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AlvinHR is a new solution that helps businesses retain their employees and ensure that they are happy in their work. Using short weekly pulse surveys, it quickly and effectively assess your employees satisfaction with their work and give them an anonymous way to provide feedback. Below is our recent interview with Matt Walker, Founder and CEO of AlvinHR:

Q: What is AlvinHR?

A: AlvinHR is a lightweight solution to get real-time feedback from employees and team members and learn how happy they are with their work and why. By sending short weekly surveys (that take seconds to complete) to employees, companies gain insight into their teams mood, satisfaction and engagement. It gives managers and leaders incredibly valuable and actionable feedback to improve productivity, retention and engagement.

Q: What was your inspiration for making it?

A: Our team has spent 10 years in talent consulting and over the last year we have heard clients talk about how slow the traditional engagement survey process is. Data from employees is “stale” and not reflective of their true feelings after about 90 days, and the traditional process used does not get data back fast enough. We think there is a better way.

In looking at what some of the best companies do, we learned that they are constantly learning about their employees through short “pulse” type surveys as opposed to a once a year monolithic survey. We also learned from agile project management a concept called a “niko niko” calendar, which asks employees to record how well their week went and why. These concepts allow leaders to quickly see what is making employees happy and, conversely, get a sense if they are unhappy. It is an incredibly powerful way to put metrics and data behind talent management.

Finally, in talking with companies, we heard, that open ended feedback was perhaps the most valuable part of the once a year survey process. Leaders found out things they otherwise would have never know; from employees going above and beyond the call out duty all the way through to health and safety measures not being followed. This allowed managers to make immediate adjustments and make the work place more productive. We want to make that a process that doesn’t just happen once a year.

Q: How does AlvinHR plan to generate revenue? What’s your monetization plan?

A: At this point we have a free private beta that teams or companies can get access to by visiting our website. We are looking for feedback on how we can help companies get more out of their talent. In terms of generating revenue we will likely follow a monthly subscription model, similar to other products such as Salesforce.

Q: What is your main goal at the moment?

A: Our main goal at the moment is getting the initial version of the product to teams and companies to get their feedback. We know that helping companies get happier more productive employees can have a dramatic effect on business results (a recent study from University of Warwick showed that happy employees are 12% more productive), so delivering products that can help with that are tremendously valuable.