Get better at speaking.

For the interview.

A weekly group where you practise the hard moments out loud.

Your first session is free.

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Pick one. You get a prompt and a timer.

Talk to a random prompt. 15 seconds to think, 60 to speak.

Record me, so I can hear it back. Private, never saved.

Explain your job to a five-year-old.+Your project is two weeks late. Tell the client.+Argue that breakfast is the worst meal of the day.+Pitch the last thing you bought as if you invented it.+Someone just said your idea and got credit. Respond.+Explain the internet without using the word "internet".+Convince me to hire someone you have never met.+Defend a decision you disagree with.+Describe your last week without using the word "busy".+Sell me this browser tab.+Explain why your favourite film is objectively the best.+Talk me out of a holiday I have already booked.+Justify the existence of the meeting you were just in.+Explain a spreadsheet to someone who is frightened of them.+Make the case for a four-day working week.+Describe your morning as if it were breaking news.+Persuade me the office plant is underperforming.+Explain what you actually do, with no job title allowed.+Argue that the printer has feelings.+Give the toast at a colleague's leaving do, right now.+Explain your job to a five-year-old.+Your project is two weeks late. Tell the client.+Argue that breakfast is the worst meal of the day.+Pitch the last thing you bought as if you invented it.+Someone just said your idea and got credit. Respond.+Explain the internet without using the word "internet".+Convince me to hire someone you have never met.+Defend a decision you disagree with.+Describe your last week without using the word "busy".+Sell me this browser tab.+Explain why your favourite film is objectively the best.+Talk me out of a holiday I have already booked.+Justify the existence of the meeting you were just in.+Explain a spreadsheet to someone who is frightened of them.+Make the case for a four-day working week.+Describe your morning as if it were breaking news.+Persuade me the office plant is underperforming.+Explain what you actually do, with no job title allowed.+Argue that the printer has feelings.+Give the toast at a colleague's leaving do, right now.+

Any of this sound like you?

It is your turn to speak and your mind goes blank
The perfect thing to say arrives on the way home
You had the point. Someone else said it first
You keep meaning to ask for the raise
You said “yeah, sounds good” to something that did not sound good
“Any questions?” and you go quiet, even with three

None of it is a knowledge problem. You know the answer. It just comes out too slow, or not at all. That is a practice problem, and you fix it by practising.

Why not just use an app?

Because an app cannot put you in a room. That is the only thing that works.

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	Duolingoa language game	MySiviSivi, OpenTalk, and the like	SpeakingLaba run room
You speak to real people	No	Strangers, or a bot	The same small group each week
Feedback from a person	No	No, an algorithm	Yes, out loud, right after you speak
Someone is running the room	No	No	Yes
You practise the hard bits (nerves, pushback)	No	Not really	Yes, that is the whole point
You can see progress	Streaks and points	No	A score, week one and week eight

You get a before and after.

01Week one, we film your first go and score it out of five.
02You do eight weeks of live practice, in a small group.
03We film you again. You see how much the score moved.

Before

2.4

After 8 weeks

3.6

Average score across six dimensions. Illustrative.

What we score.

Six things. The same six, every time.

The six dimensions every speaker is scored on
STRUCTURE	Leads with the answer, then supports it
CLARITY	Plain words, short sentences, no unexplained jargon
PACE AND PAUSES	Varies pace deliberately, uses silence before the point
LISTENING	Confirms understanding first, then answers precisely
PRESENCE	Steady and warm, does not hedge, sounds like they mean it
HANDLING PUSHBACK	Acknowledges, reframes, holds position without going brittle

You are only ever compared to your own first score.

The games you’ll play.

Every session runs on games like these.

01 / 06

DEFEND THE WORST IDEAa three-minute debate you are guaranteed to lose

“People laugh a lot. That is the delivery method, not the goal.”

Who runs it.

A small team that has spent years running speaking rooms. A fortnightly Toastmasters club for over two years. Workshops for one of India’s biggest coding communities. Years of customer calls at an AI startup. And a speaking-practice app that people use every day, which is how we learned the app is not the answer. The room is.

Between us: strong communicators, and funny enough to hold a room for 90 minutes. That matters more than it sounds.

We run every session ourselves.

Come to a free session.

Your first Open Mic is free. You will speak in the first ten minutes, and you do not need to prepare anything. Sign up and we will send the next time and link.

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