Push back on your boss.
Without burning the bridge, without folding into yes.
Rehearse the conversation you’re dreading.
You don’t read your way to brave. You rehearse it — in a room that pushes back.
Name the talk, or describe your own — the people, what you want, what you’re afraid will happen. A whole room appears and reacts: someone digs in, someone might back you, the rest read the room. You choose your move, watch it land, feel the tension shift. Three minutes later, a coach reads you back — what worked, and the one thing to try next time.
- A room of people who react — not a chatbot
- Private to you — no company dashboard
- Cancel in two taps
Three minutes to your first debrief. No card. Then $11.99/mo — cancel anytime.
↓ Try a move — the room responds
Plan · Build alignment on track Round 1 / 12
Room read
You already know which one
The talk that’s been “next week” for a month.
The one you’ve drafted in the shower and deleted in the driveway. The one where you can already hear exactly what they’ll say back.
That’s the one. Start there.
Practice the difficult conversation you’re actually facing.
Start with one of these — or describe your own, and Kommi builds that room for you in seconds. Either way it’s a real scene, with named people who push back, not a script to memorize.
Don’t see yours? Describe it — who’s in the room, what you want, what you’re dreading — and Kommi conjures the scene. “Push back on your boss” comes as a guided walkthrough that runs the same conflict three different ways; everything else is yours to build. All of it on thirteen years of leadership-simulation research from vLeader.
Three steps, in the time it takes to make coffee.
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Describe the conversation that's been costing you sleep.
Who's in the room, what you want, what you're afraid will happen. No goal hierarchies — just your real situation, in your words. Kommi builds the room from it in seconds.
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Step into a room that reacts — and learn to read it.
Real people with their own loyalties and their own readiness to help or flinch. Make your move — to an idea, or to a person — and watch opinions shift, sides form, tension rise and break. You feel the room move, and learn how to move it.
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A short read of what happened, and the one thing to try.
Not a scorecard, not seventeen tips. One honest observation about what you did and one adjustment for next time — kept as a record of your reps, so you can watch the reflex build.
What actually changes
One rehearsal, and you’ve already done it once.
Not a new personality. Not a script to memorize. Just the difference between a thing you’ve done once and a thing you’ve only imagined.
Replayed in your head for the third night — unchanged.
You’ve already had it once, badly, in private. Thursday is the second time.
“I’ll bring it up next week.” For a month.
You brought it up Tuesday.
You freeze the second they push back.
You’ve heard the pushback before. You already have a line.
The right reply lands at 2 a.m. — too late.
The reply lands now, on time, and it’s yours.
Reading is not rehearsal.
You can read a thousand articles on assertive communication and still find your throat closed at 2:14pm on a Tuesday. Reading explains the move. Practice is how you become able to make it.
The hardest conversations don't fail at the level of advice. They fail at the level of nervous system — the small physiological cascade that begins the moment your manager leans back, that your body has been rehearsing in their direction since high school. Tips don't reach that layer. Practice does.
It's the same reason exposure therapy works when worksheets don't. Pilots fly simulators before they fly people. Surgeons train on cadavers and silicon before they cut. Athletes rehearse free throws after the game has already been won. The professions where being calm under pressure matters most have all arrived at the same answer: you cannot think your way to a skill that lives in your body. You have to run the play.
Kommi is a flight simulator for the talks you've been avoiding. The room won't tilt your way for free — the people in it hold real opinions that shift as you talk, take sides, dig in. You learn to read that, to build a little alignment before you push, to recover when a move lands wrong. You'll get it wrong, watch it go sideways, and try again — before it counts. That's how the second time the real conversation comes around, it isn't your first rep.
It's not a course. It's a dress rehearsal for the rest of your week.
The fair question
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
You can, and you probably already have. A chatbot will happily tell you what to say. The difference is whether you ever actually say it — to faces that don’t cooperate — before it counts. That’s the part Kommi is built for.
