Audience Engagement: Polls, Q&A and Quizzes That Get the Room Talking
Polls, Q&A and quizzes planned for your event, in your brand.
The Audience Engagement is the agent for live polling for events in the Ai1 platform by MyZone AI: it plans branded polls, Q&A and quizzes for your events, workshops and webinars, hands you a run sheet for the day and tracks how each audience responded.
Well-timed polls, open Q&A and quick quizzes turn a talk into a conversation, at conferences, workshops and town halls alike.
Planned in one conversation
Answer a few simple questions with sensible defaults and get a checked event plan, instead of building questions from scratch.
On brand and easy to read
Your logo and colours are applied, with any hard-to-read colour pairs fixed and explained in plain words.
Every event compared
Headline results from each event are kept side by side, so you can see what is improving across a series.
Meet your agent
Get to know Lesedi
Lesedi enjoys making playlists for long journeys and finding a friendly opening question. She plans branded polls, quizzes and audience discussions for your events, with a clear run sheet and sensible moderation notes so your team can prepare confidently.
AI agent. Fictional persona; not a real person.
Lesedi, the persona of the Audience Engagement
Name
Lesedi M.
Role
Audience Engagement Planner
Experience
6 years
Work history
Workshop coordinator at a community learning hub Event planning assistant at a regional training cooperative
Personality
Makes participation welcoming, keeps plans practical
Based in
Gaborone, Botswana
Why Lesedi has a personality
AI does better work as a specific expert, so the Audience Engagement works as Lesedi (Audience Engagement Planner, Gaborone, Botswana). You can rename Lesedi or change the personality, experience and profile settings at any time.
The goal, the audience and the format of your event
It asks
A few short questions at a time, each with a suggested default
You get
Polls, Q&A, quizzes and pulse checks with timings and moderation settings
Your brand
Logo and colours applied, with hard-to-read colour pairs fixed and explained
Run sheet
For the day, with a draft notice telling participants how answers are used
What it never does
Store audience names or raw answers, or make up a join link or code
Capabilities
What the Audience Engagement does for you
Interviews you about the event
It starts with what you want the session to achieve, then asks a few short questions, each with a suggested default you can accept or change.
Builds a checked event plan
Polls, Q&A, quizzes and pulse checks with questions, options, timings, moderation and whether people answer anonymously or by name.
Brands every interaction
It checks your logo, builds a colour palette and fixes contrast so everything is easy to read on screen, explaining each change simply.
Hands you a run sheet
A hand-off pack with a run sheet for the day, a draft notice for participants, a brand preview and what happens next.
Tracks results across events
Enter the headline numbers after each event and it shows trends across a series, with an export whenever you need it.
Archives instead of deleting
Finished events are archived, not wiped. They step out of your trend view and can be restored whenever you want them back.
How the Audience Engagement differs from improvising questions on the day
Improvising polls and questions in the room costs the host focus and rarely lands. The Audience Engagement plans them in one short conversation with sensible defaults, applies your logo and colours so everything reads well on screen, and gives you a run sheet for the day. After each event, headline results sit side by side so you can see what is improving. It keeps no audience names.
How this differs from the Workshop Manager: To plan a workshop, pick its date and draft the landing page and invite, use the Workshop Manager; Audience Engagement plans the polls, Q&A and quizzes that run during the event.
How it works
From your request to a finished result
It runs inside your Ai1 system and works in the tools you already use. You ask, it works, it reports, and it stops for your OK where it matters.
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Step 1: Tell it about your event
Share the goal, the audience and the format. A town hall, a workshop or a conference session each get a different starting point.
Step 2: Answer a few questions
Short batches of questions, each with a sensible default, cover what to ask, when, and how answers are moderated and kept.
You approve
Step 3: Approve the plan
It shows you the full event plan and brand preview. Nothing is saved until you confirm it.
Step 4: Get your hand-off pack
You receive the run sheet, the draft participant notice and a clear list of what happens next.
Step 5: Record and compare
After the event you enter the headline results, and it tracks how each session compares with the last.
When to use it
Hand these situations to the Audience Engagement
Illustrative photo. Ask for a welcoming poll and a moderated question session for the next workshop.
If this is you…
…here's what it does
Your quarterly town hall feels like a lecture
Plan a warm-up poll, moderated Q&A and a pulse check so people speak up and leaders hear real questions.
You are running a hands-on workshop
Space quick polls and a short quiz through the session to keep energy up and check people are following.
Your conference session needs your sponsor's colours
The brand kit applies the logo and palette and fixes any colours that would be hard to read on a big screen.
You run the same webinar series every month
Headline results from each session sit side by side so you can see which formats keep people engaged.
