Interactive presentations
Interactive presentations the room runs from their phones
Not a deck with a poll bolted on. The audience has something to do on every beat that matters, and what they do goes up on the screen behind you.
Scan it with your phone
Not a picture of the product. That panel has opened a real room and the code carries it. Point your camera at it, tap an answer, and watch the bar move here a second later.
That's the whole mechanic. On stage the bars fill while you're still finishing the question. Then you stop speaking and let the room read its own answer.
One tap, one person, counted on the server. Change your mind and your vote moves. You can tap the bars here too.
Live room
100 answered
The presenter's screen
In your last presentation, how many people were distracted on their phones?
- A few9%
- About half31%
- Most of them48%
- I didn't want to look12%
Your phone
Scan it. The poll opens on your phone, and whatever you tap there appears on this screen within a couple of seconds. That is the entire mechanic, and it is the same code an audience scans.
You can also just tap an answer above. Changing your mind moves your vote instead of counting it twice.
How it runs
Five steps, and four of them are theirs
01
You open the room
One button. It returns a four letter code and every QR in the deck rewrites itself to carry it. A new presentation is always a new room, so last night never shows up on tonight screen.
02
They scan once
The code travels inside the link, so scanning is the join. Their phone says what the next half hour will ask of them, then goes quiet.
03
Their phone follows your clicker
You advance, the room advances. On a slide that asks for something, their card is that ask. On every other slide it goes dark and says look up, because two hundred lit phones fight the person on stage.
04
What they send lands on your screen
Answers as a wall, votes as bars, calculations as a running total. Duplicates fold together with a count, which is the moment the room realizes it agrees.
05
You close the room and keep what it said
Every phone is released. You keep the answers, the votes and every email the room chose to leave.
What we learned the hard way
Six rules, and every one of them cost something
Not opinions about best practice. Each one went wrong, or nearly did, in front of a room. You're hiring the list as much as the build.
The audience holds the dials, not the speaker
Every interactive slide has to work as a static slide
Anonymous has to be said out loud
One question per slide
A vote is a person, not a tap
Nothing carries over between presentations
The question everybody asks first
What if the wifi dies?
Then you present. The deck is one file with the fonts, images and QR codes baked in, so it runs off a thumb drive with the network unplugged.
The interactive layer sits on top of a presentation that was already complete without it. The poll becomes a show of hands. The calculator becomes a worked example. There is no state in which a slide looks like it failed.
With a room open
Bars fill live. The wall gets denser as more people answer. Questions arrive and you can drop any of them before they project.
With no room at all
The same slide reads as a question and you take a show of hands. Nobody watching has any idea a feature is missing.
What you get
Four things, and you own all of them
The deck
The live room
The run of show
The offline kit
No subscription, no seat count. Give the presentation twenty more times and it costs nothing more.
What it costs
Count your slides and you have your number
A bigger presentation costs more, so the price follows the size rather than hiding behind a call. You get a fixed number in writing before anything is built, and you own what we hand over.
Start here
from
$130
A presentation you already have
You bring the deck. We put a live room behind it, so the slides you were giving anyway start asking the audience for something.
Timeline3 days to a week
- A room that opens with one button, and a QR that carries the code
- Polls, answer walls, audience calculators, anonymous questions
- A working static version of every beat, for when the wifi dies
- A run of show, so you know what to say on the slide that asks
Fixed price
from
$340
A presentation we build
You have the presentation in your head and nothing on a screen yet. We build the deck and the room together, so the interactive beats are designed in rather than bolted on.
TimelineOne to two weeks
- The deck itself, written and designed against your brand
- Everything in the line above, built into the slides from the start
- The moments chosen with you: where they vote, answer, ask, calculate
- A rehearsal pass on the real room before the real date
Fixed price
$2,500
A course
The whole thing, not just the video. Structure, scripts, edited lessons, the site they live on, a door with a lock, a certificate at the end.
TimelineYour filming sets the pace
- Module structure and scripts that sound like you
- Your footage cut with callouts, stat cards and a title sequence
- The course site, an email gate, a code login, saved progress
- Yours outright, including the repo and the hosting account
Ongoing
$50
an hour
Anything after that
No retainer. Once it is built it mostly just runs, and paying monthly for a few small edits is paying for nothing. This is also what covers a deck that grows after we have quoted it.
