Practice the
conversations
you can't afford to
fumble.
An AI rehearsal studio for pitches, interviews, toasts, hard talks, and every moment you can't do twice. Talk to a real AI face. Get graded. Try again.
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Stage fright is a tax you only stop paying once you've actually done the thing.
“Most people pay it twice — once in their head before, once in the room during. We're trying to settle the first bill.”
— IRIS
SPEAKSEASY is a private room and a real conversation partner. Pick the scenario — a speech you've been dreading, a hard talk with a friend, an interview, a pitch, a toast — and run it for real. Voice in. Voice back. Pushback when you're vague. A graded report when you're done.
The point isn't to memorize lines. The point is to fail in private, a few times, so when it's real — when it counts — you don't.
Press play on yourself.
A real conversation, in private, with a host who pushes you when you're vague — and a graded report when you're done.
Pick a room.
Fifteen scenarios. Or describe your own in 30 seconds.
Talk to Iris.
She talks back. Out loud. Pushes you when you're vague.
Read the report.
Five rubrics, graded with your own words as evidence.
The moments you don't get to rehearse.
Until now.
These aren't scripted demos. They're the kinds of things real people actually run through Iris.
- Telling my landlord I'm breaking my lease
- Asking my boss for a raise
- My best man speech
- Coming out to my parents
- Pitching to investors
- Quitting my job
- Apologising — really apologising
- A wedding toast
- A college admissions interview
- Telling my landlord I'm breaking my lease
- Asking my boss for a raise
- My best man speech
- Coming out to my parents
- Pitching to investors
- Quitting my job
- Apologising — really apologising
- A wedding toast
- A college admissions interview
- Eulogy for someone I loved
- Asking someone out
- Pitching to a tough VC
- Telling a friend hard news
- Hard conversation with a parent
- An on-camera podcast
- Negotiating a salary
- Defending my thesis
- First-date small talk
- Eulogy for someone I loved
- Asking someone out
- Pitching to a tough VC
- Telling a friend hard news
- Hard conversation with a parent
- An on-camera podcast
- Negotiating a salary
- Defending my thesis
- First-date small talk
- Sales call I keep avoiding
- Telling a partner it's over
- Asking my landlord for a fix
- A best-man toast I dread
- Public Q&A I'm nervous about
- Talking to my kid about something hard
- A speech at a friend's funeral
- Asking for a referral
- Calling my doctor about a result
- Sales call I keep avoiding
- Telling a partner it's over
- Asking my landlord for a fix
- A best-man toast I dread
- Public Q&A I'm nervous about
- Talking to my kid about something hard
- A speech at a friend's funeral
- Asking for a referral
- Calling my doctor about a result
Twelve staged conversations.
Each one with a real person on the other side.
Not a chatbot. A character — with a brief, a backstory, a list of objections it will absolutely raise, and the patience to make you earn the conversation.
View all scenarios- BIG MOMENT
A wedding toast for someone you love
Iris narrates the room — 120 guests, the band just stopped.
EASY
- HARD TALK
Apologizing — really apologizing
Someone you hurt. They aren't going to make it easy.
MEDIUM
- THE ASK
Asking someone out
Someone you've been getting along with. They don't yet know in what way.
EASY
- THE INTERVIEW
A school admissions interview
A reader who's seen 200 essays. They want to find the human under the application.
EASY
- THE PITCH
Pitching your idea (to anyone who'll listen)
A skeptical-but-curious listener. They will ask the questions you've been avoiding.
MEDIUM
When you end the call, you find out how it went.
A long-form report grades five rubrics — Clarity, Structure, Persuasion, Presence, Pacing — with evidence pulled directly from your transcript. Three things to fix next time, quoted in your own words. A short audio summary in the same voice that pushed back on you, this time warmer.
“Stop opening with the company history.”
You spent 47 seconds on context Margot already had. Open with the wedge. When she asked “why now,” you used the word “tailwinds” three times — that's a tell.
The room is waiting.
“One free session to start. No card. I'm already in the room.”
— IRIS, YOUR HOST