Practise with the people you will face.

Quick start for testers

1. Sign in with your email; open the link within ten minutes.
2. Pick the Interview Room (the fullest one), name the topic, add a mock CV: made-up name, rounded numbers.
3. Press Start. Answer three or four questions in writing, or tap the mic in the answer field to dictate.
4. Type pause alone, read the coach, type resume.
5. Hand over a second document with the plus in the answer field and see the panel use it.
6. Type stop, read the debrief, download the .rrt file.
7. Tap "Rate this session" and tell us what broke. Each person has 60 turns a day.

Never enter real patient, client or employer information. The people building this can see counts and timings, never your words.

What this is

A place to rehearse a conversation you will actually have: a job interview, an exam viva, a patient, a buyer, a lawyer. You choose the room, say who you will face, and add the material they would have read. A cast of mock people then asks what those people really ask, pushes back, and holds you to what you wrote and said. When you want advice, you pause, and a coach steps out of the scene.

Nobody in the room is real. Every name is invented. Nothing here is professional advice.

A session, start to finish

1. Choose a room. Interview, Exam, Patient, Buyer or Lawyer. Each has its own cast and its own way of asking.
2. Set up. Name the topic, say your job title or subject, pick a difficulty, and add material. The grey text in a field is only an example; type your own.
3. Live. The cast opens. Answer in writing (or speak, when voice is on). The question in play is shown in the notes.
4. Pause. The coach tells you what went wrong, gives a model answer and a way to check it, then you resume and the same question is asked again.
5. Stop. You get a debrief: what was strongest, every slip with its evidence, habits, and what to prepare. Questions you did not land come back next time.

The three words

Three words, typed alone on a line, change what is happening. Inside a sentence they are just words.

pause

Steps out of the scene to the coach. Also: "hold on", "time out", "how should I have answered that". The Pause button does the same.

resume

Back into the scene. The question you were on is asked again. Also: "continue", "go on", "back in".

stop

Ends the scene and writes the debrief. Also: "end", "finish", "debrief", "that's enough". The Stop button does the same.

While you are with the coach you can ask questions in plain words; each one gets a coach's answer and you stay paused until you say resume. If you type resume while you are already live, or pause while already with the coach, a line tells you so.

The labels on your answers

After each answer a second reader checks it against the question and your material. A label under your answer is a slip; "landed" means the answer met the question. Hover or press a label to see the evidence.

answered different question

You answered something other than what was asked. Answer the question first, then add what you wanted to say.

contradicted source

This clashes with your own material or something you said earlier. Pick the true version and say it plainly. Do not defend both.

overclaimed

Bigger than the evidence supports. Give the real number or scope, and the part that was yours.

deferred without reason

You pushed the question away without saying why. If you must defer, say what you need and when you will answer.

vague

No specifics: no situation, decision, number or outcome. One concrete example fixes it.

skipped persona

You spoke past the person who asked. Answer them, then turn to the others.

Labels are not a score. They are the things a real panel notices and does not say out loud.

Holding you to

The notes list the claims you have made. Written ones come from your material (a CV line, a figure in your notes). Spoken ones are things you said in the scene. The cast checks later answers against both, so a number that changes gets noticed, as it would in the real room. You cannot edit the list; change what you say, or change the material and start a new session.

Topics and .rrt files

A topic is one thing you are preparing for: "Analyst panel, March" or "Cardiology viva". It keeps your material, every session you have run, and the questions that will come back. From the front page you can continue a topic, or open its sessions in History.

A topic can be downloaded as a .rrt file (Rehearsal Room topic). It is a plain file you own: open it on another device, keep it, send it to yourself. "Open a .rrt file" on the front page brings a topic back with all its sessions. Opening the same file twice does not duplicate anything.

Continue on a topic resumes a session that is still open. If the last session was stopped, you choose: resume it where it left off (the cast picks up and asks the question in play again) or start a new session that carries the questions you did not land. History lists every session with Debrief, Resume and Remove.

Removing a topic deletes the topic, its material and its carried-in questions. Its sessions stay in History, with their transcript and debrief, until you remove them one by one there or delete all your data in Progress.

