How to use
the room

1. Before the day, rehearse on the projector: open synrg.live/s/TEST on the venue's screen computer and synrg.live/p/TEST on your phone. Its first slides check the true screen edges, the safe area and the type sizes. Nothing there belongs to anyone's event, so you can test any time.
2. Ask the organizer for two things: the event's code, and access as a viewer on the event or the deck. A viewer can present but cannot change anyone's slides; switching what is live on the event is for its owners and members.
3. On the screen computer, open synrg.live/s/<EVENT CODE> and press Full screen. That one link follows whatever is live on the event — talks, surveys, the walk-in screen — and stays in full screen as the organizer or you switch from one to the next. You never change the link during the day.
4. Run a talk from the presenter remote on your phone, iPad or laptop (the organizer or the studio's Present gives the link). On a phone it opens as a clicker: see Run the talk from your phone.
5. Between sessions, the event's Go live list puts up the next item, the walk-in / walk-out screen, or nothing. A talk made live shows on the screen at once.
6. Running ProPresenter? Keep it: download the event's ProPresenter file and SYNRG becomes slides in your library — Live, Bug, full screen, a lower third and a side box. A deck made for a video feed puts each slide in its own part of the camera picture by itself. See Show SYNRG inside ProPresenter.

From the remote's menu: Refresh screens after a late edit to the deck, Frame to add or take away the scan-to-join strip, Screen for how big the screen is for the room (bigger type for a far back row), and Screens & phones to copy the screen link onto another computer.

1. Export your slides as a PDF (Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva all do it under File → Export or Download), and send it to the organizer — or, if you are on the deck as a member, add it yourself.
2. Your slides go in as pages: on the deck, Insert picture or PDF puts each page in as its own full-screen 16:9 slide, untouched, in the place you choose. Details: Use slides you already have.
3. Add the room between your pages where you want it — a poll, a word cloud, questions — so the people in front of you answer on their phones and see the result on the screen.
4. Put what you will say in the notes of each slide. Only you see them, on the remote.
5. On the day, open the presenter link on your phone. The first time, pick a remote — Basic if you only want a clicker — then Back and Next do the rest. If an AV person runs the screen, they can keep the remote and you speak.

Got a newer copy of your slides? Insert the PDF again and SYNRG offers to update the pages it made from that file in place, keeping your notes and the questions between them.

1. Sign in at studio.synrg.live with your email (a one-time link and code, no password) and press New deck.
2. Choose how to start: From my material (your notes, a manuscript, an old deck), Research it for me (from a brief), Brainstorm with me (from nothing), or Start from a PDF or pictures.
3. Answer the standard question: how easily will people see this screen from the back of the room? It sets how big the type is and how many words a slide may carry.
4. Read each slide as three things: the headline for the screen, the depth for phones, the notes for you. Then Design slides (the ··· menu) designs each teaching slide for the screen.
5. Press Present, open the screen link on the projector and the presenter link on your phone or laptop.

Or say what you want in Ask SYNRG in the studio — "turn these notes into a 25-minute talk for 60 leaders, with one poll and a Q&A at the end" — and it builds the deck for you. Details: Turn your notes into a deck.

1. Events → New event: a code (4–12 letters or digits) everyone will use, a title and the dates.
2. Bring in the people: import a list, let people register, or keep the list in step with Airtable, Eventbrite, Planning Center, a Google Sheet or a webhook. Each person gets their own page at synrg.live/<CODE>/me.
3. Set the program (or sync it from a Google Doc), add the talks and the survey as decks, and add files people need under Resources.
4. Seat people at tables or in breakouts on Groups, with a facilitator and a scribe for each table; release a grouping to phones when it is ready.
5. Bring your team in: colleagues as members (edit and present) or viewers (present only); the check-in team by email for the desk.
6. On the day, one screen link (synrg.live/s/<CODE>) and one phone link (synrg.live/<CODE>). Choose what is live from Go live; the walk-in / walk-out screen covers the gaps.
7. Afterwards, results per room, the tables' notes and the Synthesis are under the event; past sessions stay on the agenda with their slides and results.

The details: Set up an event, Bring in your participants, Seat people at tables, The check-in desk.

1. Open your own page (the link in your email, or synrg.live/<CODE> and sign in) and tap Table Notes under your seat. No account, no shared document.
2. As scribe, keep the record: anyone at the table can add a note; you can change any note, mark decisions and actions, and keep the table's one answer.
3. As facilitator, start the timer, tap Exploring → Converging → Done so the stage knows where you are, and write the three lines at the end.
4. At the end, ✨ Write the table report and everyone at the table can download it.

At a table people made themselves, tap Be the scribe or Be the facilitator while the table is short of one. Details: Table Notes.

1. Open the desk link from the email the organizer had sent you (synrg.live/<CODE>/desk). That device is signed in; on another device, type your email and the 6-digit code.
2. Search a name (two letters is enough), tap the person, tick what they are handed, Check in.
3. Tell them what the desk shows: their table, and whether their page is set up. Can I help? shows a QR that signs their phone in.

Several desks share one count; someone already checked in elsewhere is shown with who and when. Details: The check-in desk.

1. Scan the QR on the screen, or type the code at synrg.live. Nothing to install, no sign-in for a talk.
2. Your phone follows the speaker: the full text and reading under each slide, and the question when the room is asked.
3. Tap ❤ on what lands, write your own notes, and take them home from the ☰ menu.

The presenter link comes with the room every time: Open room on the deck (or Open presenter on the room screen) gives it back on any device, for the same room. Only New room… makes a different one.

Many venues run everything through ProPresenter and would rather not switch to a browser. ProPresenter can fill any shape on a slide with a live web page, so SYNRG can sit inside a ProPresenter slide and keep moving with the room. We hand you those slides ready-made.

1. Get the file. In the studio, on the event: for the AV team → ProPresenter → Download (one file for the whole event; it follows whatever is live). A single room has the same button, and the presenter remote has it under Screens & phones → ProPresenter file. To rehearse, use the ProPresenter test room's file: studio.synrg.live/api/propresenter/TESTPP.pro (see Rehearse in ProPresenter below). No sign-in is needed: the file holds only the screen link.
2. Double-click it on the ProPresenter computer (or drag it into the library). A presentation called SYNRG <CODE> appears.
3. Click the slide you want and leave it up. Live — the one to use. A deck made for a video feed (see What screen is the deck for?) puts each slide in its own part of the picture — a third, the lower third, both sides, all of it — and leaves the camera the rest; any other deck shows full screen. Bug — the clear picture: only a small title in the corner, and the QR and link while the presenter's Frame is on. Switch to it whenever the camera should have the picture; switch back to Live to bring SYNRG back. (A deck set to “always on” has no Bug slide.) Full screen, Lower third, Side box — fixed versions, for a setup that wants the same shape all the time. The lower third is see-through around its bar; the side box sits in the lower right.
4. Run the talk from the SYNRG remote as usual. Nothing to click in ProPresenter while Live is up: the layout changes with the slide.

Everything around SYNRG's parts is see-through, so the slide sits over a camera (IMAG) or a background and keys cleanly on an alpha / NDI output. The ProPresenter computer needs internet. To build a slide by hand: add a shape, Fill → Website, and paste synrg.live/s/<CODE>?pp=1&auto=1 (add &bug=1 for the bug; ?pp=1&layout=strip&bg=clear is the fixed lower third). Tested with ProPresenter 21 on a Mac. Film inside ProPresenter: the video plays in the web fill, but sound through ProPresenter is not tested yet — for a film with sound, open the screen link in a browser.

TESTPP is a standing public room for this. It starts with the same screen check and picture test as the TEST room, then uses every slide shape over the camera, clears the picture between topics, and ends with answers, a timed quiz and Q&A, so one run through it tests the screen, the phones and everything SYNRG can do in ProPresenter. Anyone can drive it, and it is cleared every night.

