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TA pilot
For webinar hosts

engagement that works on Zoom, Meet, Teams

Webinar attendees tune out in minutes. A Chrome sidebar beside your slides — with upvoted Q&A, voice polls, and timers — brings them back into the room.

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What you run into today

The specific friction we hear about.

  • Chat scrolls so fast nobody reads it, and the good question disappears
  • Opening Slido every 15 minutes to run a poll breaks your flow
  • Remote audiences go silent when they can't raise a hand
  • You forget to run the polls you pre-loaded because the moment passes
  • No one ever checks the sign-up form answers after the event
How TA pilot helps

Features that map onto each pain.

Upvote-sorted live Q&A
Attendees ask from their phones via a QR scanned off your shared slide. Upvotes surface the question the whole webinar wants answered, not just the loudest chat voice.
Voice-triggered polls, no pre-loading
“Let's vote: should we ship Tuesday or Thursday?” — the poll lands on every attendee phone in two seconds. You never break your flow, and polls happen when the conversation calls for them, not just when you pre-planned them.
Always-visible timers
“Let's take 5 minutes” puts a countdown on screen. Your attendees know when you're back; you stay honest on break lengths.
Share tab audio = voice polls reach everyone
When you share your Slides window to Meet or Zoom with tab audio on, remote viewers hear your voice commands and the polls trigger for them too. One shared experience, not a local-only moment.
Post-webinar question list
Every question that came in is still in the sidebar after the session. Use the top-voted list as your follow-up email agenda or FAQ update for the recording.
A concrete workflow

Your first session, end to end.

  1. 1

    Install TA pilot before the webinar. Open your deck (Google Slides, Keynote Web) in one Chrome tab.

  2. 2

    Create a session from the sidebar — title, password, audience language.

  3. 3

    Drop the QR onto your intro slide. When you go live, share the Slides window to Zoom/Meet/Teams with tab audio checked.

  4. 4

    Attendees scan the QR from their phones (even watching on a laptop, their phone is a great second device for participation).

  5. 5

    Throughout the webinar, pick off top-voted questions between sections. Trigger a voice poll at transition moments. Use a countdown timer for any break.

  6. 6

    After the webinar, the sidebar retains the question list for 36 hours. Pull the top items into your follow-up email.

Common questions

What skeptics ask.

Won't attendees have trouble scanning a QR from a laptop screen?
They shouldn't — they scan from their phone while looking at your shared screen on their laptop. This is a well-understood hybrid flow; it's how most QR codes are used in webinars in 2026.
Does this replace Zoom's native Q&A?
It can, and we recommend it — Zoom's native Q&A has no upvotes, no screenshots, no hybrid support. But nothing stops you from running both in parallel if your audience expects the native flow.
What about 500+ attendee webinars?
TA pilot is tested up to 1,000 concurrent participants. Above that, you're in enterprise-webinar territory and a tool like Slido Enterprise is more battle-tested at scale.

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Try it on your next session.

Install TA pilot, create a session, drop the QR on your next slide. You'll see the participation shift in the first 10 minutes.

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