How to Record Your Pitch

A Zoom recording is a recording. It captures your voice and your screen and your expressions and the slide that was up when you stumbled over the ask. That’s useful for watching yourself back — but it’s not a recording you’d send to an investor. The interface is visible. The lighting is whatever the lighting was. The takes don’t stack into a gallery you can review. There’s no chapter structure so an investor can jump to the team slide.

A pitch recording is a different artifact: your voice, your slides advancing in sync, your webcam if you want it — captured intentionally, multiple takes to choose from, the best one selected and published as something you’d stand behind. Here’s how to capture it.

Two ways to record

Option 1: Record during a practice session. This is the natural path. You’re already in the app, pitching with the voice coach, and you get to a run that feels right. Press Record — the session begins capturing from that moment. Finish the pitch, press stop. The take lands in your gallery alongside any others from the same session.

The advantage of recording during practice is that the pitch is warm. You’ve already run it once or twice, found the breaks, fixed them. The recording run isn’t the first time you’re saying it out loud; it’s the take after you know where it goes.

Option 2: Upload your own recording. If you already have a recording — from Zoom, Loom, your phone, a professional setup — you can upload it directly and skip in-app capture entirely. The uploaded recording becomes the source for your pitch page in the same way an in-app recording would. You get the gallery, the chapter structure, and the share links.

Use this path if you already have a recording you’re happy with, or if you prefer to record yourself separately rather than through the browser.

What gets captured

Voice and slides are always captured together — the recording stores which slide was visible at each moment of the audio. When an investor watches the pitch page, the slides advance with the recording, synced to where you were in the deck when you said each thing.

Webcam is optional and off by default. Turn it on with the camera icon in the practice header before you start recording. The webcam capture matters most for the moments investors look at you rather than the slides — the problem setup, the team section, the ask. If those slides don’t have much visual content, having the founder visible adds something. If you’d rather keep it voice-and-slides, that’s a complete recording.

Chapter structure is derived automatically from the slide sections. An investor watching your pitch page gets a TOC — Problem, Solution, Market, Team, Ask — and can jump directly to the chapter they care about. A VC who already has a thesis on the market doesn’t need to watch from the beginning; they click straight to Team. That’s a feature for the investor’s attention, not yours — but it means a complete recording gets watched more efficiently than a linear video file with no navigation.

The takes gallery

Every recording within a session lands in a takes gallery. You can have as many takes as you want — there’s no penalty for a run that didn’t come together.

Review them. Play back the takes you want to compare. What you’re looking for in the best take is not the most fluent one, necessarily — it’s the one where the pitch sounds like you. The version where you weren’t reading, weren’t nervous on the market-size number, didn’t rush through the ask because you were running out of time. The fluency usually improves across takes; the conviction sometimes peaks earlier.

Pay particular attention to the problem and ask sections. The problem setup is where investors decide whether to keep paying attention. The ask is where they decide whether you know your own business. Both need to sound like you’ve said it a hundred times — not like you’re reading from the slide.

Once you’ve reviewed the takes, pick one to publish. That take becomes what goes onto the pitch page if you create one. You can always re-record and pick a different take later — there’s no permanent commitment here.

When to re-record

A recording you captured three weeks ago may not reflect the pitch today — the market-size story got tighter, the team slide changed, the ask moved. Before you send a recording to a new investor, listen to the first thirty seconds and the ask. If those two sections still hold up, the recording is probably still good. If either feels off relative to how you pitch it now, record again.

This is one of the practical reasons the recorded pitch lives in the app rather than a file: re-recording and replacing the active take is a single step. The pitch page stays live with the new take; existing share links update automatically.

You can stop here

You don’t have to publish the recording or send it to anyone. Capturing a take and watching it back is a complete action on its own — many founders find it more useful than any other form of feedback because it’s the closest thing to an investor’s view.

What you’ll notice watching yourself:

• The slide where you lose momentum — often not where you expect it.
• The moment your voice drops in confidence — usually the traction section or the ask.
• The places where you say “um” or “so” or “like” and didn’t realize you were doing it.
• Whether the slide that’s up matches what you’re saying — or whether you moved on before you finished the point.

A recording tells you things that a coach can’t tell you, because you have to see it to believe it. Watch at least the first take back before you decide it’s the one worth keeping.

When you’re ready to share it: How to share your pitch with investors and track if they opened it →