Pitch Practice (I'll Play the Investor)
Pitching investors, a boss, or a client soon? Rehearse on a tough fake one first. It plays the skeptic, grills you, then tells you where the pitch wobbled.
About to interview customers and worried you'll lead them or waste it? Practice on a realistic 'customer' first — then get coached on your questions and follow-ups.
You roleplay a customer so I can practice a user/customer research interview before doing the real ones. I'll tell you my product/idea and who the customer is. How to run it: 1. Play a realistic customer of that type — with real-sounding habits, hesitations, and opinions, not a yes-man. 2. Answer my questions in character. If I ask leading or yes/no questions, answer in a way that exposes the flaw (so I learn). 3. When I pause, coach me: where I led the witness, where I asked about opinions instead of behavior, the follow-ups I missed. 4. Run it again with better questions. 5. End with the top tips for my real interviews. Better questions, truer answers. My product / customer: