Your guest has never used this. They shouldn’t have to.
One link, a browser, and a green room that answers the two questions every guest has: do I look all right, and can you hear me. Everything else is your job, not theirs.
No account for guests. No download. No app to approve.
The host preview, the guest’s view and the outgoing program shown as the same picture.
Nervous guests get nervous about the software first
A guest who is fighting an install, an account or a permissions dialog four minutes before you start is not going to give you a good first answer. They arrive apologising, and you spend the opening warming them back up.
Here the link opens a page. They allow the camera and microphone, and land in a green room with a live preview and pickers for camera, mic and speakers, all before anyone can see or hear them. By the time they join they’ve already seen themselves, so the only new thing in the room is you.
- Nothing to install. A browser on a laptop is the whole requirement
- They check themselves privately. The green room preview is not a live shot of them
- Wrong microphone. Switchable mid-interview, without dropping out of the room
The best guest prep is a tool they never had to think about.
The green room: a camera preview with camera, microphone and speaker pickers and a join button.
Host controls, so the guest never has to fiddle
Everything that would otherwise be an awkward instruction to a stranger is a control on your side of the room.
Their name, spelled right
Rename anyone and set a subtitle, whether that’s a role, a company or a book title, without asking them to retype what they typed.
Spotlight
Put them full-frame on the answer that matters, then come back to both of you. One click, mid-sentence, nothing restarts.
Mirror their camera
Some people are unsettled by seeing themselves un-mirrored. Flip it for them and say nothing about it.
A private line
Studio chat stays in the room. Send a link or a “two more minutes” without it reaching the recording.
Their screen, on stage
If they want to show something, a shared screen is a source you can lay out beside them, not a mode that swallows the picture.
Rejoin, not restart
If their tab dies, they come back on the same devices and the session continues. There is no “can you send the link again”.
Forty-five minutes, five moves
- 1
Send the link the day before
Along with one line: open it in a browser on a laptop, ideally with headphones. That’s the entire technical brief you owe them.
- 2
Meet in the green room
Join five minutes early. They check their devices privately, you check the light and the framing, and you get the small talk out of the way before anything is rolling.
- 3
Press Record, on purpose
Nothing captures itself here. You press Record, and every press is a new take, so a bad opening question is simply a second take rather than a thing to fix later.
- 4
Cut between two shots
Run side-by-side for the conversation and spotlight for the answer you want to land. Drop their lower-third in when they say something worth attributing, and take it off again a few seconds later.
- 5
End the take and send them something
You get separate 1080p files for both of you. They get a clip of themselves, which is the only thank-you note a guest actually forwards.
Their name and title on screen, in your colours
A lower-third is the cheapest credibility in video. It tells the viewer who this person is without your guest having to introduce themselves twice, and it makes a laptop conversation look like a booked segment.
Five overlay types: lower-thirds, banners, title cards, pull-quotes and social handles. Each one sits at any of nine positions in three sizes, over your background and accent colour with your logo in the corner you choose. Edits reach the picture in about a second, so you can put one up while they’re mid-answer and take it down before they finish.
- Seven layouts. Side-by-side, spotlight, picture-in-picture, grid, sidebar, filmstrip and screen share, switched live
- Their handle on screen when you ask where people can find them
- A pull-quote lifted out of the answer they just gave
An interview shot with a lower-third naming the guest and their title, in the show’s accent colour.
The picture can wobble. The recording doesn’t.
Their camera and microphone are captured at full quality on their own machine, so the connection only ever affects what you see live, not what you keep. Video adapts down instead of freezing, dropped guests reconnect on their own, and the upload resumes from wherever it stopped. You will notice the wobble. The edit won’t.
What guests ask
Do they need to make an account?
No. They open the link, allow the camera and microphone, and they’re in. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and no app that opens instead of the browser.
What do I tell a guest who isn’t technical?
One sentence: open this link in your browser on a laptop, with headphones if you have them. The green room handles the rest, and anything that still needs fixing, whether that’s their name, their subtitle, a mirrored camera or the wrong microphone, you can fix from your side.
Their internet is genuinely bad. Is the interview a write-off?
The live picture will suffer and there is no honest way around that. The recording won’t: it’s captured on their machine at full quality and uploaded in the background, with the upload resuming after any drop. Bad wifi costs you a rough conversation, not a lost take.
Can I put their name and title on screen without pausing?
Yes. Overlays are live state rather than a scene you rebuild, so a lower-third goes up and comes down mid-answer, and the change reaches the recording and any live viewers in about a second.
Can I stream the interview live as well as record it?
Yes, if you create the session as a live one. Then you can point it at YouTube, any RTMP host, an embed on your own site, or all of them at once. Recording during the broadcast is a separate toggle you tick yourself.
Send the link. We’ll handle the awkward part.
We’re in private beta and it’s free while we are. Leave your email and we’ll open a room you can send a stranger to.