1. Open the file on the ProPresenter computer, put a camera or a background behind it, and click Live. The join slide shows.
2. The screen itself. Slides 1 and 2 are the screen check and the picture test, full screen: four orange edges, a round circle, every grey step, sharp fine lines. Walk to the back row. If an edge is missing, ProPresenter's output or the projector is cropping the picture.
3. The seven shapes. Press on with the remote. Slides 3–9 are full screen, left third, right third, left and right thirds, left half, right half and the lower third. Each says on the phones what you should see. They follow on from each other, so there is no clear picture between them.
4. A clear picture between topics. The next press after the lower third shows the camera on its own. Press once more for the next slide.
5. Points one at a time. Slide 10 brings in its three points one press at a time. The remote has buttons 1, 2, 3 to jump to a point.
6. Answers. Slides 11–14 are a poll, a word cloud, a timed quiz (start the timer, then Reveal on the remote) and Q&A (send, vote, spotlight one): answer from two or three phones on the venue wifi. SYNRG picks the shape itself on these (Auto).
7. The small join box. On slide 15, press Frame on the remote: the screen clears to a small title, QR and link in the corner. Click the Bug slide in ProPresenter for the same box without the remote.
8. The fixed slides. Click Lower third, Side box and Full screen in turn to see the setups that keep one shape all the time.

For a deck that is not made for a video feed, rehearse the ordinary room in TEST: its file studio.synrg.live/api/propresenter/TEST.pro shows full screen on Live. For a phones-first talk, use TESTPH. On the night, use the file for your own event or room, not a test room's.

Asked in New deck before anything is drafted (so the slides are written for it), and changeable later in the deck's Advanced → What screen is this deck for? The default stays the default.

For a whole event: set it once on the event (Settings → What screen are the decks for?) and every deck on the event follows it, the way the theme and the room setting do. A deck that chooses its own keeps it; the deck's Advanced says which, with a Follow the event button to go back.

1. Room screen (default) — a projector or LED wall shows SYNRG full screen. Nothing changes.
2. Video feed — SYNRG sits over a camera picture (ProPresenter, IMAG, a livestream). Tick the formats that work with this feed: full screen, lower third, left third, right third, left + right thirds are on; the two halves are off, because they cover too much of most camera shots. For each slide SYNRG picks the best ticked format: a video or a picture takes the whole picture; a slide of up to about 30 words (a headline, a verse with its reference, a short point) the lower third, where its own words sit in a bar along the bottom with the headline or reference in the accent colour; a longer slide a third; a short poll a third (or the slide on one side and the join panel — QR, link, phones in — on the other while Frame is on); a word cloud a half or the whole picture; the opening join screen the lower third as the join bar. A lower third draws the words, not a designed face; a question there, or any slide while Frame is on, adds the QR and link at its right. The type steps down to fit and never below a floor readable from the room — past that, choose a third. It keeps the same format from slide to slide when it can, so the picture does not jump. Each slide's editor has On the video feed → Format (Auto → Right third) to change it, and Continues the slide before. The join screen always takes the lower third when it is ticked, and on a slide that fills the picture Frame puts the small title, QR and link in the corner.
   Between slides: The operator decides (default — the operator has the Bug slide in ProPresenter), Clear between topics (Next first gives the camera the picture back with the bug, the next Next shows the slide; slides that follow on — the same headline, or marked “continues the slide before” — run straight through; phones stay on the slide they have). On the remote, Camera between: on / off (beside Frame, and in the phone remote's menu) turns this on or off during the talk without touching the deck; turning it off while the picture is clear brings the slide straight back, or Always on (no clear picture). The bug's title is the few words in the corner of the clear picture; set it to off and the clear picture carries nothing at all — no title, no QR, no link, even with Frame on.
3. Phones first — no screen, or a small or poor one. Every phone carries the screen at its top, live — the slide, the room's answers as they come in, the spotlit question — with that person's own answer box underneath. ⤢ makes the screen fill the phone. Nothing extra for the presenter: run the talk from the remote as usual. Films do not play on phones (the poster stands in), so keep video and sign-together slides for rooms with a screen.

In the studio and on the remote: on a video-feed deck the Big screen preview, the slide thumbnails, the remote's slide strip, Next and its small live screen show each slide in its shape over a stand-in camera picture, labelled (Lower third, Right third, Full screen), so you see what the slide leaves clear. A change of shape on the screen is clean: the part fades out, moves unseen, and fades in once it has drawn the new slide. On a phones-first deck the Phone preview shows the screen at the top of the phone. A room-screen deck previews full screen.

The AV team's ProPresenter file works for all three: see Show SYNRG inside ProPresenter.

The screen setting gives each slide a word budget (about 45 words for a normal projector with a far back row; fewer for a small screen, more for a boardroom). When a point wants more than that, there are three honest shapes, and the drafting engine, Ask SYNRG and the editor's hint all choose between them with the same rule. Nothing is ever squeezed into a smaller font.

1. One slide — the headline and body fit the budget. The plain case.
2. Points one at a time — a list the speaker walks through. On the slide, under Points one at a time, write one point per line as Point — a line of detail. On the day, each Next reveals the next point: the current one large with its detail, the earlier ones shrunk to their titles, the later ones not yet there; the remote says point 2 of 4 and shows a button per point to jump straight to one (on the laptop or iPad remote, and in the phone remote's Live view); Back folds one back. Phones show the open point with the earlier ones collapsed (tap to reopen), and the full depth underneath. Use it for any list of three or more points with detail. A steps slide is not designed by the AI — the screen draws the reveal.
3. Continuous slides — prose that far exceeds the budget and is not a list: several slides with the same headline, each after the first marked Continues the slide before. On a video feed they run with no clear picture between them. Prefer moving detail to Dig deeper over splitting.

The editor says, under each teaching slide, when it is over budget and which shape it suggests. Ask SYNRG can do the splitting for you: "turn slide 4 into points one at a time".

1. Go to New deck → From my material.
2. Upload the talk (Word, PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown or text) or paste it.
3. Under Who is it for, and how long? write the audience and length, e.g. "30 minutes, staff team of 40".
4. Add pictures if you have them, choose a theme, and press Build the draft.
5. When it lands, read it on the deck screen and fix the words. Then press Design slides (the ··· menu on the deck).

Interaction is added only where it would change what you say next. A deck with none is still a whole deck.

1. Export the slides as a PDF (Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva all do it under File → Export or Download), or as pictures.
2. On the deck, press Insert picture or PDF under the slides — or drop the file on the slide list where it should go. To start a new deck from it, use Start from a PDF or pictures on Decks.
3. Every page shows, all chosen. Click a page to leave it out or bring it back, shift-click for a run, None to start from nothing, or type the pages (1-5, 8). If the PDF has each build of a slide as its own page, Leave out build steps takes them out.
4. Choose how they go in: each one its own full-screen 16:9 slide (the picture is the slide, untouched), or into a slide SYNRG designs, with your words (write a headline for each; the AI designs the screen around the picture and the words).
5. Choose where — after the slide you have open, where you dropped them, or at the end — and press Add. The deck is saved; History brings back the deck as it was before.
6. Put your questions between the pages: open a slide and Add after, or add at the end and drag it into place.

Each page keeps its title and its words (read from the PDF): they show in the slide list and your remote, go home in people's notes, and give the AI something to read. A scanned PDF works too — it simply has no words to keep. Got a newer copy of the same PDF? Insert it again: SYNRG offers to update the slides it made from that file in place, keeping your titles, notes and the questions between them.

Or have it done. Attach the PDF in Ask SYNRG (or give Claude the file or a share link through the SYNRG connector) and say what you want: "Put pages 1 to 12 of this after slide 3 as full-screen slides, and leave out the build steps", or "Put page 4 in a designed slide with the headline Listen first". Not sure which pages? Ask "what is on each page?" and it lists them with their titles. A public link works too — a Google Drive or Dropbox share link, or a Google Slides link, shared as anyone with the link. Insert a newer copy the same way and the slides it made from that file are updated in place.

One picture on its own slide: choose the Picture type and drop a picture or a PDF on its box (a PDF lets you pick the page). Show all of it keeps the whole page on the theme's background; Fill the screen trims what does not fit 16:9. To have the picture inside a designed slide instead, press Put it in a designed slide with words instead; on a Teach slide with a picture, Use it as a full-screen slide instead goes the other way.

1. New deck → Research it for me.
2. Say what the talk is for, the angle, and how it should end. Add notes or documents if you have them.
3. Press Start the research. It takes 5–15 minutes; you can leave the page.
4. Sources are on the phones; the research notes on the deck screen are for you only. Check anything flagged as unverified in your notes.

1. New deck → Brainstorm with me, then Start brainstorming.
2. Talk it through. The coach keeps an outline of the moves, stories and interactions you settle on.
3. When the outline is ready, Build the deck from this, or Research it first.

