Interactive presentations and courses
Give the room something to do
Presentations your audience runs from their own phones. Courses people actually finish. They answer, they vote, they run their own numbers, and it lands on your screen while you're still speaking.
That's a real audience wall. Put something on it, then watch what happens when two people say the same thing.
Live room
13 answers so far
The presenter's screen
What are you actually saving for?
- A housex3
- Time with my kids
- To quit my job
- Out of debtx2
- A year off
- College for the twins
- To stop checking my balance
- A rental property
- Retire before 60
- Taking care of my mom
The problem
Are you tired of presenting to the tops of their heads?
Your course has the same problem. You record twelve good lessons and almost nobody finishes, because watching isn't taking part.
Sound familiar
You can feel the room go, usually around slide six
Not your fault
You were handed slides, so you built slides
The way out
That phone in their hand is your second screen
Where we come in
We've stood at the back of that ballroom
Watching a good speaker with good material lose a room to nothing in particular. It isn't a content problem. Nothing in the format asks anyone for anything.
So we build the format instead. Our rooms are on real projectors, in front of paying audiences, right now.
Built and running
- 3 live audience rooms, built and handed to their presenters
- 14 presentations and decks
- A twelve module course, in 4 co-branded editions
- 12 interactive tools and calculators
- 8 websites and web apps
That isn't an agency's output. That's one studio running a different process.
What a room can do
Five things, and the speaker never touches any of them
You're at a lectern holding a clicker. You can't drag a slider, so nothing here asks you to. The audience holds the dials. Your screen shows what came back.
Live room
Pick something to try
The presenter's screen
What are you actually saving for?
- A housex3
- Time with my kids
- To quit my job
- Out of debtx2
- A year off
- College for the twins
- A rental property
- Taking care of my mom
The presenter's screen
A rental at $340,000. It cash flows $180 a month. Buy it?
- Buy it31
- Pass47
- Depends on the rate22
100 people have voted
Your phone
One tap, one person, counted once. Change your mind and the vote moves instead of adding a second one, which is the difference between a count of people and a count of taps.
The presenter's screen
Of everyone who takes part in a live room, how many leave an email address?
In a presentation with nothing to take part in, the honest answer is near zero. Put a number in.
Your phone
A guess before the reveal is the whole trick. A room that has committed to a number actually wants the answer, and a room that has not is just watching a slide.
The presenter's screen
What could this room put away between them?
$4,820
a month, across everyone in the room
The room sees the total. Nobody sees anybody else, and nobody sees you.
$0a month from you
One dial, because two is where people stop touching it. Move it and watch only the total move. This is the calculator running on two hundred phones at once.
The presenter's screen
Ask anything. No name is attached
- How do you know when you have enough saved to stop worrying?
- Is it stupid to buy a house right now?
- What do you do when your partner shuts down about money?
The presenter can drop any of these before it projects. Hover one to see the control.
Four are in the panel. Scanning is the one you can't try on the device you're reading this on, which is exactly why a QR belongs on a projector and never on a phone.
- Join by scanning. The QR carries the code. No four letters to read off a projector and type.
- Answer out loud, silently. They type. It lands on your screen as a wall, with duplicates folded together.
- Vote. One tap, one person, counted once. The bar moves while you are still asking.
- Run their own numbers. Their deal, their salary, their debt. The room sees the total, nobody sees them.
- Ask anonymously. The questions nobody will stand up and ask are the ones worth answering.
A course is the same idea with one person in the room. Progress that saves, a certificate, and the calculators people screenshot and send to a friend. What we build for courses ->
The plan
Three steps, and nothing to install
You're not buying software. You get a link, or a file on a thumb drive, and a run of show that says what happens on every slide.
01
Tell us about the presentation
What it is, who is in the room, how long you have. Four lines is enough for a fixed price.
02
We build it, you rehearse against a real room
Not a preview. A room you open on your laptop and join from your own phone, days early.
03
You present. It still works with the wifi off
Every interactive beat degrades into a working slide. The venue can fail you. The presentation cannot.
Selected work
All workFinancial education
A speaking tour where the audience answers back, and the course behind it
Real estate education
A conference presentation where the room votes on real deals, and leaves an email
Mortgage lending
A complex financial topic, rebuilt so a room could hold it
In-house
Building our own brand, motion system and site before selling the method
Professional services
A full brand system and two complete website directions for an accounting firm
How this is possible
If your company isn't using AI, you're falling behind
Not a warning about the future. A live audience room used to be a development project with a team. It isn't one any more, which is the only reason a studio this size can hand you one.
