Every question you had
about TA pilot.

TA pilot is a Chrome sidebar that docks next to your slides (Google Slides, Keynote Web, Notion, anything) and gives presenters live Q&A with upvotes, voice-triggered polls, ambient music, countdown timers, and inline screenshots — without tab switching. The audience joins by scanning a QR code on the slide, no app install on their side.

Go to the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome. The sidebar docks to the right of whatever Chrome tab you're in the next time you open any tab. No browser restart required.

About 30 seconds. Click + Create New Session in the docked sidebar, type a title, choose a password, pick the language your audience speaks. You get a short code and QR code immediately.

No. Attendees use the camera app on their phone to scan the QR code on your slide, which opens a lightweight mobile web form where they ask questions, attach screenshots, and upvote others. Nothing to download.

Scan QR → land on a clean mobile form → type a question (optionally attach a photo of the slide) → pick a specific speaker or @Anyone → tap Send. The question appears in the presenter's sidebar immediately.

Say something like "let's vote on A, B, or C" and TA pilot streams the audio to Gemini 2.5 Flash, which returns a structured poll in under two seconds. The poll is pushed to every connected audience device and results stream back to your sidebar as taps come in.

Common phrasings for each of the four tools: "let's vote/poll/vote on A B C" for polls, "take 5 minutes/break for 10 minutes" for countdown timers, "play some music/stop the music" for ambient BGM, "captions on/turn off captions" for transcription. The system is designed to be forgiving about exact wording.

Yes. The mobile form has a camera icon. Attendees can tap to snap a fresh photo of your slide or paste an existing screenshot from their phone clipboard. The image appears inline in your sidebar under their question.

The landing page and participant UI are available in 20 languages: English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Live transcription supports the same 20 languages.

TA Mode is a dedicated spotlight view for when you want the audience to see questions too (e.g. on a second screen or as an overlay). The sidebar is the moderator-only view. Same session, two lenses.

Yes. Share the Slides window (not the whole screen) with tab audio included. The sidebar travels with the window, so attendees watching remotely see the QR pinned to your slide and hear your voice commands. Voice-triggered polls work for the remote audience too.

Yes. Any number of co-hosts can join using the session code and the admin password. Each co-host can answer questions, trigger polls, and moderate alongside you. They're added to the speakers list automatically so attendees can @-mention them.

Session data auto-deletes 36 hours after the session ends. If you need to preserve questions, export them before that window closes. A more durable export feature is on the roadmap for teams who want post-session review.

Yes, this is what TA Mode is designed for. Arrow keys navigate between questions, A marks as answered, D dismisses, U undoes. You can run the entire Q&A without touching the mouse.

Yes. Physical attendees scan the QR code on your projected slide. Remote attendees watching via screenshare see the same QR and scan from their phone. Both end up in the same question queue, upvote-sorted, in your sidebar.

Yes. TA pilot is free for any session size today. There are no caps on attendees, questions, polls, or sessions. The Chrome extension is a free install from the Chrome Web Store.

The core audience engagement features (Q&A, polls, timers, music, screenshots) will always be free. Future paid features will focus on organizational needs (SSO, team management, export pipelines), not core participation.

Sessions are gated by an admin password that only you know. The admin password is stored server-side through a secure Postgres function — it's never exposed to the client. Session data auto-deletes 36 hours after the session ends. No attendee names or emails are collected.

Sessions are stored in Supabase (Postgres + realtime), hosted on AWS us-east-1. Session data is tagged with a TTL and purged 36 hours after the session ends. AI audio for voice polls is processed by OpenRouter (Gemini Flash) and not retained.

Yes. In the sidebar, click the session menu and choose End session. The session moves to a grace period (90 minutes) before hard-deletion so accidentally-ended sessions can be resumed.

TA pilot collects no personal data from attendees (no names, no emails, no IPs stored past rate-limiting). Presenters who create sessions are identified only by the session password they chose. See the privacy policy for the full statement.

Slido lives in a separate tab or window, so you context-switch away from your deck. TA pilot is a Chrome sidebar that stays docked beside your slides — questions, polls, and timers are in peripheral vision the whole talk. Polls are triggered by saying them aloud (Gemini turns the sentence into a live poll in two seconds), not by leaving your deck to fill out a form. TA pilot is also free for any audience size; Slido's free tier caps at 100 participants.

Mentimeter is strongest for pre-loaded, richly-visualized polls. TA pilot is strongest for live, unplanned moments — saying a poll aloud and having it materialize, dropping into Q&A then back out, running a break timer with a voice command. Different shapes of interaction.

Google Meet's Q&A is fine for internal meetings but has no upvotes (so the best question gets buried), no screenshots (so attendees can't point at the confusing slide), no voice commands, and requires everyone to be in Meet. TA pilot works in any browser-based deck (not just Meet), supports hybrid audiences (physical room + remote), and uses upvote-sorted queues.

There's no import step — each session is created fresh. If you had an active Slido/Mentimeter event, just install TA pilot, create a new session, and drop the QR on your next slide. The migration effort is under a minute.

Make sure you checked "Also share tab audio" when you clicked Present now in Meet. Without tab audio, remote viewers hear your mic but not the tab's content, so voice commands don't reach them. Re-share with tab audio enabled.

Increase the QR size — it should be at least 240×240 pixels on screen at 1080p to scan reliably from 3 meters away. Bigger is fine. Also check contrast: dark modules on a light background scan best; avoid placing the QR over photos or gradients.

Chrome's sidebar needs to be enabled per-tab. Click the puzzle-piece icon in the Chrome toolbar, find TA pilot, and click it once — the sidebar will dock. After the first time, it remembers the setting.

The participant page is a lightweight mobile form (~90 KB). If it's slow, it's almost always your venue's WiFi. Tell attendees they can scan from cellular data — the page works on 3G.

Double-check they're typing the exact password you set at session creation (case-sensitive, no trailing spaces). If they still fail, you can reset the password from the session menu — existing co-hosts will need to re-verify.