For speakers

“Any questions?” Then silence. Then you walk off.

For founders, executives, and marketing leaders who speak — keynotes, panels, all-hands.

Where the questions go

You finished. Three hands went up.
Two hundred didn't.

The talk landed. The conversation didn't.

Some people don't ask in public.

Some have a question that takes longer than the Q&A allows.

Some are still processing what you said.

Some thought of the question on the drive home.

Some asked their colleague instead. Or Reddit. Or ChatGPT.

Where the talk actually lives

The questions don't end at Q&A.
They start there.

The hallway, the hotel bar, the train home, the next morning's group chat. People keep talking about what you said — to each other, to ChatGPT, to whoever happens to be nearby. The conversation continues. You just don't see it.

The walk to the next session

They mention something you said to a colleague. The colleague pushes back. Now there's a counter-argument forming you didn't get to address.

The drive home

Two hours of dead time. They have a specific question that came to them mid-talk. By the time they're home, the question has become an objection.

The next morning's Slack

They post in their team's channel: "so I saw this talk yesterday — what do you all think about [your idea]?" Their team forms an opinion without you in the room.

The follow-up search

They search for your name. They find your old work. They find your competitor's response. They don't find what you actually said yesterday.

How it works for speakers

One QR. During and after your talk.

Not a chatbot. A real-time conversation trained on your talk, your point of view, your work. Captures the questions that never get asked — and the ones that come up later.

1
On the slide

A QR code on your opening slide, your closing slide, and optionally every slide. Audiences scan when a question forms — not when Q&A starts. No app. No form.

No app. No form. Just a conversation.
2
During the talk

In the room, while you're still on stage, people are typing or asking by voice. The conversation runs in your voice — trained on your topic, your data, your perspective.

Most audiences won't pull out phones mid-talk. The ones with the real questions will.

3
After the talk

The talk ends. You walk off. The conversation doesn't. People keep asking — in the hallway, on the way to the next session, on the train home, three days later. The link stays live.

4
The read — for you

The next morning: every question your audience actually had. What landed. What confused. Top themes. Top objections. Quotes you can use for your next post, your next deck, or to defend the talk against critics.

5
Routed

People who want to follow up — to your calendar, to your team, to a longer piece of content, to your book or your company. Every conversation ends with a deliberate next step.

And if they need to talk to your team — the handoff comes with a brief.

Always with a human in the loop — never a dead end.

Two truths about your audience.

Some people don't ask in public.
Some people don't ask at all — until later.

inqa serves both.

What you'll know

The read on your talk
you've never had.

Not a vanity dashboard. The read on your audience that lets you know exactly what landed — and what to change for the next talk, the next deck, the next conference.

What you might see, depending on the talk you give.

Top questions from your audience
  • "How do you actually do the thing you talked about?" 84
  • "What about [edge case]?" 62
  • "Where do I start?" 41
  • "How does this work for my situation?" 33
Top themes
Practical application38%
Skepticism / pushback22%
Deeper context wanted18%
Connection to existing work14%
Who showed up
  • Director and above 41%
  • Individual contributor 28%
  • Founder / CEO 14%
  • Unidentified 17%
Where you lost them
Slide 14

The two minutes around slide 14 generated the most "I'm not sure I followed" signals. Worth reviewing.

Quotes you can use
"This actually changes how I think about [topic]."
Director, healthcare
"I want to send this to my whole team."
VP Engineering, fintech

Three more reactions worth pulling into your next deck or post.

Conversion to next step
  • Asked for a meeting 14%
  • Downloaded the deck 22%
  • Bought the book 9%
  • Into nurture with follow-up 55%
The whole point

Change how someone thinks about something —

before others do.

Get in touch

Tell us about your next talk.

What's the talk? Who's the audience? We'll show you exactly what inqa would look like running during it — what the conversation captures, how it routes, what you'd know the next morning.

We're working with our first cohort of customers now — happy to talk about being in it.

Thanks — we'll be in touch shortly.

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