Record the version you would actually say in the room.
Choose the conversation that is coming. Record sixty to ninety seconds. Do not perfect it yet. The first take is data.
AI executive communication coach
The private AI practice room before your high-stakes room.
Record your pitch, presentation, or answer. Get precise feedback on your words, voice, and presence. Re-record until the next take is stronger.
The problem
You knew your material. You still watched it slip.
One shot. You rushed the opening, hedged the ask, and buried the one line that mattered. The room decided, and the moment did not come back.
The feedback that could have caught it is expensive, generic, or not in the room at eleven at night before it counts. So most people rehearse alone, in their head, and find out how it went by how the room reacts.
The loop
One recording. One priority fix. One stronger second take.
- 01 / 05First Take
Record the version you would actually say in the room.
Choose the conversation that is coming. Record sixty to ninety seconds. Do not perfect it yet. The first take is data.
- 02 / 05Readiness Report
See what landed and what weakened.
Evidence-linked feedback on your words, your voice, and how you showed up. Never twenty metrics. Just the picture that matters.
- 03 / 05Priority Fix
One change, tied to a moment in your recording.
Not a list of ten things. The single highest-impact weakness, pointed to exactly where it happens.
- 04 / 05Focus Drill
Drill the weakness, not the whole speech.
A short, targeted exercise built for that one fix. The opening, the pause, the ask, the close.
- 05 / 05Second Take
Re-record, and see the two takes side by side.
The proof of the whole system: your first take beside your better take, with the improvement made visible.
The Readiness Report
Four layers. One honest picture.
Most tools hand you a speaking score. Pedestal separates the performance into the four things that actually decide whether the room is with you.
Script
What you said. Clarity, structure, framing, and whether the opening and the ask hold.
Your ask lands at 1:12, after two hedges. State it once, then stop talking.
Voice
How you sounded. Pace, pauses, fillers, emphasis.
You sped up on the ask. Re-record the last twenty seconds, slower.
Presence
How you showed up. Eye line, posture, gestures. Observable behaviour, never psychology.
You looked away during your strongest sentence.
Presence Notes are in beta, and always framed as observations, not scores.
The room
Whether it worked. Did the message do what the conversation needed: persuade, explain, de-escalate, land.
Goal: sound fundable in ninety seconds. Reached, once the ask was tightened.
The proof
The first take shows the problem. The second take shows the progress.
Opening length0:000:0025s tighter
Time to the point0:000:0018s earlier
Filler wordsfrequentdown a thirdfewer
The pause before the askrushedheld
Sample Readiness Report data.
One weakness. One drill. One better take.
Positioning
Pedestal is not a public-speaking app. It is a high-stakes communication rehearsal system.
We do not score your speaking. We help you make the next take better. Every note points at a moment and a change. Not “speak with more confidence,” but “slow the final sentence, and state the ask once.”
What Pedestal is not
- A generic public-speaking app
- A confidence or charisma score
- A therapy product
- A chatbot with a recording button
Scenarios
Built for the rooms that shape a career.
Why it compounds
The model is rented. The moat is earned with use.
Any general model can critique a paragraph. What it cannot copy is the rubric a coach built for your exact room, your own longitudinal record, and the trust to rehearse the things that matter most in private.
Scenario-specific rubrics
Co-designed for the actual room. A demo-day pitch is judged against demo-day, not generic speaking.
Your before/after record
Every take you re-record builds a private history of how you improve, take over take.
A personal weakness map
The Clarity Map learns the tendencies that follow you across rooms: the hedge, the ramble, the buried ask.
Trust around private content
Nothing is public, nothing trains our models, deletion is real. The kind of content people will only rehearse in private.
The obvious question
Can’t I just use ChatGPT?
For the words, yes, and you should. But ChatGPT cannot see or hear you. It does not know you sped up, hedged the ask, or looked away on your strongest sentence. Pedestal works from your actual recording: what you said, how you delivered it, where the message weakened, and whether the second take improved.
A human coach?
The best option there is, and not there at eleven at night before the interview. Pedestal is the deliberate practice between sessions, not a replacement for them.
Toastmasters?
Social, scheduled, and public. Sometimes you need a room with no one in it.
Pricing
Start with the take that matters most.
Founder Pitch Review
$29
one-time, beta
Record a ninety-second pitch. Within twenty-four hours: your Readiness Report, one Priority Fix, and a guided Second Take comparison.
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