Workplace role-play
Rehearse the conversation before you have it.
Asking for a raise, making the case for a promotion, or sitting down for next week's performance review. Practice it against a manager who pushes back, then find out how well you actually made your case.
The three conversations that actually come up
A salary negotiation, a promotion case, or a performance review. Each one runs differently, because they are different conversations: the negotiation tests whether you can hold a number, the promotion case tests whether you can show you already work at the next level, and the review tests whether you can talk about your own year without either shrinking or overselling.
A manager who pushes back
The one playing your manager is fair but skeptical. It asks for evidence, challenges a vague claim, and holds a realistic bar rather than agreeing with you. That is the whole point: a manager who says yes immediately teaches you nothing, and it is the part a general-purpose chatbot will not do, because it is built to agree with you.
Told how you made your case, not how you felt
At the end you get a readiness score, what worked, what did not, and a turn-by-turn read of your answers with a stronger version of each one. A quick cave on the number or a vague ask does not score well, because grading it kindly would defeat the purpose of rehearsing at all.
Grounded in your real track record
Point it at your career profile or a resume and it argues with your actual work: the projects you ran, the scope you carried, the results you can name. The stronger answers it shows you are built from leverage you could really claim, never from invented offers or numbers you would then have to defend in the real meeting.
A role is enough to start
You do not need to prepare anything to begin. Type your current role and go. Adding your career profile or dropping in a resume makes the questions sharper and more specific to you, but it is a way to get more out of it rather than a gate in front of it.
It rehearses your delivery, not your strategy
Worth being straight about the limit. It does not know your market rate, your company's budget cycle, or the manager you are actually sitting across from, so it cannot tell you what to ask for. What it can do is make sure that the first time you say the number out loud is not in the real meeting.
Why rehearsing beats reading more advice
Most advice about asking for a raise is about what to say. Very little of it helps with the part that actually goes wrong, which is that you have rehearsed the opening line and nothing after it. You get your sentence out, your manager says something noncommittal about budget and timing, and the rest of the conversation is improvised by someone who is nervous.
The fix is not more preparation on paper. It is having had the conversation once already, including the part where it does not go smoothly. That is what this is: you play yourself, the AI plays a manager who does not simply agree, and afterwards it tells you how well you actually made the case.
It reuses the same engine as the mock interview practice, which is why the pushback holds up rather than collapsing into agreement after two exchanges. Each scenario has its own interviewer and its own grading, so a promotion case is not judged against the same standard as a salary negotiation.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a resume to start a role-play?
- No. Your current role is enough. A career profile or a resume makes the conversation more specific, because it can then reference the work you have actually done, but neither is required and you are never blocked from starting without one.
- How is this different from asking an AI chatbot for advice?
- A chatbot gives you advice about the conversation. This makes you have it. It plays a skeptical manager who asks for evidence and pushes on vague claims, then grades how you handled it. General assistants are built to be agreeable, which is exactly the wrong quality in something meant to rehearse you for someone who is not.
- Can it tell me how much to ask for?
- No, and it will not pretend to. It does not know your market rate, your company's budget, or your manager. It is there to rehearse how you make and hold your case, not to set the number. Work out what to ask for separately, then practice asking for it.
- What do I get at the end?
- A readiness score out of 100, two to four things you did well, two to four to work on, and a turn-by-turn breakdown rating each of your answers with a stronger version of it. The stronger versions only use leverage you could genuinely claim.
- What does it cost?
- Your first one is free, and there is no subscription. After that, sessions are bought in small packs and they do not expire.
More on pricing and exports is in the general FAQ.