The Conversation Readiness Platform
Know what to say
before the conversation matters.
Prepare it. Practice it. Measure your readiness. Walk in ready.
TACT helps leaders, managers and professionals prepare for difficult workplace conversations before the stakes are real.
Words you can say out loud, then rehearse against them.
No card required · your TACT Score in about two minutes
Not sure how to say it? Start from one of these
- Names, employers, emails and numbers are removed automatically before your words reach the AI
- Your drafts stay in your account — your employer never reads them, and we never train models on them
- Readiness scored out of 100, before and after you practice
- Built by ST4Y READY Consulting · organizations see aggregate development data only
Are you ready for this conversation? Now you get an answer, not a feeling.
Every preparation and practice session is scored across four dimensions — 25 points each, 100 total. You see your readiness level, your strongest dimension, your development area, and one action to raise your score before you walk in.
25 points
Emotional regulation, empathy, professionalism, and defensiveness risk.
25 points
Purpose, desired outcome, the boundary or request, and decision clarity.
25 points
Directness, specifics, evidence, expectations, and next steps.
25 points
Urgency, setting, readiness, escalation level, and follow-up planning.
Readiness levels
- 90–100 — TACT Ready
- 80–89 — Well prepared
- 70–79 — Developing
- 60–69 — At risk
- Below 60 — Prepare before proceeding
Before and after practice
TACT records a score before you practice and again after, so growth is visible over time rather than assumed.
The TACT Score is a developmental readiness indicator. It is not a psychological, legal, HR-compliance, or clinical assessment.
Avoided conversations do not disappear.
They become:
- Performance problems
- Resentment
- Disengagement
- Turnover
- Broken trust
Most managers do not avoid these conversations because they do not care. They avoid them because they are not sure how to open, what to say, or what happens if it goes badly.
How TACT works
One loop, start to finish. You can begin preparing a real conversation in under a minute.
- Step 1
Prepare
Get clear on what needs to be said.
- Step 2
Practice
Rehearse realistic reactions before the real conversation.
- Step 3
Perform
Enter the conversation with clarity and confidence.
- Step 4
Improve
Use your TACT Score to strengthen future conversations.
Real workplace scenarios
TACT is built for the conversations managers and HR leaders actually have — not generic advice.
- Performance feedback
- Accountability
- Conflict between team members
- Managing up
- Setting expectations
- Career conversations
- Behavior concerns
- Giving difficult feedback
Develop conversation-ready managers.
For HR and L&D teams responsible for how leaders handle feedback, accountability, and conflict.
Readiness insights
See how prepared your managers are across Tone, Aim, Clarity, and Timing.
Manager development
Practice assignments and scenarios tied to the conversations your managers avoid.
Organizational trends
Track readiness over 30 days, 90 days, and all time.
Privacy-conscious analytics
Aggregated development signals — not employees' private conversation notes.
Private by design
Identifiers removed before any AI call
Names, emails, phone numbers, and similar identifiers are automatically stripped out on our servers before the AI sees your text, and only that scrubbed version is stored. Automated removal is not perfect, so avoid details you would not want saved.
Your preparation is yours
Your conversations and saved scripts belong to your account. They are not used to train AI models.
Organizations see development, not transcripts
Organizational reporting is aggregated. Employers do not get access to individual conversation notes.
TACT is an AI communication tool. It can make mistakes, and it does not provide legal, HR-compliance, or clinical advice. Read how we handle data.
What we can show you today
TACT is early. Rather than borrowed statistics, here is exactly who builds it, how readiness is measured, and how an organization can prove it works before committing.
Who builds it
ST4Y READY Consulting
A leadership and workplace communication advisory practice that works inside real escalations — performance turnarounds, terminations, restructures, and peer conflict nobody wants to document. Every script assumes it may be read back to you later.
Registered federal contractor · UEI NMXSCCWJ9MV4 · CAGE 9NSN5
About the practiceThe method is public
The TACT Score rubric, in the open
Tone, Aim, Clarity and Timing — 25 points each, 100 total. Scored before you practice and again after, so improvement is measured rather than claimed. You can see your own score before you pay anything.
Take the readiness assessmentProve it before you buy it
The 60-day organizational pilot
A defined program, not a demo: baseline readiness survey across your managers, tracked use during the pilot, exit survey, and a measured readiness delta you can take to your leadership.
See how the pilot runsPrivacy as a commitment
Your employer never reads your draft
Identifiers are automatically removed before any AI call, your content never trains a model, and organizational reporting is aggregate development data only.
Read the trust and security pageWe publish outcomes only once pilot cohorts produce them. No borrowed logos, no invented numbers.
The conversation you keep thinking about?
That is the one.
- Address poor performance
- Hold someone accountable
- Deliver difficult feedback
- Manage conflict
- Push back professionally
- Have a courageous conversation with your boss
- Communicate a decision someone will not like
Do not rehearse it in your head.
TACT it.
Prepare → Practice → Perform → Improve
48-hour founder launch — first 5 Leadership Pro subscribers
Bring one real conversation. We will prepare it together.
Join Leadership Pro in the next 48 hours and receive a complimentary 15-minute Conversation Readiness Review with TACT founder Darrius Smith.
Leadership Pro
$19.99/month after your 14-day trial. 200 AI preparations and 100 practice sessions a month under fair use, advanced roleplay, and readiness trends across Tone, Aim, Clarity and Timing.
Your readiness review
15 minutes, one on one, on one conversation you are actually facing. We set the aim, the opening line and the timing together — then you practice it in TACT.
What conversation do you need to be ready for?
Limited to the first 5 new Leadership Pro subscribers. We email you to schedule the review once your subscription starts.