Confido app

Take uncertainty into account.
Get superior data.

Facing strategic or risky decision? Use Confido and check out not only what your group thinks, but also how sure it is. Fast. Secure. Simplified for all. And the best part? It is free.

Use cases

What can you use the Confido app for?

Three ways teams and organizations put Confido to work.

Forecasting tournaments

Use Confido as a forecasting app, run an internal forecasting tournament and find out who the best forecasters in your organization are.

The app is free to use. For larger tournaments, we offer consulting support as a paid service, so everything runs smoothly and you end up with high-quality data.

Interactive talks and meetings

Upload your slides and use Confido to turn talks, workshops, and retreats into live sessions where groups forecast and estimate together and see live analytics of their answers.

Question types

Ask all kinds of questions you can quantify

Ask resolvable as well as non-resolvable questions

Forecasting questions

Will China invade Taiwan by 2030?
Will I get a promotion this year?

Create a question about the future nobody currently knows the answer to but that will have a clear resolution in the future.

Knowledge questions

Is an elephant heavier than a whale?

Practice calibration and ask a question everyone can guess and immediately find out the correct answer and if they are over or underconfident.

Forecasting app Confido: Question types

Implicit belief questions

Will the venue A suit our cause better than the venue B?

You can even ask questions that do not have a clear correct answer, now or in the future. You won't know who was 'right' but you will get a better idea of what people in your group think.

Other kinds of questions

How many people suffered from paint poisoning in 1990?

Do you have other quantified question in mind? Then feel free to use a “no template” and design your question on your own.

Forecasting app Confido: numeric answer interface
Confido question settings: schedule, group answer visibility, comments

Question features

Create your question easily and choose from a variety of options

  • You can set a schedule for the question – when it opens (starts accepting answers), closes (ends accepting answers), when is it scored and when should it be resolved. You can also set a default schedule for the whole room, useful e.g. when doing a forecasting tournament.
  • Decide who will see the group prediction. Whether it's just you, or everyone after they answer the question themselves, or everyone immediately regardless of whether they provided an answer.
  • Decide if you want comments to be part of your question.

Features for providing estimates

Provide your answer just by two clicks

Confido prevents anchoring and enables providing your estimate both with a slider and numerically.
  1. Step: Click to set best guess estimate
  2. Step: Click to set uncertainty range
  3. Step: Check and adjust if needed
  4. Step: Answer is saved automatically

Room management

Organize your uncertainty questions according to their topic or audience

Sleek question management design will help you to have all kinds of different uncertainty projects and questions in one spot.

Audience specific rooms

Do you want to share different questions with different groups of people in your institution, or with external advisors? Create different rooms for different audiences. Some of your rooms can be public, some can be private according to your preference.

Topic specific rooms

Do you want to compare how well you are calibrated in your personal versus professional questions? Or in different areas? Just place different questions in different rooms to measure your calibration or group calibration for different topics separately.

And share your rooms with anyone you want

Confido user management allows different settings.

Create a workspace for your organization and invite all your colleagues

Whether you have a team of 2 or 2000, your organizational workspace can serve well for internal forecasting as well as for better coordination and meeting acceleration.

Add external collaborators and give them full or limited access

Your external collaborators can be forecasters or viewers only. You decide about their role.

Create an invite link to share questions with multiple people

You can for example share the link via a chat, message board, mailing list or even publicly on your website to invite people.

Invite an anonymous crowd by projecting a QR code

You can easily use Confido during a presentation or workshop (for example calibration training).

Beautiful analytics

Discover cutting-edge calibration curves

Confido shows you your calibration – a measure of how the confidence of your predictions matches their actual accuracy.
  • Calibration curves for both yes/no and numeric questions
  • Calibration curves for different rooms as well as the whole workspace
  • Calibration curves for you personally as well as the whole group of people who provided estimates

Brier scoring

Compare scores during a forecasting or calibration tournament

  • Built-in Brier scoring for binary questions can be enabled.
    See how →
  • If you need another type of scoring, you can use the CSV export feature and roll your own scoring formulas.
Brier score leaderboard in Confido

Confido – forecasting, estimation and calibration tool step by step

How to get started

  1. Get your Confido workspace and log in

    First, request a workspace for free.

    You will get a confirmation e-mail within 24 hours after your request. If not, check your spam folder (and reach out to us if that did not help).

    Then visit your chosen subdomain (workspace-name).confido.tools in your browser and log in using the email you have provided in your workspace request.

  2. Create your first room

    Once you are in your new workspace, it is completely empty. You have to create your first room. (Every question has to be placed in a room.)

  3. Create your first question

    Once you have your room, you can start with creating your own questions. Once you resolve them, your latest predictions will show you how well calibrated you are.

  4. Provide your estimate and/or share question with others

    Once your question is created you can provide your own estimate and also compare your estimate with others (if you invite them to your workspace).

  5. Observe your calibration

    Learn from your own judgement and also check if you are over- or under-confident compared to others you shared questions with.

Confido app FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to get my workspace?

We will create your workspace and send you an email with instructions within 24 hours after your request. If you have not received it by then, check your spam folder.

How do I log into my workspace?

Visit your workspace subdomain (workspace-name).confido.tools and you will be able to log in using the email you have provided when requesting the workspace.

How much does Confido cost?

Confido is free to use. If you need a special feature or you want to support the development of something specific, please contact us. We will provide you with a cost estimate.

What should I know about forecasting and dealing with uncertainty before I start using the Confido app?

If you have never heard of forecasting, we strongly recommend you read the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock or watch this short video.

Can I use the Confido app in the classroom?

Definitely. Confido is designed to be very user-friendly and was already used for a forecasting tournament and a forecasting course at a high school and a Summer Academy. We have also developed demo versions of Confido edu – different estimation exercises for high schoolers.

Can we use Confido within a government department or agency?

Definitely. We do not collect and sell any data. Confido is open source and allows you to self-host your workspace on your own infrastructure to have full control over your data. In the past Confido hosted a tournament at Dutch government.

Start using Confido today.