> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.askplane.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Askplane is

> People build presentations with AI and get a silent room. Askplane adds live polls and Q&A to that file in under a minute.

People build presentations with AI. The deck is ready. The room is not.

Askplane adds interactions to the presentation you already have: under one minute. Polls and Q\&A live with the file, not in a side channel the room forgets to open. The audience answers from a phone. You walk out with a roster.

## The problem

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Side channel" icon="window">
    The deck is on the projector. The poll is in a browser they never open. The room stays quiet.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI wrote the slides" icon="sparkles">
    Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot produce the file. They do not produce a live room. Engagement is still a second project.
  </Card>

  <Card title="No list" icon="file-spreadsheet">
    A screenshot of a word cloud is not a roster. Work emails never hit the CRM.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The product

Askplane is the app. You create the event there. The room joins from a phone. You do not rebuild the presentation in Askplane. You add interactivity to it.

| Integration                    | What it does                                    | Status      |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| Askplane app                   | Create events, go live, export                  | Available   |
| PowerPoint (Windows and macOS) | Host the same session on the current slide      | Available   |
| Google Slides                  | Stay in that file                               | In progress |
| Pitch                          | Stay in that file                               | In progress |
| Gamma                          | Stay in that file                               | In progress |
| Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot       | Faster path from a finished deck to a live poll | In progress |

## How a session runs

<Steps>
  <Step title="You start the event">
    From [the app](https://www.askplane.com/admin), or from the [PowerPoint pane](/addin/hosting-from-powerpoint). A five-character code appears.
  </Step>

  <Step title="The room joins">
    Attendees go to askplane.com, enter the code, name, and work email. About ten seconds. Nothing to install.
  </Step>

  <Step title="You open a poll">
    The question hits their phones. Results update live: on the wall, and on the current slide when you host from the add-in.
  </Step>

  <Step title="You leave with the list">
    Export attendees, votes, and questions before the room empties.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you can run

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Live polls" icon="chart-bar" href="/hosting/poll-types">
    Choice, cloud, quiz, rating, text, and rank: one open at a time.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Moderated Q&A" icon="message-question" href="/hosting/moderated-qa">
    Questions land pending. You approve, pin, or hide before anything hits the slide.
  </Card>

  <Card title="On-brand results" icon="palette" href="/hosting/on-brand-polls">
    Type an organization name. Logo and palette follow. Options can use their product language.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Same-day export" icon="file-csv">
    CSV of every attendee, vote, and question. The list is the session.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who it is for

Meetings that already have a deck and people in seats:

* **Sales presentations**: check the room before you ask for the next meeting
* **Presales workshops**: questions and names even when the usual tool is blocked
* **Post-sales enablement**: who is stuck, who is ready
* **All-hands**: one poll on the slide leadership is already showing
* **Investor calls**: read the room without breaking the narrative
* **Vendor workshop days**: join on a phone, moderate Q\&A, export before the lobby

## How it is different

Most polling tools split the hour: deck on the projector, poll in another product. That split is where the room goes quiet.

Askplane keeps one channel:

* **On the presentation you already have**: not a second show you build in a vendor editor
* **Work email at join**: you leave with a roster, not a screenshot
* **Audience needs a browser**: the host may use an add-in; the room never does