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Your slides and live interactions, in one builder.

Set up polls, word clouds, quizzes and more in advance, in a builder that works like PowerPoint or Google Slides. Choose a theme, match your brand, then share one window and run your whole session from it.

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Works where you do: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live, Substack Live and Restream. Also on your PowerPoint slides.

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What are you grateful for? What are you grateful for? Type your answer in the chat

0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen Family
  2. James Okoro My team
  3. Aisha Rahman Coffee
  4. Tomás García Good health
  5. Priya Nair Sunny mornings
  6. Daniel Kim Family
  7. Mei Lin My teachers
  8. Olu Adeyemi Music
  9. Hannah Weber Good friends
  10. Marco Bianchi Family
  11. Fatima Zahra Time off
  12. Lukas Novak Laughter
  13. Grace Park Good friends
  14. Arjun Mehta Home
  15. Chloe Martin Fresh air
  16. Yusuf Ali Good food

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A meeting in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. People type answers in the meeting chat and StreamAlive turns them into a word cloud on the shared screen. You can type your own answer in the chat.

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Type in the chat.

How do you join this word cloud? Answer in the chat

0 responses
  1. You Type in the chat.
  2. Priya Shah Type in the chat
  3. Tom Becker Just type
  4. Ana Lima type in the chat!
  5. Dev Patel No QR code
  6. Leah Brooks In the chat
  7. Sam Adeyemi Type in the chat
  8. Nora Kelly No app needed
  9. Chris Lam Easy
  10. Julia Weiss Type in the chat.
  11. Omar Farouk No phones
  12. Lily Chen Just type
  13. Kofi Asante Type in the chat
  14. Emma Jones Nothing to install

Other tools ask people to get their phone out, scan a QR code, open a link and enter a code, and then they get distracted by notifications. With StreamAlive, they type in the chat.

In a Teams or Zoom meeting, “Type in the chat.” is sent in the chat and appears in the word cloud on the shared screen, which asks “How do you join this word cloud?” Everyone else’s answers follow, and the most common one grows biggest.

Your audience answers in the chat, so you can build the whole session beforehand and run it from one window, without sending anyone to a second screen.

We used to tell people to put their phones away so they wouldn’t be distracted, then later ask them to pull them out again to scan a QR code. That never sat right with us. StreamAlive removed that contradiction completely.

Amy Baughman Sitkins Group

How to run a built session in Zoom or Teams.

  1. You build your presentation beforehand, then share one window.
  2. Your audience types in the meeting chat. That’s all they do.
  3. StreamAlive plays your slides and fills every interaction as answers arrive.

  1. Paste your Teams or Zoom meeting link into StreamAlive and press Connect. It waits in the lobby like a note-taking app. Admit it once and it starts reading the chat.

  2. Share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window. StreamAlive opens your presentation in its own browser tab, and that tab is what you share.

    This is the step people miss. Your audience can only answer a question they can see.

  3. Everyone sees your question the moment you share. It’s a slide in the presentation you built beforehand.

    Upload a PDF of your deck for the static slides, then add interactions between them.

  4. They type their answer in the meeting chat. No QR code, no link, no phone.

  5. Every answer lands in the slide as it’s sent, and you move on with the next slide.

  6. After the session, the report shows how much people took part and how each slide landed. Connect StreamAlive to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot and ask what the room thought.

What are you grateful for? Type your answer in the chat

0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen Family
  2. James Okoro My team
  3. Aisha Rahman Coffee
  4. Tomás García Good health
  5. Priya Nair Sunny mornings
  6. Daniel Kim Family
  7. Mei Lin My teachers
  8. Olu Adeyemi Music
  9. Hannah Weber Good friends
  10. Marco Bianchi Family
  11. Fatima Zahra Time off
  12. Lukas Novak Laughter
  13. Grace Park Good friends
Illustration of the six steps. The presenter pastes the meeting link into StreamAlive and presses Connect. StreamAlive waits in the meeting lobby and is admitted, then posts in the chat that it is reading the chat. The presenter presses Share and picks the StreamAlive window, a word cloud question appears on the shared screen, and answers typed in the chat land in the word cloud as they arrive. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed, and an AI assistant can answer questions about it.

Built like the presentation app you already use.

Slides down the left, your slide in the middle, settings on the right. If you’ve made a deck in PowerPoint or Google Slides, you already know where everything is.

