Three steps. One presentation. A room that keeps up.
You do not change how you present. You add a layer that listens to you and writes for them.
Before
Upload your deck. Review what it plans to write.
Drop in a PDF. Within a couple of minutes you get a list of beats, one per claim in your story, each showing the kinds of card different people in the room will be given. Edit the wording, remove a beat, add one, rule out a card type you do not want. Nothing goes live until you say so.
Which means: no scripting, no form builder, no evening spent writing questions nobody was going to answer.
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Market size
Slide 7
Pricing
Slide 11
Why us
Three of fourteen beats, and two of the lenses each one composes for. Edit a beat, remove it, or add one the deck did not suggest.
During
Your phone is the remote. The projector is the stage. Their phones are the room.
Put the stage view on the big screen. Attendees scan the code, answer two questions about themselves, and they are in. That is the last thing they answer. As you talk, knowtheroom writes each person the card that fits them and the beat you are on, and the stage shows the room what it can tell about the room. Turn the mic on and beats advance as you speak; turn it off and tap.
Which means: you present exactly as you would have, and nobody in the room is waiting for you to get to their part.
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LIVESlide 7/14
While you listenFor you · EngineerThat “decides” step is a ranking model over inventory and stated preferences.
He called it the clever part. It is two inputs and a sort.
Nothing to tap. This card is yours to read.
This room has built the hard part before.
From the profiles of the 42 people in the seats, not from anything they were asked.
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have shipped a recommendation system
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have sold into grocery retail
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invest in this category already
Attention is holding
38 of 42 phones are awake and on the current beat.
After
The recap is ready before the applause ends.
Which version of the story each part of the room was given. The questions they are each now holding for you. The one thing you never answered. Follow-ups drafted for the people worth following up with. And every attendee gets their own three-line recap on their own phone.
Which means: you walk out knowing what forty people were each told, and what they are about to ask you in the corridor.
Forty-two people heard your pitch. Here is the version each group got.
The unit economics, translated twice, and a counter-comp on price.
The ranking step named, and the architecture diagram with their node lit.
The distribution wall, framed against what they have already lived.
Four definitions, and an analogy from the industry each of them works in.
Questions the room is holding
How long are the retailer contracts?
Investors, 7
What happens to the ranking when stock data is stale?
Engineers, 5
Which of the top twenty accounts have you actually signed?
Operators, 4
What you did not answer
Retailer contract length. Raised in three lenses, answered in none.
What you need in the room
A screen the room can see.
Anything you can open a browser on. The stage view is a web page, so a projector, a television, or a second laptop all work.
Wifi that phones can reach.
Built for conference networks rather than against them. If a phone drops off it reconnects and catches up on its own.
Your deck as a PDF.
Export from any tool. You can also run a session without a deck and write the beats yourself.
Nothing installed, by you or by them.
You present from a browser. The room scans a code and opens a web page. There is no app on either side.
What happens when things go wrong
If the AI is slow, the room does not wait.
Every beat carries the cards you reviewed beforehand. The live layer rewrites them for each person when it arrives; until then the authored version is on the screen, and it is never blank.
If the mic drops, you tap.
Voice is a convenience, not a dependency.
If a phone loses signal, it catches up.
Every screen reconnects and re-reads the current beat.
If the public lookup finds nothing, it says less.
A person with no public footprint gets cards from the deck and their two join answers alone. It never guesses who someone is.