1. On the deck screen, press Present. A room is made with its own code — and stays the deck's room: from then on the button reads Present ▸ CODE and returns the same room, answers and remote. Press New room… only when you want to start from nothing (the talk given again to a different audience); the old room keeps everything under Rooms.
2. Open the screen link on the projector laptop and press Full screen.
3. Open the presenter link on your phone or laptop. On a laptop or iPad, tap a slide's words to send it live; tap its picture to preview without moving the room. On a phone it opens as a clicker — see Run the talk from your phone.
4. Phones join by the QR or by typing the code at synrg.live.
5. Read what the room said with Summarize on the remote, or afterwards on the room's results page.

The live room runs on the database, not the studio. If the studio is down, a talk already running carries on; only Summarize is missing.

On a phone the presenter link opens as a clicker. On an iPad or a laptop it is the full remote, as before.

1. The first time you open a deck's remote on a phone, pick one of three remotes. The phone remembers it for that deck; change it any time from the ☰ menu.
   • Basic — a clicker and a timer, with the current slide, your notes and the phone view.
   • Simple (recommended) — Basic, plus what is up next and the live controls for slides the room answers: results, moderation, Q&A, tables, signing, video.
   • Advanced — Simple, plus the whole slide strip: look ahead, preview any slide and send it live. Everything the iPad and laptop remote can do.
2. The top third is always the clicker: Back and Next, the slide number and the time (tap the time for the timer's settings). Next says what it will do — on a quiz slide it reveals the answer first, then moves on.
3. Swipe left or right anywhere on the screen to go forward or back.
4. The bottom two-thirds is your view. Swipe up or down there (or tap the bars that say Swipe up for…) to move between the current slide, your notes, the phone view, the live controls and the slide strip. The view stays where you put it as you click through. Long notes scroll first; a swipe at the end moves to the next view.
5. The ☰ menu holds every extra, in all three remotes: jump to a slide, the join screen, back to the first slide, the room code and event, refresh screens, frame, auto advance, screens & phones, screen size, edit the deck, the studio and End.

The phone view on the remote is look-only, so a swipe across it never answers a question by accident. A swipe that starts at the very edge of the screen is left to the phone (it is the phone's own Back), so start slide swipes a thumb's width in. The phone's Back closes the menu or a preview first; on the remote itself it asks Leave the remote? before going. The remote keeps the phone awake while it is open, and on Android gives a short tick as the slide moves. Works on iPhone (Safari) and Android (Chrome, Samsung Internet). How the remote works in the menu shows the short tour again.

1. Tap the time on the remote, on a phone, iPad or laptop. Start, Stop, Reset and +1 / −1 minute are right there, and the minute buttons never stop the clock.
2. Choose how it counts: count up; count down (5, 10, 20, 30, 45 minutes or your own time); or count to a clock time, such as "finish by 10:45". On an event, the end of the session on the agenda is offered for you.
3. Going over: amber at 5 minutes left and red at 1 (you can change both). At zero it turns red and counts up with a plus sign. After +1:00 it flashes slowly; after +5:00 the whole box flashes fast.
4. More settings: stop at 0:00 instead, turn flashing off, show the time of day, hide the timer on this device, or have it start by itself on the first click.
5. Who sees it: only the remote, unless you choose Also the main screen. The room and any video feed from that screen will then see it, in solid colors unless you also tick flashing.

Every remote in the room shows the same timer, and it survives a refresh. Android phones can buzz at each warning; iPhones do not let web pages vibrate. It is separate from the group discussion clock, quiz timers and timer slides, which belong to the room.

1. On the deck screen, open Settings and tick Show the slide from the start (under Slide view).
2. Press Present. The studio takes a picture of every slide for the phones; give it a minute before people join.
3. Skip the screen link. People join by the QR or the code; every phone opens with the slide on view, the depth underneath.
4. Run it from the presenter link as usual. Every phone follows you.

Each person can still switch the slide off in the ☰ menu, and their phone remembers that for this deck. The slide on a phone is a still picture: no animation, and no live results such as the word cloud filling in.

1. Events → New event. Choose a code (4–12 letters or digits), a title and the dates.
2. Build the survey as a deck of question slides, then add it to the event as a survey. Its link works straight away.
3. Add the talks in order. A talk gets its room when you launch it from the event screen.
4. Under Send it out, copy the link, the QR or the invite text, and send it yourself.
5. On the day, choose what is live: Go live on the item, Walk-in / walk-out while people come in, in the breaks and as they leave, or Nothing live. Optional opens and closes times do it on the clock. Each item keeps one room — making it live again after a break is the same room; New room… starts it over (a second wave of the survey, say) and keeps the old one under the deck's Rooms.

Set the link preview before the invites go out. Messengers keep the first card they see.

1. Build a deck of question slides: multiple choice (choose one or choose any), scale, open text, private form.
2. For a questionnaire feel, turn on the form-style setting under Survey settings: every answer private, typed answers saved as people move on, dropdowns and checks on form fields.
3. Add it to an event as a survey and send the link.
4. Choose up to three multiple-choice questions for the pulse and put synrg.live/pulse/<CODE> on stage. It shows nothing until 20 people have answered.
5. Export the answers from the event's survey tools.

1. Open the event and its People tab. Press Add people.
2. Paste from a spreadsheet, drop a CSV (Excel, Google Sheets, Planning Center, Brushfire…), or type one person a line: Ann Lee <ann@example.org>.
3. Headings are recognized: name (or first and last), email, organization. Every other column becomes a field. Someone already on the list is updated, never added twice.
4. Under Settings for people: open registration (and choose which fields it asks), let people see each other, and decide whether to tie answers to people.
5. Tap anyone to edit them, copy their personal link, give them a new one, or take them off.

Members and owners see emails and links; viewers see names and tables only. Nobody needs a SYNRG account to be on the list.

1. Once per account: Integrations (top right of the studio) → the service → follow its steps and paste the token. Airtable: a personal access token with data.records:read and schema.bases:read, the base added under Access. Eventbrite: the Private token of an API key. Planning Center: a personal access token's Application ID and Secret. A Google Sheet or Doc needs nothing connected — share it "Anyone with the link" (in a Doc, put the people in a table with a heading row). SYNRG checks the token before saving it; once it works the service shows Connected — on the Integrations list and in a card on its page — and the page offers step 2: pick an event and press Set up the sync.
2. On the event: People → Sync from…, choose the service and paste the link (an Airtable table or shared-view link, the Eventbrite event, the Planning Center list, the sheet) or pick it from the list.
3. The preview shows the columns, a few people and how many count. Check which column is the name, the email (and a second one to use when the first is empty) and the organization; set who counts (for example "Will you attend? is Yes" — SYNRG guesses this, and leaves out canceled Eventbrite tickets by itself); tick the columns to bring in as fields. The counts and the sample update by themselves as you change a column or the filter.
4. If your list already says where people sit (a "Table" column with 1, 2, 3… or "Table 12"), choose that column under Seat people from a column, beside the grouping it fills (Monday tables, Regional tables…). From then on the source is the master copy for that grouping: every sync puts each person at the table their cell names and a facilitator's or scribe's role goes with them. An empty cell leaves someone where they are, and a cell naming a table the event does not have is reported, never guessed — add the table first. Leave it on seated in SYNRG for groupings you arrange in SYNRG, which a sync then never touches.
5. A role can come from the list the same way: beside a grouping, choose and give a role (Table facilitator, Scribe…) to people whose column is a value — for example "Table Facilitators is Confirmed". Each sync gives that role at their table, takes it away from anyone whose cell now says something else ("Declined"), and leaves anyone with an empty cell as they are, so roles you set by hand for them stay.
6. Choose how often (every 5 minutes to once a day, or only when you press Sync now) and what happens to someone no longer in the source: kept and marked (the default) or removed. Press Start syncing.
7. The strip above the list says where the people come from, when it last ran and what changed. Sync now runs it at once; Settings changes the columns, the filter, how often, pauses or stops it. Stopping keeps everyone it brought in.

A sync only reads. It updates name, email, organization and the fields you chose — an empty cell over there never wipes a value here — and never touches personal links or answers — or tables and roles, unless you chose a column for them. Someone already on the event with the same email is matched, not added twice. If more than half the list disappears at once, nobody is marked as gone until you press Mark them as gone.