A drawing of the StreamAlive presentation builder open on the deck “Sales kickoff”: the slides down the left, the selected slide in the middle and its settings on the right. It plays through the four steps listed beside it. A new slide is added. The Interactions list, sorted by Warm up, Ask the room, Check if it landed, and Wrap up, opens and Wonder Words is picked, with the question “What are you grateful for?”. The slide is dressed in the Dark, Waves, Calm bubbles, and Earth themes. Then the slide is shown full size, as the audience sees it.

Already have a deck? Keep presenting in PowerPoint, Gamma or Canva and drop your interactions into it.

Or let AI draft the slides.

Tell the builder what your session is about and its AI writes the questions, options included. Keep the ones you like, change the rest, and add them to your presentation as slides.

Create Power Polls with AI

  1. Where should AI have the most impact?

    1. A. Automate routine work
    2. B. Improve decisions
    3. C. Support creativity
    4. D. Personalize services
    5. E. Reduce human error
    6. F. Something else

  2. What concerns you most about workplace AI?

    1. A. Job displacement
    2. B. Privacy
    3. C. Bias
    4. D. Overreliance
    5. E. Lack of transparency
    6. F. Something else

  3. How do you want to learn AI skills?

    1. A. Short workshops
    2. B. Online courses
    3. C. Learning from colleagues
    4. D. Trying it on real work
Try another topic:
An example of what StreamAlive’s AI writes. Yours comes from your own topic.

Present from StreamAlive, or from your PowerPoint slide.

Share the StreamAlive window and your presentation plays from it. Or put an interaction on a PowerPoint slide with the add-in, share PowerPoint as usual, and the answers fill in right there on the slide.

  1. Aisha Rahman Family
  2. Tomás García My team
  3. Priya Nair Coffee
  4. Daniel Kim Good health
  5. Mei Lin Sunny mornings
  6. Olu Adeyemi Family
  7. Hannah Weber My teachers
  8. Marco Bianchi Music
  9. Fatima Zahra Good friends
  10. Lukas Novak Family
  11. Grace Park Time off
  12. Arjun Mehta Laughter

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A Microsoft Teams meeting. First the host shares the StreamAlive window on its own; then the host shares PowerPoint, where the same interaction sits on a slide. Answers typed in the Teams chat fill the interaction either way. Choose a slide in the slide list to switch interaction, or type your own answer in the chat.

Presenters who build once and run it from one window.

  • The ease of integrating polling and surveys into the townhall presentation was incredible.

    Keith Landis Chief Marketing Officer, Persistent Systems

  • There are loads of digital tools you can use to increase engagement in your live online sessions.

    Gwyn Wansbrough Online Facilitator and Trainer, Breakthrough Facilitation

  • Just tried StreamAlive and it’s so cool.

    Patty Nicolas Community Engagement Lead, NAS.io
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How to present with StreamAlive in Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or PowerPoint

It’s the same three moves everywhere: let StreamAlive into your meeting, share your screen, ask. Here’s how StreamAlive gets in wherever you present, with a step-by-step guide for each.

In your meeting

With your slides

In a live stream

In the room

Your first session won’t be a solo act.

Chat to the StreamAlive team, join a daily AMA, or follow the step-by-step guide for your platform. You can test it in a meeting with one colleague before anyone else sees it.

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Questions about the presentation builder

Do I have to build my slides in StreamAlive?

No. Upload a PDF of your deck for the static slides and add interaction slides between them, or keep presenting in PowerPoint, Gamma or Canva and drop your interactions into them.

How do I add an interaction?

Press New slide and open the Interactions list. They’re sorted by the moment you’d use them: warm up, ask the room, check if it landed and wrap up. Pick one and it becomes a slide.

Can I match my brand?

Yes. Start from a ready-made theme, then change the colors and fonts. On Pro you can add your own logo and your own background images or videos.

Can AI write my questions?

Yes. Tell the builder what your session is about and its AI writes questions for you. Keep the ones you like, change the rest and delete the others.

Can I rehearse before the session?

Yes. The preview plays simulated audience responses, so you can see how each slide will look before anyone joins.

Can I use my slides from Google Slides or Keynote?

Export your deck as a PDF and upload it to StreamAlive, then add your interactions between its slides. Or keep presenting from Google Slides: it doesn’t allow embeds, so paste StreamAlive’s quick link on a slide. It opens the interaction in a browser tab, where you connect to your meeting and share that tab.

How do I present it in Zoom or Teams?

Connect StreamAlive to your meeting, then share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window. Your presentation plays from there, and the audience answers in the meeting chat.

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