technology. Ours is built to stop the room converging on the most confident voice before the quieter experts have committed to a view.
Everyone copies the rock star in the room.
There is usually one participant whose reputation precedes them. They speak first, they speak with certainty, and the rest of the table calibrates to what they said rather than to what they think. You commissioned the board to find out where expert opinion genuinely diverges, and you go home with a transcript of one person's view politely echoed eleven times. The fix is procedural: commit every participant to a position before anyone speaks, then discuss the spread.
The engagement modules that carry this format.
Live Polls & Voting
Every expert commits privately before discussion opens, and results stay closed until the last response is in. The spread appears on screen and the disagreement becomes the agenda, rather than something you sense but cannot evidence.
See the moduleLive Q&A
In a group this small, a question submitted through the platform lets someone raise a concern without visibly opposing a colleague they will see at every congress for the next decade.
See the moduleLive Brainstorming
Ideas captured, grouped and upvoted, so priority comes from the whole table rather than from whoever is most comfortable interrupting.
See the modulePulse Sentiment
A dip mid-discussion is the signal to stop and ask. In a room this senior the curve stays with the chair and our producer, off the screen, because visibility would change what people report.
See the moduleFour things we do that change the output.
We design the engagement, not just the polls
The sequence matters. Commit privately, reveal the spread, then discuss, in that order, or you are just measuring the loudest voice with extra steps.
We agree attribution up front
Anonymous, name-optional or attributed, decided before the room is told and held for the whole board. Changing it mid-session changes what people say.
We brief your chair
On what is held closed, when it opens, and how to use a split on screen. Our producer passes notes privately so the chair never breaks stride.
We write up the divergence
Where the board agreed, where it split, how firmly, and along what lines. The disagreement is the deliverable.
Consensus that survives the follow-up question, with the minority view documented rather than smoothed away.
We run these too.
See Signal to Pulse running your meeting.
A 30-minute walkthrough with the team who will actually deliver your programme, not a scripted product tour.