Many professionals, including sales representatives, executives, and medical students, struggle with practicing difficult conversations. Current training methods often involve time-consuming and awkward roleplays, which may not effectively prepare individuals for real-world scenarios. This lack of effective training can lead to poor performance under pressure and inadequate preparation for critical conversations.
Pain Points
- Time-consuming and awkward roleplays
- Lack of realistic scenarios for practice
- Ineffective preparation for real-world conversations
- Difficulty in evaluating performance and providing feedback
- High costs associated with hiring professional trainers
Well, it all started from an idea for a hackathon where a live AI agent had to be built. The most obvious choice is a voice agent, and the idea was to have a sparring partner for practicing difficult conversations like pitching your startup to a VC, speaking about yourself in a job interview, or even practicing improvisation skills and managing conversations with a stereotypical 'Karen' as a manager. I've built the final product and it came out pretty entertaining and fun to speak with different personas. After the session, it gives you a detailed report and you can even jump into a voice feedback session with the same agent. And you can share your reports for others to see. And in this moment, when I realized that reports can be shared and other people can talk to the agent about your performance in this particular scenario - why not create something which different business domains can use to practice their own scenarios or evaluate other people's capabilities using this tool as a service? For example: * Sales: They can use their internal documents, scenarios, anything to train new reps. Usually, managers waste hours on awkward roleplays, but here they just upload their playbooks and the bot turns into the most stubborn client ever. It roasts new hires with real objections, and the manager gets a dashboard to see who choked under pressure and who handled it well. * PR and Exec training: Right now, CEOs pay insane money for media trainers when some scandal hits. I can add a 'press conference' mode where the bot acts like a room full of aggressive reporters just shouting over each other. It's basically a stress test to see if the exec cracks. * Med school: It's super hard to teach doctors how to deliver bad news. The app can play the role of a patient who just got a bad diagnosis and starts crying or getting mad. And instead of grading on logic, it evaluates the doctor entirely on empathy, active listening, and tone of voice. You can check this out here: [https://glotti.pbartz.net/](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Fglotti.pbartz.net%2F) \- it's completely free without any registration. And the pitch video is here: [https://youtu.be/wXKDo9rXkcE](https://youtu.be/wXKDo9rXkcE) I would be happy to hear honest opinions about the viability of this idea. Thanks!
A free, AI-powered conversation training platform that allows users to practice difficult conversations with AI agents. The platform provides detailed reports and feedback after each session, and users can share their reports with others.