Designed by L&D practitioners and facilitators
How Praxis compares
Praxis is designed by people who have spent decades in learning and development and facilitation, for the way you actually run a session, and for what has to happen after it.
Praxis starts where a question on the screen ends: people working with each other, a report your sponsor can read the same afternoon, and weeks of practice drafted from what the room said. Here is how that stacks up against Mentimeter, AhaSlides and Kahoot.
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Everything you use them for, plus the part they miss: each other.
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One tool, not two.
The polls, word clouds and Q and A you run in Mentimeter, and game moments like Survey Says, Two Truths and Tug of War, in one session with one join code.
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People to people, not people to a screen.
Polls and quizzes connect each person to a screen. Praxis is the spark that connects people to each other: it pairs them up by how they answered, sorts them into groups and gets them talking. That’s where the learning happens.
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Learning that doesn’t stop when the session does.
The same afternoon, your leadership gets a report of what people said. Then you send short follow-ups over the next few weeks, built on their own answers.
The benefit of going with Praxis
What you get, side by side.
We read their websites so you don’t have to. Everything about the other tools comes straight from their own pages.
| What you get | Praxis Live | Mentimeter | AhaSlides | Kahoot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People talk to each other, not just to the screenFind Your Match pairs people by how they answered and tells both of them why. Small Talks sorts the room into groups by what it thinks. | Praxis Live: Built in | No: Not found | No: Not found | No: Not found |
| The facilitation methods you already useNominal Group Technique, Dot Vote, What, So What, Now What, table discussions and Before and After, built in. | Praxis Live: Built in | Partly: Ranking and a 2 by 2 grid | Partly: Brainstorm with voting | Partly: Brainstorm with voting |
| Team building that runs itselfClassroom 404, Story Relay, Grid Logic, The Bigger Picture and Hot Seat. Make a few choices, and the room needs only their phones. | Praxis Live: Built in | Partly: Quiz competitions | Partly: Team quizzes | Partly: Team quizzes |
| A report your sponsor reads the same afternoonPraxis drafts it from what the room said: what to work on next, then themes and quotes, no names. You approve it, then share one link. | Praxis Live: Built in | Partly: AI insights and exports | Partly: Shareable report and Ask AI | Partly: Reports, fuller on paid plans |
| The weeks after, drafted from what the room saidPraxis Journeys: two or three weeks of short Practice sessions, with a recall, a journal prompt, a challenge and the cohort, and an email when each is ready. | Praxis Live: Built in | No: Listed as coming soon | No: Self-paced mode instead | No: Separate courses instead |
| A plan for when the internet failsBackup PowerPoint turns the session into a deck that needs no internet: every activity becomes something the room does with hands, pens or voices. | Praxis Live: Built in | Partly: Suggests a PDF export | No: Not found | No: Not found |
| The basics, which all four have | ||||
| Polls, word clouds, Q and AMore than 35 kinds of activity in all. | Praxis Live: Built in | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes | Yes: Word clouds and Q and A on paid plans |
| No app to downloadPeople join in any browser with a QR code or a short code. | Praxis Live: Built in | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| Bring your own slidesPowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote, with the activities between the slides. | Praxis Live: Built in | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
Who designed it
Made by people who run the rooms.
Praxis is designed by people who have spent decades leading learning and development and facilitating rooms for clients. That’s why the methods built in are the ones facilitators already trust, and why the work doesn’t stop when the session does.
Co-founded in 2023 by Mike Martin, Scott Winter and Brad, who builds the software. About us ›
Mike Martin
30 years in learning, including Chief Learning Officer at Litmos, and an instructor at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education.
Scott Winter
Four decades in leadership training, organizational development and facilitation, for clients across the US and abroad.
Journeys lets us keep the process going after the live session ends. I don’t feel the pressure to squeeze everything into our time together.
John LoseyFounding Member, The Facilitators’ Guildfacilitatorsguild.com ›Every row, with sources
Each tool has its own page: the full side-by-side, and a link to every page of theirs we read.
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