Today I’m giving you, for free, a teleprompter your AI can talk to. It took me a weekend, it works in your browser, and it will change your life. That last part is legally a “projection.”
Here’s the pitch. You ask Claude, ChatGPT or Grok to write you a script. A few seconds later, that script is sitting on your teleprompter, ready to go. You start talking, and the words scroll along with your voice like a well-trained golden retriever. You don’t copy or paste anything. You don’t email yourself. You don’t open a single file called script_FINAL_v3_ACTUALFINAL.docx.
It’s called Prompter. It’s free, there’s no sign-up, and it’s up and running right now.
The Problem: Teleprompter Software Was Designed by Ancient Monks
I make a lot of video. This means I spend a lot of time staring into a camera lens while trying to look like a relaxed, confident human being. I am neither of those things.
So I use a teleprompter. And for years, teleprompter software has been, how do I put this, a lot. You open it, you hunt for the import button, and you paste in your script. Then you discover the formatting has exploded, so you fix the formatting, and then you discover you’re reading last week’s version. By the time you’re ready to record, your enthusiasm has left the building and taken your energy with it.
Then AI came along and things got weirder. These days my AI writes a lovely script in about four seconds. Getting that script into my teleprompter still takes eleven minutes. My AI can write a sonnet about cheese in the time it takes my teleprompter app to find its own settings menu.
Elgato and the rest are perfectly nice products, but they live on an island. You can’t send them anything. They have no idea AI exists. They’re like a houseguest who has been in your spare room since 2014 and still thinks the iPhone is a passing fad.
And here’s what really got me. I have a Grok bot that does research and writes scripts all day long. It’s tireless. It never asks for a raise. But when it finished a script, it had nowhere to put it. It was like a waiter carrying your soup around the restaurant forever, because nobody built a table.
So I built the table.
The Solution: A Teleprompter With a Mailbox
Prompter gives you a private inbox. You hook your AI up to it once, which takes about thirty seconds, and from then on you just ask:
“Write me a 60-second intro for this week’s video and put it on my prompter.”
And it does. The script shows up on your screen. You hit Listen and start reading, and Prompter follows your voice, which means:
- Pause to scratch your nose, and it waits.
- Ad-lib a joke, and it waits. It’s very patient.
- Skip a line, and it catches up.
- Want a steady scroll instead? Set the speed and go.
If you hate the second paragraph, you don’t fix it yourself like some kind of medieval scribe. You tell your AI “make the second paragraph punchier,” and it updates the script right there on your prompter.
It also does all the things a teleprompter should do. You get big readable text, themes, fonts, a mirror mode for those glass rigs that make you look like a news anchor, and your choice of microphone. It works on your laptop, tablet or phone.
The Bonus Round: It Records, Too
This part is an add-on, but I’m quite pleased with it. Prompter can turn on your camera and record you while you read. When you trip over a word, which I do roughly every nine seconds, you press X to mark the flub. You star the good takes. Then your AI can pick up the recording, see exactly where you messed up, and start editing.
So the whole loop now looks like this:
- My Grok bot researches and writes the script.
- The script lands on Prompter.
- I read it, and the text follows me.
- Claude picks up the take and edits it.
My only job is to show up and say the words, which, frankly, is the job I wanted all along.
Try It
It’s free. There’s no account, no email and no “start your 14-day trial.” You click one button and get your own private prompter.
Connect your AI, ask for a script, and watch it show up. If you’ve ever wondered why your AI and your teleprompter weren’t on speaking terms, they are now.
You’re welcome. Please don’t tell Elgato.
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