MaskedRoom · anonymous-audience meetings

The truth comes out when the masks go on.

Every meeting you run has a second meeting hidden inside it — the one that happens afterwards, in direct messages and corridors, where people say what they actually think. MaskedRoom brings that meeting into the room: you present live, your audience wears masks, and no one — including you — can tell who said what.

From $29, no subscription neededGuests never need an accountNothing to install

Before the ball

You've already run this meeting.

The slides landed. You asked for questions. Someone asked about parking. Then everyone filed out — and the real conversation started without you.

85%of employees say they've stayed silent on a work concern that mattered — not because they had nothing to say, but because saying it felt unsafe.Milliken & Morrison, NYU
#1Psychological safety was the single strongest predictor of team effectiveness in Google's five-year study of 180 teams — ahead of talent, seniority and workload.Project Aristotle
The costRisks you hear about a quarter late. Retros that repeat. Surveys that read like press releases. Every one of them was said out loud — just never to you.

Anonymity boxes and skip-level surveys don't fix it, because everyone has learned the same lesson: "anonymous" tools usually aren't. The fix isn't asking harder. It's making honesty structurally safe — and letting people verify that for themselves.

Run one meeting with masks on — $29 You'll know within 30 minutes

8:02 pm — the doors open. Watch what people say when no one is watching them.

Org update · open floor
You — presenting, as yourself
mic oncamera onsharing screendoors open
From the floor — masks only

Ask for honest feedback with names attached and you get diplomacy.

Take the names away and you get the meeting you actually needed.

Act one

The invitations

Schedule it or start it on the spot. Send sealed invitations — each one mints a private mask for its guest — or open the doors to anyone with the link. You'll know how many are coming. Never who.

  • Calendar invites with the agenda attached
  • Personal magic links, or one open door
  • A waiting room until you open the doors
  • Short links that fit anywhere
Act two

The ball

You present as yourself. They attend as Velvet Fox, Gilded Heron, Midnight Curtain. Questions queue privately and arrive in shuffled batches, so even timing can't unmask anyone. One tap of AI polish strips identifying phrasing — or the room hears it read aloud in a voice that belongs to no one.

  • Masked Q&A, replies and reactions
  • AI polish that de-identifies phrasing
  • Questions read aloud, synthetically
  • Polls and surveys — totals only, ever
  • Screen share and virtual backgrounds
  • Co-presenter seats for your panel
Act three

The afterparty

End the meeting — or end it with an unmasking. Guests may step into the light, camera on, real name showing, while everything said behind the mask stays sealed forever. Staying masked looks identical to having left. The choice is theirs alone.

  • An optional social close, never a roll call
  • Masks keep working during the afterparty
  • A PDF record afterwards — personas only
House rules · non-negotiable

The rules of the ball

Anonymity here isn't a setting somebody can quietly switch off. It's the architecture — the presenter-facing systems never hold the information at all.

  1. Masks, never names.The presenter sees personas and totals — never names, emails, or any real identity.
  2. No join receipts.Invitations are fire-and-forget. The host learns how many masks are in the room, never which invitees showed up.
  3. Votes are totals.Individual poll choices are never stored. What doesn't exist can't leak.
  4. Nothing is recorded.No audio, no video. The only record is text, and it speaks in personas.
  5. Questions wait in the wings.Nothing you write crosses the shared channel until the presenter surfaces it — and it arrives shuffled.
  6. Unmasking is yours alone.It can be offered from the stage, never demanded. Staying masked is indistinguishable from having left.

Honestly: a mask hides who you are — not what only you could know. In a very small room, a very specific question narrows the field. That's exactly why the AI polish exists. Wear the mask with the judgement you'd bring to any masked ball.

The occasions

Which of your meetings needs a mask first?

Retros & post-mortemsThe blameless retro that's actually blameless — what went wrong finally outranks who was nearby.
All-hands Q&AQuestions leadership never gets asked to their face — asked, read aloud, answered in front of everyone.
Change announcementsRestructures and strategy shifts: hear the real objections on day one, not in resignation letters on day ninety.
User & market researchFeedback sessions where nobody softens the verdict to spare the person who built it.
Boards & committeesStraw polls and hard questions without the politics of who moved first.
Classrooms & trainingThe questions people were too embarrassed to ask are the ones everyone needed answered.
The programme

Everything a proper ball requires.

Question libraryReusable sets for retros, research and reviews — CSV import included.
Pre & post surveysAsk before the doors open, and after the last dance.
PDF meeting reportsEverything surfaced, grouped by phase. Personas only.
Team seatsEveryone in your org can host under one subscription.
Scheduling & .ics invitesTimezone-aware, agenda attached, straight to their calendar.
Unlimited masked guestsTen to a town hall — the audience never pays, never signs up.
Shuffled batch deliveryQuestions land in randomised batches so timing identifies no one.
Runs in the browserNothing to install, on stage or in the audience.
Tickets

Three ways in. No tiers, no surprises.

Every feature is in every ticket — the only question is how often you host.

The season

MaskedRoom Pro

  • 10 masked meetings a month, for your whole team
  • Unlimited masked guests in every meeting
  • Q&A, polls, surveys, library, reports — all of it
  • Top up any time — $29 single or the $99 book of ten
Get started
$49 USD / month
The season ticket

Ten meetings

  • Ten masked meetings, everything included
  • Use them any time within 12 months
  • No subscription — they wait until you need them
Buy the book of ten
$99 USD / once
Single evening

One meeting pass

  • One masked meeting, everything included
  • No subscription, no commitment
  • Keep the PDF report afterwards
Buy a pass
$29 USD / once

Prices in US dollars, GST-inclusive for Australian customers. Your audience never pays.

Throw open the doors.

Feedback sessions, research panels, town halls, retros — anywhere candour beats ceremony.