Ovida
Ovida is an AI-powered communication coaching platform that makes leadership and client-facing conversation skills measurable and improvable. The platform analyzes recorded conversations, scores them against frameworks like the ICF Core Competencies, and provides time-stamped feedback with specific behavioral moments. Users practice high-stakes scenarios with personalized AI agents in a safe environment, receiving immediate, tailored assessments.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- HR Technology
- Education Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional communication training relies on subjective feedback, infrequent classroom sessions, and manual review, making it difficult to measure real improvement. Leaders and teams often lack a safe, repeatable way to practice high-stakes conversations or receive objective, specific feedback on their actual performance.
Solution
Ovida provides an AI-powered coaching platform that makes communication skills visible and measurable. Users practice conversations with personalized AI agents and an AI coach in a safe, private environment, receiving immediate, tailored feedback that pinpoints specific strengths and weaknesses. The platform analyzes real recorded conversations, breaking them down into time-stamped behavioral moments—such as holding silence or interrupting—and scores them against established benchmarks like the ICF Core Competencies. This turns a general sense of how a conversation went into a repeatable, comparable level across people, cohorts, and years. By automating the repetitive review work, Ovida allows human trainers and coaches to focus on judgment and development, scaling their expertise more efficiently.
Target Audience
Primary customers are HR, leadership development, and coaching programs within organizations seeking to develop leaders and teams, as well as coaches, facilitators, and institutions that train client-facing roles like sales or clinical professionals.
Features
- AI role-play with personalized agents for practicing high-stakes scenarios, with a scenario library or the ability to describe custom situations.
- Automated assessment and instant feedback on completed roleplays, scoring six levels per behavior from Novice to Master, with progress tracked per skill.
- Detailed session scorecards breakdown conversations with time-stamped video clips (e.g., "04:12 opened with a clear ask") showing exactly why a score was given.
- Measurement against the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competencies or an organization's own bespoke leadership framework, ensuring a consistent score across all users.
- Expert review layer that can be added on top of automated assessments for sessions where additional human judgment is warranted.
- Evaluation of behaviors including active listening, powerful questioning, holding silence, reflecting back, and naming the tension, making improvements observable and measurable.
- Reviews run 8x faster than classroom training, at roughly a tenth of the cost of a dedicated one-to-one mentor or trainer.