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Ask on WhatsApp what your readers voted in your beehiiv newsletter poll

Ask on WhatsApp what your readers voted: an AI agent pulls the responses to your beehiiv poll and how the send that carried it performed.

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How do I know what readers voted in my beehiiv newsletter poll without opening the dashboard?

You write to your Met "what did people vote in the last newsletter's poll?". The Met finds your publication in beehiiv, lists recent posts and polls, opens the right one and pulls its responses. It summarizes in the chat how many people chose each option and, if you ask, how the send that carried the poll performed: opens and clicks from the post stats. With that you choose the topic of the next issue. Everything is read only: in this procedure the Met does not edit or save any post.

What starts it

When someone asks for it

It starts when someone on the team asks the Met on WhatsApp about a poll or the last send. Each check is on demand; the Met does not watch the votes on its own.

A manual task: someone on the team runs it with a button, or asks the Met for it in chat.

Who runs it

Internal Met that reads your newsletter results

Social team

This is not a named, seeded Met. It is an internal Met with beehiiv connected, for whoever writes the newsletter or the agency that runs it: it is done when it summarizes the poll responses and the send's performance.

Run by the paid ads Met

Channels: WhatsApp

What you need connected

beehiiv Create and promote

5 steps · 6 tools

The procedure, step by step

Each step shows the tool that runs. They belong to the real connector: if one of them stopped existing, this page would not build.

1
Find the publication

The Met lists the publications the connected account can access and keeps the one you named. If you run a single newsletter, this step is immediate.
- list_publications beehiiv
2
Find the send you mean

The Met lists the publication's recent posts to find the issue that carried the poll, by its title or the date you gave.
- list_posts beehiiv
3
Find the poll

The Met lists the publication's polls and opens the right one, to read the question and the options exactly as your team wrote them.
- list_polls beehiiv
- get_poll beehiiv
4
Pull the responses

The Met pulls the poll responses and counts how many people chose each option. It replies with the summary, not with the full list of readers.
- list_poll_responses beehiiv
5
Report how the send performed

If you ask, the Met pulls the stats of the post that carried the poll, so you see how many opened and clicked next to how many voted.
- get_post_stats beehiiv

Before you start

What you need ready

The Met solves none of these for you. If one is missing, the automation stops there.

A poll published in your newsletter

Your team builds the poll in beehiiv and includes it in a send. Whatever is not a poll in beehiiv, the Met cannot count.
beehiiv connected in Met

In Met, open Connections → beehiiv → Connect and authorize with an account that sees the publication. This procedure only uses read actions.
An internal Met on WhatsApp

A team Met with beehiiv connected that you write to on WhatsApp. It is not the Met that answers your customers: it is for whoever runs the newsletter.

The limits

What this automation does NOT solve

Better said here than discovered halfway through the rollout.

It does not create the poll or add it to the newsletter. Your team builds the poll in beehiiv; the Met only reads its responses.
It does not write or send the next issue. In this procedure the Met does not edit or save posts, and saving a post starts switched off because it can send it.
It does not alert you when a vote comes in. It answers when you ask; it does not watch the poll on its own.
It does not explain why people voted that way. It counts what your readers chose; you only know the reasons if the poll or a survey asks for them.
It does not see publications the connected account cannot access. Connect with the account that manages your newsletter.

FAQ

Questions about this automation

Yes. beehiiv separates polls and surveys, and the connector has tools to read the responses to both. This procedure uses the poll one; with a survey the steps are the same.

Not in this procedure. The Met summarizes the votes for your team; writing to a reader is a different procedure.

Yes, if it is still in the publication. Give the Met the title of the send or the date and it looks for it among your posts and polls.

The connector uses your beehiiv account and its permissions. If a beehiiv feature depends on your plan, the Met has the same limit you have in the dashboard.

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