TimelineUsually same week
- A fresh room for every date you present it again
- New slide, new number, new logo, new audience
- Slides added mid-build, past the count the price was quoted on
- Billed to the quarter hour, agreed before it is done, itemized after
| How big | Your rate | You have the deck | We build it | Ready in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShortUp to 15 slides | $50 an hour | $130 | $340 | 1 week |
| Standard16 to 35 | $45, 10% off | $195 | $625 | 2 weeks |
| Long36 to 50 | $42.50, 15% off | $255 | $850 | 2 weeks |
Count your slides and you have your number. Click it and we take it from there. The rate drops as the presentation gets bigger, because a long one is one conversation instead of three. Past 50 slides we quote it against the brief. Ready in is from the day we start, not the day you ask.
We count the slides, not you. Send the deck and the number you get back is fixed against what is actually in it, so an estimate that turns out to be low is never your problem. One round of changes is included. Anything added after we have quoted is $50 an hour, agreed before it is done.
Common questions
- What does an interactive presentation cost?
- It depends on two things: whether the deck exists yet, and how big it is. If you already have it, a live room behind it starts at $130. If it does not exist yet, we build the deck and the room together from $340, and a standard session of thirty odd slides is $625. The rate drops as the presentation gets bigger, from $50 an hour on a short one to $42.50 on a long one, and the table under the prices gives every size. Past fifty slides we quote it against the brief. A course starts at $2,500. There is no retainer: once it is built, changes are $50 an hour and you pay nothing in the months you need nothing. No subscription, no per seat fee, no platform charge, and you own the file and the room outright. A fixed number is given in writing before anything is built.
- Do I pay up front?
- Yes, once the price is fixed. The order is: you send the deck, we open it and count it, you get a number in writing, and a link to pay it. Paying books the date and the build starts. We do not take money before we have seen what we are quoting on, because a price that turns out to be wrong after you have paid is worse for both of us than one extra email. Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, or an invoice on Net 15 if your finance people need one. Hourly work is the exception and is always invoiced after it is done, because nobody should pay for hours before they have been worked.
- What if it ends up bigger than we said?
- You will not be charged for guessing wrong, because you do not do the guessing. We count the slides ourselves from the file you send, and the fixed price is quoted against that count, not against your estimate. What the quote locks is the deck as it stood when we counted it. If you then add slides while we are building, or rework half of them, that is real extra work and it is billed at $50 an hour, itemized, agreed before it is done. One round of changes is already included, so the usual tidy up costs nothing. Nothing gets added to an invoice that you have not said yes to first.
- What does the presenter actually have to do?
- Press one button to open the room, then present normally with a clicker. Nothing to drag, nothing to type, nothing to switch to. If a question comes up that you do not want projected, one control removes it. At the end, one button closes the room.
- How many people can be in a room?
- Rooms in the hundreds are the design target. Only the presenter machine polls the service; the phones only send. Three hundred people is a few hundred requests across a whole presentation, which is why it needs no heavy platform behind it.
- Is this a platform we have to subscribe to?
- No. It is built for the presentation and you own the result. No presenter login, no seat count, no per-event pricing. The deck is a file you keep, and giving it twenty more times costs nothing more.
- Can the deck be co-branded for a sponsor or a host?
- Yes, from one codebase rather than a fork. A host is one row of configuration carrying their mark, their landing page and their tracking, and adding one cannot change what any other host sees. Already built for multiple hosts of the same presentation.
- Can we capture emails or leads from the room?
- Yes. A takeaway document worth having, gated behind an email, with a consent box that can honestly be unticked. Consent is stored separately, so you can tell who wants the document from who wants to hear from you. Everything exports.
- What about people who arrive late?
- Every deck can bring its join code back on screen at any point, so a latecomer is one keystroke away from being in the room instead of locked out.
- Can you convert an existing PowerPoint?
- Usually it gets rebuilt rather than converted: a stack of slides and a room that takes part are different shapes. The content, the numbers and the stories come across. The structure changes, and that is normally the part that needed changing.
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