From Human Restoration Project, a nonprofit
Hear the people behind every finding.
Polaris runs listening sessions with the people you serve and turns hundreds of conversations into a report within days. Every finding links to the moment someone said it.
Tell me about a time you felt really supported here.
Small acts of attentiveness stay with people
When people describe feeling supported, they bring up small moments: someone who remembered a detail weeks later, the offer of a safe space during a difficult week, an invitation to walk the track during lunch.
“She just, like, asked if I wanted to walk the track with her at lunch. And we just talked. I still think about that.”
0:22A 3 out of 5 can't tell you why.
Move feedback from simple ratings to real conversations. Traditional surveys leave you guessing. Polaris gives you the full picture, backed by real voices.
Annual survey, question 7
How supported do you feel at work?
“Honestly it depends on the week? Like when she checks in, that's a five. When she seems stressed out, she rarely checks in with us. So I guess... three?”
How Polaris works
Three phases: question development, conversations, and analysis that keeps real voices at the center of every insight.
Question 1 of 6
What's one thing that would make this place better?
Create a listening session
Design open-ended, accessible questions about practices, programming, or climate.
You write the questions. Polaris helps keep them clear and fair.
2 of 8 heard
Listening…
Everyone shares their voice
People take part through whatever format they prefer: group discussions, voice recordings, or written responses, in their own language, during 30-to-60-minute sessions.
Found in more than half of conversations
Students want an engineering elective.
Polaris reveals what matters
Our system analyzes the data: translating dialogue and removing personally identifiable information, then grouping what people said into themes linked to research and generating reports of what people are really saying, all queryable and backed by real audio.
Every finding links back to specific audio, so you hear the evidence yourself.
0:08Question 1 of 6
What's one thing that would make this place better?
Hundreds of voices.
One clear direction.
Every conversation has hundreds of suggestions. Polaris identifies the patterns and makes them easy to make sense of, so you can act on the pattern and hear what everyone is actually saying.
Theme: A better system for organizing projects, raised in 64 conversations
“We had three different docs going and nobody knew which one was the real one.”
0:06State-of-the-art AI, built for listening
After every session, Polaris analyzes your data, protecting participants, surfacing patterns, and putting evidence in your hands.
Safety Screening
Every transcript is scanned for urgent content before anyone sees it.
Privacy Protection
Names and identifiers are automatically removed. The substance stays intact.
Theme Discovery
Patterns emerge across hundreds of conversations without any manual tagging.
AI Research Agent
Ask your data anything in plain English and get audio-backed answers.
Months of waiting, spreadsheets full of numbers, and no clear path forward. Traditional surveys collect data, but it's difficult to make sense of.
Average Score
3.2 / 5
Responses
247
Insight
Now what?
| Question | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How engaged are you at school? | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Do you feel safe at school? | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| How supported do you feel? | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| Rate your school lunch quality | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.8 |
| Are your classes challenging? | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| Do teachers care about you? | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 |
Watch a conversation become a report you can act on.
Traditional surveys stop at a rating. Polaris listens, finds the themes, and hands you evidence-backed answers from real voices.
Participants share, in their own words
Voice, group discussion, or writing. No checkboxes, no forced rankings.
Themes surface on their own
Polaris finds patterns across hundreds of conversations, each linked to real audio.
Ask your data anything
Chat with an AI agent that has read every transcript and answers in plain English.
Get a report you can act on
Research-backed insights and clear next steps you can bring to your team.
Heard in a Polaris listening session
Genuinely, it was one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. I have never had a conversation like that before and I've always wanted to.
What can we figure out together?
From everyday concerns to deeper questions about belonging and culture, Polaris can learn about anything in your community.
“What's working well in your math class this year?”
“What makes it hard to do your best work?”
“How comfortable do you feel asking teachers for help?”
“What would make professional development worth your time?”
“What extracurricular activities would you like to see offered?”
“How do decisions get communicated on your team?”
“Do you feel like your voice is heard in classroom discussions?”
“What's working well in your math class this year?”
“What makes it hard to do your best work?”
“How comfortable do you feel asking teachers for help?”
“What would make professional development worth your time?”
“What extracurricular activities would you like to see offered?”
“How do decisions get communicated on your team?”
“Do you feel like your voice is heard in classroom discussions?”
“What's working well in your math class this year?”
“What makes it hard to do your best work?”
“How comfortable do you feel asking teachers for help?”
“What would make professional development worth your time?”
“What extracurricular activities would you like to see offered?”
“How do decisions get communicated on your team?”
“Do you feel like your voice is heard in classroom discussions?”
“When do you feel most supported by leadership?”
“How does stress affect your learning, and what support do you need?”
“What's one process you'd change tomorrow if you could?”
“What experiences at school have made you feel most proud of yourself?”
“How manageable is your workload right now?”
“How do current grading practices impact your motivation to learn?”
“What would help new staff feel like they belong here?”
“When do you feel most supported by leadership?”
“How does stress affect your learning, and what support do you need?”
“What's one process you'd change tomorrow if you could?”
“What experiences at school have made you feel most proud of yourself?”
“How manageable is your workload right now?”
“How do current grading practices impact your motivation to learn?”
“What would help new staff feel like they belong here?”
“When do you feel most supported by leadership?”
“How does stress affect your learning, and what support do you need?”
“What's one process you'd change tomorrow if you could?”
“What experiences at school have made you feel most proud of yourself?”
“How manageable is your workload right now?”
“How do current grading practices impact your motivation to learn?”
“What would help new staff feel like they belong here?”
Data Security
Polaris complies with FERPA, COPPA, and CIPA. As a nonprofit, our charter permanently prohibits us from selling or transferring data to third parties.
We earned a 95% privacy rating from Common Sense Privacy. Polaris' processing prioritizes renewable, low-energy computing.
Polaris Education (through Human Restoration Project) is a member of the Access for Learning (A4L) Community and Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC). Customizable data privacy agreements (DPAs) are available to address your school's specific compliance and privacy requirements.
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