Your material

PDF, .txt and .md files up to 8 MB, or pasted text. The cast reads it before the scene, so an interview panel has read your CV and the job post, and an examiner questions from your notes first. Use mock details: made-up names, rounded figures, nothing confidential. Material is private to your account and is removed when you delete your data.

The Custom Room

For a meeting the other rooms do not cover: describe it in a few lines (who, what is at stake, what they already think), add any material they would have read, and press "Draft the cast". The draft gives two or three people with a role, what each cares about and what each pushes on, plus a note on how the meeting runs. Edit anything: rename them, change a role, set how hard each one pushes, remove or add a person, or draft again. Then it runs like every other room, and the cast is saved on the topic for next time. Names are invented and never match your own words. The same rule as everywhere: mock details only.

The cast

Each room seats a small cast with different concerns: in the Interview Room a hiring manager, a technical peer and a recruiter. They decide among themselves who speaks next, the way a real panel does. Their names are invented and never match a name in your own material. Difficulty starts where you set it, rises if you cruise, eases if you struggle, and says so when it changes.

Waiting and timing

The panel usually answers within a few seconds. The coach takes about ten seconds; a debrief can take up to half a minute. The status line under the scene says which is happening. You cannot send while the cast is thinking; the Send button comes back when it is your turn. Nothing is timed and nothing is scored on speed.

Dictation

The small microphone beside the send arrow turns speech into text. Press and hold it, speak, and the words appear in the field as you go; release to stage them. Nothing is sent until you press the send arrow, so you can edit, hold again to add more, or type. Slide your finger off the mic before releasing to discard that take. By default it uses your browser's own dictation (Apple's in Safari, Google's in Chrome): instant, nothing to download, and the audio goes to that company under its terms, not to us; a one-line notice says so the first time, before anything is captured.

If you would rather nothing left your device, turn on Private voice in Progress. Dictation then runs on the device itself; the first use downloads the voice files once (about 100 MB, your browser keeps them) and no audio is sent anywhere. In a browser with neither (a link opened inside another app, some Firefox versions) the mic is dimmed and a tap says what to do. Either way: mock details only, no real patient or client information.

Handing over a document mid-session

When the panel asks to see something, or you forgot context, tap the plus in the answer field: a file or pasted text, the same types as setup. The cast is told on its next turn and reads it as a real panel would glance at a page you pass across. The same rule as setup applies: mock details only, never real patient or client information.

Feedback and limits

"Rate this session" takes one tap: a mark from 1 to 5 and, if you like, a few words. Your words stay with your own data (deleted when you delete your data) and are read only by the build team; the operator view shows counts, not words. There is a limit of 60 turns per person per day so that one person cannot use up the shared budget; the message says so when you reach it.

Voice

When voice is on, a Speak button appears. Press it, speak, and pause for three seconds when you are done; your words are transcribed and sent. The cast answers in voice as well as text. Recordings are not kept unless you turn that on in Progress.

Safety and advice

This is practice, not professional advice. The cast will not give real medical doses, legal positions or financial instructions, even in character; it points you to a real professional. If a scene becomes upsetting rather than useful, the cast ends it and writes the debrief; that is not a judgement on you. If you are in real distress, talk to a real person.

Sign-in, privacy, billing

The full notes: Privacy and Terms. Questions: contact@stablestateit.com.

There is no password. You enter your email and a one-time link arrives; it works once and for ten minutes. Three links per address per quarter hour. A sign-in lasts seven days on that device; Sign out ends it. Everything you store (material, sessions, progress) is yours to delete from Progress, at once and completely. Where a membership or event pass is offered, free sessions still work without one.

When something looks wrong

The link says it has expired or was used.

Request a new one. Links are single use and live ten minutes.

I refreshed or closed the page in the middle of a scene.

Nothing is lost. Open the topic from the front page and continue; the question in play is asked again.

I typed resume and nothing happened.

You were already live. Answer the question, or say pause to reach the coach.

A message says the practice budget is used up.

The build has a spending cap. Your session is saved; try again later.

A file was refused.

Only PDF, .txt and .md up to 8 MB. A PDF with no text (a scan) cannot be read; paste the text instead.

The cast ended the scene by itself.

See Safety above. The debrief is still written.