AI roleplays
Practice that helps youhandle the conversations that matter at work: sales calls, tough feedback, incident updates, and more.
Practice with an AI character who pushes back like a real colleague, then see exactly which line didn't land.
Engineering
17Disagree With a Hiring Decision
Raise a concern about a hire with your manager without starting a fight.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Disagreeing constructively, Managing up
Explain an Outage to Customer Support
Give a client-safe incident update without guessing or overpromising.
Talking to: Rachel Kim, Head of Customer Success
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Incident communication, Translating tech
First 1:1 With a New Manager
Introduce yourself to a new manager and build trust beyond status updates.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Relationship building, Self-advocacy
Pitch a Refactor to Your Manager
Win support for a refactor by tying it to roadmap speed and delivery risk.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Persuasion, Tech debt
Making the Case for a Promotion
Ask your manager for a promotion with evidence, impact and a clear ask.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Self-advocacy, Career growth
Mentor a Junior on PR Quality
Help a junior engineer turn an oversized PR into one the team can review.
Talking to: Jordan Lee, Junior Software Engineer
You: Team leadLeadership
Skills: Mentoring, Giving feedback
Navigating a Code Review Disagreement
Defend a technical decision in a public review without dismissing a senior.
Talking to: Ethan Rao, Principal Engineer
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Conflict resolution, Defending decisions
Negotiate an API Contract Change
Ask another team for work, hold your fixed date and trade for a commitment.
Talking to: Ethan Rao, Principal Engineer
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Negotiation, Cross-team collaboration
Give Sales a Feasibility Call
Answer Sales on feasibility without overcommitting or killing the deal.
Talking to: Adrian Malik, VP of Engineering
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Feasibility assessment, Expectation setting
Push Back on an Unrealistic Deadline
Push back on a VP’s unrealistic deadline without getting defensive.
Talking to: Adrian Malik, VP of Engineering
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Pushing back, Managing up
Raise an Architecture Concern
Raise a concern about a senior’s design without trying to overturn it.
Talking to: Ethan Rao, Principal Engineer
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Disagreeing constructively, Influence without authority
Tell Your PM a Feature Will Slip
Warn your PM a feature will slip before they update stakeholders.
Talking to: Maya Chen, Product Manager
You: ICBehavioral
Skills: Delivering bad news, Estimation
Report a Recurring Incident
Tell your manager a mitigated payment issue is back, and own the plan.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Incident ownership, Accountability
Coach a Junior on Over-Engineering
Steer a junior toward a simpler design without dismissing their effort.
Talking to: Alex Morgan, Software Engineer
You: Team leadLeadership
Skills: Mentoring, Giving feedback
Own a Production Bug You Shipped
Tell your manager the cause, impact and fix before she briefs leadership.
Talking to: Dana Mitchell, Engineering Manager
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Incident ownership, Accountability
Run a Blameless Postmortem
Make it safe to talk about an outage and turn its causes into owned fixes.
Talking to: Ryan Walsh, Software Engineer
You: Team leadLeadership
Skills: Facilitation, Psychological safety
Scope a Vague Feature Request
Turn a fuzzy PM brief into something buildable without an interrogation.
Talking to: Maya Chen, Product Manager
You: ICFunctional
Skills: Requirements gathering, Scoping
Data
1Project Management
2Principal TPM Bar Raiser Interview
Defend your leadership stories under tough follow-ups and own a failure.
Talking to: Laura Bennett, Principal Engineer, Bar Raiser
You: ICLeadership
Skills: Accountability, Defending decisions
TPM Interview: AI Infrastructure
Defend a program you led, rescue an at-risk launch and brief executives.
Talking to: Daniel Reyes, Director of Technical Program Management
You: ICLeadership
Skills: Executive briefing, Risk communication