1. Share the Doc (or Sheet) as Anyone with the link — Viewer.
2. On the event: Program → Sync from a doc…, paste its address and press Read it.
3. The clearest layout is a heading for each day ("Monday 26 October") with a table under it: Time, Session, Room (and Detail or Speaker if you like). That is read exactly. An agenda written as ordinary lines ("9:00–10:30 Opening, Main hall") is read by AI — check it.
4. You see what would be new, changed and removed. Apply and follow this doc saves it as the program.
5. When the doc changes, press Sync on the Program tab: only the differences are shown, and nothing is saved until you apply them.

The doc is the master copy: a session that is no longer in it is removed. A session that keeps its title keeps the tables it seats people at and its Join link, so set those up in SYNRG and keep the titles. Nothing syncs on a timer.

1. On the event: People → Sync from… → Webhook → Make the address.
2. In Zapier use Webhooks by Zapier → POST (payload JSON); in Make, HTTP → Make a request; or paste the address into your form tool's webhook setting.
3. Send {"name": "…", "email": "…", "org": "…"} — any other key becomes a field — or several at once as {"people": [ … ]}. "status": "canceled" marks someone as no longer on the list.

The address is a secret: anyone with it can add people to that event. New address retires the old one.

1. On People, each survey on the event has a column: ✓ means answered — from the person's own page, or with their email typed into the survey.
2. Show → not yet answered, then email these.
3. Write the reminder with {first_name} and {link}, press Preview to see it as one person will, then Send.

An anonymous survey cannot say who answered. To know, ask for an email in a form question, or send people their own link and turn on tie answers to people.

1. On the event's Program tab, choose the time zone the times are in, the last day, and how times are shown: each phone's own setting (the default — a phone set to 24-hour sees 09:00, an American phone 9:00 AM), or fixed for everyone at 12-hour (9:00 AM) or 24-hour (09:00). It applies to the agenda, everyone's page, the table pages and the tables screen; the event's emails are 12-hour unless you choose 24-hour.
2. Add day, then a session per slot: times, title, kind (session, at tables, breakouts, break, meal, open time), where, and detail.
3. A table or breakout session sits in a grouping, so each person sees their own table there. A session can also link a survey or talk on the event for Join.
4. How the session works: open it, pick a type (talk, interactive, tables, breakouts, synthesis, open) for a sensible start, then its components in order — a talk (with a deck), a poll, a question at the tables (the prompt, the minutes, whether each table gives one answer), a report back, a synthesis, a break. The table pages show the prompt and timer; the run of show lists the steps.
5. Write the welcome (wi-fi, where to go) and a contact on the day. Save. Run of show opens a printable page of every session with its steps, the speakers and the event roles.
6. The agenda is at synrg.live/<CODE>/agenda, with its QR on the same tab.

The survey results, the program as a PDF, a venue map, a reading, the registration page — the organizers' resources show as picture tiles on the Now tab of the agenda and of everyone's own page, in the order you set, and again on Home, lower down, where people look for them later. Tap a tile and it opens.

1. On the event's Program tab, under Files and links for everyone, press + PDF or picture and choose the file (several at once is fine; up to 25 MB each). A Word or PowerPoint file: export it as a PDF first.
2. A PDF's first page becomes its tile, drawn when it is uploaded; a picture is its own tile. Give each one a title people will recognize and, if it helps, one line under it. Every change saves itself.
3. For a web page, paste its address under Or a link with a title and press + Link. Click the link's tile to give it a picture; without one it shows the site's name.
4. A file that is the results of a survey on the event: say which, under its title. Once that survey closes, its card on people's pages stops saying "not done yet" and offers Read the results instead.
5. Drag a row, or use ▲ ▼, to set the order — the first tile is the highlight and shows wide (two sit side by side). Kept here, not shown on phones parks one without losing it; × takes it off the event.

Files are public to everyone who has the event link, like a slide picture: nothing private belongs here. Through Claude or ChatGPT: synrg_upload_file uploads a PDF or picture for the event (a Drive or Dropbox share link works) and returns the tile; synrg_set_programme gathering.resources sets the list and its order.

1. On the event's Program tab, open The look.
2. Event theme: pick a built-in or one of your own themes from the library, and it dresses every deck on the event as well as these pages (see One theme for a whole event). "No event theme" (the default) leaves each deck its own and borrows the first published deck's theme for the pages.
3. Add a logo (a PNG with a clear background reads best), a wide cover photo, and a tagline — one line under the title. The phone beside it shows how the top of the page will look. Save.
4. ✨ Design the cover (it saves first): about a minute later a designed cover replaces the plain header on the agenda and on everyone's page. It uses only the event's title, dates, tagline, code, logo and photo — nothing else is written on it.
5. Change the title, dates, tagline, pictures or theme afterwards and the studio marks the cover Out of date; it never redesigns by itself. Design it again, or Take the cover off to go back to the themed header.

The pages keep the dates, the welcome and the program in ordinary text under the cover, so they stay readable at any size. With the AI unavailable, everything except the designed cover still works.

1. On the event's screen, under Theme, press Choose a theme for the event (or Change theme) and pick a built-in, one of your own, or Describe a theme to have one designed from your brand.
2. Every deck on the event takes it straight away — the big screen and the phones — and so do the agenda and everyone's own page. Each deck's change is an ordinary save: its History can undo it.
3. Decks you add to the event later take the theme as they arrive.
4. A deck that needs its own look: open the deck and choose a theme there. It now keeps its own theme, and changing the event's theme leaves it alone. Follow the event (on the deck, or beside it under Theme on the event) puts it back.
5. Designed slide faces keep the look they were made in. When the event's theme changes, press Redesign faces in this theme — it says how many decks and slides first; about a minute a slide, in the background.

The same setting is Event theme under Settings → The look. A deck on two events with themes follows the first of them. Taking the theme off the event (No event theme) leaves every deck as it is.

The rest of the look lives under Program → The look too: a logo and a cover photo for the band, a tagline, what the program is called on people's phones (Agenda unless you say otherwise — Program, Schedule…), and a background: a brand's pattern, arrows or texture behind the agenda and everyone's page, repeated or filling the page or along the bottom, under a wash of the page color you set with the slider (88% unless you change it) so the words stay readable. The phone preview on the right shows all of it.

1. On the Groups tab, add a grouping: Tables or Breakouts. Under Set up, make them ("19 of 8") or name them one a line, set the roles at a table (Table facilitator, Scribe, Track leader — from the Roles catalog at the top of the tab, where you can add your own) and how many of each a table needs.
2. Place people: Mixed (every table mixed across the fields you tick, in the order you rank them — drag the most important to the top), Same together (by one field, e.g. region), By preference (a field of ranked choices, seats respected) or Random. Add names to keep together, pairs to keep apart, and — for a second grouping — reshuffle from the earlier one so people meet new faces.
3. Press Show me. Nothing is saved yet: read the tables and their mix lines, Try another if you like, then Use this.
4. On the board, tap any name to move them or give them a role, or drag a name to another table. A table short of a required role says so ("needs a scribe"); Make facilitator on a name fills it. Roles for the whole event (Host, Tech…) or for one session (Speaker) go on the person in People.
5. For breakouts people choose themselves, tick People choose their own and set when choosing opens and closes; give each breakout its seats. A full breakout can be joined in line: the first in line gets the next seat that frees up, and the board shows who is waiting.

Make a second grouping to reshuffle (regional tables in the morning, streams after lunch). Roles move with the person until you change them. Renaming a table never moves anyone; removing one un-places the people in it.

