Use Cases

Sample Poll: Choosing Holiday Plans with Friends
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The holidays are coming up, and you want to plan a day with friends. In a group chat, this usually turns into ten different ideas with no clear decision. So you create a poll in Rezon.io where everyone ranks the options, not just picks one.

You add a short list of ideas, for example:

  • Wine Tasting and Vineyard Tour
  • Day Hike and Picnic in the Redwoods
  • Tech Museum Tour with a VR Experience
  • Road Trip and Beach Bonfire
  • Indoor Skydiving Adventure
  • Art Walk and Dessert Tasting

You set up the poll, add your friends, and (optionally) attach photos to make the options easy to scan. Then you share the link by email or messenger. Each person simply drags the options into their preferred order.

Sample poll: Choosing Holiday Plans with Friends

Once everyone votes, you get a final ranked list. The top result is the option that fits the group best overall — often not everyone's #1, but the one most people can live with. In this case, it's Road Trip and Beach Bonfire. Everyone sees the result, and you can discuss it right there in the comments.

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Survey: Customer Preferences on Product Materials
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Your company is preparing a new product line and wants feedback on which wood to use. This decision isn't just about taste; it directly impacts the final price. So instead of asking customers to pick a single favorite, you create a Rezon.io survey where they rank the options in order.

You start with a short list, including cost context:

  • Oak — baseline cost, durable, classic
  • Walnut — about 1.5× oak, richer tone
  • Brazilian Rosewood — about 2× oak, distinctive grain
  • Pink Ivory — about 3× oak, vibrant color
  • Macassar Ebony — about 4× oak, dramatic stripes
  • African Blackwood — about 10× oak, rare and very dark

You share a universal link with existing customers and embed the survey on partner sites to broaden reach. To interpret the ranking properly, you add a couple of lightweight questions about how long they've used similar products, and whether they've bought from your brand before.

Survey: Customer Preferences on Product Materials

Once responses come in, Rezon.io gives you a ranked list that reflects real preferences while keeping cost trade-offs visible. You can also see how rankings differ between newer and more experienced customers. In this example, Brazilian Rosewood emerges as the strongest overall choice—helping you make a material decision you can justify internally and explain to customers.

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Contest: Children's Drawing Contest
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The school is organizing a children's drawing contest and wants the selection process to be fair and calm, so the results don't turn into a debate. You set up a ranked-choice poll in Rezon.io and invite parents, classmates, and teachers to participate.

Each drawing becomes a voting option, and the image appears right on the voting card. That makes it easy to scan a long list of entries without confusion. Participants can vote via a personal link tied to their email (useful when you want controlled access), and you can also embed the poll on the school's website so people can vote where they already are.

The voting experience is simple enough for all ages: voters rank the drawings by dragging them into the order they prefer.

Contest: Children's Drawing Contest

When the poll closes, the school publishes the final results. If needed, a small group of observers can oversee the process to reinforce transparency and trust.

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Collective Decisions: Budget Allocation
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A software company is preparing its annual budget and wants input from key stakeholders without turning the process into a tug-of-war between departments. The finance team collects short proposals across the main spending areas: software licenses and development tools, employee training, infrastructure upgrades, marketing, and innovation/R&D, so everyone is working from the same set of options and assumptions.

After the presentations and internal discussions, the company uses Rezon.io to run a ranked-choice vote. Instead of asking people to pick a single "top priority," each stakeholder ranks the budget areas from most to least important. This captures the full preference picture (not just the loudest first choice), makes trade-offs explicit, and keeps the conversation focused on priorities rather than politics. Voting is handled through personalized, one-time links, which helps keep the process controlled and confidential.

To maintain strategic alignment while still respecting the group's input, the CEO's ballot is counted with double weight.

Collective Decisions: Budget Allocation

When voting closes, Rezon.io produces a final ranked list of funding priorities—essentially a shared, defensible ordering that reflects both cross-team perspectives and executive direction. The outcome is a clearer, more "buy-in friendly" budget plan, with a transparent decision trail that's easy to communicate internally.

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Team Member Selection: Select the Best Fitting Candidate
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A team is hiring for a key role and wants the decision to be both inclusive and structured, so it feels fair, but still respects how accountability works in practice. Instead of an informal "who likes whom" discussion, you set up a ranked-choice poll in Rezon.io and ask each team member to rank the five candidates from best fit to least fit.

Before voting, the team agrees on voting weights during a meeting. Most participants vote with weight 1, while a small number of roles have higher weight to reflect responsibility and domain expertise, for example: regular team members (1), approved key contributors (2), and the team lead plus HR (3 each). This makes the decision rule explicit upfront, which reduces friction later.

Each voter receives a personal link through Rezon.io so the vote is confidential and limited to the intended participants. The poll is kept internal to the team to protect privacy and encourage honest input. At the same time, leadership can be included without steering the outcome: the CEO and CTO are given observer access so they can monitor the process and see that it's run properly, without casting votes.

Team Member Selection: Select the Best Fitting Candidate

Once voting closes, Rezon.io produces a final ranked result that reflects the combined preferences and the agreed voting weights. The output is not just a "winner," but a clear ordering that the team can stand behind—helping management move forward with less second-guessing and improving alignment across the group.

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