About Us

We built AskHedgy for one reason, and that's to help businesses grow.

Before picking a hair salon, a cafe, or an auto shop, people check the Google rating and reviews. According to a BrightLocal survey, 68% of US consumers will only use a business with four stars or more, and 47% won't consider one with fewer than 20 reviews.

A business's reputation is built on its reviews. Real people write them about what they actually experienced, so reviews show what a business is really like. And the more good reviews you have, the more people trust them. AskHedgy helps businesses get more good Google reviews and catch the problems customers keep to themselves.

Andrey Pogorelov, Founder

I've been building web products for over 25 years. Along the way, my team has made a few useful tools that people still rely on today, like Dropdown Menu Generator.

AskHedgy is my next step. I've put everything I know into it, and I believe in it. Good work should be seen, and helping businesses with that is the most useful thing I can do.

How AskHedgy started

I pick places based on their Google reviews. If a business has a low rating or only a handful of reviews, I skip it. When there are that few, it feels like the owner's friends wrote them, and I don't really trust them.

Meanwhile, a good business can do great work for years and still have only a couple dozen reviews. Happy customers say thanks and leave, but they don't write a review. Nobody asked, and then they forget.

Bad experiences are a different story. When something goes wrong at a cafe or a clinic, I rarely tell the owner. It's awkward, I don't know who to talk to, and they might be busy. It's easier to just leave and not come back. If it was really bad, I might write a review to warn other people. And the owner often never finds out what actually went wrong.

So I thought, what if businesses had a simple way to hear from customers right at the end of the visit, while it's still fresh, in about a minute? Happy customers could leave a Google review on the spot. And if something was off, the owner would hear about it that same day and could fix it before the next customers ran into the same problem. That's how AskHedgy started.

Why AskHedgy?

Hedgy is a hedgehog. You've probably seen the picture in old children's books of a hedgehog carrying apples and mushrooms on its spines. It wanders through the grass and picks up whatever it finds, so nothing goes to waste.

Hedgy does the same for your business. It brings your customers' answers to you and only you, so you can see what's going well and what needs fixing. And it gives customers the chance to leave a Google review. That way, good impressions don't get lost along the way.

Small, attentive, and never misses a thing. That's exactly what a helper collecting your customers' opinions should be.

Our principles

Simple and minimal. We cut out everything that isn't needed, from the interface to the process to the way we talk to you. A good tool shouldn't need a long manual.

Honest and respectful. We want your reviews to be real, from real customers about real visits. We don't collect your customers' contact details, we never message them, and we don't use their data. No ads, no hidden terms.

Real support. I'm the one behind AskHedgy. If something goes wrong, you're writing to me, not a bot.

Built for the long run. We're making AskHedgy to last, not for a quick win. It gets better step by step, based on what our users tell us.

Get in touch

Questions or ideas? I'd love to hear them. And if you just want to see how AskHedgy works for your business, try it free for 30 days, no card needed.

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