Kommi
A chatbot
A live coach
You practice saying the words, out loud
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A whole room reacts — opinions shift, sides form
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Builds the room from your real situation
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A read of what you did — and one next move
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Private, on demand, at 3am
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Costs less than a coffee a week
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Nothing here is a slight — a good coach is worth every dollar, and a chatbot is a fine sounding board. Kommi just does the part neither of them does: the actual rehearsal, in a room that pushes back, with a read at the end.
The receipts, not the pitch
13yrs
of leadership-simulation research behind the scenarios, via vLeader.
~50k
labeled human utterances in the corpus the coaching model learned from.
3min
from opening the scene to reading your debrief. Coffee takes longer.
0
of your conversations are used to train AI. Your transcripts stay yours — and deletable.
$11.99 a month.
A coach with a calendar runs two hundred dollars an hour. Kommi runs roughly forty cents a day — and is awake when you can't sleep, which is when most of these conversations are actually being rehearsed anyway.
We don't have a free tier, a team plan, or a premium upsell. One price, no pricing page riddle. If we add tiers later, we'll do it because users asked — not because a growth deck did.
$11.99 / month
About forty cents a day.
An executive coach ~$200 / hour
- Two free sessions, no card required
- Then $11.99 a month — about forty cents a day
- Unlimited sessions — any conversation you can describe
- A coaching read after every session, and your progress over time
- Cancel in two taps; we'll remember you if you come back
One conversation you’d have talked yourself out of is worth years of this. Or just sleep better on Wednesday. Either way.
Run your first rehearsal — free, no cardUS only at launch. We'll get to the rest of the world.
The risk, reversed
You’ll never pay to form a first opinion of Kommi.
Two full sessions before a card is ever asked for. Not for you? Walk away owing nothing — we’ll remember you if you come back.
Reasonable questions.
Anything we missed? Write us at hello@kommi.app. A human reads them.
- How is this different from practicing with ChatGPT? +
- A chatbot tells you what to say — Kommi makes you do it. Instead of one assistant that agrees with you, you face a whole room: several people who each react on their own, take sides, warm up or dig in as you talk. You practice reading the room and finding your words under real pressure, then get a short coaching read. It's the rehearsal, not the advice.
- Can I practice my own exact situation? +
- Yes — that's the point. Describe who's in the room, what you want, and what you're dreading, and Kommi builds that exact scene: the people, what's on the table, how they lean. There's also a guided walkthrough that runs one conflict three different ways so you feel the trade-offs of each approach.
- Does the room actually react like real people? +
- It's built on thirteen years of leadership-simulation research. Each person holds opinions that genuinely shift as the conversation moves — they form alliances, lose patience, come around. You can watch the room's mood change in real time, which is exactly the thing you're practicing to read.
- Is this therapy? +
- No, and we'd never pretend it is. Kommi is rehearsal, not treatment. If a conversation is wrapped up in something therapy is built for, please bring it to a therapist — and run the rehearsal here for the parts that aren't.
- Will rehearsing make me overthink the real thing? +
- It can, if you treat it as choreography. We'd rather you treat it as a warm-up — the way a musician runs scales so the concert feels freer, not more rigid. The point is to have felt the awkwardness once already, so the second time your hands are steadier.
- Do you train your AI on what I say? +
- No. Your sessions aren't used to train models. We retain transcripts only long enough to write your coaching read; you can delete the whole archive from your account at any time.
- Can I use it without a microphone? +
- Yes. Every round is playable by tap — choose from the suggested moves, or type your own line. Voice is offered, never required.
- Will my employer know? +
- No. Kommi is a private subscription, billed to you, on your phone. There's no company dashboard, no manager view, no leaderboard. Your account is yours.
- Is it actually a phone-only thing? +
- It's a progressive web app that runs beautifully on iOS Safari and Chrome. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app. We'll consider a desktop version when our users tell us they need one.
- Where does the coaching come from? +
- A small language model fine-tuned on a labeled corpus of about fifty thousand utterances from the original simulation, plus a coaching framework drawn from the same lineage. The intent is short, specific, and human-readable feedback — not a personality cult.
The conversation is on Thursday. Begin tonight.
No card. Three minutes. Then you decide.