1. Give each table a Table facilitator and a Scribe (Groups). In the session, under How the session works, add a question at the tables with the prompt, the minutes and whether each table gives one answer.
2. Everyone opens Table Notes from their own page (Home → Table Notes, under their seat) — no Google Doc to share, no access to manage. A scribe or facilitator without a sign-in can use the table link you send (Tables tab → Links; in an email, {table_link} puts each person's own in).
3. Table Notes has sections: General (for the whole gathering) and one for each session, opening on the session running now. Anyone at the table adds a note — one paragraph at a time, so five people typing make five paragraphs and nobody types over anyone. You change and remove your own; the scribe changes and removes anyone's and can mark a note as a decision, an action (with an owner and a date), a takeaway, a quote, a question or a resource.
4. Removing more than two lines, or someone else's words, asks first. Removed notes wait in the scribe's Removed list to be put back. The scribe or the facilitator can Lock this section: then only they change it.
5. Files: a transcript, a document someone shared, a voice memo — up to 25 MB, kept private to the table and the organizers. The words in a document or transcript are read in, so the table can read and correct them there and the synthesis reads them.
6. If someone is writing in a session the room has left, a banner says so — Switch. "Now" follows a live group discussion slide when one names its session (so a program running late does not send everyone to the wrong place), otherwise the program's clock.
7. The scribe also keeps the table's one answer, consensus (unanimous, majority, mixed, split) and who is present; the facilitator starts the timer and writes three lines at the end: on track or not, the breakthrough, the tension.
8. The table's signal to the stage: the facilitator or the scribe taps Exploring → Converging → Done. In the last two minutes of the timer the scribe is prompted to read the notes back; when the table says "yes, that is what we said", The table confirmed the capture marks it ✓. Tags on the session's table component ("Barrier, Best practice, Spark") show as pills to mark notes with, and the synthesis sorts by them.
9. From the stage, the Tables tab: one line per table — where it is, notes, the answer, who is here, how long since the last keystroke. Put synrg.live/<CODE>/tables on the projector for every table's answer as it lands — or run the session from a group discussion slide (next).
10. Roles people take themselves. In a grouping people choose for themselves (like working streams) and at the tables people make in a room, anyone sitting there can tap Be the facilitator or Be the scribe on Table Notes while the table is short of one (one of each, or what the grouping requires; a Track leader is still set by the organizers). Whoever holds it can hand it to someone at the table or step down. In groupings the organizers seat, the organizers set the roles. Rights travel: a table facilitator or scribe has the same rights — marking decisions, ✨ Consolidate, the table's report, the lock — in every other group they sit in, without being named its facilitator there.
11. When several people wrote the same point, the scribe or facilitator taps ✨ Consolidate: the AI brings notes that say the same thing into one, credited to everyone who wrote them. It is held back on purpose — it never merges different kinds, quotes, actions with different owners or more than four notes, never drops a number, and always leaves at least 60% of the notes standing. ↶ Undo consolidate puts the originals back exactly.
12. At the end, the scribe or facilitator taps ✨ Write the table report: a summary and key points by AI, then the table's decisions, actions, open questions and quotes in its own words, and every contributor. Everyone at the table reads it on the page and taps Download PDF. Each person's Home lists their Group discussions, and each table session on the agenda has its own Group discussion button.
13. Afterwards, Read-back downloads every table's notes per session as markdown (or every row as CSV) — or go straight to the Synthesis.

Everything typed is kept on the phone and sent when the wifi is back. Notes never reach the screen or the agenda — only the table's answer and consensus, and the AI's read when the presenter shows it.

A Group discussion slide (Ask the room → Group discussion) puts the topic, a short description, the questions for the tables and a clock on the big screen. Phones show the same, the time left, and Open Table Notes.

1. Choose the tables. People make their own tables (the default — a church service, a workshop, any room): on their phones, one person taps New table and reads its number out (they become its scribe, and can hand that on); the others tap Join table and type the number. A first name is asked once. Or The event's seating: put the deck on the event as a talk, pick the tables and the session they write in (or leave both empty to follow the session running); everyone lands on their own table's notes.
2. The clock counts down from the minutes you set, then on into overtime — +1:30 — nothing stops at zero. On the remote: −1, +1, +5 min, Pause, or tap the time to type it.
3. The remote's Tables card shows every table as it writes: people, notes, files, the signal, and how long it has been quiet. Tap one to read its notes as they come in.
4. ✨ Summarize the tables: the AI reads every table's notes (never a name) and writes one short read for each table and one for the room. Then choose what the screen shows: Topic & questions, the Room summary, Each table in turn, or one table. While a summary is up it keeps itself fresh as the tables write more. With moderation on, a new read waits for your Approve.
5. Table numbers show by default ("Table 4 and Table 9 both…"); tick Keep tables anonymous on the slide and the screen speaks only of the room.
6. Afterwards: the event's tables read back from the Tables tab; a room's own tables through synrg_room_table_notes (markdown by discussion and table, or CSV).

The notes are where a table thinks out loud; the screen is where the room hears itself. Show a summary, then ask a table to say more.

A Sign together slide (Ask the room → Sign together) is for the moment a room commits to something together — a shared commitment, a covenant, a declaration. The phones carry the whole document; the big screen shows only the heading, and then the names and signatures as people sign.

1. Give it a heading (the screen), paste the document in full (the phones — a line starting with ## starts a section people tap open; phones show the PDF link first, then the sections, with Open all), and the line people sign under ("I commit to this"). Put the document itself as a PDF in the link, so people can keep it.
2. Choose whether a finger signature is required, or whether a name alone is accepted too (the default — the quickest for a big room).
3. When the slide is up, phones show the document. When you are ready, tap Open signing on the remote (or tick open as soon as the slide is up). Every phone shows ✍ Sign: a name, a signature with a finger (sideways gives more room), Sign. A person can change their signature while signing is open; the latest one counts.
4. The screen fills with names and signatures, newest arriving with a small entrance. Once it is full it rolls slowly so everyone passes by, and whoever just signed is named at the bottom. The count sits in the corner.
5. The remote's Signing card shows the count and every name, newest first — tap Hide to take one off the screen. Close signing when you are done: phones say signing has closed, the wall stays up.
6. Afterwards the results page shows the whole wall of signatures — Print or save as PDF keeps it.

Built for a few hundred people signing within a couple of minutes: a signature is a few hundred bytes of pen strokes, not a picture, and the screen reads only what is new.

A Pledge slide (Ask the room → Pledge) is for the moment a room takes responsibility for something together: the giving levels of a fundraiser, six ideas that each need people, the jobs of a project. The big screen shows every piece — taken pieces filled, the gaps still open dashed — with a running total and how many are still open. The room sees what is covered and what is not.

1. Choose what it counts: Money (levels — e.g. 1 × $25,000, 2 × $10,000, 4 × $1,000; the total in dollars, or your currency sign), People (ideas or jobs, each needing 1, 3 or however many people before it shows as covered; the total is places filled), or Share of the work (each piece carries a %, the total is how much of the work has an owner).
2. Add the pieces: a name, the amount or share, how many of it there are and how many people each needs. A money slide can add an any amount piece for people who give what they choose.
3. Choose what a pledge asks for — a name; a name and email; or a name, email and phone — and how names show on the screen: each person chooses (their name, or “Pledged”), always, or never. On People and Work slides you can allow anonymous pledges (nobody, not even the organizers, knows who — so nobody can follow up). Email and phone go to the organizers only, never to the screen.
4. On the remote, Open pledging. Every phone shows the pieces with a Pledge button on each open one. A person can let theirs go while pledging is open. Two people tapping the last place at once: the first one gets it, the other is told it was just taken.
5. Pin to phones keeps a strip at the top of every phone, on every slide, for the rest of the talk — “Who will take this? · 5 open ›” — so people can pledge while you carry on. Show the slide at the start of the talk and again at the end: it picks up exactly where it was, because pledges belong to the room.
6. The remote's Pledges card shows the total and every pledge, newest first. + Add a pledge puts a raised hand or a paper card on the board; Release opens a place again (for pledges made from then on); Names on screen switches names off for the whole room; Reset this card clears the board (the earlier pledges stay in the results). When the last place goes, the screen says All taken ✓.
7. Afterwards, the room's page in the studio lists every pledge with the name, email and phone people gave, and Download pledges (CSV) for the follow-up (members and owners). The results page shows the board as the room saw it. Through the connector (Claude or ChatGPT): synrg_room_pledges — e.g. “draft a thank-you to everyone who pledged in room ABC123”. (An event's close-of-gathering commitments are a different list: The close.)
8. Commitments sit above the money: a piece can be a commitment instead of a gift — Pray, Advocate for this work. People tick it on their phone (tap again to let it go); it never counts toward the total and has no limit; the screen shows a tally line each (“Pray 48 people”) and the pinned strip counts people instead of open places. The follow-up list gives each commitment separately, with name and email.
9. People can pick several at once — a commitment or two and a gift — and confirm once with their name and details. Each pick is still its own pledge.
10. A match (money only): set the match's label, how much it adds per dollar, and the most it adds in all; then mark the blocks it covers as matched (or let it match every gift until it runs out). A matched $20,000 shows as “Matched: counts as $40,000”; the total counts both and the line under it splits them (“$100,000 given + $20,000 match”). Gifts are matched in the order they come; letting one go hands its match back. The follow-up list and CSV give the gift, the match and what it counted for, per line.
11. Arm it without showing it: the remote's Pledge slides card lists every Pledge slide in the deck, with Open and Pin — pin the board to every phone at the start, and put the slide on the screen only when you make the ask.