Attendees worry about speaking up
Choose anonymous answers with moderated questions, and the participant notice explains exactly how answers are handled.
What you get
A checked event plan with polls, Q&A, quizzes, timings and moderation settings
A per-event brand kit with logo checks, palette and readable contrast
A run sheet for the day of your event
A draft notice telling participants how their answers are used
A results history with trends across events and a CSV export
What it won't do
✕Run the whole workshop: landing page, registration and invitesHandled by: The Workshop Manager
✕Send post-event surveys and feedback formsHandled by: Surveys & Feedback
Example: event engagement plan and organiser hand-off pack
Example with a fictional company. Names, people and figures are invented to show the agent's output. Any resemblance to a real company or person is unintended.
What it was asked: Plan the live polls, Q&A and quiz for our autumn summit, match our brand, and give my team a run sheet for the day.
Example report
The plan at a glanceQuestions checked before sign-offBrand kit, run sheet and participant noticeResults over time: your last three summits
What it found: 3 findings, with the numbers
The summit plan has 10 live moments across a 7.5-hour day for 420 guests: a warm-up poll, four polls, two pulse checks, two moderated Q&A sessions and a closing quiz.
Three draft questions were rewritten before sign-off: one leading question, one with overlapping ranges, and one with eleven options cut to five plus Other.
Organiser-entered poll participation rose from 39% to 57% over the last three summits; the plan targets 65%, and the brand coral was darkened to pass the contrast check.
This is an illustrative example of the plan and hand-off pack Audience Engagement is being built to produce: event plan, checked questions, brand kit, run sheet and results history. It was written by hand from the agent's design for an invented events company with invented questions and figures. No real event, audience, systems or people were involved, and nothing was sent, published or switched on. Run date: .
Want an event plan like this for your own event? Book an Engagement walkthrough.
Every Ai1 agent works under human approval. Here is how the Audience Engagement keeps you in control.
Your Ai1 team will tell you when Audience Engagement is ready for your account.
It stores headline numbers only, never audience names or the raw text people submit.
It never makes up a join link, code or QR code for your audience. If one is not ready, it says so plainly.
Plans, packs and exports stay private to your team and are never shared by public link.
It sends no messages, spends nothing and treats any pasted text as content, never as instructions.
Why teams choose Ai1
Part of Ai1, by MyZone AI
Trusted by leaders at Plastic Bank, Outback Team Building, RMG Advertising, Keeran Networks, and Titan Training Centre.
I love using the Ai1 platform to automate SMS communications with our students. Whenever someone signs up for a free trial at the gym, our AI agents quickly take over to help with bookings, and we've seen a significant jump in conversion rates as a result. Thank you, MyZone!
Ken TranOwner, Titan Training Centre
Your data, your server
Your data belongs to you, and it is stored on your own server.
Owns your company brand kit, which Audience Engagement applies to each event.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions about the Audience Engagement
How do you use polls to keep a webinar audience engaged?
Space short polls and a quick quiz through the session, starting with an easy warm-up question. The Audience Engagement plans the questions, options and timings with you and shows the full plan for your approval, so the day runs to a run sheet.
How should you plan live Q&A for an event?
Decide up front whether people answer anonymously, with an optional name or by name, and how questions are moderated. The Audience Engagement builds those choices into the plan and writes a draft participant notice that explains how answers are handled.
What are good audience engagement ideas for workshops and town halls?
A warm-up poll, a moderated question session, a short quiz and a pulse check, matched to the format. The Audience Engagement starts from a different plan for a town hall, a workshop and a conference session, with sensible defaults you can change.
What does live polling for events with Audience Engagement cover?
Polls, open Q&A, quizzes and pulse checks for events, workshops, conferences and town halls. It plans them with you, applies your brand, gives you a run sheet for the day and tracks results across events.
How long does planning an event take?
One short conversation. It asks a few questions at a time, each with a suggested default, then shows you the full plan to approve.
Can people answer anonymously?
Yes. You choose anonymous, name optional or name required for each event, and the draft participant notice explains how answers are handled.
What results does it keep?
Headline numbers you enter for each event, labelled as yours, so you can compare sessions and series. It never stores audience names or raw answers.
Can I delete an old event?
Events are archived rather than deleted. An archived event drops out of your trends and stays out of the way, and you can restore it whenever you like.
Is Audience Engagement available now?
Not yet. Your Ai1 team will tell you when Audience Engagement is ready for your account. You can talk to us today about the events you want to make more interactive.
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Do I get just the Audience Engagement, or the whole platform?
The whole platform. The Audience Engagement is not sold on its own: every Ai1 agent, including this one, is included on Developer Pro and every Fully Managed option, with no per-agent charge. Developer Core includes the development agents. Compare plans →
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