AI-powered soft-skills practice

Rehearse the conversations that define careers

Evolve lets your people practise difficult feedback, negotiations, and leadership moments with lifelike AI personas — privately, repeatedly, and at up to 93% less than live roleplay actors.

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Enterprise SSO & role controls · Australian data residency · Your characters, your IP

75%

knowledge retention from simulation, vs 5–10% for passive e-learning

Dale's Cone of Experience

4×

faster to learn soft skills than classroom training

PwC

Trusted by L&D teams at

Up to 250%

modelled return on soft-skills training (MIT/NBER study)

$12,506

annual cost of poor communication, per employee (Grammarly 2022)

24/7

private practice on any device, no scheduling or rebooking

∞

repeatable attempts to build confidence

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The platform

Deliberate practice, finally at scale

Roleplay used to need actors, schedules, and travel. Evolve turns it into an on-demand, measurable experience every employee can repeat as often as they need: six modules, one practice loop.

Author scenarios & personas

Build

Build is where a simulation comes to life. Shape the persona, the context, the difficulty, and the assessment rubric without writing a line of code, then publish it to your people in minutes.

Distribution at scale

Deploy is how a simulation reaches your workforce. Assign it to a team, a region or the whole organisation with due dates and a session budget, drop it into your LMS or intranet, or share a link. Every run reports back to the people who need to see it.

Real-time spoken practice

Practice

Practice is the live simulation itself. Learners speak out loud to responsive AI characters that hold context, personality, and hidden motivations, and adapt to what's actually said, so practice never feels scripted.

Feedback on every attempt

Feedback

The moment a conversation ends, Feedback scores it against your rubric with transcript-level evidence: objective feedback on empathy, clarity, structure and outcome that learners can act on immediately.

Org-wide insight

Analytics

Analytics turns thousands of individual attempts into a clear picture. Track confidence and skill growth across cohorts, surface coaching gaps before they become problems, and prove training ROI to leadership.

Enterprise foundations

Trust

Trust is the foundation everything runs on. Enterprise-grade security, Australian data residency, and a platform shaped in partnership with the teams who use it, with your bespoke characters remaining your IP.

Sim Library

Ready-made simulations for every critical moment

Start from a library of Evolve-curated simulations spanning leadership, sales, service and HR. Learners run them any time; your team tailors them or builds its own in minutes.

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LeadershipIntermediate

Leading a Team Through Organisational Change

Announce a restructure to a worried team member and bring them on board.

10 minView

NegotiationAdvanced

Negotiating a Vendor Contract Renewal

Renew a key supplier contract on better terms without damaging the relationship.

10 minView

Customer ServiceIntermediate

Handling an Irate Customer

Calm an angry customer whose order arrived broken and turn the call around.

10 minView

Difficult ConversationsIntermediate

Delivering Difficult Performance Feedback

Give a defensive team member clear feedback on slipping performance while preserving the relationship.

10 minView

InterviewingBeginner

Conducting a Behavioural Interview

Interview a candidate using behavioural questions and probe past the rehearsed answers.

10 minView

HealthcareAdvanced

Breaking Difficult News with Empathy

Deliver difficult news to a patient clearly and compassionately, then agree next steps.

10 minView

How it works

From nervous to natural in four steps

Warm-up demo

A brief demo removes the awkwardness of learning the interface, so learners get comfortable before the real conversation begins.

Meet the character

The learner enters a scenario co-designed for your context and speaks with an AI persona who behaves like a real person.

Real-time conversation

The learner speaks in their own words. The character responds in real time with authentic emotion and genuine conversational turns, not a scripted flowchart.

Feedback & reflection

Get rubric-based scoring and transcript highlights, or hand off to facilitator-led debrief. Then re-enter the simulation and apply what was learned.

Why Evolve

Built for outcomes, not novelty

A partnership-led platform designed to extend the training you already trust, at up to 93% less than live roleplay actors.

Australian data residency

Training data is held and processed in Australia on enterprise infrastructure, with every supporting provider published.

Real-time 3D avatars

Live, responsive 3D characters you speak with out loud, not video scripts or audio-only chat.

xAPI telemetry, not SCORM

Rich analytics that prove skill lift over time, not click-through courses that only track completion.

Transparent pricing

See what it costs up front. No hidden demo required just to get a number.

The evidence

The research is settled: practice changes behaviour

Immersive, conversational practice consistently outperforms passive training on retention, confidence, and real-world transfer. The numbers below come from published studies and enterprise deployments of AI and immersive soft-skill training.

Up to 75%

Practice beats passive learning

People retain 5–10% of what they read or watch, but up to 75% of what they actively practise. Speaking out loud encodes a lived, executable memory, not abstract theory.

Source: Dale's Cone of Experience

89%

Skills that stick

Knowledge retention measured at 89% a full four weeks after immersive practice: durable behavioural change that doesn't need constant, expensive retraining.

Source: MDPI study

275%

Confidence to act

Learners trained immersively were 275% more confident to apply what they learned, and felt 3.75× more emotionally connected to the content than classroom peers.

Source: PwC

4×

Total focus, zero distraction

Conversing with a responsive AI persona commands attention: immersive learners were measured 4× more focused than e-learners, eliminating desktop multitasking.

Source: PwC

94%

Transfers to the real job

94% of trained employees reported actively using the skills they practised with AI personas during real-world tasks, closing the digital-to-physical gap.

Source: H&R Block

Consistent

Objective, repeatable feedback

AI scores tone, pacing, empathy and active listening against the same rubric every time, so every learner is held to the same standard on every attempt, ready to hand to a facilitator for debrief.

Source: How Evolve scores

Figures reflect published research and enterprise case studies on AI and immersive soft-skill training across providers including PwC, MDPI, Mursion, Zenarate and Bodyswaps. They represent industry findings for the modality rather than guaranteed individual outcomes.

Give every employee a safe place to practise

See Evolve in action with a scenario built for your team. No production crew, no scheduling — and it reinforces the facilitator-led training you already run rather than replacing it.

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