Conversation is a real-time skill.
So practice it in real time.
Social media lets you draft, delete, and perform. A real conversation is unforgiving — turn-taking, listening, repair, reading the room. chat is a place to drill exactly that: talk with an AI partner, get scored on a rubric built from conversation theory, and see precisely what to sharpen.
Bite-sized challenges
A ladder of short drills — break the ice, draw out the quiet one, rein in the rambler, disagree warmly. Each pins one skill and a concrete goal. Clear it to earn stars and unlock the next.
Open the path →Scored, not vibed
Five axes — Relevance, Balance, Listening, Clarity, Warmth — each grounded in real work by Grice, Sacks & Schegloff, Rogers, and Brown & Levinson. Your score links back to the theory behind it.
See the rubric →Learn why it works
A short library of the ideas that make conversation legible: cooperative principle, turn-taking, active listening, face-work. The docs are the rubric — same source, no drift.
Open the docs →- Pick a challenge from the path — each has one partner, one scenario, and one concrete goal.
- Converse in real time — text now, voice coming. The partner stays in character.
- End the lesson: an AI judge checks whether you met the goal and scores the focus skill. Pass both to complete it.
- Earn up to ★★★, unlock the next lesson, and prefer Free practice when you just want an open scored rep.
Roadmap: voice mode (speak instead of type), then real-time multiplayer — 2–4 humans, a lobby, and peer-rated exit surveys feeding a scoreboard. Robo mode is the training ground that gets built first.