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Simpler scenarios, more powerful practice
It's exciting to see you use Corvly for a range of practice from preparing for a podcast to having a crucial conversation with your cofounder. However, setting up practice for what matters to you was too hard. This update simplifies scenario creation and makes practice more personal, with custom questions, private guide materials, choosing who drives the conversation, clearer scoring, and personas that stay in character.
Set up a custom practice scenario in minutes
Every part of a scenario is simpler: the situation basics, one choice for who drives the conversation, private guide materials, specific questions, scoring, and sharing, all on one page. The standalone Questions page is gone. Questions live inside the scenario they belong to, so what you see in the editor is what you'll practice.
One scroll covers the whole scenario.
Focus the practice on your materials
Paste text or attach files in a scenario to focus the practice on your materials. For example, paste your promotion packet talking points so the conversation covers your actual case.
Your partner works from what you include.
Add specific questions when exact wording matters
Add custom questions and your practice partner asks them in order while still improvising natural lead-ins and follow-ups between questions. Each question can carry its own rubric, covered under scoring below.
A question with its own rubric: three criteria defining what a strong answer covers.
Quill can help set up practice with custom scenarios and personas
Quill can interview you about what you want to practice, then set up the scenario and persona for you to review.
Tell Quill what you're facing and it drafts the scenario for you to review.
Pair any scenario with any persona
Scenarios own what the conversation is about and the persona owns how it is delivered. Previously, dominant personas tended to take over the scenario. Now you can practice your scenario with a helpful, cheerful persona and then get grilled by a persona that stress-tests you, all on the same scenario and shared context.
One scenario, any partner. Pick who delivers it, from encouraging to adversarial.
Clearer scoring
Scenarios score the whole conversation against your Aim for and Avoid guidance. Specific questions can add their own answer rubric. A question that never comes up stays out of your score, so an early ending never reads as a failure.
Add materials to your plan and they carry into practice
Notes, links, and files attached to a plan are available to Quill and to the practice sessions you launch from that plan.
Also in this release
Personas now run the conversation
Corvly rehearsals now default to a scenario-led conversation. Your persona reads the scenario's topics and rubric, then decides what to ask and when, the way a real counterpart would.
Personas choose their own path through the scenario
Most scenarios used to step through a fixed prompt list in order. Now the persona works from the scenario's topics and goal, and chooses its own path through the conversation, including follow-ups you would not get from a script.
When exact wording matters, such as a specific interview question or case-study prompt, pin it. Pinned prompts still get asked, and any answer rubric attached to a pinned prompt still grounds your feedback. Everything else stays available as an advanced structured drill if you want tighter control over a scenario.
Also in this release
If you already have a scenario you rely on for exact wording, no action is needed. Add pinned prompts any time you want deterministic coverage. Everything else now rehearses as a natural conversation by default.
Start practice from the right place
Corvly makes it easier for new users to get started. Home now shows the three most common starting paths in one place: build a plan, start practice, or add opportunity context in Pipeline before rehearsing.
Home now puts Plan, Practice, and Pipeline in one starting decision.
Starter Playbooks help you avoid starting from scratch
Playbooks are starter templates for common high-stakes work conversations. This first version explores reusable practice templates in Corvly. Starting a Playbook creates a personalized plan that adapts to your progress and feedback.
A starter Playbook creates a plan with prepared milestones and practice sessions.
The first 15 founder-curated starter Playbooks cover interviews, negotiation, leadership conversations, fundraising, board prep, and career transitions. For example, you can start from Customer Interviews, Negotiate a Job Offer, Pitch Your Startup, or Big Company Leader to Startup.
Each Playbook begins as a template, then creates a plan that adapts as you practice.
More setup paths explain what to do next
Practice setup now gives more context before starting a session. Scenario and persona pickers show what is available before you open them and practice links point to the next step when setup needs more information.
Pipeline prep now handles uploaded materials and editable summaries, and Pipeline reflections now show in Daily Journal. Settings and Support are easier to scan, and signup, trial, and checkout copy now explain the next step more clearly.
Also in this release
If you are new to Corvly, start a trial and use Home to choose the path that matches what you already have: a plan, a practice goal, or opportunity context.
Corvly is open to everyone
Signups are open. Anyone can join Corvly and start a free 7-day trial today.
I started Corvly because I wanted a safer way to practice important conversations. Athletes practice before the game. Musicians rehearse before the performance. The conversations that shape your career deserve the same kind of preparation, and until now they rarely got it.
Pick the conversation that matters most right now: an interview, a promotion case, a negotiation, a presentation, or the hard conversation you've been avoiding. Run it out loud with a voice or video persona. Read the debrief, and walk away with one thing to practice next.
Plans start at $49 a month, each with the free 7-day trial.