Solutions

Built for the teams that still care
about how people feel.

Pulse fits where the unspoken matters: remote people you've never met in person, new hires trying to find belonging, a People Care team that doesn't want to scale by becoming cold. Three patterns we see most often.

For People Operations

The rituals, done right.

Intros, watercoolers, and a weekly team canvas — with warm tone, honest opt-outs, and engagement data that actually tells you what's working. Built for People Ops who are tired of cold tooling.

  • Pilot-first rollout; scale up when it lands
  • Per-tenant feature flags for phased enablement
  • One-page dashboard answers the four real questions
  • Your voice, configurable per workspace
For Remote & Distributed Teams

Connection that respects timezones.

Pairing DMs stagger per recipient — each person gets their intro inside their own preferred send-hour window. Calendar integrations find a mutual free slot in both time zones before suggesting a time.

  • Per-user timezone synced from Slack's users.list
  • Configurable preferred send hour per workspace
  • Google Calendar / Outlook free-busy before suggesting meeting times
  • Dormant-user list surfaces quiet people so no region gets ignored
For New-hire Onboarding

First week that doesn't feel scripted.

When a new member syncs from Slack, Pulse sends a warm welcome DM that introduces itself. As they engage with watercoolers over a few weeks, their engagement profile builds up — and future pairings can score them alongside teammates who share interests.

  • Personalized welcome DM on first sync
  • First pairing scored by shared topic tags once their profile builds
  • show my profile transparency — anyone can see what Pulse inferred
  • delete my profile wipes it and turns AI personalization off
Incubating inside Axelerant
Pulse is being built inside Axelerant's People Care and engineering team — a ~154-person remote org — and proven there before a wider release. Every feature has to land at home before it ships.
AX
Axelerant
People Care + Engineering · ~154 members
Meet rate
Pairs that confirm "we met" in Slack
AI lift
This round vs rolling 8-round baseline
Response rate
Unique repliers per watercooler round
Dormant re-engage
60+ day quiet users re-engaged via nudge
These are the four signals Pulse tracks. Your workspace will show its own numbers on day one.

See if your team fits.

The 14-day trial gives you the full product — not a stripped-down demo. If it's not landing with your team in two weeks, it's probably the wrong fit.

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Pulse vs Donut

How we compare, honestly.

Donut is a solid product. Here's where Pulse is different — and where we're not.

Capability
Pulse
Donut
1:1 intro pairings
✓ AI-scored by shared tags + activity balance
✓ Random shuffle
Watercooler questions
✓ Channel-aware AI, admin-approved with source permalinks
✓ Preset library
Team check-ins / newsletters
✓ Per-question DM threads, personalized greetings
Closed feedback loop
✓ 3-day post-meet DM feeds future matches
Calendar & Zoom
✓ Google / Outlook free-busy + Zoom auto-link
✓ Google / Outlook / Zoom
Per-program engagement insights
✓ Met-rate, AI lift vs rolling baseline, AI brief + starter per pair
Limited reporting
Self-serve opt-outs via Slack DM
✓ pause / snooze / don't-pair-me-with / delete-my-profile
✓ pause
AI transparency
✓ Per-call audit (tokens, cost, latency); rationale permalinks
Birthdays / anniversaries
— (not yet)
HRIS sync
— (not yet)
Self-hostable
✓ Docker Compose (Enterprise)
Starting price
$2 / person / month
≈ $3.90 / person / month

Comparison reflects Pulse features that are live in the codebase today. Donut rows reflect their published documentation at the time of writing. We'll update this as either product changes.