Every opportunity begins with a conversation.
Verbatim is the personalised AI coaching platform that helps anyone build the confidence to communicate with clarity — whether it's a job interview, presentation, difficult conversation, classroom, workplace, or everyday life.
Practise privately. Speak confidently.
Communication is not a skill you add.
It is a self you develop.
The most effective leaders in every field are not simply good speakers. They are people who have done the work of understanding who they are — and learned to express that with precision, power, and presence.
Verbatim is built on one founding belief: your voice and your character are inseparable. Every session is not just practice — it is an act of self-authorship.
Every session here is an act of self-authorship — and we don't believe that act should be a privilege of the already-confident. Making it available to everyone is the whole reason we exist.
Presence
The ability to hold a room isn't charisma. It's calibration. Verbatim helps you understand your natural speaking rhythm and build on it with intention.
Clarity
Leaders who communicate clearly think clearly. Our AI feedback sharpens both the delivery and the thinking behind your words.
Conviction
The difference between speaking and leading is conviction — the sense that you mean what you say and know why. Verbatim builds that from the inside out.
Verbatim helps you practise for
Walk in with answers that are clear, confident, and compelling — every time.
Structure your ideas, sharpen your delivery, and hold any room.
Say what needs to be said — calmly, clearly, and with care.
Teachers, students, and facilitators building stronger voices together.
From team meetings to board rooms — communicate with authority and ease.
Advocacy, negotiation, connection — confidence in every conversation.
Education is the great equaliser. So is having the confidence to use it.
My parents came to Australia from Uganda in 2006 in search of a better future for our family. They weren't able to give me a formal education themselves — they'd never had that opportunity. But they gave me something just as important: a love of learning.
Our home was filled with books. We had a computer before we had many other things. They taught me that knowledge could open doors, and that where you begin doesn't have to determine where you end.
As I grew older, I realised something else.
Education creates opportunity, but only if people have the confidence to step through the door. A brilliant idea still has to be shared. A scholarship still has to be interviewed for. A job still has to be won. Leadership still begins with a conversation.
Yet communication coaching has traditionally been a privilege — expensive, inaccessible, and out of reach for many of the people who could benefit from it most.
Verbatim exists because I believe that should change.
Built in consultation with speech pathologists and grounded in evidence-based communication strategies, Verbatim combines AI with behavioural coaching to make personalised communication development available to anyone, anywhere. Not to replace human expertise, but to extend its reach so more people can access the kind of coaching that was once available only to a few.
For me, Verbatim is more than a technology company. It's my way of passing forward the opportunity my parents gave me.
My hope is that someone, somewhere, will walk into an interview with more confidence, speak up in a meeting, advocate for themselves, earn a scholarship, start a business, or lead a community because they believed they had something worth saying.
Because when one person gains access to opportunity, the impact rarely ends with them. It reaches families, communities, and future generations.
That's the future I hope Verbatim can help build.
I've spent my career building access where there wasn't any.
Then I built BASI Education—a literacy and numeracy platform deployed in a remote school in the Solomon Islands. Verbatim is the same instinct applied globally: democratising the coaching, confidence, and education that have too often depended on privilege rather than potential.
Every tool you need to develop your communication as a leader.
AI Scenario Practice
Real-world communication scenarios: leadership presentations, board briefings, investor pitches, interviews, negotiations, and difficult conversations. The AI adapts to your responses in real time.
Custom Scenario Builder
Import your own slides, scripts, or meeting agendas. Verbatim generates scenario-specific questions, stakeholder challenges, and audience simulations.
Pre-Session Grounding Tools
Brief grounding rituals before high-stakes sessions: breathing calibration, intention-setting, and vocal warm-up sequences designed to activate focus.
Session Recording & Playback
Review sessions with AI-annotated playback. See where your energy rose, where your pace shifted, where your message landed. Full privacy controls.
Peer Practice Rooms Presence
Structured peer practice sessions with anonymised matching. Take turns presenting and receiving coaching feedback.
Voice & Delivery Analysis
Real-time measurement of pace, volume, pause patterns, intonation, filler word frequency, and articulation. See exactly where your delivery strengthens and where it drifts.
Content & Structure Coaching
AI feedback on your message structure: logical flow, persuasive framing, concise messaging, and call-to-action strength. Built around PREP, STAR, and Pyramid Principle frameworks.
Session Recording & Playback
Review sessions with AI-annotated playback. See where your energy rose, where your pace shifted, where your message landed. Full privacy controls.
Speaking Growth Dashboard
Your longitudinal communication profile. Track metrics, session history, and growth trajectory over time. See patterns. Celebrate milestones.
Leadership Curriculum
Structured learning paths from foundational voice development through to executive presence, storytelling, negotiation, and cross-cultural leadership.