Nothing is charged on a Pledge slide — it records who took what. Put your giving page in the slide's link if you want people to give there. In ProPresenter's lower third and side box, the slide shows its total and what is still open.

A Video slide (Teach → Video) fills the big screen with a film and nothing else. You play, stop and skip it from the remote; the phones never play it — they show its picture and what to watch for while it is on the screen, so a room of phones never becomes a room of noise.

1. A file you have (best): drop it on the slide's box, or on the slide list to make a new Video slide where you drop it. MP4 or MOV, up to 2 GB; phone videos and other kinds are converted so every projector plays them, and anything larger than 1080p is brought down to it. It goes straight from your computer to storage — a big file takes as long as your internet takes to send it; you can keep working meanwhile.
2. Or a link: YouTube or Vimeo plays in its own player — the room needs good internet the whole way through, and YouTube or Vimeo can show their own words when it is paused or ends. A link to a file on Google Drive or Dropbox (shared as anyone with the link), or any .mp4 on the web, is fetched and kept like an upload.
3. Trim it with Start at and End at (minutes:seconds; Start here / End here take the moment the preview is at). Tick Plays as soon as the slide is up for a walk-in film; Loops to go round until you move on.
4. Under On phones, write what to watch for — a line or two, and Dig deeper sections if you like. Watch it again on phones is on by default for YouTube and Vimeo (they stream from their own servers) and off for a file you upload (every phone that watches would stream it from SYNRG's storage) — tick or untick it; leave it off when you may not share the video. Once the room has moved on (and after the talk) a phone can tap it: it starts muted, because people are still in a room together, and the player's speaker turns the sound on.
5. Deleting. Delete the slide (or the whole deck) and an uploaded video is deleted from storage a day later — the day is your undo. A copy of the deck, or a shared page that shows it, keeps it.

In the room: the remote's Video card has Play / Stop (or K on a keyboard), −10 s, +10 s, Start, and a bar to tap to jump. The time it shows is the remote's own reckoning: while the screen says live it is within a second of the film; if the venue blocks the live connection a press can take up to 2.5 seconds to arrive, and the remote's time runs ahead by that much. Play and Stop never make the film skip; −10 s, +10 s and the bar count from the remote's time. Two remotes (a phone and a laptop) see each other's presses. Moving to the next slide stops the film where it is; coming back finds it there.

For the AV team. Open the screen link on the projector computer before the talk starts: it downloads every uploaded video in the deck while the room is on the first slides (up to about 1 GB a film, 1.5 GB in all; past that a film streams), so poor venue internet cannot stall a film halfway (a long film needs a few minutes on a slow connection — the screen says Getting the video ready if it is not in yet when its slide comes up; it then streams instead). The sound comes out of the projector computer — take the sound desk's feed from it, and test it in the TEST room. A browser plays sound only after someone has clicked the page: the click on Full screen does that. If the screen still shows 🔇 Click once for sound, one click on the screen turns it on. A computer that only ever runs the screen can start Chrome with --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required to skip that.

Capture without editorialising; synthesize overnight; hand it back the next morning. The Synthesis section of the Tables tab reads one session's capture across every table — the scribes' cards, the tables' answers, the facilitators' three lines — and clusters it into 3–8 themes in the room's own words. Every theme keeps the exact cards it came from, table by table (the provenance). Outliers — what only one table said, and matters — are kept apart, never folded into a majority. Tensions between tables are named. A next question is proposed. The AI groups and words; it never ranks a table and never sees a name.

1. After the session (or the day), Tables tab → Synthesis → pick the session (and a grouping, or every grouping) → ✨ Synthesize. A minute or two; you can leave the tab. It needs at least a couple of cards or answers.
2. Read the draft. Reword a theme's title or summary, take a card out of a theme (×), drop a theme, change the "why" on an outlier, change the next question. Save the edits.
3. Publish as the morning deck. The morning mirror is a deck on this event as a talk: the screen says the theme, the phones carry the raw words it came from under "Where this came from", the notes tell the presenter to read the room's words and add nothing; the voices not to lose and the tensions get a slide each; it ends with a correction poll — Did we hear you right? — and "What is missing?", because the room is the judge of its own synthesis. Then the next question. Go live with it from the Overview like any talk, or ✨ design its faces first. Publish again after more edits: the deck's slides are replaced and designed faces kept.

Synthesize per session for a morning mirror; synthesize the whole event on the last evening for the closing. Through the connector: synrg_synthesise, then synrg_job, then synrg_synthesis (read, edit, publish:true).

A gathering ends with two questions on every phone. The one person you met here you will build with — one name, typed or picked from the people list; when two people name each other it is marked mutual. Commit to a topic — the topics come from the synthesis (or you type them), and a person commits at one of three levels: Champion (I will co-convene this), Contributor (I bring something to it), Implementer (I will try it where I am). A topic earns a team by attracting people.

1. In the last session, add The close component (or start the session from the The close type: a synthesis, then the close). Paste the topics, one per line — the themes of the morning's synthesis are the obvious ones. Untick either question if you do not want it.
2. While that session is running (and after it, until the event closes) every person's Now shows Before you leave. One pledge each; they can change it.
3. People → Download pledges: name, topic, level, who they will build with, mutual. Through the connector: synrg_pledges (per topic and level, every pledge). Not the same as a Pledge slide in a talk — that one is per room, synrg_room_pledges.

SYNRG stops at the door. The years after — the quarterly calls, the teams — belong to whatever tool carries them; this download is the hand-off.

Some people come from places where a name on a list is a danger. SYNRG lets anyone take part under a chosen name: to everyone else in the room they are that name and nothing else — not on the people list or the table-mates' names, not on name tags, downloads or the synthesis; no organization, no email, no photo. What they write at a table carries the chosen name. Their fields (region, stream…) still count for placing them and for what the room learns. The organizers see who they are in the studio — and own that, as they own consent for the event.

1. It is offered on every event unless you switch it off: People → Settings for people → Offer a chosen name. On their page (/me), under My details, a person taps Need to take part without your name? — the choice sits behind that tap so nobody ticks it by accident while going through the form — then ticks Take part under a chosen name and types the name; it takes effect once they press Save.
2. You can set it for someone yourself: People → open the person → Takes part under a chosen name and the name. The list shows their real name to you only.
3. When the event has closed (the day after its end date), a person under a chosen name who opens their page finds nothing kept on that phone: the sign-in, the cached page and the table pages' keys are cleared, and the page says so.

A chosen name hides a person; it does not hide what the room said. The synthesis never saw a name in any case, and the screens only ever show the tables' answers.

1. Getting in: hand out one link, synrg.live/<CODE>/me (People → Their pages → Sign-in link). They type their email; on the list, they get an email with their link and a 6-digit code — tapping the link or typing the code opens their page, and that phone stays signed in until they press Forget me. Each person's own link (/me#t=…) is also in the People list and the download, and can go in any message as {link}.
2. Home — the hub, where the page opens: who they are here (photo, name, organization, their line, their tags), where they sit in every grouping (each table and breakout, its place, their role, a link to the table's page), what is live with a Join button, the survey if not done yet, what is next, completed sessions (each one that was presented, the latest first, opening its slides and take-home), their people (connected, asking to connect, meet-ups — each a tap away) and, folded under My details: name, organization, photo, a line about them, phone and links; whether to show me in the people list, whether to share my contact details, and — behind its own tap, Need to take part without your name? — a chosen name. Forget me on this phone is here too.
3. Now: this moment — where to sit in big letters for the session now or next, what is live with a Join button, requests to connect and invitations waiting for an answer, and what is next. A survey on the event shows as not done yet with a button, or done, thank you once their answers are in (known from their email in the survey, or from joining via this page when answers are linked). The page opens on Now instead of Home when something is live or waiting for them.
4. Agenda — or whatever you call it (Settings → The look → What the program is called on people's phones; Agenda unless you say otherwise). One tab, every session, with their own things on it: their table (leaders and, if you allow it, table-mates), their breakout or a choice to make (a full one can be joined in line), and on every break, meal and open time a quiet ＋ Plan this break: a line for their plans and, when invitations are on, Invite someone to meet then. A facilitator or scribe can name the table's topic and opens the table's page from here; anyone at the table can open it to read. Once a session is over, Open the slides appears on it when its talk was really presented — live on the event for at least a fifth of the session's time (from half an hour before it to an hour after) — and opens that presentation's room at its first slide, whatever the presenter left on screen, with every slide there to read, any notes written on that phone and the take-home (if the presenter starts the room again, the phone follows it). When that phone has notes from the session, My notes sits beside it (and the session's row under Completed sessions on Home says how many and opens them): the room opens with the notes sheet up, to copy or download. Notes still live only on the phone they were written on; in a room on an event they stay there as long as the event keeps the room (90 days from when the room was made), and in a room on no event they still go 24 hours after the first note. When the room answered any of its questions, Results sits there too: the recap for the people who were there, showing only the question slides the room answered, with approved answers only — never a comment sent to the speaker, a private form or the room code (synrg.live/r/<room>?audience=1; the presenter's own recap is unchanged). A talk that was not shown, or only for a moment, gets no link. The public agenda shows the same links.
5. People (if you switched it on): the people list — at the top, under You, the person themselves exactly as the others see them (tap for the line, tags, table and whatever contact details everyone gets; Change opens My details), or, when they are not on the list, a quiet row that says so with Add me. Then search by name, organization, table or tag, letters to scroll by, Everyone / Connected / Asking you / Tags to filter, and a chip per grouping to see who is at my table or any table or track. Each name has one button that says where you stand: Connect, Asked, Respond or ✓ Connected. Tap the name for the rest: their line, table, tags (tap one for everyone with it), contact details once shared, and Invite to a break. Before signing in the People tab is a door: it says what is behind it and offers Sign in — never a name.

