Verified player decisions — not another suggestion board
Your next community decision is about to run as an unverified Discord poll. Run it instead as a bounded campaign: Decision Contract, one verified ballot per player, hidden live scores, and a published studio response.
This is an advisory decision. The top result will enter prototype evaluation. Technical feasibility may affect implementation. The studio will publish a response by September 15.
Rules are immutable once voting opens. That transparency is why players trust the vote — and why the result is defensible in your roadmap meeting.
The problem
Suggestion boards ask “what do players want?” — and get noise
An unbounded queue ruled by the loudest voices. Public polls get brigaded. Discord roles get farmed. And when players never hear what happened, asking made things worse.
Unverified voters
Spectators, alt accounts, and brigades vote alongside the players the decision actually affects. The result tells you nothing you can defend internally.
Unbounded questions
“What should we build next?” invites everything and decides nothing. Real decisions have options, constraints, and a deadline.
No closed loop
A studio that asks and then disappears makes players angrier than never asking. The response is part of the decision — not an afterthought.
How it works
Every campaign runs on a visible Decision Contract
For this defined decision, among these eligible players, under these constraints — what is the preference, and what will the studio do with it?
Product truth
What ships today — and what is roadmap
We do not sell vapor. Here is the honest split between the live product and planned distribution.
Ships now Live
- Decision Contract stored as data and shown to every voter
- Approval, ranked (Borda), and pairwise ballots
- Email + one-time code identity; one ballot per email
- Optional invite list (studio CSV / paste)
- Hidden live scores while open; rate-limited challenge/vote
- Studio manage link: close, publish response, export CSV, audit log
- Public results page with closed-loop response
- Game branding (color + logo URL)
Roadmap / Managed Sprint Later
- Discord bot (
/vote, reminders, result cards) - Custom domain automation (
vote.YourGame.com) - Central OAuth at
auth.player.vote - Steam / platform ownership linking
- Persistent Player Councils
- Studio account workspace & billing enforcement
Need Discord launch help now? Book a Managed Decision Sprint — we run the campaign with you.
Verification & integrity
One ballot per real player — at the level your decision needs
A cosmetic pairwise can be open to everyone who verifies email. A balance trade-off should use an invite list of the players it affects.
| Level | How it works in product today |
|---|---|
| Community | Email + OTP; optional open allowlist |
| Ownership / Activity / Role | Declared on the contract; enforce with invite list (CSV) for pilots |
| Studio segment | Optional free-text or per-invite segment on the ballot |
Anti-brigading, by default
- One ballot per verified email identity
- Hidden live scores while voting is open
- Rate limits on challenge and vote
- Immutable campaign rules after opening; audit log
- Results never oversold as “the community decided”
Voting methods that fit the question
- Approval — choose all acceptable options
- Ranked (Borda) — order alternatives; points, not IRV
- Pairwise — head-to-head for cosmetics & concepts
- Segment chips on manage and results
Start here
Managed Player Decision Sprint
We run your next real community decision end-to-end: decision-design workshop, eligibility design, campaign setup, Discord launch support, integrity monitoring, results report, and your published response page. You bring one decision that matters — we close the loop.
Pricing
Campaign or subscription — your cadence
Hypothesis pricing. The free Community tier is live for product-led trials. Paid plans enforce limits as billing ships; until then, contact us for Studio pilots.
- Active decisions
- Email OTP identity
- Platform branding
- Discord help (Sprint / roadmap bot)
- Invite lists
- Higher volume
- Custom domain (roadmap)
- Segments & export
- Response workflow
- Multiple games
- Research tools
- API access
- Portfolio-wide
- SSO & governance
- Dedicated support