INSYNCR: Conversation with Kurt Dupont

  Kurt Dupont is a solution provider who would go out of his way just to ensure he brings out the best when it comes to issues that have to deal with data-driven presentations, data visualization, and digital signage software.

He started by working at airports worldwide to set up airport databases and flight information screens. This evolved to become the basis for his several add-ins.

In this conversation, Kurt talks about INSYNCR.

Geetesh: Kurt, what prompted the move from DataPoint to INSYNCR, and does the new brand represent more than just a rebranding?

Kurt: The honest version is that DataPoint had become two products long before we admitted it

For years we watched our customers split into two groups that never met.

1. Pushing Content. One group used DataPoint to push live data onto screens. Factory floors, airports, reception areas, control rooms. Their slides ran all day and nobody ever clicked through them.
2. Generating Content.The other group never looked at a screen at all. They pressed the Snapshot option and walked away with a stack of finished reports, every number pulled fresh from their database.

Same software, two completely different jobs. Every roadmap discussion turned into a tug of war between them. In 2023 we finally admitted what the roadmap had been telling us for years, and decided to split.

The screens went to SignageTube, which now has two editions, Cloud and Live. The reporting side became INSYNCR, and that is where my focus is. DataPoint from PresentationPoint was the company that got live data into PowerPoint. INSYNCR is about what our customers were actually using that for: reports and business documents where the numbers have to be right.

And that focus matters more now than ever. Twenty years ago the hard part was getting data into a slide. Today anything can generate a slide. AI will write you a beautiful deck in thirty seconds. The hard part left is trusting the number on it. A generated figure looks right. A bound figure is right, and you can click it and see exactly where it came from. That is the problem INSYNCR exists to solve, and it is a bigger problem in 2026 than it was in 2006.

Geetesh: What does the move to INSYNCR mean for existing customers of products such as DataPoint? Will their current templates, integrations, and workflows continue as before?

Kurt: Your files keep working. That was the rule we set for ourselves before anything else, because our customers have years of work inside their DataPoint presentations, and asking them to rebuild was never on the table.

The only thing you need to know is which side of the split you live on, and the test is simple:

• If your DataPoint presentations feed screens, so TVs, dashboards, live displays that run on their own, your home is SignageTube Live.
• If you press Snapshot, so you generate reports, documents or certificates from your data, your home is INSYNCR.

Some customers do both, and that is fine. It is the same data-binding engine underneath, just two roads instead of one.

We have customers who have run this technology for well over a decade, including operators in places like power plants where a wrong number on a screen is not a small thing. The test we held ourselves to was that on the day of the split, nothing broke for them. It did not.

If you are a DataPoint user and you are not sure where you belong, or what your licence path looks like, write to us. A human answers, usually the same day. And for readers who learned DataPoint from the tutorials here on Indezine: those tutorials are being updated to the INSYNCR workflow as we speak, so the guides you already know will keep matching the software.

Geetesh: What can existing and new customers expect from INSYNCR in the coming years?

Kurt: Let me answer the question I think is behind this one, because in 2026 it usually is: what about AI?

Here is how I see it. AI has made generating content free. What it has not made free is being right. Ask anyone who signs off a board deck, a client report or a compliance document. A plausible number is not the same as a correct one, and the more fluent the tools get, the more valuable provably correct becomes. INSYNCR sits deliberately on the correct side of that line. Every figure in an INSYNCR document is bound to a live source. You can inspect it. It cannot be invented.

So the direction for the coming years follows from that:

1. First, deeper and broader connections. We already bind PowerPoint to more than twenty live data sources, from Excel and SQL to cloud systems, and that list keeps growing, because customers keep bringing us new places their numbers live.
2. Second, beyond the deck. Our customers do not really want presentations, they want their reporting done. One asset management firm we work with used to have analysts copy-pasting numbers into slides the night before client meetings. Now the reports assemble themselves from live data, and about twenty colleagues simply open them, always current, always consistent. Another customer generates hundreds of certificates in a single run, every name and grade exactly right. No AI model can promise you that today. Deterministic generation can, and we have been doing it for years. Today that same engine runs everywhere from asset managers and industrial operators to research firms like Lumen Research, and you should expect it to reach more document types and more output formats over time.
3. Third, playing well with the AI tools your team already uses. Our view is simple: let AI do the drafting and the talking, and let INSYNCR be the layer that guarantees the numbers underneath. We want to be the trusted data layer in that stack, not a competitor to your copilot.

Our goal has not changed in twenty years, it has only become more urgent: your data is already correct in your systems. Everything built from it should be correct too, automatically, every time.

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