Steady vs FirstSpar

No script to memorise. Practice for whatever they say. Steady is a flight school for hard conversations. You speak out loud. Someone answers back, in a real voice, in real time. They have a position and they hold it. And you watch what your words cost while you are still saying them. START WITH A BASELINE Eight questions about how these conversations actually feel, then five minutes in a room picked for the seat you are in. The read-out puts what you said about yourself next to what the run showed: what is working, what you might not be seeing, and where to start. A STRUCTURE TO LEAN ON Five phases - pre-flight, take-off, cruise, turbulence, landing - and every run is marked against them in words, never a score. Marks read what you did. There is no script to memorise. A PLAN FOR YOUR SEAT Six weeks, built from your baseline and the conversations your seat finds riskiest. Two sessions a week on the days you choose, five to eight minutes each, ending in a proficiency check. THE ROOM You talk. She answers. She interrupts, goes quiet, gets defensive, softens. Her state is drawn above her and it moves while you speak, so you see how she takes each sentence as you say it. Choose how hard it goes and the room draws its own curveballs, hidden until they happen. If you are somewhere you cannot speak, type instead: same room, same instruments. TAKE IT BACK Pull back one beat and say it differently. The two attempts run side by side. THE FLIGHT LOG Not a grade. What worked, the moment it turned, and the sentence it turned on - scrub back and hear yourself say it. Then what they walked away thinking, in their words. PROGRESS Since your baseline: how long you take to get to the point, how often you hedge, how long you can sit inside a silence, and the blind spots closing. LEARN Eleven short courses on the conversations new managers find hardest, each with articles, talks and books picked for them. Read one, then practise it. Pass a checkride to earn the rating. OVER A HUNDRED ROOMS Feedback - the friend who was your peer last month. The one who was passed over for your job. Your strongest performer, who talks over everyone. Boundaries - 11pm Slack. A report who goes around you. Friday at five, again. Saying no - no to your boss. No promotion this cycle. Carrying a decision you did not make. More for your line of work. Or bring your own: describe the conversation you are dreading and Steady builds that room. A REAL ONE COMING UP Prepare for it, practise it, then say how it went. Steady checks in when you asked it to. PRIVACY, BECAUSE YOU ARE NAMING REAL PEOPLE Your audio is never saved. It is processed as you speak and then it is gone. Your transcripts stay on this phone, encrypted. Real names never leave it. When you name a colleague, that name is replaced with a placeholder before anything is sent. There is no account, so there is nothing of yours on a server to lose. The counterpart is played by a language model, in character, and the debrief is written the same way. What you say in a run is sent as text - names already replaced - so they have something to answer. It is not used to train anyone's model. WHAT THIS IS NOT Not therapy, not HR advice, and not a script to memorise. If what you describe needs reporting rather than practice, Steady stops and says so. STEADY PRO The baseline flight, every room, an hour of practice a week, phase marks, your plan, Progress, proficiency checks, Take It Back, Compare Runs and Drills. The self-check and the whole library are free. $59.99 a year, with the first 7 days free, or $9.99 a month. Prices in your local currency are shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms: https://steadyyy.com/terms Privacy: https://steadyyy.com/privacy

Hard conversations are easier when they aren't the first time you've had them. FirstSpar is a voice-first practice simulator for difficult conversations at work. You say it out loud. An AI counterpart answers back — pushes back, gets defensive, asks the question you weren't ready for — and the conversation keeps going. Your voice is never recorded. No scripts to memorize. No role-play partner required. PRACTICE WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY ANSWER Knowing your opening line is the easy part. FirstSpar builds a counterpart from the situation you're actually preparing for — their role, their relationship to you, how they tend to react, and what they are going to disagree with. So you can rehearse the part that goes wrong: - They push back, or go quiet - They get defensive - They question your reasoning - They avoid the issue entirely - They ask the thing you hadn't thought about BUILD IT AROUND YOUR REAL SITUATION Tell FirstSpar who you need to speak with, what has been happening, how they tend to react, and what outcome you need. It turns that into a simulation with that person in it, and you have the conversation out loud. OR START FROM ONE THAT'S READY Over twenty guided scenarios, including: - Giving feedback that won't land well - Managing someone who used to be your peer - A high performer who is becoming the problem - Asking for the raise you keep putting off - An offer that came in lower than you expected - Saying no to more work - Letting someone go - Resigning without burning the bridge - A manager who won't let go GET COACHED AFTER EVERY SPAR When the conversation ends you get a debrief built from what actually happened, not generic advice. - Scored on clarity, empathy, specificity, holding the line and composure - What worked, quoted from your own conversation - One thing to try next time - Your full transcript - How ready you felt before, and after - What to practise next CHOOSE HOW HARD IT PUSHES BACK Practice — some resistance, with room to recover. Realistic — responds the way this person probably would. Pressure Test — challenges you, interrupts, and doesn't make it easy. FirstSpar Pro unlocks Realistic and Pressure Test, longer sessions, and building more conversations of your own. YOUR VOICE IS NEVER RECORDED FirstSpar turns what you say into your counterpart's reply in real time. The audio is never saved or stored. Your transcript and debrief are kept, so you can read back what you said and see whether the practice is working. Because reading advice isn't the same as saying the words out loud. Practice the conversation before it matters. Privacy Policy: https://firstspar.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://firstspar.com/terms