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No app, no sign-in, no name. Just the characters the room is looking at.
By joining you agree to the terms for people in the room. What you send may be shown on the screen and kept by the organizers; SYNRG is the tool, the organizers decide what is asked.
Most people scan the QR on the screen instead. This is for when you can't.
Giving a talk, or running an event?Giving the talk?
Write or paste your talk, let every slide be designed, launch a room, and run it from your phone.
Open by invitation while it is finished with real rooms. Sign-in is a one-time link by email — no password.
How it works
A slide is asked to be readable from the back row, carry enough detail to be useful, and remind the speaker what comes next. It cannot do all three, so it does all three badly — and the speaker ends up reading their own slides aloud to a room that is already ahead of them.
So SYNRG splits the slide. Here is one moment of one talk, on all three surfaces at once.
John Gottman calls them "bids" — small moments when someone reaches for connection. How we answer them decides more than the big moments do.
Luke 16:10 (NIV)The headline. Few words, enormous type, one idea — readable from the back row. When the room is asked something, the answers land here, all at once.
The depth. The full text, the sources, a verse that opens in place, and notes that stay on the phone.
The spoken word. Stories, cues, the clock. Private — they never reach a phone.
And the room answers
Phones answer, and the screen fills in live — so the room sees itself. These are the real result screens, drawn small.
If a question doesn't change what you say next, cut it.
Also: Pledge — “who will take this?”: the room takes the pieces of a goal live, from a fundraiser’s giving levels to the jobs a project needs, and sees the gaps still open; sign-together commitments; type-the-answer quizzes, open questions, and quick forms. Any slide can carry the full text, sources and further reading on the phone even when it asks nothing at all.
The part people thank you for
Notes taken in the moment usually get lost. Here they live on the person's phone, sit inside the section they were written in, and export with the talk around them.
That is the difference between a talk people enjoyed and one that changes something.
And the deck builds itself
Describe a talk or paste the manuscript, and every slide face is designed in your visual language. A minimum type size is enforced in three separate places — the system will rework a slide's whole layout rather than let one line be unreadable from the back row.
Wherever the screen is
The first question a deck answers is where it will be shown. Most rooms have a screen. Many have a camera and a video team running ProPresenter. Some have no screen worth the name. SYNRG designs for each, and the presenter runs the talk the same way in all three.
A projector or LED wall shows SYNRG full screen. Type is sized to how far the back row sits from the screen, and the deck is written to that budget.
For ProPresenter, IMAG and livestreams. SYNRG sits over the camera picture and takes only the part it needs — a third, the lower third, both sides — and gives the rest back between topics. The AV team downloads one ready-made ProPresenter file and clicks one slide.
No screen, or a poor one. Every phone carries the screen at its top, live, with that person's own answer box underneath. Nothing extra for the presenter.
Pacing
A list does not have to land all at once. A slide can hold four points and reveal them one per click — the current one large with its detail, the earlier ones shrunk to their titles — and the phone follows, with the full depth underneath. When a point wants more words than the screen can carry, it becomes two continuous slides instead of a smaller font.
What happens to what people type
The moment someone thinks their answer is attributable, you get the answer they think you want. So nothing in the room is attached to a name, and this is a promise about plumbing rather than policy.
Beyond one talk
A conference, a retreat, a staff day: the same code carries the survey before, the room during, and what people take home after. Every person gets a page on their own phone — where to sit, what is next, who is at the table — and every table gets a page of its own.
At the door
Volunteers sign in by email link — no SYNRG account, no access to anything else — on as many iPads as the door needs, all live together, so nobody is checked in twice.
Tick the welcome bag, add a note, and the moment someone is in, their own phone says you're checked in, their table, and what is next. Walk-ins are one tap.
The pre-event survey, the room, the agenda and the follow-up all live at synrg.live/YOURCODE. People never learn a second link.
The list comes from Airtable, Eventbrite, Planning Center or a Google Sheet and stays in sync. Everyone signs in by email link — no password, no app.
Assign seating yourself or let AI propose it from the survey; release it when it is ready. Each phone shows where to sit and who is there.
A slide with a question and a clock. The scribe writes on the table's page, you watch the tables fill, and AI summarizes per table or for the whole room.
A people list with consent built in: Connect asks the other person first, contact details are shared only when both say yes, and organizers see counts, never who.
Overnight, everything the tables wrote is read and distilled into a deck the room sees the next morning — its own words, reflected back.
Bring what you havePowerPointWordPDFMarkdownGoogle SheetsAirtableEventbritePlanning CenterClaudeChatGPT
The guide has every capability and a setup for each kind of room — talks, classes, conferences, churches, teams.
Also a survey tool
The same phones that answer in a talk can answer a questionnaire — a congregation, a staff, a conference before it starts. Plain and private: a QR on the screen, one question at a time, no name and no sign-in. And a screen in the lobby that shows the answers arriving, so people see that it is worth their two minutes.
Form-style surveys keep every answer off every screen — only totals ever reach the room. No name, no email, no app.
A code per campus, service or channel — North, South, text, email — counted together on the lobby screen and exported as one file.
Every answer type you need: choice, multi-choice with an "only this" option, scales, grids, zip codes, dropdowns, open text. Export is one row per respondent, the moment it closes.
Opens and closes on the dates you set. Tested in production with 1,000 phones answering at once — no answers lost. Clear the test answers with one button before you go live.
Get it
SYNRG is being used at real events while it is finished. If you speak to rooms, or run them, and this is the thing you have been missing, leave your details — you will hear from a person, not a robot, when a place opens up.
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