Identity & Character Reflections
Post-session prompts that connect your communication practice to your values, leadership style, and the kind of communicator you are intentionally becoming.
Coach Integration Portal Presence
Share your progress dashboard with a human coach, speech trainer, or mentor. Data-driven coaching sessions.
Team Communication Dashboards Enterprise
Aggregated, anonymised metrics across teams. Track adoption, growth trends, and communication capability at the organisational level.
LMS & SSO Integration Enterprise
Full SSO (SAML 2.0, Okta, Azure AD) and LMS integration (Canvas, Moodle, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Docebo).
White-Label Deployment Enterprise
Deploy Verbatim under your organisation's brand. Custom scenarios, branded curriculum, tailored onboarding.
Eight weeks of practice, one line you can see.
Every session feeds a longitudinal profile. Filler words fall, pace settles, clarity climbs — and you watch it happen, week over week, not as a feeling but as a line.
From first session to lasting presence.
Set Your Direction
Tell Verbatim where you are in your communication journey and where you want to go. Your goals shape your practice path.
Step Into a Scenario
Choose from the scenario library or build your own. Practice real moments: leadership presentations, difficult conversations, investor pitches.
Receive AI Coaching
Immediately after each session, receive specific, structured feedback on delivery, content, and presence. Data, not judgment.
Track Your Growth
Your Speaking Growth Dashboard builds a living portrait of your communication development. See where you've grown. Know where to go next.
Integrate Into Your Leadership
Post-session reflections connect your practice to your values and your leadership identity. Development that sticks.
Built for people who take communication seriously.
The Emerging Leader
You've been told you have potential. Now you want to develop the communication skills that make people follow, not just listen. Verbatim helps you build executive presence — in private, before the high-stakes moments arrive.
The Established Professional
You perform well. But there are rooms you still find difficult, messages that don't land the way you intend. Verbatim helps you close that gap — precisely, systematically, and without starting from scratch.
The Student & Graduate
You have ideas worth sharing. Verbatim helps you develop the articulation, structure, and presence to share them in ways that open doors — in interviews, presentations, and the professional world you're entering.
The Organisation
Your people are your voice. Verbatim's enterprise platform builds communication capability across teams — with measurable outcomes, seamless integration, and a development philosophy that treats communication as culture.
Built for every room, every conversation, everywhere.
Verbatim works wherever you are — a classroom in Nairobi, a boardroom in Sydney, or a living room anywhere in between. Communication confidence has no postcode.
Because the belief that coaching is only for the already-privileged is one we've made it our mission to prove wrong.
Invest in your voice. Invest in your leadership.
Every plan begins with access to the core platform. Your tier determines the depth of your development journey.
- 3 practice sessions per week
- 5 core scenarios (interview, presentation, introduction, meeting, networking)
- Basic delivery feedback (pace, fillers, duration)
- 7-day session history
- Pre-session grounding tool
- iOS & Android app
- Advanced analytics (paid plans)
- Full scenario library (paid plans)
- ✓ Everything in Foundation
- ✓ Unlimited practice sessions
- ✓ Full scenario library (20+ scenarios)
- ✓ Advanced delivery analytics (intonation, volume, pauses)
- ✓ Content & structure coaching (PREP, STAR)
- ✓ 90-day speaking history dashboard
- ✓ 2 full learning paths
- ✓ Identity & character reflections
- ✓ Session recording & annotated playback
- ✓ Weekly growth report email
- ✓ Calendar integration
- ✓ Everything in Practitioner
- ✓ All learning paths (inc. Executive Presence, Negotiation, Cross-Cultural)
- ✓ Custom scenario builder
- ✓ High-Stakes Event Mode (7-day prep program)
- ✓ Full longitudinal dashboard (unlimited history)
- ✓ Video capture with AI body language notes
- ✓ Peer practice rooms (4 sessions/month)
- ✓ Coach integration portal (1 coach)
- ✓ Monthly Leadership Identity Report
- ✓ Priority support (24hr response)
- ✓ Everything in Presence
- ✓ Unlimited seats (min. 10)
- ✓ Team & cohort communication dashboards
- ✓ Custom scenario & curriculum builder
- ✓ LMS integration (Canvas, Moodle, Workday, SAP)
- ✓ SSO (SAML 2.0, Azure AD, Okta)
- ✓ White-label deployment
- ✓ Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- ✓ SLA 99.9% uptime & data residency options
Frequently Asked Questions
What our members say.
Communication capability at scale.
Team Dashboards
Aggregated, anonymised communication metrics across your entire cohort. Track development without surveillance.
LMS & SSO Integration
Plug Verbatim into your existing learning infrastructure. SAML 2.0, Okta, Azure AD, Canvas, Moodle, Workday.
Custom Curriculum
Scenarios and learning paths built for your organisation's specific communication challenges and culture.
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