The page keeps its last copy on the phone, so it still shows the program when the venue's wifi drops. Scanning the room code still asks for nothing.

1. Put the people on the event (import, a sync from Airtable, Eventbrite, Planning Center or a sheet, or registration).
2. Hand out synrg.live/<CODE>/me — on the name tag, in the invitation, on your website. It does two jobs at once: people sign in, and anyone who has not done the survey is offered it on their page. A separate survey email still reaches more people.
3. People type their email. On the list: an email with their link and a 6-digit code; either one opens their page, and that phone stays signed in. Not on the list: a kind message with their address in it, a box to try another address, your registration page, and your contact line.
4. To change the words: People → Settings for people → Signing in. Leave a box empty for the default. {email} and {event} are filled in. If people register somewhere else, give that page's address; if registration is open in SYNRG, it uses that.

Every email the event sends — the sign-in link, registration, invitations, your Messages — wears the event's look: the logo and theme from Program → The look, a clear Open my page button, the code in a box, and "Collaboration powered by SYNRG" underneath. Send me a test (under Signing in) shows you exactly what people get.

Saying "not on the list" tells anyone who tries an address whether that person is coming. If the list is sensitive, untick Tell people when their email is not on the list: everyone then gets the same answer. Sign-in needs email set up on the studio. Someone a sync marked as no longer on the list cannot sign in.

1. In the studio: the event → Check-in. Tick Check-in is on, set until when the desk works (every device signs out by itself then), and list what is handed out — Badge, Welcome bag. Save.
2. Invite the check-in team by email. They do not need to be on the event or on SYNRG: each gets an email with the desk link (synrg.live/<CODE>/desk). Opening it on a phone, iPad or laptop signs that device in, no password; on another device they type their email and the 6-digit code from the email. They see only the desk. An address that is not on the team is told so on the spot — check the spelling or ask the event team (the event's contact, if one is set) to add them.
3. Choose each person's role. Desk volunteer: find a person (by name, email, church or a field — 2 letters or more), check them in and undo, tick hand-outs, write a team-only note, see their table, help them sign in. Desk lead: also add walk-ins, correct a name or email, browse and filter the whole list, and switch self check-in on or off. Permissions on a row sets one person's own (Custom).
4. At the desk: search, tap the person, tick what they get, Check in. The desk then shows what to tell them — their table for the next session, whether their page is set up — and Can I help?: Show QR to open their page (their phone's camera signs them in), Email their sign-in link, Help add a photo, and a link to step-by-step help. Next person clears the search.
5. Walk-ins: Check-in → Walk-in form sets what the desk asks someone who is not on the list. It starts with Name (always asked), Email, Phone, Organization and City; one tap adds a common registration field (Title / role, State / province, Country, First time?, How did you hear?, Dietary needs, Accessibility needs, Emergency contact, T-shirt size) or one of the event's own fields, and you can add your own question — text, a phone number, choose one, or yes / no — mark any as required and put them in order. Each becomes one of the event's fields, so People and the check-in download show the answers.
6. Several desks at once share one count. If someone was already checked in at another desk, the desk says who and when instead of checking them in twice.
7. Once checked in, the person's page says so, shows how far their profile is and where to get help; and, once, they get a welcome email with their page link, the room link, their table (only from groupings you have released) and what is left on their profile. Each can be switched off.
8. Self check-in: if it is available, a desk lead can switch on an "I'm here" button on everyone's own page — and Print the entrance QR makes a sign for the door (it opens their page; signed in, they tap I'm here).

The desk sees tables you have not released yet, so the team can seat people before attendees' phones show it. People → ✓ here marks who has checked in; Download the check-in list has everyone with what they were handed and the notes. The desk works on any device with a browser; it polls every few seconds, so twenty devices at once are fine.

1. People → Settings for people → The people list: Off; Everyone is listed (each person can take themselves off on their page); or Only people who add themselves.
2. Listed means name, organization, photo, their line, table and tags — searchable by any of them. Email, phone and links show only to the people someone connects with, or to everyone if they tick Share my contact details — in every mode.
3. Tags are how people find each other in the room. Under Fields, tick a tag on a field whose values should show by each name — a province, a ministry area, a stream (a cell with several values, separated by ; or , becomes several tags). A sync (Airtable, a sheet…) brings such columns in as fields; map the column in the sync's settings first. Never an age, a gender or anything private. People can add their own tags (on unless you switch it off) lets each person add up to eight of their own on Home — what they would want to be found by — with the room's tags offered as they type. On People, the Tags chip opens every tag with how many carry it; one tap filters.
4. People can connect (on unless you switch it off): by each name is Connect, with an optional note. The other person gets an email — "Ann Lee from Grace Church would like to connect with you through …" — with two buttons: Share my details with Ann, or Share with all participants. Either opens their page and asks once more before anything is shared. Yes: each sees the other's email, phone and links under People, and the asker gets an email with them. Not now is never shown to the asker.
5. Ask everyone once whether to share their contact details (on unless you switch it off): on signing in and on the people list, until they answer — Share with everyone or Only with people I connect with. They can change it on Home.
6. Tick People can invite each other to meet in a break. By each name on the list is Invite to a break: they pick a break, meal or open time still ahead on the program, where, and a short note.
7. The person invited sees it on their Now tab (and by email) and says Yes or Not this time. Yes puts it in both their programs at that time; either can call it off and the other is told.

You see how many meetings are set and how many people connected, never who with. Only people on the list can be invited, and people who left the event drop out of it.

1. On Messages, choose who it is to: everyone, not yet answered, a role (all facilitators), one table, a field value, or the people you had filtered on People.
2. Write it with {first_name}, {link} (their page), {group} (their table and role), {agenda}, {field:region}…
3. Replies go to says where the Reply button goes — the event's reply address, or you. Change it for this one email if you need to.
4. Preview shows the count, where replies go, and the email as one person reads it. Send now, or later at a time you choose. Until it goes out you can Change reply-to or Cancel it.

One email each, from "<event> via SYNRG". An owner sets the event's reply address on the Program tab (Replies to this event's emails go to) — say, the team inbox; leave it blank and replies go to whoever sends each email. Members can send replies to themselves or to that address; owners anywhere. Sending needs email set up on the studio; until then, Preview gives you the addresses to copy into your own email.

1. Add a Q&A slide where you want questions, or open the deck's Questions box and turn on Questions any time for an Ask button on every phone slide.
2. Choose how many top questions the remote shows (5 by default).
3. During the talk, the remote lists top questions. Repeats are folded into one and ranked by people. Spotlight puts one on the screen; Answered clears it.

1. Moderation is off by default. To start a slide moderated, tick its moderate box in the slide editor.
2. During the talk, the remote has a switch at the top of the answers on any word cloud, open text, reading or Q&A slide: Turn on or Turn off.
3. Approve answers one by one, or use Show all (or Approve all for questions). Turning moderation off with answers waiting always asks first.

