Capabilities

Everything the board does, and nothing it pretends to.

One build, nine capability areas, five platforms. The panel is the flagship surface, not the boundary — every behaviour below is in the shipping product on all of them, written the way it actually works in a room so your technical team can check us on it.

01 — Canvas & ink

An infinite chalk field, three inks deep.

The board is always light and the chrome is always dark, so a room reads the work and not the interface. Slate, amber and red on chalk — a closed palette chosen for distance legibility, with tints for fills and nothing else. Pan and zoom are free; line weight never wobbles.

CHALK FIELD · #F4F1E8
INK
WIDTH
  • Pen, highlighter, chalk nib and eraser
  • Highlighter draws at twice the line, at 30% ink
  • Pressure honoured where the panel reports it
  • Eraser grows while held; single touch only
02 — Instruments

Drafting tools you can shove out of the way.

Ruler, set square, protractor and compass are objects on the canvas, not dialogs. Drag them where the hand is, draw along the edge, flick them off the board when the moment passes. They live on the display and are never saved into anyone’s board.

Ruler

Straight lines and measured marks, rotatable to any angle.

Set square

Right angles and 45° work without measuring anything.

Protractor

Angles read out live as the arm swings.

Compass

Circles and arcs at a fixed radius, drawn by hand.

03 — Objects

Shapes, notes, text, connectors.

Pickers place an object and hand straight back to Select, so the next stroke never waits for a mode change. Sticky notes take typing the moment they land. Connectors follow the shapes they join. Selection chrome stays the same size at any zoom, so a handle is always a handle.

Type the moment it lands — no dialog, no cursor hunt.

Shape
STICKY · SHAPE
CONNECTORS FOLLOW THE SHAPES
04 — Frames & present

A running order, drawn on the board.

Draw a frame around anything and name it. Present mode hides every control and steps the room through the frames in order, the camera moving on the brand’s 220ms ease. Nothing is exported and nothing is converted — the board itself is the deck.

2 / 3
05 — Ask Chalktap

The assistant that asks permission.

This is the AI part, and it is deliberately unexciting: circle something, ask a question, get a proposal anchored where you asked. Nothing lands on the board until a human accepts it, nothing is drawn outside a proposal, and the assistant cannot act on its own.

STEP 01
Circle it

A transient loop, drawn in the assistant’s own dashed line — never ink, never saved.

PROPOSED

3 × 24 = 72
Because 3 × 20 = 60 and 3 × 4 = 12.

ACCEPTREDODISMISS
STEP 02
Read the proposal

Marked, anchored, and outside the board’s content until someone says yes.

STEP 03
Accept, and it’s yours

It becomes ordinary board content — editable, erasable, with no permanent badge.

Explain this
In language the room already understands.
Solve step by step
Worked out in place, one line at a time.
Label this sketch
Labels proposed against what’s drawn.
Practice questions
Built from the work already on the board.

Dictate a prompt instead of typing on a wall. Speech is turned into text and then discarded — no audio is stored.

NO CAMERA · NO RECORDING
06 — Collaboration

Join by scanning, not by typing.

A code on the wall and a phone camera is the whole sign-in. Nobody types a password in front of an audience, and nobody needs an account to draw on the board for twenty minutes. Presence is shown as a count you can read from the back of the room.

JOIN THIS BOARD
4 7 K P

Scan, or type the code at chalktap.com/join.

7 HERE
  • Everyone draws at once; strokes appear as they happen
  • The companion app is a second surface, not a remote control
  • Offline switches the board to Pan and protects the work
  • Board library keeps every session, searchable and duplicable
07 — Replay

Play the session back, stroke by stroke.

Replay reconstructs a session from the board’s own stroke history — silent by default, with no camera and no room audio unless someone deliberately turns narration on. The camera follows the writing; scrub, or run it at four times speed.

04:12 / 11:38
Silent by default
Strokes only. Nobody is filmed, ever.
Narration is opt-in
Voice from the display’s own microphone, announced before it starts.
Kept with the board
Delete the replay and the board keeps everything.
08 — Rooms

The people who aren’t in the room.

Rooms puts remote participants in a rail beside the canvas — video where it’s wanted, a shared screen where it’s needed, labelled cursors so it’s obvious who drew what. Same board, same tools, boardroom vocabulary.

IN THIS ROOM
Priya · presenting
Marcus
Dana
Share a screen
09 — Platforms

Five builds, one board format.

The panel build is the flagship, not the boundary. A board opened on a laptop, in a browser or on a phone is the same board, with the same chrome laws at every width — which is why work started on a wall carries on at a desk without an export step.

Panel — Android
The wall build. Sideload the APK or preload it at the factory.
ANDROID 11+
Windows
For prep at a desk and for panels running Windows.
WINDOWS 10+
macOS
Same board, same instruments, trackpad-aware.
MACOS 13+
Web
Nothing to install — useful for guests and for IT trials.
CHROMIUM · SAFARI
Companion
Phone and tablet: join a board, draw, hand things to the wall.
iOS · ANDROID

See it on a real panel.

We’ll run the board the way your customers will: standing up, at distance, with a room watching.