Strategic communication

Dais

Practice the conversation before it matters.

Dais is a private practice studio for feedback, leadership, sales, and high-stakes speaking. Rehearse with responsive roleplay, hear how the other person reacts, and get a debrief grounded in the words and voice you actually used.

See Dais in action In active development for macOS

Inside a practice

Rehearse. Respond. Review.

Every Dais session moves from a specific room to a responsive conversation and an evidence-based debrief you can practice again.

01 · Choose the roomScenario library
LEADERSHIP Deliver difficult feedback

A strong performer is creating friction across the team.

Intermediate · 8 min
EXECUTIVE Defend the recommendation Advanced · 6 min
Practice a real moment.Start with the person, pressure, and outcome you are actually facing.
02 · Respond Live practice
R
ReeseVP Product
“You keep describing activity. What changed for the customer?”
YOUR RESPONSE

We reduced the decision from five steps to two. The next test is whether that changes completion, not just speed.

Meet responsive resistance.The other person adapts when you become specific, evasive, empathetic, or direct.
03 · ReviewAttempt 2
84Presence
Clarity91 Conviction86 Pace control76

Next practice Lead with the customer change before explaining the work.

Leave with one useful correction.Review the words, vocal signals, and change between attempts.

The premise

The difficult part is rarely the slide deck.

Consequential communication is responsive. The executive challenges the premise. The employee gets defensive. The prospect mentions a competitor. A useful rehearsal has to react to what you say, not wait for you to finish a memorized script.

Dais combines multi-turn roleplay with speech analysis. The conversation changes as you become more specific, more empathetic, more evasive, or more direct. The debrief points back to moments in the transcript so the coaching stays concrete.

01

Choose the room

Practice management feedback, receiving criticism, sales conversations, presentations, and meeting prep.

02

Have the conversation

The character responds turn by turn, with a voice and behavior that changes based on how you communicate.

03

Review the evidence

Read the transcript, see communication signals, compare attempts, and leave with one specific next practice.

What Dais pays attention to

More than filler words.

Delivery matters, but only in service of the decision, relationship, or change you are trying to create.

01

Adaptive roleplay

Characters open up, push back, soften, or escalate based on the specificity and tone of your response.

02

Executive presence

A six-part view of filler discipline, conviction, vocal authority, pace control, clarity, and vocal control.

03

Narrative feedback

Coaching cites what you said, identifies what worked, and offers a sharper alternative where it would help.

04

Before and after

Compare attempts to see whether the response became clearer, more concise, and more credible under pressure.

05

On-device speech

Transcription and vocal analysis run on the Mac. Audio leaves the device only when you explicitly choose a remote model.

06

Local AI voices

Optional local neural voices make roleplay feel conversational without requiring a cloud text-to-speech service.

Designed for repetition

One strong rehearsal changes the meeting. A practice changes you.

Dais includes short drills for concision, authority endings, pace, hedging, and speaking under pressure alongside full scenarios. Adaptive difficulty and attempt history turn each session into the next useful challenge rather than another score to chase.

It is built for founders, executives, managers, sellers, and anyone who would rather encounter the hard question before the room is watching.

Availability

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What is included
  • Adaptive practice for leadership, feedback, sales, and presentations
  • Executive Presence Score across six communication signals
  • Transcript-grounded coaching and attempt comparison
  • On-device transcription with optional local AI voices
Access
Preview and launch updates
Platform
Mac
Delivery
Mac App Store