Speechius's answer

It recognises the words you actually say and finds them in your script, rather than scrolling on a timer or reacting to how loudly and quickly you speak. That means it still follows you when you rephrase a sentence, skip a line or jump back.

Recognition runs entirely on your own device, and the window can be excluded from screen sharing and screen recording.

Roadmark's answer:

Roadmark treats a change of plan as something you record, not something you erase. Every roadmap tool lets you drag a milestone to a new date — and the old date, along with the reason it moved, quietly disappears. In Roadmark you branch the timeline instead: the original plan and the new one both stay on the board, side by side, and the branch carries a written decision explaining the change. Six months later the board answers "why did this slip?" on its own, without anyone digging through Slack.

The other half is that the board keeps itself current. It syncs daily from Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Asana, Notion, monday.com, Shortcut, Azure DevOps and YouTrack, so a link you shared with a customer or an investor doesn't silently stop being true.

Speechius's answer

Several teleprompters advertise voice-controlled scrolling, but most of them track your speaking pace and volume: they speed up when you speak faster and stop when you go quiet. They do not know which words you said, so going off-script or jumping back confuses them.

Speechius matches the recognised words against your script, which is the part that keeps working when you stop reading and start talking. It is also a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, and nothing is sent to a server.

Roadmark's answer:

Three concrete reasons.

Branching with a decision log. Productboard, Aha! and Roadmunk all show you the plan as it stands today. Roadmark shows you how it got there — every pivot kept, each with the reasoning attached.

Pricing that doesn't punish sharing. Pricing is flat per workspace, not per seat. Team includes unlimited members, and read-only viewers never consume a seat at all — so putting the roadmap in front of customers and stakeholders costs nothing extra.

Built to be shared outward. Public read-only links, password-protected and expiring links, an embeddable widget, and comments, reactions, and email follow for viewers without an account.

Where Roadmark is not the answer: if what you need is a feedback and prioritisation suite — collecting feature requests, scoring them, running customer boards — Productboard and ProdPad do that, and Roadmark does not.

Speechius's answer

People who speak to a camera or an audience while their script has to stay out of sight:

• Creators recording screencasts and tutorials
• Trainers and teachers running online classes and webinars
• Speakers rehearsing conference talks

Typically solo, on their own machine, without a studio setup.

Roadmark's answer:

Small product and engineering teams, roughly 2–20 people, where the plan changes often and someone outside the team keeps asking where things stand: founders reporting to investors, product managers at startups, agencies and consultancies reporting to clients, and indie makers running a public roadmap.

Speechius's answer

I record programming tutorials for my own YouTube channel, and neither option worked for me: reading from a script sounds read, and improvising means losing the thread until a ten-minute recording takes forty. Existing teleprompters scroll at a fixed pace, so I ended up chasing the text instead of explaining.

I built the thing I wanted, and it turned into my first own product, released in July 2026.

Roadmark's answer:

Roadmark was built in 2026 around one observation: roadmaps don't fail because teams plan badly; they fail because plans change and the tools only store the latest version. A date moves, the bar gets dragged, and the reason is gone. Six weeks later the board is no longer true, and nobody trusts it enough to look.

So the plan itself became the thing worth versioning. Keep the old timeline, branch to the new one, attach the decision to the branch. Sync, public links, and the decision feed all exist for the same purpose: to keep that history accurate without anyone maintaining it by hand.

Speechius's answer

• Flutter for the user interface on macOS and Windows
• Apple Speech for on-device recognition and window exclusion on macOS
• Vosk, bundled as a local model, for recognition on Windows
• Ed25519 signatures for licence keys, sold through Paddle
• Sparkle for updates on macOS, Sentry for crash reporting

Roadmark's answer:

Next.js 15 (App Router) and TypeScript on the front end, Tailwind CSS 4 for styling, Supabase (PostgreSQL, Realtime and Auth) as the backend, and Vercel for hosting. Tested with Vitest and Playwright.