Core
Signal Capture
Audience drops insights, risks, actions and shoutouts — typed, not just an undifferentiated wall of questions.
New · AI-native audience engagement
Surface what matters from every room.
Salient is Slido with a brain. Q&A, polls and live walls — plus AI that clusters themes, drafts an executive brief, and tells the host what to ask next. Modular add-ons for registration, dietary, menus, and on-site activities.
No credit card. 14-day trial of every module. Cancel anytime.
100×
faster theming than reading transcripts
60s
from event close to exec brief in your inbox
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DM the host required — questions get routed
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attendees on every paid plan
Built for the room — proven at scale🏆 Live in production at a recent 44-person strategy offsite · 0 outages · 60-second exec brief
Core · ships with every plan
Engagement plus an AI synthesis layer.
Other tools collect. Salient also reads, clusters and summarises — so the work after the event is already done.
Core
Q&A
Classic upvoted Q&A. Mods can answer, hide, or route to a panel — no DMs needed.
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Live Wall
Real-time wall of everything coming in, with a separate projector / TV mode for the big screen.
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Polls & Quizzes
Multiple choice, rating, word cloud — the lot. Built in, no add-on needed.
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AI Theme Discovery
Cluster hundreds of signals into themes in seconds. Surfaces what people actually care about.
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AI Executive Brief
One-page summary at the end of the event — themes, outcomes, owners. Sent to your inbox, ready to share.
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Moderator Card
Live AI assistant for the host: top theme right now, recommended next question, tone read.
The synthesis layer
Stop reading 400 sticky notes.
Other tools hand you a CSV at the end. Salient hands you the three themes you should be acting on, the duplicate questions clustered together, and a one-page brief ready to forward to your exec team — all generated by Claude.
- Theme discovery: clusters hundreds of inputs into the top 5 things people are actually saying.
- Executive brief: one-pager with themes, signals, action items and owner suggestions.
- Duplicate detection: 14 versions of the same question merge into one.
- Moderator card: live AI panel for the host — top theme right now, what to ask next.
Executive BriefGenerated · 60s
FY27 Strategy Offsite · Top themes
- Data quality is the real blocker (14 signals)Cross-team consensus that fixing dbt freshness SLAs unblocks 3 other workstreams.
- AI agents need a security playbook (9 signals)Multiple risks raised across customer service automations.
- Customer churn is upstream of pricing (6 signals)Pattern across product, support and member voice.
Drafted by Claude · ready to copy to email
Add-ons · opt in per event
Most events don't serve lunch. Yours might.
Salient stays out of your way by default. Turn on the modules you actually need — they wire themselves in. Add a menu and Salient auto-asks for dietary at registration, then prints a pickup table per dish.
Add-on
Registration
Pre-event sign-up form. Capture name, team, role, contact, custom fields. QR code on the day.
Add-on
Dietary
Collect allergies and preferences at registration. Surfaces a catering callout sheet to your kitchen team.
Add-on
Menu & Tables
Add a menu and we auto-enable per-burger / per-dish table numbers. Dietary orders flagged as server-delivered.
Add-on
Activity Tracker (Golf)
Driving range scoreboard + 18-hole putt-putt with live leaderboards. Same engine generalises to other activities.
Add-on
Leaderboards
Generic leaderboards for any activity — trivia, scavenger hunts, team challenges.
Add-on
Networking
Attendees opt in to a directory. Filter by team, interest, or table. Coming soon.
Add-on
Agenda
Day-of agenda with session voting and feedback per slot. Coming soon.
Smart wiring. Enable Menu → dietary toggle appears in Registration → catering callout sheet auto-generates with table numbers + server-delivered tags. No spreadsheets, no Slack threads.
Side by side
Salient does what Slido does. And then keeps going.
Every Slido primitive ships with Salient — and the AI layer on top is the new floor, not a paid extra.
Full comparison| Capability | Salient | Others |
|---|---|---|
| Live Q&A with upvotes | ||
| Polls, ratings, word clouds | ||
| Live wall + projector mode | Limited | |
| AI theme discovery across all inputs | — | |
| Auto-generated executive brief | — | |
| AI moderator card during the event | — | |
| Typed signals (insight / risk / action / shoutout) | — | |
| Registration + dietary + menu add-ons | — | |
| Activity leaderboards (golf, trivia, etc.) | — | |
| Voice input on mobile | — |
Your next offsite shouldn't need a wiki page to debrief.
Turn on Salient. Capture every signal. Walk out with a brief.