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Practise a networking conversation, an interview, or hard feedback, without an AI

Practise a conversation

Six scripted conversations: networking drinks, team drinks as the new starter, before an interview, an investor at a pitch night, giving hard feedback, and the director in the lift.

Practise a conversation screen in the Hold the Room app
In the app

On this screen

Networking drinks

Priya says

“Busy in here tonight, isn’t it?”

Open with ARE: anchor, reveal, encourage.

It is. I only come to these for the canapés, honestly. How do you know the organisers?

Yeah. So what do you do?

Yeah, it’s too loud. I can barely hear myself think.

Strong. Anchor (the room), reveal (canapés), encourage (a question). That is ARE.

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How it works

Each scenario is a short branching conversation with a named person: Priya at networking drinks, Dev who joined the company on Monday, Lena walking you from reception to the interview room, Sophie the investor who has heard forty pitches tonight, Jordan the contractor whose work keeps arriving late, and Marcus the regional director in the lift.

At every turn you choose one of three replies. Each is marked good, okay, or weak, with a one-line note on why, and the other person answers accordingly. It takes two or three minutes, and the point is to feel the difference between the reply you would have given and the one that works.

There is no AI behind it and no account. The scripts were written for the course, so they practise exactly what the lessons teach: ARE, follow-up questions, the clean exit, conclusion first, the four-part script for hard feedback.

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