Getting started
How PitchCoach AI works
Read this once and you will know everything you need. It takes about five minutes end to end, or you can jump straight to whatever you are stuck on.
Quick start
Your first session, start to finish
Five steps. The whole thing takes about ten minutes, most of which is you talking.
Create your account
Sign up and answer a few questions about what you practice, what you want out of it, and where you want the sharpest feedback. Those answers become your defaults, so you are not re-entering them every time. No card needed.
What you see: You land on your dashboard, empty for now.
Start a session
Hit Start a New Session. Before you speak, you tell us what this one is: the kind of talk, the goal, and the areas you want scrutinized. Be specific here. A wedding toast and a funding pitch get graded against completely different standards, and this is what tells us which one you are doing.
What you see: A short set of questions, then a choice between recording and uploading.
Record or upload
Record straight in the browser, or upload something you already have. Video is fine, we only listen to the audio. Twenty minutes is the ceiling per session, and the recorder stops itself when you get there.
What you see: A live timer while recording, or a progress bar while your file uploads.
Let it grade
Transcription runs first, then the analysis. Two to three minutes is typical. You can close the tab and come back, the session keeps going without you.
What you see: The status moves through transcribing, then analyzing, then complete.
Read it, then go again
The report is the point, but the second session is where this starts working. Once you have history, every new report is measured against your own average instead of a generic bar.
What you see: A score, a breakdown by category, measured delivery stats, and specific things to fix.
One thing worth doing properly
Your report
What the feedback actually means
Six things show up on a finished session. Some are always there, some depend on how you set the session up.
The score
One number out of 100 with a plain-language tier under it: 90 and up is Excellent, 80 Strong, 70 Solid, 60 Developing, and below that Keep practicing. Most solid, coherent talks land in the 80s. A 65 is not a disaster, it means there is something specific in the way.
Category scores
The overall number broken into the parts it came from, so you can see whether the problem is clarity, structure, delivery, or confidence. Once you have prior sessions, each category shows how it moved.
Delivery Vitals
This card is measured, not judged. Words per minute, how much your pace varied, how many filler words you actually said, and every pause over a second and a half. It comes from the timestamps in your recording, so the numbers are the same every time and they are not an opinion.
Your Focus Areas
If you picked focus areas when you set up the session, each one gets its own score and its own note. This is the part that changes based on what you asked for.
Your TEDx Talk
Choosing TEDx talk as the speech type swaps in a rubric built for that format: One Big Idea, Narrative Arc, Opening Hook, Emotional Resonance, and Memorable Close. Five scores, five notes.
Your Progress
A short read on what has actually changed across your recent sessions and what keeps coming back. It only appears once there is history to look at, and it will not invent a trend that is not there.
Do not chase the number
Teams
Joining a team or program
If a coach or program lead gave you an invite code, this is how you get in.
Sent a link? Just click it
- 1Sign up and finish the short set of questions.
- 2Open the menu and choose Team.
- 3Switch to the My teams tab.
- 4Paste your invite code and hit Join.
- 5Wait for the coach to accept you. Until they do, your request shows as pending and you will not see anything from the team yet.
What your coach can see
They can see
- Your finished sessions and their scores
- The full report on any of those sessions
- How often you practice and when you last did
They cannot see
- Sessions still being graded
- Sessions you deleted
- Anything at all until they accept your request
What you see of your teammates is up to the coach. They decide whether the roster, the team average, the activity chart, and the leaderboard are visible to speakers. The leaderboard is off unless they turn it on.
For coaches
Running a group
Setting up a team takes about two minutes. You need Pro to create one, your speakers do not need it to join.
- 1Go to Team and create your team. You get an eight-character invite code.
- 2Send the code to your speakers, along with a link to this page.
- 3Accept each join request as it comes in. Nothing is visible to you until you do.
- 4Set your visibility toggles: roster, team average, activity chart, leaderboard.
- 5Use messages to post to the whole group. Speakers can reply in the thread.
The roster
Every speaker with their session count, average, and last active date. Click one to open their full history, their progress chart, and any individual report.
Standouts
Top performer, most improved, most active, and who needs a nudge. The last one is the useful one. It surfaces the people who signed up and then went quiet.
Watch the quiet ones in week one
Details
Common questions
How long can a session be?
Twenty minutes. A full TEDx talk fits, with a little room. If you upload something longer it gets rejected before grading, so trim it first or split it in two.
How many sessions do I get?
Free is two per calendar month. Pro is forty. If you run out and do not want to subscribe, you can buy extra sessions on their own from the upgrade page, and those never expire.
What happens to my recording?
It is uploaded, transcribed, graded, and then deleted. We do not keep the audio or video. The transcript stays in your account so you can read it back, and it is never included in a link you share.
Can I record on my phone?
Yes. iPhone and Safari record in a different format to Chrome, which is handled for you. Use headphones or get close to the mic, since background noise costs you accuracy on the filler-word count.
What does sharing a session publish?
A single page with your score and summary. You choose whether it also shows the category breakdown and your first name. The transcript is never on it. You can stop sharing at any time and the link dies immediately.
My session says error. Now what?
Usually the audio was too quiet, too short, or over the length cap. Check the recording plays back with audible speech and try again. A session that failed before transcription does not count against your monthly total.
Still stuck? Email pitchcoachai@gmail.com and we will get back to you.
That is the whole thing
Record something today, even badly. The first report is the one that tells you what you have been doing without noticing.
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