PresentMGR collects every speaker's deck, locks the version that goes on screen, and puts each presenter's notes, timer and Next button on their own phone. On show day it runs on the venue network, so your show never waits on the Wi‑Fi.
Free during the beta · Works with PowerPoint and Keynote · Built by an event producer
"Which one is final? final_FINAL_v7?"
Decks arrive by email, link and thumb drive. Nobody is sure which version is the one that goes on screen.
"Can you send your slides by Friday?"
You chase twelve speakers across three time zones, then build a spreadsheet just to know who's missing.
"Next slide, please."
The presenter loses their rhythm, the operator guesses the cue, and the room feels every second of it.
"Where are my notes?"
The confidence monitor is across the stage, the notes are on someone else's laptop, and the speaker is on in thirty seconds.
"They're 9 minutes over."
Wrap-up cues get missed when the timer lives on a laptop the speaker can't see.
"The Wi‑Fi just dropped."
Cloud tools are great until a ballroom full of phones takes the network down, right before the keynote.
You make other people look brilliant. PresentMGR is built to take the panic out of that job, so the show feels as calm as it looks from the audience.
Each part of PresentMGR has its own color, so everyone always knows where they are.
Dark, low-glare screens for the back of the room. Every check you'd do by hand, done in one place.
Every upload is kept. Nothing reaches the screen until you choose it, and a newer upload during a live session is flagged, never swapped in.
If a presenter's phone reloads or drops off the Wi‑Fi, it gets control back by itself. Only the host can take it away.
Take back control from a bar that never leaves the screen. The presenter can ask for it back with one tap.
No phone? Turn the show computer into the presenter's controls, with an optional PIN to get back.
Start the clock on Go Live. Send "wrap up" or a custom note straight to the speaker's phone.
Files come down before doors open. If the venue's internet dies, the show keeps going.
Stop living in your inbox. Know who has submitted, what changed, and that the right file will be on screen, without chasing anyone at midnight.
Give each presenter a simple link to upload, check what's on air and see their briefing. They walk on stage knowing exactly what to expect.
Go Live in one step, keep speakers on time with their own timer, and keep host control within reach for the whole show.
I've spent my career producing live and recorded work, and the hardest part of a show is rarely what the audience sees. It's the last-minute deck, the version mix-up, the speaker who can't find their notes, and the minutes lost between presenters.
We built PresentMGR at CFTI to fix that for our own events first. It's built around how real shows run: files change, Wi‑Fi fails, and the host always needs a way to take control. Now we're opening it up to the people who do this work every week, and we'd love you to help shape it.
Roger · Founder, CFTI
The Green Room is where event planners, speaker coordinators and show callers swap what works, and where PresentMGR gets shaped by the people who use it.
Not during the show. Files come down to the show computer ahead of time. On show day, presenter phones connect to the show computer over the venue's local Wi‑Fi. If the internet goes out, the show keeps running.
PowerPoint and Keynote today, using their native files, so fonts, animations and video play the way the speaker built them. Google Slides and PDF support are next on the roadmap.
A Mac as the show computer with PowerPoint or Keynote installed, and the PresentMGR app. Presenters use any phone with a web browser. There's nothing for them to install.
No. Speakers who upload their own files sign in with the email you invite. On show day they scan a QR code to get their notes and controls.
It reconnects and gets control back automatically. The host can take over at any moment from the show computer, and the presenter can ask to have control back.
It's free during the beta. We'll share pricing with Green Room members before anything changes, and beta testers will be looked after.
PresentMGR is a product of CFTI (Comedy For The Internet Inc.), a production company working across commercial production, media and content.
Join the Green Room for early access, field notes from real events, and a say in what we build next.
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