Introducing LiveFeed sentiment analysis in LivePoll

Open-text responses are the most honest feedback your audience gives you. They’re also the hardest to act on. When 50, 100, or 200 participants submit their thoughts at once, you leave the session with a scroll of unread comments and an impression — not an analysis.

We’re changing that with LiveFeed Sentiment Analysis, a new AI-powered feature built directly into the LivePoll presenter view.

One click, instant analysis

After your audience submits responses to a LiveFeed question, click Analyze responses in the presenter view. The AI processes everything — right there, while the session is still running — and surfaces the results in a modal without switching tools or leaving the room.

You get:

Overall sentiment — positive, neutral, or negative at a glance
Recurring themes — the topics your audience keeps raising, with percentage breakdowns
Representative quotes — verbatim lines pulled from real responses for each theme
Urgent concerns and feature requests — automatically flagged and separated so they don’t get buried
Executive summary — a shareable narrative ready to paste into your follow-up email

Real quotes, not paraphrases

The feature that closes the most common gap in open-text analysis is the representative quote. A theme label like “communication concerns” tells you something exists. A quote like “The update cadence is too slow for our team” tells you what to address on Monday morning.

By surfacing verbatim lines from real participants, LiveFeed Sentiment Analysis keeps the presenter connected to the actual voice of the room — not a sanitized summary of it.

From hours to seconds

Consider an HR team running a quarterly all-hands. Before this feature, a people ops lead spent four to six hours after the session grouping responses in a spreadsheet, tagging themes, and writing a summary for the executive team.

With LiveFeed Sentiment Analysis, they click one button before the session ends. The executive summary is ready to share the same afternoon. The follow-up goes out the same day, not the same week.

The analysis covers the 500 most recent non-empty responses and can be re-triggered at any point as new answers arrive — so the insights stay current throughout long sessions.