Stop scheduling meetings just to walk through a deck
Record narrated slide walkthroughs with camera overlay, share a single link, and collect timestamped feedback from every stakeholder. Your presentation works while you sleep.
more engagement vs static decks
avg watch time
more feedback collected
teams presenting async
Market Opportunity
$4.2B
Total addressable market by 2027
Chapters
Sarah at 2:45 — Can we expand on the competitive landscape here?
Six presentation scenarios that work better async
From investor pitches to internal training, async video presentations give your audience more flexibility and give you better data on who actually engaged.
Narrated Deck Walkthroughs
A slide deck sent without narration loses half its meaning. The context, the emphasis, the story behind each slide — all of it disappears when you just attach a PDF. Record yourself presenting your deck and share a single link. Viewers hear your thinking, see your screen, and follow along exactly as if they were sitting in the room with you. The difference in comprehension and engagement is significant.
Internal Project Pitches
Proposing a new initiative should not require fighting for 30 minutes of a VP's calendar. Record your pitch, walk through your reasoning and evidence, anticipate the obvious objections, and share it with every decision-maker simultaneously. They watch when it fits their schedule, think before responding, and come back to specific moments. You get more thoughtful input than any live meeting produces.
Executive Updates and OKR Reviews
Replace the 30-minute all-hands with a concise recorded presentation. Leadership watches on their own time, comments at specific timestamps, and the recording becomes a permanent searchable artifact. Future team members can watch the Q3 strategy review from two years ago and understand exactly what the company was thinking and why. Text-only meeting notes never capture that.
On-Demand Product Demos
A live product demo requires coordinating schedules across time zones, setting up screen share, and hoping nothing breaks during the call. A recorded demo is available 24 hours a day, plays back perfectly every time, and can be personalized for different audience segments without additional recording time. Prospects watch it when they are actually ready to evaluate your product, not when a calendar slot happened to be free.
Training and Onboarding Sessions
Every time a new team member joins, someone has to deliver the same onboarding presentation again. Record it once with chapter markers for each topic, share the link in the onboarding doc, and let new hires work through it at their own pace. They pause when they need to think, rewind when they miss something, and jump to the sections most relevant to their role. You free up senior team members and improve the new hire experience simultaneously.
Investor and Board Pitches
Investors see hundreds of decks. A narrated video walkthrough of your pitch immediately sets you apart from every founder who sent over a silent PDF. Walk them through your story, your metrics, and your ask with the conviction and nuance that bullet points cannot carry. Board members can review your quarterly update before the meeting, arrive informed, and use live time for actual discussion instead of slide reading.
Why live presentation meetings are the wrong default
Scheduling a meeting to walk someone through a deck introduces unnecessary friction for both sides. Most of that friction disappears when you move the presentation to video.
- Find 60 minutes that works across 4+ calendars in different time zones
- Participants arrive without context and spend the first 10 minutes just getting oriented
- Presentation moves at the speed of the presenter, not the audience
- Viewers cannot pause to think or rewind when they miss something important
- No record of who attended, how engaged they were, or what they focused on
- Feedback is verbal and real-time, often shallow because people have not had time to think
- Repeat the same presentation for each stakeholder group separately
- Record once, share a link to every stakeholder simultaneously with no scheduling
- Viewers watch with full context from the narration and can look up anything they need first
- Every viewer pauses, rewinds, and watches chapters in the order most useful to them
- Analytics show exactly which parts of your presentation held attention and what they replayed
- Timestamped comments give you precise, thoughtful feedback on each specific moment
- The same recording reaches your entire audience, regardless of time zone or schedule
- The presentation lives in your library and can be updated or reshared at any time
2.3 hrs
saved per presentation
Average time saved when switching from a live walkthrough meeting to an async video for the same material.
4.1x
more viewers reached
Async presentations are shared forward by recipients significantly more often than live meeting invites are forwarded.
67%
of decisions made faster
Decision-makers who watch a narrated video before a review meeting arrive prepared and move to a decision in roughly half the usual time.
Everything you need for professional async presentations
EdithPro is purpose-built for presenting ideas clearly, collecting feedback efficiently, and understanding who actually engaged.
Slide and Camera Overlay
Record your screen and face simultaneously. A resizable camera bubble sits over your presentation so viewers see the slides and your expressions at the same time. Presence matters even in async video.
Chapter Markers
Name and timestamp each section of your presentation. Viewers jump directly to the part most relevant to them without scrubbing through the full recording. Long presentations become navigable in seconds.
Timestamped Feedback
Viewers leave comments at specific moments in your video. No more vague feedback like 'slide 4 needs work.' Every comment is pinned to the exact timestamp so you know precisely what to address.
