An employee survey. That's it.

You don't need an HR platform. You need a survey.

Pick the survey. Share the link. Get a PDF. One dollar per employee. No subscription, no demo, no implementation call, no customer success manager named Chad checking in next quarter. Run it once. Run it twice. Don't run it again until you need to. We won't email you in between.

Run a survey — $1 per employee
Engagement survey or exit interview. 50-employee minimum ($50). Live in five minutes.
Price
$1 / employee
Minimum
$50
Setup time
< 5 min
Data kept
30 days

Hearing from your team shouldn't cost $30,000.

Somewhere along the way, "ask your team how they're doing" turned into a procurement decision. A 45-minute demo. Three pricing tiers. An AI insights layer nobody asked for. A Slack integration nobody uses. A customer success manager who'll "check in next quarter."

The other option is duct-taping a Google Form together, sending it from your own email, and watching everyone answer like they know you can see who said what. They can. You can.

Neither of those is a survey. One's a platform. The other's a guess.

The usual options

HR platforms & form builders

  • $4–$12 per employee, every month, billed annually
  • Demo required to see the price
  • Features you'll never use justifying the price you'll always pay
  • Or a Google Form your team knows is from your Workspace
  • You stop running surveys because the whole thing's a pain
GoldilocksHR

One survey. One PDF.

  • The right questions, written by someone who's done this
  • Truly anonymous link — we don't even collect IPs
  • A 3-page PDF report you can read in ten minutes
  • Departments suppressed under 5 respondents, so anonymity holds
  • Pay once, run it, we delete the data in 30 days. Done.

Here's the whole thing. Five steps.

Faster than reading the Culture Amp pricing page — and you'll have a live survey at the end.

Under 4 minutes, total
  1. Pick your survey

    30 sec

    Both are pre-built. You don't write a single question.

    Standard engagement Exit interview
  2. Tell us your headcount and teams

    45 sec

    That's the whole setup. No industry, no revenue, no birthday.

    Headcount: 80
    Sales, Ops, Warehouse|
  3. Pay $1 per employee

    20 sec

    One-time, via Stripe. No annual contract. No "starting at."

    Standard survey · 80 × $1.00$80.00
    Total today$80.00

    Running the exit interview instead? It's $15 per exit.

  4. Share the one link with your team

    instant

    Slack, email, a QR code taped to the fridge — your call. Anonymous by default.

  5. Close the survey. Get the PDF.

    instant

    Download a 3-page report, read where you actually stand, and take it to your leadership team to act on.

    Yours to keep. We auto-delete the underlying data 30 days after close.


What you actually get

The truth about your culture, in one honest PDF.

No dashboard to log into. No quarterly "value check-in." Pick the moment you're measuring — here's a look at exactly what lands in your inbox.

Inside the report Flip through all three pages
Live preview

Your team will tell you the truth if they believe you can't see who said what.

Anonymity isn't a checkbox. It's the entire reason you're paying a third party instead of running a Google Form yourself. So we made it concrete.

No names. No emails. No IPs.

We don't collect identifying information from your employees. Not for "fraud prevention." Not for "verification." Not at all. The link is the link.

Suppressed below 5 respondents.

If your warehouse team has 4 people, you don't get a "warehouse score." You get "Data suppressed for anonymity." Because if there are 4 answers and one is harsh, the math told you who said it.

Deleted 30 days after close.

You download the PDF. You keep the PDF. We delete the underlying responses. We're not warehousing your team's feedback so we can sell you "benchmarking" later. We're not warehousing it at all.

That distance — the fact that we're not your HR team, not your software vendor, not anyone who has a reason to remember — is what makes the answers worth reading.

Two surveys. Pick the one you need.

An engagement survey for your whole team, or an exit interview for departing employees. Same simplicity. Same PDF. Same "pay once, done."

Prevent turnover

Exit Interview.

Five questions your departing employee will actually answer honestly — because you're not the one asking. Decision-ready PDF generated the moment your survey is complete.

5 Questions 3 minutes $15 per Exit
  • 5 questions covering the real reasons people leave
  • Collected by a neutral third party — not your HR team
  • Professional PDF report delivered immediately
  • Includes open-text responses, not just scores
  • Builds a longitudinal record across exits over time
Run an exit survey

Pricing

Pay per use.
Never per seat, never per month.

