Introducing the Toolbox: Six Little Things That Make Sessions Run Smoother
The tools we kept reaching for during sessions — raise hand, vibe checks, timers, polls, reactions, and shared links — now built in.
You know the moment. Three people start talking at once, the host says "no, you go," everyone laughs nervously, and then nobody talks. Or someone drops a really important link in chat and it's gone forever by the time anyone scrolls back. Or a session ends and you genuinely don't know if anyone enjoyed it.
These are the tiny frictions that pile up in remote sessions. They're not dealbreakers, but you feel them. So we built the Toolbox: six small things that sit quietly inside every call and come out when you need them. Available in every session, starting right now.
Opens sessions with a vibe check. One tap, four emoji — happy, fine, low, rough. Anonymous counts only, so people are actually honest. It auto-closes after thirty seconds so you're not staring at the screen waiting. You learn more about the room in those thirty seconds than you would in five minutes of "how's everyone doing today?"
Then someone has a thought. Instead of unmuting and crashing into whoever's already mid-sentence, they tap the raise hand button. A numbered badge appears next to their name — 1, 2, 3 — so the host knows exactly who's next and in what order. Hands renumber as people drop. The host gets a soft chime when the queue starts so they don't miss the first one. Suddenly you don't need to play traffic cop anymore.
Halfway through, the host wants to share a doc. Pasting a link in chat is a coin flip on whether anyone sees it. With Push Link, the URL appears as a card right in the call window with a one-tap Open button. Nothing pops up automatically — participants stay in control of their own browser — but everyone sees the same thing at the same time. When you're done, the host taps X and it's gone for everyone.
Time for a breakout, or a lightning round, or a stand-up. Drop a Timer. Everyone sees the same countdown — no more "wait, mine says forty seconds, what does yours say?" Need another minute? Add it on the fly. Pause it if a tangent gets good.
Quick decision needed. Custom question, custom options, live bars filling in as votes land. Use it for the real things ("which direction are we going on this?") or the silly things ("pizza or sushi for the Friday lunch?"). When you're ready, the host shows results and the team moves on. Three minutes instead of fifteen.
And when something good happens — a great idea, a teammate's win, a perfectly chaotic answer — Reactions. Floating emoji drift up across the call so cheers feel collective instead of one polite clap from someone who forgot to mute. In a real session you can hit keys 0–9 to fire reactions instantly, which is more fun than it has any right to be.
That's it. Six tools. Each one removes a specific small annoyance, and together they make a session feel less like a Zoom call and more like a real room where things happen.
We're going to keep adding to the Toolbox over time — there are a few more facilitator-favorites we want in there. If there's something you keep wishing you had during your own sessions, we genuinely want to hear about it.
Everything in the Toolbox is included on every plan, with live video built in, from $8/month per host. Try it with your team — or poke around the Toolbox page first if you want to see each tool in action.