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Drever
FreeOpen SourceSelf-HostedAgentic
Most presentation tools let you build slides fast and leave you stranded when the room pivots — no way to update live, no synchronized outputs, no connection between what the speaker sees and what the audience drives. Drever is built around that exact failure.
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License: MIT Any use incl. commercial
Local-run terms: MIT license permits commercial use, modification, distribution, and private use with attribution required.
Pricing
- Model
- Free
Summary
The core workflow is brief-in, plan-review, then slide authoring — the agent pauses after generating a page-by-page outline so you redirect emphasis, density, or motion intent before a single slide is authored. Once you approve, Drever generates a complete story across audience view, speaker notes, document, web, and PDF from one source. The MDX and React-based authoring pipeline is deterministic and inspectable, which matters when you need to trace why a transition behaves a certain way. The wall appears early for teams who do not write MDX: this is not a drag-and-drop canvas, and non-technical stakeholders will need a developer in the loop to do anything beyond the AI-generated draft. Requires Node.js 24.18+ and a Safari or Chromium-family browser — that narrows the install base before you start.
Bottom line: Pick Drever when a developer-led team needs a single authored story that lives simultaneously as a live room, PDF, and document — but plan for a different tool when your deck owner is a designer or PM who will not touch MDX.
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Pros
- The agent pauses for plan approval before authoring any slides, so you redirect story shape, emphasis, and motion intent while changes are still cheap — not after forty slides exist that need reworking.
- One MDX source generates audience view, speaker notes, document, web page, and PDF simultaneously, which means a revision to the authored story propagates to every output without manual reformatting.
- Live audience input during delivery is wired into the slide step sequence, so the exact moment the room asks for proof and you reveal it is preserved as a citable, searchable state across all surfaces — not lost when the presentation ends.
- MIT-licensed and self-hostable, so your deck content and audience data never transit a vendor's cloud unless you choose to deploy there.
- The compilation pipeline is deterministic and boundary-inspectable, so when a transition or layout behaves unexpectedly you can trace it through AST, runtime, and surface layers rather than filing a support ticket and waiting.
Cons
- All authoring is MDX and React code — there is no visual canvas. A PM or designer who needs to edit slide copy or reorder sections without developer help cannot do so, which means every revision cycle requires a developer present. Teams where the deck owner is non-technical move to canvas-based tools and lose the multi-surface synchronization.
- The runtime requires Node.js 24.18 or higher and a Safari or Chromium-family browser. On teams with locked-down environments, older Node versions, or Firefox as the standard browser, the tool does not run without IT intervention before the first demo.
- No API surface is exposed. Plugging Drever into an existing content pipeline — pulling from a CMS, triggering builds from a CI system, or posting outputs to a shared drive — requires building against the MDX and build layer directly, which is undocumented territory beyond what the vendor page describes.
About
- Platforms
- Web (browser), Node.js
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- July 28, 2026
Best For
Who it's for
- Teams needing AI-assisted story planning with human approval
- Presentations requiring synchronized live, web, PDF, and document outputs
- Workflows emphasizing editable plans before final slide generation
What it does well
- Creating live, interactive product decision decks
- Building motion-driven evidence and data stories
- Generating multi-surface presentations from a single brief
- Live audience-driven slide refinement during delivery
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Drever free?
- Drever offers a free option. Hosting, model usage, or optional services may have separate costs; check the pricing details and official terms.
- Is Drever open source?
- Yes. Drever is open source.
- Can I self-host Drever?
- Yes. Drever supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
- What platforms does Drever support?
- Drever is available on: Web (browser), Node.js.
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Drever is an open-source, MIT-licensed presentation tool that turns a single brief into a live, multi-surface deck through an agent-assisted authoring pipeline. The agent handles project setup, generates a full brief and slide-by-slide outline, then pauses — explicitly waiting for your approval before it authors any slides. You reshape the plan: change emphasis, reorder, adjust motion intent, move detail to speaker notes. Only after you sign off does Drever produce the complete story and open a local preview. The runtime then serves the same authored content as an audience-facing live room, a speaker view, a web page, a PDF, and a document simultaneously.
The differentiating feature is live audience interaction tied to the authored story. During delivery, the room can surface a question or direction — the vendor’s showcase shows an audience choosing ‘Show us unaided completion’ — and the speaker reveals the corresponding step, preserving the exact slide state as a citable, searchable moment across every output surface. This is not a post-presentation export; the connection between live room and document is maintained throughout.
Drever fits developer-comfortable teams authoring in MDX and React who need outputs beyond a slide deck — documentation, a shareable web room, and a PDF from one source without manual reformatting. It breaks for teams expecting a visual canvas editor. The authoring layer is code: MDX files compiled through an AST to a React runtime. Non-technical contributors cannot self-serve edits, which means any revision cycle runs through whoever owns the codebase. Teams that hit this constraint and need a no-code editor tend to move to canvas-based tools and accept the loss of synchronized multi-surface output.
Installation requires Node.js 24.18 or higher and a current Safari or Chromium-family browser. The vendor provides a CLI bootstrapper via `npm create drever@latest`. No API is exposed — integration into existing pipelines requires working at the MDX and build layer directly. The architecture is described as a deterministic pipeline with inspectable boundaries between compilation, routing, runtime, and delivery surfaces.
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