Evolve Simulations
AI-powered soft-skills practice

Rehearse the conversations that define careers

Evolve lets your people practice difficult feedback, negotiations, and leadership moments with lifelike AI personas—privately, repeatedly, and at roughly a tenth of the cost of live actors.

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Australian-built · SSO & role controls · Your characters, your IP
An employee practicing a conversation with an AI training avatar

Trusted by L&D teams at

NSW Department of Education logoAustralian National University logoUniversity of Technology Sydney logoCanberra Innovation Network logoMental Health First Aid Australia logo

From $1

per learner session — up to 96% less than live actors

24/7

private practice on any device

100%

private — no audience, no judgment

∞

repeatable attempts to build confidence

The platform

Deliberate practice, finally at scale

Role-play used to need actors, schedules, and travel. Evolve Sim turns it into an on-demand, measurable experience every employee can repeat as often as they need.

Natural voice conversations

Learners speak out loud to responsive AI personas that adapt tone, emotion, and objections in real time.

Personas with memory

Each character holds context, personality, and hidden motivations so every run feels distinct and believable.

Rubric-based scoring

Objective feedback against your competency framework — empathy, clarity, structure, and outcome.

Custom scenario builder

Design simulations for your exact playbook in minutes — no scripting, no production crews.

Team analytics

Track skill growth across cohorts, surface coaching gaps, and prove training ROI to leadership.

Enterprise-ready

SSO, SCIM provisioning, regional data residency, and granular role controls out of the box.

Sim Hub

Ready-made simulations for every critical moment

Start from a community library spanning leadership, sales, service, healthcare and HR — or build your own in minutes.

Explore solutions
Handling a Layoff Conversation with Compassion
Difficult Conversations
Employee
Advanced12 min4.912,400

Handling a Layoff Conversation with Compassion

A sensitive, well-reviewed scenario for delivering difficult news.

EmpathyHR

by Talent Collective

Upselling Without Being Pushy
Sales
Customer
Intermediate12 min4.78,800

Upselling Without Being Pushy

Practice consultative upsells customers actually appreciate.

ConsultativeRetention

by RevenueReady

Saying No to Your Boss Respectfully
Difficult Conversations
Manager
Intermediate12 min4.89,600

Saying No to Your Boss Respectfully

Set boundaries and push back while preserving the relationship.

BoundariesAssertiveness

by Talent Collective

Conducting a Behavioral Interview
Interviewing
Candidate
Beginner12 min4.53,100

Conducting a Behavioral Interview

Run a structured behavioral interview and avoid bias traps.

STARHiring

by Evolve Labs

Breaking Difficult News to a Patient
Healthcare
Patient
Advanced12 min4.95,400

Breaking Difficult News to a Patient

Communicate a hard diagnosis with empathy and clarity.

EmpathyClinical

by CareComm

Managing a Concerned Stakeholder
Difficult Conversations
Parent
Intermediate12 min4.62,200

Managing a Concerned Stakeholder

Handle an anxious stakeholder calmly and constructively.

EmpathyCollaboration

by Evolve

How it works

From nervous to natural in three steps

01

Choose or build a scenario

Pick from the library or use the no-code builder to define the persona, context, and the competencies you want to measure.

02

Practice the conversation

Learners speak naturally with an AI persona that reacts in real time — getting interrupted, challenged, and surprised, just like real life.

03

Get scored, actionable feedback

Receive a rubric-based breakdown with transcript highlights, strengths, and specific next steps — then run it again to improve.

Why Evolve

Built for outcomes, not novelty

A partnership-led platform designed to extend the training you already trust — at a fraction of the cost of live actors.

Australian-built, partner co-designed

Not an adapted overseas platform. Personas are co-designed to your scenario, language and values.

Your characters are your IP

Bespoke characters and scenarios developed for your programs remain yours, exclusively.

Confidence through repetition

Private practice that builds confident habits at roughly a tenth of the cost of live actors.

Supplements your training

Designed to sit alongside facilitated delivery and debrief — reinforcing, never replacing.

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

Bias-free

Objective, consistent feedback

AI scores tone, pacing, empathy and active listening identically every time — without the fatigue, hierarchy or unconscious bias that affects human facilitators.

Source: Industry research

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 practice

See Evolve in action with a scenario built for your team. No production crew, no scheduling.

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