New people practice on an AI customer, not on your pipeline.
Voice role-plays as many times as it takes, at any hour.Your real customers stay untouched while people learn.
- Fix
- Price objection met with silence twice this shift
- Say
- 12 minutes on an AI customer before the next shift
- Because
- “I’ll be honest, price isn’t the issue — timing is.”07:33
The new hire shadows someone for two weeks.
It works, and it costs two people’s time. Then they take a real call and meet an objection they have never said out loud — because listening to someone else handle it is not the same as handling it.
Three months before the first real deal
A new rep shadows calls, reads the deck, and then takes live conversations to learn on. The learning is real and so is the cost: the customers they practice on are customers you had.
The first live customer should not be the first practice run.
What changes
Rehearsal without a real customer
The hard objection, twelve times if needed, at eleven at night. Nobody is burned while they learn.
Built from your own materials
Your scripts, your standards, your recordings — not a generic course about active listening.
You see when they are ready
Not “finished the course” — passed the role-play on the objection that actually costs you deals.
How it works on your conversations
Every screen below is the product itself, running. Try one.
Put the new hire against a customer who objects
A spoken role-play with a customer who objects, hesitates, goes quiet and asks the awkward question. A customer who agrees teaches nothing. It runs at eleven at night, as many times as it takes, with no audience and no real conversation spent on the practice.A customer who objects, available at any hour, costing nobody an hour of selling.Script trainer
- Full text
- Anchors only
- From memory
- With a client
Level 3 · react without hints
Opening · first 20 seconds
Hints are hidden. Pick the reaction you would actually use.
The buyer asks for the price in the first minute, before anything has been discussed.
«How much does it cost? I am just checking what is out there.»
Pick one
Take the script away one step at a time
The same stage of the conversation in four modes: read it, practice with the wording in front of you, say it from memory, then handle it inside a full call. That last step is where knowing turns into doing, and it is the step shadowing never reaches.One stage, practiced four ways, with the prompts removed as they improve.One stage, four passes, each with less to lean on
This is the difference between reading a script and being able to run it. The same stage is done four times, and each time there is less on the screen.
Stage 5 / 18 · Part 1 · Contact and discovery
Point A: what is actually wrong today
What this stage is for Take the buyer from facts to dissatisfaction to consequence, before any presentation.
Anchors only. The sentences are gone; what is left is the order and the intent. Say it out loud in your own words.
- Ask about today
- Find the cost
- Make it personal
- Get it out loud
Reading does not count. Neither does a role-play. Only the practice and the memory pass move a station on the map, which is the answer to “are they actually learning or just clicking”.
Build the course out of what you already have
Your scripts, your recordings, your objection handling go in. Modules, tests, exercises, role-plays, an exam and a certificate come back. Nobody spends three months writing curriculum that the product has moved past by the time it ships.The onboarding material you already have, arriving as a course by the end of the week.What you put in
Your own materials. Nothing generic, nothing bought in.
The assistant drafts. A person approves. Nothing reaches the team unread.
Made from this
- 18 stages of the call map
- 3 exercises per stage
- Role-play scenarios for the opening
What comes back
- 12Modules
- 34Tests
- 54Exercises
- 18Role-plays
- 1Exam
- 1Diploma
Answer whether they are ready for a live call
The only question a manager has before handing over a real customer. Not a completion percentage: what they answered, how many attempts it took, and the exact list of what still stands between this person and their first live conversation.The gap between “finished the course” and “can take a live customer”.Sofia Marin Second week on the team
Not ready for live calls yet
Nothing here is a failure: it is week two. What is missing is listed, so nobody has to guess when she is ready.
What's left before you're ready
- 11 module tests
- 2 key exercises
- 1 capstone role-play
Conversation skills
Based on her last two evaluated role-plays, not on what she opened.
Closing — Agreeing a specific next step with a date on it.
Practice “Closing” — your weakest area. Based on your last 2 scored role-plays.
To be signed off, she must
- Pass all 11 module tests at 80% or higher
- Complete the “Discovery to mirror summary” role-play at 70% or higher
- Complete the “Objections and closing in three attempts” role-play at 70% or higher
- Pass the final exam at 80% or higher
The list is the same for everyone and visible from day one. Nobody finds out the bar after failing it.
How it lands on the onboarding you run today
- Shadowing
- Listening to someone handle an objection is a different skill from handling it. Rehearsal adds the part shadowing leaves out.
- Your best closer’s time
- The person who can train is the person you can least spare. Their calls become the material instead of their hours.
- Ramp time
- The weeks between a hire and a person who performs is the number this moves. It is visible per person, not per cohort.
- Seasonal and high-turnover teams
- Teams that double for a peak and shrink after it get people to the line in days rather than in quarters.
- Languages
- A rep in Lisbon rehearses in Portuguese, one in Berlin in German, and the manager reads both reviews in English.
What happens, and when
Week one
The scripts you already have become a course with exercises and role-plays.
Month one
New reps rehearse the objections your market actually raises.
Quarter one
You see who is ready for live calls from what they answered, not from who finished the slides.
Where to start
Each product is bought on its own. Start with the one that hurts.
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FAQ
How does a new rep practice before talking to a real customer?
A new rep practices in Spellit Academy by holding a full spoken sales conversation with an AI customer in the browser before any real customer is on the line. The AI customer opens the call, the rep answers out loud, and the customer replies in a synthesized voice. Reps can talk hands-free, hold a button while they speak, or type a line if speaking is not an option at that moment.
The AI customer can end the call if the conversation goes badly, as a real buyer would. When the rep presses Finish, a separate AI model scores the conversation, which usually takes 20 to 30 seconds. The breakdown quotes the rep's own lines and offers a better phrase for each weak spot. The rep can then run the same scenario again straight away, as many times as needed.
What is the AI customer built from?
The AI customer in Spellit Academy is built from a scenario your team writes for sales onboarding: who the customer is, what they are after, how they behave and what a successful call looks like. Your methodologist edits these scenarios and the scoring rubric in the Academy admin area, so the customer raises the objections your market raises.
The instructions for playing the customer stay on the server. A trainee sees the customer's name, position and company, and nothing about what makes this customer open up or shut down, or how the call is scored. A rep who can read the answer key is no longer practicing, which is why the product hides it. If a scenario is missing or unpublished, the role-play does not start, so the AI never falls back to playing a generic chat partner.
How does a rep go from reading the script to saying it from memory?
Spellit Academy's script trainer removes the prompts one step at a time, so a new rep moves from reading a stage of the call to delivering it without help. Each stage has a Learn mode with a sliding hint: full text first, then anchors only, then just the goal, then nothing at all.
After that comes Practice, where the rep picks the best reaction to a customer line and gets feedback immediately. Stages that have their own scenario end with a voice role-play scored on that stage's rubric. A call map shows every stage as mastered, in progress or not started, with test and role-play results on the milestone stations. When the readiness card on a trainee's dashboard shows a weak area, its Practice this link opens that exact stage in Learn mode. The rep spends time on the step that is failing instead of replaying the whole course.
How does a manager see whether a new hire is ready for a live call?
In Spellit Academy, a manager judges a new hire's readiness from that person's own test answers and scored role-plays, not from a course completion rate. The Users table lists every trainee with score, modules, tests, exam, trainings, diplomas, last sign-in and activity over 30 days, and a filter shows who has not passed the exam yet.
Opening a trainee's card shows the full breakdown of every role-play in the same form the trainee saw, with quotes and suggested phrases. Results also add up to a Client skills profile across five call stages: contact, discovery, presentation, objections and closing. By default, each stage score is the average of the last three scored role-plays, and a stage with no data shows as empty rather than as zero. From the same admin area, a manager can assign materials to a group with a deadline through a learning plan.
Are real customers involved while new reps practice?
No real customer is involved while new reps practice in Spellit Academy, because every onboarding role-play runs against an AI customer in the browser. Academy does not listen to live sales calls or score them. A rep can fumble the hard objection twelve times at eleven at night, and nobody outside your team hears it.
Real conversations can still feed the material. An administrator can add call transcripts as source content when building a course, so the practice reflects how your buyers talk. Reviewing live calls is the job of Spellit Actions, which shows what a team needs to practice based on its real calls. Turning a gap found there into an Academy scenario is a step your team takes itself. The rep's first live customer is then no longer their first rehearsal.
What does a rep need to pass a role-play?
A Spellit Academy role-play counts as passed when the scored conversation reaches your workspace threshold, which is 70 out of 100 by default. The score comes from a weighted rubric that your methodologist can edit, and the editor checks that the weights add up.
For each line of the rubric, the scoring model has to quote what the trainee said, explain what worked or failed, and give an example of a better phrase. Anti-patterns cut the score by two points each, up to six points in total. In the default sales rubric they include interrupting, long monologues, internal jargon, pressure and not closing. Tests and the final exam have their own thresholds, both 80% by default. All thresholds are set per workspace, so a team can raise the bar for live calls without rewriting content. A passed final exam unlocks a PDF diploma with a unique number.