Bernhard Kerres & Friends offers an AI‑driven role‑play platform that lets leaders, HR professionals, and coaches rehearse difficult conversations with realistic, push‑back‑capable personas. Users select from pre‑built scenarios—such as feedback, conflict, or termination—and receive specific, actionable feedback after each simulated dialogue, helping them retain skills and improve real‑world performance.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Leaders, HR professionals, and coaches often lack safe, realistic environments to rehearse high‑stakes conversations such as feedback, conflict resolution, or termination, leading to avoidance or poor performance when the situations arise.
Solution
roleplays.ai provides an AI‑driven role‑play platform that lets users select from a library of realistic scenarios and converse with AI personas that respond with authentic push‑back, emotions, and skepticism. After each simulated dialogue, the system delivers specific, actionable feedback highlighting strengths, gaps, and alternative phrasing. The platform is accessible on demand without the need for PowerPoint decks or classroom settings, enabling continuous practice. Organizations can upload custom scenarios to align the training with their culture and frameworks. The service is offered to both individual users and enterprise teams, supporting ongoing skill development beyond one‑off workshops.
Target Audience
Primary users are corporate leaders, HR & L&D professionals, and executive coaches who need to practice difficult conversations, as well as organizations seeking scalable, on‑demand training for their employees.
Features
- Library of 41 pre‑built scenarios covering leadership, HR/L&D, and coaching contexts such as feedback, conflict, termination, and coaching traps
- AI personas that exhibit defensive, emotional, and skeptical behaviors to mimic real‑world push‑back
- Immediate, specific feedback reports that identify what worked, what didn’t, and alternative questioning techniques
- Ability for companies to create and integrate proprietary scenarios reflecting their own frameworks and culture
- Web‑based interface with three‑step workflow: select scenario, conduct conversation, receive feedback
- Free access to three starter scenarios for individual practice, with subscription options for expanded content and team management