1. Ask for short answers: "one word", "two or three words". Each answer is kept to three words by default; set one word if that is what you want.
2. A phrase stays whole; commas separate ideas.
3. Similar answers are counted as one. Past about 30 different answers, AI folds near-duplicates together. Every answer is still saved for the CSV.

A question that wants sentences belongs on an open text slide, not a word cloud.

1. On a deck, press the current theme (Change theme), or use the theme picker when you build a new deck, and choose Describe a theme.
2. Describe the look in words, and add your logo and brand files if you have them. Press Design this theme.
3. Check the screen and phone previews, then Use this theme. It is saved in your theme list for the next deck.
4. Changed the theme on a deck that already has designed faces? Design slides and redo all, so they match.

One question: how easily will people see this screen from the back of the room? Five answers, each read the same way — screen · type · words — so the direction is never in doubt: a small screen for the room means the biggest type and the fewest words.

• Very small screen · biggest type · ≈28 words — a TV at the front of a hall; the back row squints.
• Small screen · big type · ≈45 words — a normal projector with a far back row (what SYNRG always did).
• Medium screen · medium type · ≈60 words — a good-sized screen for the room.
• Large screen · smaller type · ≈80 words — a big screen or LED wall, everyone close enough.
• Very large screen · smallest type · ≈100 words — a boardroom or a small group around one screen.

Beside each choice in the studio and on the remote, an Aa is drawn at the size that setting gives, so you see the staircase before you read it.

1. For a venue: open the event, Settings → The screen and the room, choose, and Save. Every deck on the event takes it (one that chose its own keeps it; Follow the event on the deck hands it back).
2. For one deck: on the deck, Settings → The screen and the room. The live preview and the word count beside each slide follow it at once; Design slides designs faces to it, and a face designed for another setting is marked so you can redo it.
3. On the day, from the remote: Screen: Small ▾ in the tool row. The screen changes at once, and the choice is kept on the deck.
4. Through Claude or ChatGPT: the question is asked once before a deck is built or designed; answer in those words, or say it up front.

The screen fits the words either way: designed slides are lifted to the floor the setting asks for, and only if a slide cannot hold its words at that size is its type eased down — so a slide that comes out small is telling you it has too many words for this room. Move some to the phones.

1. Open the slide and edit the headline or the supporting lines. Under them, Screen face says the edit reaches the face when you click away or pause.
2. Click away from the words, stop typing for a few seconds, or press Save. Small changes — a word, a phrase, a typo — are written straight into the designed face. The design is unchanged and nothing is redesigned; the preview shows it at once. (While you are still typing, your words are saved but the face waits, so it is changed once, to the words you end on.)
3. If the change is too big to write in safely (a new picture, a line added or taken away, words much longer than the design was made for), the face keeps showing the old words and is marked out of date: a hollow mark beside the slide, and the reason under its words.
4. Press Redesign this slide to have just that slide designed again (about a minute). Keep working meanwhile; the new face arrives by itself. Design slides without “redo all” also picks up every face that is out of date.

1. Open a teaching slide. The body shows under the headline and on every phone.
2. Add sections for depth: each has a title and opens on the phone with a tap. Two to four on a meaty slide.
3. For scripture or any passage, use a reading slide with a reference.
4. Add a link to send people somewhere (register, give, the full article). It appears as a button on phones only.

1. On an event (Overview → Team) or a deck (People), Add someone by email.
2. Choose member (edits and presents) or viewer (presents only).
3. They sign in at the studio with that email and see only what they are on.

Account owners can manage everyone at once under Account → Team.

1. On the deck screen, open History to see the recent saves and bring any of them back.
2. Each save you press is its own entry. What the deck saved by itself is one entry for each ten minutes of editing, holding where that stretch got to — and the entry from just before a slide was removed, or a designed face cleared, is always kept.
3. Activity shows who did what, including changes made through Claude.

1. Edit a deck and it saves by itself: about two seconds after you stop typing, and at once when you click away from a field, hide the tab, or go to another screen. Nothing needs pressing.
2. The Save button tells you where things stand — in the bar at the top of the deck, and under every open slide beside Move up, Move down, Duplicate and Delete slide. Save: there are changes not saved yet; press it to save now. Autosaved: the deck saved itself. Saved: you pressed it.
3. While a room is open on the deck — a talk launched in the last twelve hours that has not ended, the item that is live on an event, or a survey taking answers — autosave is paused, because screens and phones show what is saved within a minute. A line under the bar names the room, a bar at the foot of the window says your changes are not saved yet, and Save sends them to the room when you are ready. Autosave anyway switches it back on for that room.
4. If a save cannot land — you are offline, or someone else saved the deck first — the same places say so. Offline, it tries again by itself. When someone else saved first you choose: load theirs, or keep yours.
5. Present, Design slides, Duplicate and Share a static version all save first, so they always work from what is on your screen.

Events, the program and groupings are not autosaved: they have their own Save, and leaving with unsaved changes asks first.

1. Open synrg.live/s/TEST on the venue's projector. Its first slides check the true screen edges, the safe area, type sizes and greys.
2. Open synrg.live/p/TEST as the remote, and synrg.live/TEST on a few phones.
3. Step through the poll, cloud, quiz and Q&A slides. Answers are cleared every night.

1. The deck's Rooms shows its current room on top and every past room underneath, each with how many people joined and how many answers came in, a results page and Download answers (CSV). A past room's results show the questions as they were asked, whatever was edited in the deck since. Rooms nobody ever answered in are tidied away by themselves when a new room is opened.
2. Share a static version on the deck screen makes a link for people who were not there. After editing, Update to this version.

1. In the studio, open Integrations → Claude.
2. claude.ai or the Claude desktop app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://studio.synrg.live/mcp → Connect → sign in → Allow.
3. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http synrg https://studio.synrg.live/mcp.
4. Other clients: make a key under Integrations → Claude and send it as a Bearer token.

Claude acts as you, with your permissions, and its changes are logged as made through Claude. One Revoke ends a connection.

Before it builds or designs a deck, Claude asks one standard question — how easily will people see this screen from the back of the room? (Very small … Very large; see Set the screen for the room) — unless the event already has the setting. Answer in those words, or say it up front: "the screen is small for the room". Ask SYNRG and ChatGPT ask the same.

1. In the studio, open Integrations → ChatGPT and copy the address, https://studio.synrg.live/mcp.
2. In ChatGPT on the web, turn on developer mode (Settings → Apps → Advanced settings; on a Business workspace an admin allows it first).
3. Settings → Apps → Create: name it SYNRG, paste the address, choose OAuth, tick that you trust it, Create → sign in to the studio → Allow.
4. In a chat, pick SYNRG from the + menu under Developer mode, or type @SYNRG, and say what you want.

ChatGPT acts as you, with your permissions, and its changes are logged as made through ChatGPT. It runs reads straight away and asks you before each change. Business, Enterprise and Edu get every tool; on Plus and Pro, ChatGPT may offer only the reading tools. When SYNRG adds tools, press Refresh on the app in ChatGPT. One Revoke ends a connection.

SYNRG is the tool. You decide what is asked, what is shown and who is on the list — so a few things are yours to get right. The full text is at synrg.live/legal.

1. What you upload is yours to use. Pictures, slides, documents, logos — have the right to them. SYNRG takes down material on a valid copyright notice and closes accounts that infringe repeatedly.
2. Your audience is your responsibility. What the room sends to the screen is for you to moderate (switch moderation on for a slide to see answers first). Everything people send is covered by the terms for people in the room, linked under every Join button.
3. Anonymous to you and to the room. A room needs no sign-in and stores answers without a name; nothing identifies a person on the screen or in your downloads. Only when you turn on tie answers to people for an event are answers from a person's page linked to them — and their page tells them. SYNRG's servers keep short-lived technical logs that you never see; the terms say so, so you can call a survey anonymous without over-promising.
4. People you add. You obtained their emails lawfully and may contact them about the event. Every event email carries a way to stop further emails.
5. Do not ask for ID numbers, card numbers, passwords or health details. Ask about faith, ethnicity or politics only in a survey that is not tied to people, or with consent.
6. Under 13s (16 outside the US) can join a room — nothing is collected about them — but signing in to an event page or tying answers to people needs a parent's or guardian's consent, which is yours to obtain.
7. AI output is yours to check. Generated covers, drafts, summaries and merged questions can be wrong or resemble someone else's work. Read before you present.

For a church survey: run it as a survey item on an event (not tied to people), tell the congregation "your answers are anonymous — nothing links them to your name", and keep the question about giving or family in that mode.