In a risk session the room votes, not the highest rank.
Participants vote anonymously on their own phones, the facilitator watches the spread come in, and the room sees the same risk on the big screen. In an inventory session the room types in the risks itself, the assistant clusters them and you harvest them into a scoring round or the register. The risks come from your organisation's register, so the session is a round in the risk cycle rather than a one-off moment.
From now to next
From sticky notes on a flip chart to a round that counts
The risk workshop is a familiar ritual: coloured stickers, a matrix on the wall, and afterwards somebody retyping the outcome. What is missing is who thought what, and why the group disagreed.
The director sticks first
Whoever goes after the highest rank places their sticker somewhere near that one. It is called a session outcome, but it is an echo.
Everyone votes at once, anonymously
The picture appears only when the round closes. What you see is what the group actually thought, and no voter's name leaves the server.
The average hides the disagreement
Two camps cancelling each other out produce the same average as a group that agrees. That spread is exactly what deserves the conversation.
The spread sits next to the average
Per risk you get the average, the spread and how much consensus there is. Where the group diverges, you discuss and vote again.
The room only scores what you thought of
The risk list comes from the facilitator. What the shop floor sees and head office does not only comes up if somebody dares to say it.
The room supplies the risks itself
In an inventory session everyone types on their own phone what could go wrong. Every submission appears on the screen at once, is clustered, and moves on to a scoring round or the register.
The outcome ends up in a spreadsheet
A photo of the flip chart, a tab with scores, and a register that still carries last year's values six months later.
The session is attached to the register
You pick the risks from your organisation's register, with the measures that belong to them. The result stays with the session, every round included, and nobody deletes a completed session by accident.
This is what it looks like
A selection from Risk Voter
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The four screens
One session, four faces
The format runs on four screens at once, all looking at the same session: the preparation, the controls, the room and the phone in the participant's hand.
Preparation
Choose the format, set up risks or topics, set the ground rules, invite participants, in five steps.
Cockpit
The facilitator's controls: start a round, follow the spread or the submissions, review clusters, take notes, move on.
Room view
The big screen with the risk, its measures, the QR code and the result as soon as there is one; in an inventory, the word cloud or card wall.
Phone
The participant's voting screen, with the grid and labels of your own heat map, or the input field for a risk, in Dutch or English.
What Risk Voter offers
A format that lets the room speak and feeds the register
Voting is the easy part. The work sits in the preparation, in what the room sees, and in what happens to the outcome afterwards.
Inventory or scoring
Two formats in the same session list. In an inventory the room types in risks per topic, prompted by a question you set; in a scoring session the room places your risks on likelihood and impact.
Join without an account
A three-character code, a short link or the QR code on the screen. They work before you start, so they fit in the calendar invitation, and a latecomer finds them small on the room screen.
Anonymous, yet complete
The facilitator sees who has voted, never what someone voted. When the session is set to anonymous, no voter's name leaves the server, not even towards the phones in the room.
Spread and consensus
Per risk the average, the standard deviation and a consensus percentage, while the votes are still coming in. With little agreement, a second round can follow automatically.
Measures in or out
Per session or per risk you choose whether the linked measures appear on the voting screen. With measures, the room votes on the risk that remains; without them, on the risk itself.
A room screen that keeps up
The projection follows the cockpit, and you can also drive it with a presenter clicker or the arrow keys. Word cloud, card wall or cluster bubbles during the inventory, the grid with vote positions as soon as the round closes.
Vote again when needed
If the group diverges, you discuss it and vote again. The earlier round is kept, so the shift stays visible.
Evidence from the conversation
A recording from Voice yields a quote that you attach to a risk from the session. It substantiates the discussion; likelihood and impact remain the outcome of the vote.
Your own logo and scale words
Switch off the Audirium logo on the join screen and the projection, and the room sees only your organisation's logo, with the likelihood and impact words of your own heat map along the grid.
How it works
From preparation to recorded outcome in six steps
Choose the format and set up the session
New session first asks: inventory or scoring. Preparing a scoring session takes five steps (basics, scope, measures, ground rules and review), with the risks from the register in the order you choose.
Invite the room
Code, short link and QR code appear on the review screen, in the cockpit and on the projection. Participants join on their phones, in the room or remotely, and watch their name appear in the list.
Let the room contribute or vote
In an inventory you open a topic and every submission appears on the big screen. In a scoring session a participant taps likelihood and impact on the grid, with the labels of your own heat map.
Run it from the cockpit
You see who has voted and how the votes fall, change ground rules during the session, record a note and move on to the next risk. In an inventory you review the assistant's clusters before harvesting them.
Harvest the outcome
Clusters go to the heat map as unscored risks, on to a scoring round, or to an export. A scoring session ends with gross and net scores per risk in the result.
Keep and protect
The result summarises every round and stays with the session. Archiving makes the session read-only and can be undone; deleting requires approval by a second person.
Who it is for
For the facilitator of the risk session, and for whoever has to work with it afterwards
For the risk manager, the internal auditor and the board secretary who run a session and want an outcome that survives the next meeting.
Part of Risk Heat Map: the same risks, the same scale and the same measures as in your organisation's register.
Your own scale: the axes, the labels and the zones of your heat map, on the phone and on the projection too.
Remote as well: copy the invitation as a single sentence for Teams or email; participants vote from their own device, in the room or elsewhere.
Two languages: phone, projection and cockpit follow the language of the session, Dutch or English.
Closes itself: a session with twelve hours of inactivity closes automatically; your results and export remain.
Risk Voter at a glance
Frequently asked questions
What you want to know about Risk Voter beforehand
What is Risk Voter?
Risk Voter is the working session inside Risk Heat Map, Audirium's risk management app. Participants join on their own phones without an account: in an inventory session they type in risks, in a scoring session they vote anonymously on likelihood and impact. The facilitator runs it from the cockpit, the room follows on the big screen, and the result stays with the session.
Who is Risk Voter for?
Risk Voter is for whoever facilitates a risk session: the risk manager, the internal auditor, the board secretary or the adviser who wants to name and score risks with a management team, a department or a board. Participants only need a phone; only the facilitator works in Risk Heat Map.
What does Risk Voter actually do?
Risk Voter lets a room contribute risks per topic and clusters the submissions, or lets the room score risks from the register anonymously on likelihood and impact. It shows average, spread and consensus per risk, starts a second round when agreement is low, lets measures count or not, and keeps every round with the session, with quotes from Voice as supporting evidence.
How does Risk Voter differ from stickers or a stand-alone polling tool?
Risk Voter works on your organisation's risk register, with your own scale words and zones and the measures attached to each risk. A stand-alone polling tool does not know that register. The result shows the spread next to the average, an earlier round is kept after a revote, and a completed session can only be removed through archiving or approval by a second person.
How does AI work in Risk Voter, and who decides?
In an inventory an assistant looks at the submissions and proposes clusters; on the phone a participant may get a hint that a submission resembles an existing cluster. Both are proposals. The facilitator reviews the clusters, renames, splits or merges them, and decides at harvest what goes to the register or a scoring round. Scoring itself involves no AI: the result is the vote.
What about participants' data?
A participant enters only a name; there is no account. When the session is anonymous, no voter's name leaves the server, and a confidential session also keeps names and individual votes out of the report. The session lives in your organisation's database on Hetzner servers in the EU, separated from other organisations, and closes itself after twelve hours of inactivity.
A risk session on the agenda?
Get in touch for a trial session on your own risk register, in the room or online.