AskNicely

Measure, motivate, and improve customer experience in real-time for frontline teams.

by AskNicely · Customer Feedback & Surveys

Executive Summary

AskNicely is a real-time customer feedback platform that helps businesses collect, analyze, and act on insights from NPS, CSAT, and 5-star surveys. It's designed for customer-obsessed organizations, particularly those with frontline teams, to empower employees to gauge sentiment, act on feedback, and celebrate positive outcomes. The platform drives customer retention, referrals, and revenue by providing actionable insights and coaching tools to improve service experiences daily.

Use Cases

  • Collecting real-time Net Promoter Score (NPS) feedback to measure customer loyalty.
  • Automating customer satisfaction (CSAT) and 5-star surveys after key interactions or transactions.
  • Empowering frontline employees with direct customer feedback for coaching and performance improvement.
  • Identifying at-risk customers and automating follow-up actions to reduce churn.
  • Boosting online reputation by automatically soliciting positive reviews on platforms like Google, G2, and Yelp.
  • Gaining actionable insights from qualitative feedback through AI-powered sentiment analysis and summarization.

Features

Visibility

  • Real-time Dashboards: Provides an immediate, at-a-glance summary of key performance metrics like NPS, CSAT, and 5-star ratings, with dynamic filtering capabilities.
  • AskNicely TV: Displays real-time customer feedback as it comes in, or cycles through filtered data, enhancing transparency and communication across the organization.
  • Leaderboards & Filters: Visualizations of data with leaderboards to compare performance against baselines and extensive filtering options for deep dives into specific criteria.
  • Automated Reporting & Digests: Allows for scheduled daily, weekly, or monthly email updates of filtered data and provides various export options for detailed analysis.

Intelligence

  • AI-Powered Feedback Analysis (NiceAI): Uses AI to analyze qualitative feedback, identify sentiment, extract root causes, and provide summaries by topic, feature, or team.
  • Dynamic & Adaptive Surveys: AI-powered surveys that can adjust questions in real-time based on customer responses, leading to richer and more specific feedback.
  • Automated Workflows & Alerts: Enables real-time routing of feedback, generates alerts, creates tickets, and sends messages to relevant teams (e.g., Slack, Teams) for prompt action.
  • Frontline Coaching & Recognition: Provides managers with feedback and coaching tools, including mobile apps, to motivate frontline staff and reinforce positive behaviors.

Support

  • Help Center & FAQs: Comprehensive online resources including setup guides, FAQs, tips, and tricks available via an in-platform widget or dedicated portal.
  • In-App Chat Support: Live chat support available within the platform during business hours (8 am-6 pm PST, Monday-Friday) for signed-in users.
  • Email Support: Users can email support directly or their dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) to create support tickets.
  • Dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM): Provides personalized guidance, helps with platform configuration, and assists in building and executing CX strategies.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SSO, SAML 2.0
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
No

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • LLM

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR

Encryption: Not explicitly detailed, but standard for SaaS platforms.

Pricing

Model
Tiered subscription, likely based on volume/features
Starting Price
Contact sales
Target Customer
Mid-Market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Not specified, likely annual with multi-year options
Free Trial
No (credit card required)

Ratings & Reviews

G2: 4.7/5

About AskNicely

AskNicely is a Frontline Success platform that helps service businesses measure customer experience, motivate frontline teams, and drive revenue growth. It provides a mobile technology platform for personalized coaching and motivation powered by real-time customer feedback.

Founded: 2014 · Headquarters: Portland, Oregon, USA · Employees: 51-200 · Private