What it does
First drafts, page scaffolding, video cuts, a second and third version of anything. The middle two weeks of a project, where most of the cost used to live.
What it does not do
Decide. What it's about, what gets cut, which version is right, whether it's any good. That never got cheaper, and it's what you're hiring.
What you walk away with
A list you own, and the numbers behind how you got it
A room count is a number you tell people. A list is a number you can use. Every room trades a takeaway worth having for an address, and it all reports into a portal you open between presentations.
Your portal
5 sessions, 134 people, 66 addresses
Session
28
took part
66
answers typed
26
voted
17
left an address
Of the people who took part
61%
The ask went out once, 36 minutes in. Everyone still in the room at that moment got it. Everyone who had already gone did not.
The room acting
answers and guesses, every five minutes
0 addresses
0 addresses
0 addresses
0 addresses
0 addresses
0 addresses
0 addresses
17 addresses
37 addresses
1 addresses
11 addresses
Addresses arriving
takeaway emails requested
The room was busy for thirty five minutes before anything was asked of it. 281 of the 369 interactions happened before the only ask in the session, and not one address arrived until minute thirty five.
The same portal, pointed at a course instead of a room. It reports on the people, not on page views, because a sponsor paying for a course wants to know who finished it.
Who is inside
Every learner, when they enrolled, and which edition they came in through.
Module by module
Where each person stopped. Not a completion percentage, the actual lesson they are on.
Certificates issued
Who finished, and when. The one number a sponsor always asks for first.
Per-edition split
A co-branded sponsor sees their own learners, and only their own learners.
The tools, separately
Calculators get opened and shared by people who never watch a lesson. That traffic is counted on its own.
No numbers are shown here because the course this portal watches has ten learners so far, which is a real figure and too small to prove anything with. The two tabs beside this one carry measured numbers, and putting an invented completion rate next to them would spoil both.
Ask twice
Once in the middle, once at the end
Five real sessions, numbers left in, client taken out. The ask went out once in each, around forty minutes in, and roughly half the room left an address.
281 of those 369 interactions happened before it. Anyone who stepped out to take a call was counted as engaged and left a stranger.
So a second ask goes in the middle, when the room is most involved. The one at the end still happens.
- Consent is separate from the download. Wanting the worksheet and wanting to hear from you are two different answers.
- Every address is tagged to its host. A sponsor sees the people who came in through their room, and only those.
- It exports. A spreadsheet, or straight into the list you already send from. Yours, not a view inside our software.
If nothing changes
You present. It goes fine. Nobody emails you after, you leave with a room count instead of a list, and the next speaker does exactly what you did.
If this works
The room answers you out loud, on the screen behind you. You walk off with what they said and how to reach them.
Common questions
- What is an interactive presentation?
- A presentation the audience takes part in from their own phones. They scan a code once, and from then on their phone follows whatever slide the projector is on. They vote, they answer, they run their own numbers, they ask anonymously, and what they send appears on the presenter screen while the presentation is still going. RUKUS builds these as self-contained web decks, so the presenter drives with an ordinary clicker.
- What happens if the venue has no wifi?
- It still runs. Every RUKUS deck is one self-contained file with the fonts, images and QR codes baked in, so it opens off a thumb drive with the network unplugged. A poll becomes a show of hands, a live calculator becomes a worked example, and nothing ever shows bars pinned at zero. Interactivity is a layer on top of a presentation that works without it.
- Does the audience have to download an app?
- No. They point a camera at a QR code and a web page opens. No app, no account, no signup, and nothing to type, because the room code travels inside the link.
- Can I keep the leads from the room?
- Yes, and that is usually the point. The deck trades a takeaway document for an email. You get a list you own, exported as a spreadsheet, plus a dashboard across every presentation you have given.
- What do you build for courses?
- The whole thing, from $2,500. Structure and scripting, filmed lessons edited with animation and sound, the course site, progress tracking, an email gate and login, certificates, and the calculators that get shared outside the course. One codebase carries as many co-branded sponsor editions as you sell.
- Do you still build websites and brand systems?
- Yes, both, regularly. A course needs a site to live on and a presentation needs a brand behind it, so the rest never went away. It is all on the services page.
What are you presenting next?
Tell us the presentation, the room and the date. We'll come back with what it takes and what it costs.
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