No subscription, no seats, no annual contract. A culture survey is $1 per employee. Exit interviews are a flat fee each. You pay when you run one — and nothing in between.

The Standard survey

How big is your team?

people

Drag, or type a number. The minimum is $50 — even if you have 22.

$100 per survey run

Exit interviews

How many people leave?

15 % a year

US average runs 15–20%. Not sure? Leave it here.

15 people leave a year — that's 15 exit interviews to run.

$150 a year of exits

Your year, added up

  • Standard survey × 2 runs $200
  • Exit interviews × 15 $150
Total for the year $350

One time per survey. No subscription. No seats. That's the price.

For context

Next to what you'd otherwise be quoted

A typical per-seat platform Culture Amp · Lattice · 15Five · Officevibe · and the rest $9,600
~$8 per employee, per month — billed for all 12
Goldilocks HR $350
two survey runs + your exit interviews

You keep $9,250 a year — 96% less, for the part you actually use.

Rates across the category run roughly $4–14 per employee, per month — we used $8. That number buys dashboards, a benchmarking module, and a customer success manager who checks in next quarter. Ours buys the survey and the PDF — then deletes the data 30 days later.

Why we don't do subscriptions

We don't make money from your inertia.

A subscription makes sense when a product gets more useful every day — Spotify, your project management tool, your accounting software.

A culture survey is not that product. You run one. You read the PDF. You make some decisions. You run another one in six months. The value is episodic.

Charging you $800 a year whether you run one survey or twelve isn't a pricing model. It's a bet that you'll forget to cancel. We're not interested in that bet.

We will never add a per-seat subscription. We will never require a demo to buy. We will never hire a sales team. We will never build an "enterprise tier" with advanced analytics designed to justify a higher price point. We will never make you log in to get your results when we can just email you the PDF.

Some of those decisions cost us revenue. They're the right decisions anyway.

— Just right. Not too much. Not too little.

Questions you'd ask if we had a sales team to email.

Is it actually anonymous? Like, actually?

Yes. We don't collect names, emails, or IP addresses from your employees. The survey link is generic — anyone with the link can submit, and there's no login. If a department has fewer than 5 respondents, its scores are suppressed in the report so individual answers can't be reverse-engineered. We delete the response data 30 days after the survey closes.

What's the minimum?

$50, which covers up to 50 employees. If you have 22 employees, you still pay $50. If you have 51, you pay $51.

Can I add my own questions?

No. We know — every other tool lets you. We don't, on purpose. The questions are the product. Custom questions mean inconsistent data, longer surveys, lower completion rates, and the slow drift toward becoming a form builder. There are great form builders. We aren't one.

What about quarterly pulse surveys?

Run another one in three months and pay again. Each survey is independent — separate link, separate report. The price is low enough that this is the model, not a workaround.

How is this different from Culture Amp, Lattice, Officevibe, 15Five?

They're platforms. They sell continuous engagement programs with dashboards, action plans, manager nudges, performance reviews, and benchmarking — for $4–$12 per employee per month, billed annually. We sell one survey and one PDF for $1 per employee, one time. Different product, different price, different decision.

How is this different from Google Forms?

Your team knows when a Google Form is from your own Workspace. They know who has access. They adjust their answers — not because they're dishonest, but because they're not naive. We're a neutral third party. (Also: Google Forms doesn't generate a 3-page departmental heatmap report.)

Do I need an account to buy?

No. You enter your headcount, pay, and you're at the launchpad with your survey link. The account gets created after payment, attached to the survey you just bought. You can sign in with Google if you'd rather skip the password step.

What about exit interviews?

Yes — same $1/employee pricing, separate product. Pick "Exit interview survey" at checkout. Questions are built for offboarding, designed to surface why someone actually left.

Who's behind this?

A couple of operators who got tired of $30K HR-tech contracts for things that should cost $50.

What if I need help?

Email hello@goldilockshr.com. A real human replies — usually faster than you expect.

Stop talking about culture.
Read what your team actually thinks.

Run a survey — $1 per employee

Engagement survey or exit interview. 50-employee minimum. PDF report. Done in under a week.