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How do I give tough feedback to a high performer?

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Everything a leadership coach does. Without the $500/hour.

Scripts. Frameworks. Scorecards. Decision matrices. Playbooks. Coaching debriefs. All grounded in research, tailored to your situation.

Every claim, traceable.

Numbered citations from specific books and case studies. Not summaries of summaries — the actual source.

Verified Sources — numbered citations from books and articles
Challenging assumptions with structured frameworks

Built to push back.

Surfaces blind spots. Pressure-tests your reasoning. Tells you what you need to hear.

Remembers your world.

Your situations, your context, your history. Come back next week — it picks up where you left off.

Active situations tracked across conversations
Practice Mode

Practice before the real thing.

Rehearse the conversations you've been avoiding. An AI plays the other person — defensive, emotional, resistant — exactly like reality. Then get a coaching debrief that doesn't pull punches.

Practicing with Jordan

Senior Engineer · 3 turns

End Session
Jordan, I want to talk about the last two sprints. The missed commitments are becoming a pattern.

Jordan (Senior Engineer)

A pattern? I led the entire platform migration last year. One rough quarter doesn't erase that.
I'm not questioning your track record. I'm talking about the production outage on March 12th and the two sprint commitments this quarter.

Jordan (Senior Engineer)

The outage wasn't entirely my fault — QA missed it too. But… okay. What do you need from me?
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Delivering Performance Feedback

Jordan · Senior Engineer

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Before a PIP Conversation

Taylor · Product Manager

Hard
A

They Didn’t Get the Promotion

Alex · Senior Designer

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Handling ‘That’s Not Fair’

Sam · Backend Engineer

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Feedback to a High Performer

Morgan · Staff Engineer

Hard
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Pick a scenario or describe your own

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Have the conversation — the AI stays in character

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Get honest coaching feedback with SBI analysis

Scripts. Frameworks. Decision matrices.

Not a chatbot that rephrases your question back to you. A thinking partner that gives you the actual words to say, the model to apply, and the scorecard to track.

Conversation Scripts

Word-for-word scripts for difficult conversations

Decision Analysis

PMI analysis — structured decision framework

Reflection Prompts

Judgment-checking reflection prompts

Deep Research

Multi-step reasoning with inline citations
Playbooks

Turn advice into action plans.

Generate step-by-step playbooks from any conversation. Phases, checkpoints, and expandable sub-steps grounded in the research. Print them. Share them. Follow through.

New Manager Transition Playbook

3 phases · 9 steps

Phase 1: First 30 Days

Schedule 1:1s with every direct report
Identify the team's top 3 pain points
Document your leadership principles

Phase 2: Build Foundations

Establish meeting cadences
Set 90-day team objectives

Phase 3: Accelerate

Run first team retrospective
Present strategy to leadership

The complete toolkit.

Verified Sources

Every claim backed by numbered citations you can click to read the original

Practice Mode

Rehearse difficult conversations with AI characters that push back like real people

Playbooks

Step-by-step action plans generated from any coaching conversation

Memory

Remembers your role, team, and ongoing situations across sessions

Rich Frameworks

Decision matrices, scripts, scorecards, and reflection prompts built into responses

Coaching Debriefs

SBI-structured feedback with radical candor after every practice session

Full Source Reader

Read the original book chapters and articles behind every citation

Follow-up Coaching

AI-generated follow-up questions push you deeper after every response

Bilingual

Complete English and Spanish support — coaching in your language

Projects

Organize conversations into folders by initiative, quarter, or team

Active Situations

Track ongoing challenges across conversations — your mentor remembers

Custom Scenarios

Create your own practice scenarios with any person and situation

Trained on the works that shaped modern leadership.

Good to Great by Jim CollinsZero to One by Peter ThielThe Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben HorowitzThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton ChristensenLeaders Eat Last by Simon SinekMeasure What Matters by John DoerrHigh Output Management by Andy GroveThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick LencioniThe Lean Startup by Eric RiesGood to Great by Jim CollinsZero to One by Peter ThielThe Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben HorowitzThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton ChristensenLeaders Eat Last by Simon SinekMeasure What Matters by John DoerrHigh Output Management by Andy GroveThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick LencioniThe Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Harvard Business School Case Studies

Google’s Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?

D. Garvin, A. Wagonfeld

OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism

S. Ghosh, S. Bagai

Elon Musk’s Big Bets

D. Yoffie, E. Baldwin

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

E. Ofek, R. Noe, S. Mehta

The Turnaround at Ford Motor Company

A. Edmondson, O. Jung

Copilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub

F. Nagle, S. Greenstein

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