How pre-recorded sessions work

Last updated 5 October 2026

Many sessions on Lobbies are a recorded presentation played at a scheduled time, so everyone in the room watches the same moment together. Here is exactly what is recorded and what is live.

Recorded

• The presenter's video and slides.
• Captions, which are generated from that recording.

Live

• Other guests in the room, their chat messages, reactions, raised hands and poll votes.
• Lobby, the AI assistant, which answers in real time and always says it is an AI.
• The host's team, who can message you, send resources and step in when you ask for a person.
• Offers and checkout: prices, seats and deadlines come from the host's live offer settings.

What Lobbies never fakes by default

• No invented attendee counts: the participant list shows real guests unless the host turns on AI persona chat.
• No invented purchases or "just bought" messages.
• No AI pretending to be a human: Lobby is labelled as AI everywhere it appears.

Optional host features

Hosts can switch on AI persona chat (scripted chat from a persona pool) and participant clips (short pre-recorded clips of past participants). Both are off by default and are set per host.

Questions

Ask Lobby in any room, or write to support@funnelingmedia.com.