Inkling Markets
A platform to collect predictions about a future event.
- Get a "weather forecast" for your project or business
- Understand what people's perception is of any topic inside your organization
- Break down organizational barriers to make information flow more seamlessly
Making Predictions
We've often said that you can't solicit the "wisdom of a crowd" if the crowd can't use your software. And because we run so many sites, including our own, not only does the software scale, the user experience does too, from the most savvy to the most basic.
"Thanks for paying so much attention to detail in your design. I looked at some of your competitors and it looked like someone just threw up all over the page."
- VP, Industrial Materials Company
Put Your Money...
Ever found yourself saying: "I think there's a good chance that will happen?" Use fantasy currency to make a bet on it.
Private Confessions
Every time you make a prediction you can privately say what your reasoning is. Only the people running the site will ever see it.
Predict Anywhere
Users can participate on computers or mobile devices. Great for executives who always say they're too busy to try something new!
Stay in the Know
Configure email alerts to let you know when important events are occurring on the site.
Use Your Words
In addition to making predictions, post new information you want to share or argue a point with a colleague.
Quick Predict
Get experienced enough you don't need a step-by-step process? Use quick predict, designed to be in and out fast!
Making your site an active site
Predictions are important, but communicating with others across the organization is just as powerful. Employees participate anonymously and therefore feel the security to express how they truly feel. We also give you the right tools to make sure people stay engaged, from best practice documentation to widgets you can place anywhere on your Intranet.
"Being able to put widgets wherever I want allowing people to make predictions has really helped keep the site top of mind."
- Product Line Manager
Telecomm Company
Activity Feed
Get a feed of events as they happen; toggle between those events relevant to you or see absolutely everything going on.
Widgets
Copy a line of code to enable predictions from anywhere. Put real-time results in tabular or graphical format anywhere too.
Announcements
Use the site blog to write your own announcements or import content from other sources.
This is an example of a widget from our public site you can put anywhere on your Intranet or the Internet to collect predictions outside your site. Go ahead and try it out!
Twitter Integration
Configure your own twitter bot to announce newly created questions and highlight 5 questions and their current leading answers each day.
Automated newsletters
A beautifully formatted summary of site activity is sent either weekly or daily to keep track of what's happening without having to login.
Friends and Profiles
Customizable profiles for everyone to fill out. Search and bookmark friends to see how you're doing in comparison to them.
Features at a Glance
Our platform isn't loaded down with features you'll never use. We're from the school of quality, not quantity. Of course the best way to understand the features we offer in the Inkling questions software is to sign up for a 30-day free trial, or register on our public site and begin making predictions in seconds.
Collect Predictions
- Multiple methods to make predictions: web interface, through email, and widgets
- Support for both prediction questions and opinion polls
- Simple graphical interface - absolutely no skill necessary
- Support for multiple types of questions based on the type of question you're asking
- Dashboard management to remove completed questions, review historical trading
- Large, easy to read graphs that be modified real-time
- RSS feeds to track new and expiring questions, individual question activity
- Support for rich question descriptions (embedded imagery, audio, video, etc.)
Site Features
- Internationalization - full language support
- Email alerts
- Twitter bot for public sites
- Customizable profiles
- Customizable user registration process to add additional data fields to track
- Threaded discussions per question
- Leaderboards
- Site analytics
- Local timezone support
- Keyword and full-text searching
- Support for tags and categories
- Powerful sorting and filtering capabilities for questions
- Embedded help throughout the application
- Comprehensive reference section for users and administrators
Ask and Manage Your Own Questions
- Step-by-step wizard to create a question (3-5 minute process)
- Workflow to approve questions submitted by traders
- "Clone" questions to assist in creating many in a short amount of time
- Clone questions across sites (e.g. copy questions from our public site to your private site)
- Embedded help for every element that must be completed
- Access to trader performance during and after the question has been run
- Temporary suspension of trading
- Add additional answers in the middle of a question
- 2 click cash-out process
- Full editing capabilities for administrators
- Save your work and come back later to complete
Administration
- Comprehensive statistics about your questionplace and users
- REST API
- Support for single sign-on with enterprise authentication systems via SAML2 or web services
- SSL encryption of the site
- User administration
- Support for multiple administrators and other application roles
- Fraud detection and alerting
- Multiple security configurations
- Customizable look and feel through .css modifications
- Unique domain names
- Basic content management capabilities
- Threaded discussion management
- Basic workflow for question approval
- Trader performance reports
- RSS support for site announcements and importation of external blogs
- Basic site announcements editor
- Raffle system to award traders
