In order to be understood, first understand

An easy-to-use, engaging mobile application designed to gain real-time feedback and detailed insight on people satisfaction, performance and motivation.

If you understand more about the experiences people have, you will know why they act as they do. The outcomes will help drive business growth because you are able to map areas of untapped potential and identify those that are having a negative impact.

Intelligent

Based on robust psychological principles

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Meaningful

Taps into the hearts and minds of customers and staff

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Timely

Captures real-time emotional and objective responses

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Research Led

Marries quantitative hard data with qualitative soft data

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Robust Insights

To better understand expectation, satisfaction and motivation

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Real-time Reporting

Instant feedback and detailed insights for informed decisions

The most intuitive app to help business growth

SMYLR’s uniqueness is how it uses robust psychological principles that delve beyond the typical one or two dimensional feedback approach of “how was it” and “did it meet expectations”.

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Expectation

What did the respondent anticipate before the experience? Sets the baseline for delivery vs promise.

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Importance

How much does this aspect actually matter? Focuses effort on what respondents value, not what you assume.

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Experience

How was actual delivery? Combined with the other dimensions, each answer produces one of 24 named outcomes.

Mood

What emotional state is the respondent in right now? Adjusts interpretation to account for how they’re feeling.

Overall Experience

The snap-judgement rating. Compared against detailed scores by the Columbo algorithm to detect contradictions.

A five-dimensional approach
Combines tacit with explicit and will ask for emotions as well as fact — to unearth new insights about the impact of satisfaction on your business.
Expectation Importance Experience Mood Overall

Built on robust psychological principles

Questions are designed using emoticons and colour graphics to engage the user and accurately reflect how they are thinking and feeling. Meeting the expectations of a fast, mobile responsive world, the application is accessed through phones and tablets.

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Emotion + Fact

Combines tacit knowledge with explicit feedback. Captures both how people feel and what they think, uncovering insights that traditional surveys miss entirely.

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Weighted Intelligence

Every response is weighted through a 343-row permutation matrix mapping expectation, importance, and experience to reward, penalty, status and trending values.

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Mood-Adjusted Analysis

A 49-row matrix rule table combines respondent mood with overall experience to produce weighted anticipation scores, adjusting for emotional state at time of response.

Based on business psychology

Founded on clinical and business psychology principles underpinned with bespoke algorithms

Hearts and minds

Taps into the hearts and minds of your customers and staff to understand what truly drives behaviour

Easy to use — no download

Quick to install, no app download needed. Captured on the go through any mobile browser

Real-time emotional capture

Captures real-time emotional and objective responses the moment they happen, not days later

Hard data meets soft data

Marries quantitative hard data with qualitative soft data in one unified analysis

Actionable reporting

Real-time analytical and insightful reporting helps drive the business forward and avoid costly assumptions

Fast, mobile, engaging

SMYLR is led by business psychology. Following an initial consultation, we formulate specific clusters of questions. The link is sent to respondents on the agreed date. Reports are generated in real-time.

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Overall Rating

Respondents drag an interactive smiley face up or down to rate their overall experience on a 7-point scale. Instant, intuitive, no explanation needed.

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Three-Stage Questions

For each aspect, respondents rate Expectation, Importance, and Experience using a number wheel. Three dimensions per question, capturing the full picture.

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Mood & Consistency

A mood check captures emotional state. The Columbo algorithm detects contradictions between the overall rating and detailed scores, prompting reconsideration.

Real feedback from real clients

SMYLR has provided a real-time and individual level of feedback that is both engaging and quick for students and therefore rewarding the end user.
Dr. Michael BakerHenley Business School, University of Reading
I wanted to drop you a brief note to compliment you on SMYLR. It has given us brilliant insight into our customers experience and enabled us to make considered decisions that have hugely improved our customer journey. Customer feedback on the app has been excellent with the response rates have been nothing short of extraordinary.
Sales & Operations DirectorWorld Travel Holdings
Before using SMYLR we had been unsure about the value of our concierge service, now we have a better understanding of its value to our clients we have made a decision to keep it.
Client TestimonialHospitality Sector

Real-time reports that drive action

SMYLRs guarantees speed of real-time reporting and in-depth insight. Reports are graphically presented to give you immediate insights — 4 tactical and 8 strategic, delivered in real-time.

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Engagement & Detachment

Importance vs experience scatter. Identifies strengths, focus areas, over-delivery, and low priorities.

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Penalty & Reward

Which aspects reward when done well vs penalise when done poorly. Reveals hygiene factors and differentiators.

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Attribute Fulfillment

Seven-level emotional breakdown per question. Stacked bars from Excellent to Nightmare across the full spectrum.

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Anticipation & Desire

Pre-experience anticipation mapped against importance. Shows where expectations create pressure to deliver.

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24 Outcome Categories

Every response maps through the permutation matrix to a named outcome: from “Nailed It” to “Night Mare”.

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Satisfaction Spread

Overall experience distribution with mood overlay. Profile segmentation compares groups for targeted action.

The Columbo Algorithm

Just like the famous detective, SMYLRs spots when something doesn’t add up.

“Just one more thing...”
Contradiction detected between overall and detail scores
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Respondent gives an overall rating of 6/7 (Great)

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But their detailed experience scores average only 3.2/7

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The Columbo screen appears: “Your overall rating was Great, but your detailed scores suggest Disappointing. Would you like to reconsider?”

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This eliminates snap-judgement bias and produces more accurate, reliable data for your reports.

One platform, many applications

SMYLRs helps companies answer their most important questions — from “Which customers hold the highest value?” to “How sensitive are employees to changes?”

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Customer Satisfaction

Map areas of untapped potential and identify what drives loyalty and advocacy.

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Employee Experience

Understand how sensitive employees are to changes. Improve engagement and retention.

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Product Testing

Test new products in your market. Compare against competitors with real data.

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Events & Training

Pre and post surveys capture anticipation before and experience after to measure impact.

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Testing Brands

Compare brand perception across segments and markets with weighted insights.

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Graduate Placement

Measure satisfaction through the recruitment journey from application to placement.

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Career Pathing

Understand employee expectations and satisfaction at each career stage.

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Running an Event

Insight on stands, sessions, speakers — real-time feedback while the event is live.

The engine behind the insight

343
Permutation matrix rows
49
Matrix rule combinations
24
Named outcome categories
20
Automated report types

Robust insights to power
your business

The MOST intuitive app to help business growth

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