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Fact sheet
- Product
- TA pilot
- Website
- tapilot.com
- What it is
- An AI teaching assistant that runs as a Chrome sidebar beside Google Slides, giving presenters live Q&A, voice-triggered polls, ambient music, and countdown timers.
- Pricing
- Free for any session size
- Founded
- 2024
- Distribution
- Chrome Web Store (free install)
- Supported languages
- 20 (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian)
- Key technologies
- Chrome MV3 extension · Next.js · Supabase · Gemini 2.5 Flash (via OpenRouter)
- Contact
- hi@tapilot.com
Boilerplate — copy & paste
TA pilot is a free Chrome sidebar for presenters — live Q&A, voice-triggered polls, and countdown timers.
TA pilot is a free Chrome sidebar that docks beside Google Slides and gives presenters live audience Q&A with upvotes, voice-triggered polls that land in two seconds, ambient music, and countdown timers — without ever leaving the deck.
TA pilot is the AI teaching assistant for people who live on stage. A Chrome sidebar docks beside Google Slides, Keynote Web, or any browser-based deck and gives presenters a live Q&A feed with upvotes, voice-triggered polls via Gemini 2.5 Flash, inline screenshots from audience phones, ambient music for transitions, countdown timers, and optional live captions in 20 languages — all without leaving the tab they're already in.
Quotable lines
“Most presentation tools pull you out of your deck. We built TA pilot because the best tool for a live talk is the one that disappears into your peripheral vision.”
“Audience participation in live talks is broken. Three confident people ask all the questions; the best question from the back of the room never gets heard. A QR code and upvotes fix that.”
“Voice-triggered polls in two seconds is the feature we didn't know we were building. The moment you stop having to leave your slides to run a poll, you actually run three times as many.”
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Launch copy — ready to post
We shipped TA pilot — a free Chrome sidebar that sits next to your slides and gives you live audience Q&A, voice-triggered polls, ambient music and countdown timers. No tab switching. No app install for your audience. Just a QR code. https://tapilot.com
Show HN: TA pilot — a Chrome sidebar for live audience Q&A Hi HN, We built TA pilot because every live Q&A tool we tried (Slido, Mentimeter, Meet's built-in Q&A) forced us to leave the deck to moderate. That's a bad trade during an actual talk. TA pilot is a Chrome sidebar that docks to the right of whatever tab you're in — Google Slides, Keynote Web, Notion, anything. Questions from the audience stream into the sidebar in real time; upvotes re-sort the list live. Voice-triggered polls land on every audience phone in two seconds (we use Gemini 2.5 Flash for the NLP). Countdown timers and ambient music are one voice command away. Audience side: scan the QR on your slide, ask a question, optionally attach a screenshot of the slide that confused them. No app install. Today it's free for any session size. Extension is on the Chrome Web Store. Would love feedback, especially on the extension architecture side-by-side with browser-based decks — happy to go into the Manifest V3 sidePanel API weirdness if useful. https://tapilot.com
Review-friendly screenshots
The landing page at tapilot.com has three large animated scenes covering the install → create → present flow. Every section is screenshot-ready at 1440px wide. For video-style demos, every feature card on the landing has a “See how it works” button that opens a walkthrough video.
Need a specific shot or a raw recording? Email press@tapilot.com and we'll send MP4s same-day.
How to reach us
We reply to every press email within 24 hours (often within two).
- General press: press@tapilot.com
- Product questions: hi@tapilot.com
- Blog: tapilot.com/blog — 24+ deep-dive posts on live Q&A, voice polls, hybrid classrooms