Five minutes a day. Measurable communication gains.

ConvoForge is a daily coaching practice, not a course you binge. Each session gives you a one-minute Carnegie lesson, a 90-second practice prompt, and an honest score with one concrete thing to work on tomorrow.

How it works

1. Lesson. An AI avatar reads a 60-second lesson drawn from a Carnegie principle, reframed for modern remote work.
2. Practice. You speak your answer to a short prompt. Your camera analyzes posture and eye contact entirely on-device — frames never leave your browser.
3. Feedback. A Forge Score from 0–100 with one specific insight: the filler you repeat, the hedge you lean on, the moment you broke eye contact.
4. Streak. Do it tomorrow. The lessons compound.

What we measure

• Verbal: filler rate (um / uh / like), hedging, words-per-minute, conciseness.
• Visual: eye-contact percentage, smile frequency, posture openness — all via Google MediaPipe running locally.
• Contextual: Carnegie alignment and sincerity, scored by Anthropic Claude on your transcript.

Privacy by design

No account, no email, no PII. A random UUID in your browser is the only identifier we keep. Video stays on your device. Audio is transcribed in real time and not retained. Read the policy.

The free curriculum

Anyone can do the first five lessons. Each is a self-contained principle and practice prompt:

1. #1
   The Power of a Name

   Personalizing digital openers (Slack, Email, LinkedIn) to cut through the noise.
2. #2
   Smile on Camera

   Projecting warmth and presence in high-stakes video calls even when you're tired.
3. #3
   Kill the Filler

   Using strategic pauses to eliminate 'um', 'ah', and 'like' for more authority.
4. #4
   Become Genuinely Interested

   Active listening and room-reading in a hybrid work environment.
5. #5
   Let Others Talk

   Facilitating vs dominating meetings. Learning when to yield the floor.
6. #31
   The 3-Sentence Slack Message

   Slack channels are firehoses. A tight message gets read; a wall of text gets skimmed or ignored.
7. #32
   The Email That Doesn't Need a Meeting

   Meeting fatigue is real. A well-structured email saves everyone thirty minutes and gives them time to think.
8. #33
   Status Updates That Travel

   Your manager forwards your update. Their manager skims it. Structure compounds across the chain.
9. #34
   Loom in 90 Seconds

   Loom and similar tools let you replace meetings, but a 10-minute ramble does more damage than a 3-line email.
10. #35
    The Good-Enough Slack Reply

    Every Slack ping pulls you out of flow. You can honor the sender without stopping your own work.
11. #159
    Names Under Pressure

    Live introductions — a meeting, a work event, a first call — where your brain blanks the instant someone says their name, and the panic of not wanting to ask again makes it worse.
12. #161
    Reframing the Fear

    That racing-heart, tight-chest feeling right before you join a group conversation you're dreading — a meeting, a call, a work social — and the instinct to read it as dread instead of energy.
13. #160
    Finding Your Voice in the Room

    Sitting silent in a meeting because you're waiting to feel confident first — when speaking, even briefly, is what actually produces the confidence, not the other way around.
14. #162
    The Opener That Isn't a Line

    Standing at the edge of a work social or a friend's group hangout, mind blank, convinced everyone else has a better opening line than you do.
15. #163
    The One Follow-Up Question

    Someone answers your question with one flat sentence, the silence lands, and it feels like the conversation just died — when really it just needs one more question to open back up.
16. #164
    Permission to Leave

    Staying stuck in a conversation five minutes past the point you had anything left to say, because you can't find a way out that doesn't feel abrupt or rude.