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Use case

Internal IT and tooling request boards for employees

Replace the IT request spreadsheet with a private, votable board that employees search before filing a duplicate, and an internal roadmap of planned work.

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The problem

What this usually looks like today

IT and internal tools teams get the same request five different ways — a Slack message, a form, a hallway conversation — with no way to see what's already been asked or what's already planned. Employees don't know if their request is queued, ignored or already shipped, so they just keep asking.

The loop

How Looph handles it

Four moves, one workspace — no re-entry between them.

  1. 01Run a private board open only to your company's email domain, where employees search before submitting and similar requests appear as they type a title, cutting duplicates at the source.
  2. 02Let employees upvote existing requests (new laptop policy, tool access, internal app fixes) so IT prioritizes by demand.
  3. 03Show an internal roadmap of planned IT and tooling work so 'did anyone see my request?' has a self-serve answer.
  4. 04Announce completed changes via changelog so employees know when a fix or new tool actually went live.

A worked example

An IT team with six hundred requesters

An illustrative team, not a customer story. Every step uses features described in the docs.

An IT team of five supports six hundred employees. Requests arrive by Slack message, web form and hallway conversation, and the same request often arrives five times.

IT runs a private board for employees, with tags for hardware, access and software. Similar requests surface while someone types a title, so most would-be duplicates become votes on the existing post. A roadmap of planned and in-progress work answers "did anyone see my request?" without a ticket.

When a new tool goes live, a changelog entry notifies everyone who voted for it. A private board and six hundred employees who vote fit Starter, at $19/mo, which includes 1 private board and 1,000 tracked voters.

Questions

Frequently asked

Yes. A private board is visible only to signed-in workspace members and the people or email domain on its allowlist. It is left out of the sitemap, and each board can also be set to noindex.

Yes, by hand. Tag each request hardware, access or software, filter the team inbox by tag, and assign each post an owner, who is notified. Tags are shared across the workspace rather than set per board.

Yes, with no per-user fee. Employees who vote count as tracked voters, 100 on Free, 1,000 on Starter, 10,000 on Growth and unlimited on Business, so a larger company moves up a plan rather than paying per head.

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