Any instrument, one builder
Surveys, questionnaires, live/real‑time polls, forms, quizzes, feedback, votes, and 360 evaluations — with multiple choice, rating scales, Likert matrices, ranking, and open text. Build once; reuse everywhere.
Surveys · Questionnaires · Live Polls · Forms · Votes · Evaluations
Collect answers in seconds. Protect people by design.
Cestani is the effortless way to run surveys, questionnaires, live polls, forms, votes, and 360° evaluations. One‑tap simple for the people answering — with graduated privacy and true, architecture‑level anonymity for the moments it matters. A serious alternative to Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey, deployable on infrastructure you control.
One platform for every kind of question
Whether you need a quick pulse poll, a branching questionnaire, an IRB‑grade research instrument, or a formal board vote, it’s the same simple builder and the same rigorous privacy engine underneath.
Stupid‑simple to answer
Respondents tap a link and answer — no account, no app, no clutter. Works beautifully on a phone, scannable by QR, and readable by screen readers. The fastest path is always the default.
Privacy dialed to the moment
Choose exactly how identifiable each response is — from fully attributed to anonymity even we cannot reverse. Small groups are suppressed, timing is coarsened, and identity is separated from answers in storage, not just on screen.
Live results, real‑time polling
Open a poll and watch responses land instantly on a shared screen. Run live audience Q&A, in‑meeting votes with quorum, or a week‑long survey — same engine, same clarity.
Research & human‑subjects ready
Built for IRB‑grade data collection: verifiable consent flows, de‑identification you can attest to, and the option to be genuinely unable to link a response to a person — even under subpoena.
Governance you can certify
When it’s a formal vote, get quorum, motions, roll‑call or secret ballots, and an append‑only record that stands up to an audit — without ever exposing how anyone voted.
Made for the questions you actually ask
One tool your whole organization can use — not a different subscription for every job.
Employee & climate surveysAnonymous engagement and pulse checks people trust.
Live polling & audience Q&AInstant results on the room screen during a talk or class.
Academic & human‑subjects researchConsent, de‑identification, and defensible anonymity.
Course & program evaluationsHonest feedback, small‑group protection built in.
360° & leadership feedbackRelationship‑aware branching and reviewer anonymity.
Board & committee votingQuorum, motions, and certifiable secret ballots.
Intake & registration formsSimple, fast, mobile‑first collection with no account.
Elections & nominationsEligibility control with true ballot secrecy.
Why Cestani beats Qualtrics & SurveyMonkey
The big survey tools make anonymity a checkbox. Cestani makes it something you can prove — while staying dramatically simpler to use.
| What matters | Cestani | Qualtrics / SurveyMonkey |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymity | Graduated tiers up to architecturally enforced — identity and answers separated in storage; even operators can’t re‑link. | “Anonymous” toggle; identity, IP, and metadata often still recoverable on the back end. |
| Re‑identification risk | Coarse timing, small‑group suppression, and no linkable metadata by design. | Precise timestamps, IPs, and small cells frequently exposed in exports. |
| Respondent effort | Tap a link, answer, done — no account, mobile‑first, QR‑ready. | Heavier flows; accounts and friction common for richer features. |
| Where your data lives | Self‑hostable on your own infrastructure — full data sovereignty. | Vendor cloud; your respondents’ data lives on their terms. |
| Live polling + formal voting | Both, in one tool — real‑time polls and certifiable quorum votes. | Survey‑centric; live/governance voting is limited or separate. |
| Auditability | Append‑only record of every action — without ever storing how anyone answered. | Activity logs, but rarely a certifiable, privacy‑preserving audit trail. |
Comparisons reflect common configurations of general‑purpose survey platforms; capabilities vary by plan.
Privacy that’s an engineering property, not a promise
When you choose Cestani’s strongest tiers, the link between a person and their answer is never created — so there’s nothing to leak, subpoena, or misuse. No third‑party trackers, no telemetry on responses, and no outside AI reading confidential data. Run it on your own servers and the trust boundary is yours alone. See the privacy architecture →