Viewer Engagement Analytics
See who watched your presentation, when, for how long, and which sections they rewatched. Know whether your key stakeholders actually engaged before you follow up.
Password-Protected Sharing
Sensitive proposals, board decks, and investor pitches need controlled access. Set a password, configure link expiry, and decide whether viewers can download the recording.
View Notification Alerts
Get notified the moment a stakeholder watches your presentation. Know when to follow up, who has seen it and who has not, and how deeply each viewer engaged with your content.
Your presentation keeps working after you hit stop
EdithPro AI transcribes your recording and generates six content types from a single walkthrough. Speaker notes, follow-up emails, action item lists, and executive summaries appear automatically so post-presentation work takes minutes instead of hours.
Hi team,
Thanks for watching the Q3 strategy walkthrough. Here is a quick summary of the key points and what I need from each of you:
Full recording: edithpro.app/p/q3-strategy
"I used to schedule a 45-minute meeting every time I needed to walk our board through a strategy update. Now I record a 10-minute narrated deck, share it two days before the board meeting, and people arrive having already watched it. The quality of our discussions went up immediately because everyone came prepared."
James L.
CEO, Series B SaaS company
Every role that presents ideas benefits from async video
Async presentations are not just for remote teams. They improve how any team communicates complex ideas to busy stakeholders who cannot always be in the same room at the same time.
Product Managers
Share roadmap updates, spec walkthroughs, and sprint reviews with engineering, design, and leadership without booking a room. Every stakeholder gets the same clear picture at the same time.
Founders and Executives
Share strategy updates, company all-hands content, and investor materials as narrated videos. Your message lands with full nuance even when you cannot be in the room.
Sales Engineers
Record custom product demos tailored to each prospect's use case. Send them before a discovery call and arrive to a conversation with someone already sold on the core value.
Designers
Walk stakeholders through design rationale, user research findings, and prototype walkthroughs. Collect timestamped visual feedback at each specific moment rather than vague general notes.
Consultants and Agencies
Deliver client presentations, recommendations, and project updates as narrated walkthroughs. Clients replay sections they need to share with their own internal teams.
Educators and Trainers
Build structured course content and training libraries that learners work through at their own pace. Chapter markers let people jump to the concepts they need to review.
Questions about async presentations
Common questions from teams switching from live meeting presentations to async video.
What types of presentations work best with EdithPro?
Any presentation where context and narration matter works well. Strategy decks, product demos, investor pitches, project updates, training sessions, and onboarding walkthroughs are all common use cases. If you have ever thought 'this deck really needs someone to walk you through it,' that is exactly the scenario EdithPro is built for.
Can viewers leave comments on specific moments in the video?
Yes. Viewers click anywhere on the timeline to drop a timestamped comment. The comment is permanently linked to that moment so you can jump directly to it when reviewing feedback. This is far more useful than a general comment on the video because you know exactly which slide or section the feedback refers to.
Do viewers need to create an account to watch a presentation?
No. Anyone with the link can watch your presentation in any browser without an account or app install. For private presentations, you can add optional password protection. The viewing experience is frictionless by design so your audience actually watches rather than abandoning at a sign-up form.
How do chapter markers work?
While recording or after the fact, you add named markers at specific timestamps. These appear as a clickable table of contents beside the video player. Viewers see the full structure of your presentation before watching and can jump to any section directly. For a 20-minute executive briefing, this means a board member who only has 5 minutes can immediately find the section most relevant to them.
Can I see who watched my presentation and for how long?
Yes. The analytics panel shows every viewer, when they watched, how long they watched, and which sections they replayed. You also receive a notification when someone opens your video for the first time. This data tells you whether a stakeholder actually reviewed your proposal before a decision meeting, which is information you almost never have when sharing decks by email.
How does the camera overlay work during recording?
When you start recording your screen, EdithPro activates your webcam and displays it as a resizable bubble in the corner of your screen. The position and size are adjustable. Some presenters prefer a small bubble in the corner while others make it larger for a more conversational feel. You can also turn the camera off entirely and record screen-plus-audio only.
Can I record over an existing slide deck without re-recording the whole thing?
Yes. EdithPro includes trimming tools and the ability to re-record specific segments. If you misspoke on slide 7 or need to update a number, you trim and re-record just that section without touching the rest of the presentation. This is much faster than starting over when minor corrections are needed.
How does AI help after I finish recording a presentation?
EdithPro AI transcribes your recording and then generates several outputs from the content: a full set of speaker notes, a formatted meeting summary, a follow-up email draft, a list of action items mentioned in the video, and a short TL;DR summary for viewers who want the highlights before watching. These outputs save significant post-presentation work and ensure your key points do not get lost.
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