Getting Started

We're building the most powerful AI platform for practicing high-stakes conversations—whether you're preparing for job interviews, negotiating your salary, or navigating difficult workplace discussions. It's available anytime—whether it's late at night or right before a meeting—and it never gets tired.

What sets Tough Tongue AI apart?

Rich interactive tools: Our agent uses a powerful reasoning model that can write code, sketch on a whiteboard, create visual cards, and drop in diagrams—making complex ideas easy to understand and enabling hyper-realistic AI roleplays
Unique end-to-end workflow: We've built a complete system that helps you prepare with smart agenda creation, guides you through the conversation, and wraps up with detailed debriefs that give you actionable insights
Truly multimodal understanding: Beyond creating visual artifacts, our AI reads your facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language—giving you feedback on not just what you say, but how you say it

How it works:

Voice AI Coaching Agent: A low-latency front model holds the mic while a heavyweight reasoning model works in the background, powering those rich interactive experiences
Scenario Studio: Create custom practice scenarios tailored to your specific needs with our simple UI
Professional Library: Access our extensive collection of professionally-designed scenarios created by domain experts

With Tough Tongue AI, you can stumble, stammer, and say the weirdest stuff—then try again until you nail it. No judgment, no sweaty palms, and (almost) no awkward pauses.

Think of us as "Character AI for professional development" - combining the simplicity of conversational AI with powerful, multimodal coaching capabilities specifically designed to help you succeed in your career.

FAQ

What can I use this for?

Tough Tongue AI delivers high-stakes conversation training across three key areas:

Sales and Negotiation Practice sales pitches, vendor negotiations, and client conversations. Our multimodal agent creates visual cards and diagrams to explain complex strategies in real-time.

Leadership Coaching Build management skills through realistic scenarios—giving feedback, handling difficult conversations, and leading meetings. The agent remembers your progress across sessions for personalized coaching.

Job Interview Preparation Excel in high-value interviews with specialized coaching:

Coding: Agent accesses code editor, publishes questions, and provides real-time feedback
System Design: Interactive whiteboard for architectural diagrams
MBA & PM: Tailored scenarios with visual aids for case studies and product questions

Beyond these core areas, Tough Tongue AI helps anyone preparing for non-linear impact situations or upskilling their professional communication—from career transitions to executive presence development.

How can I use this for Professional Coaching?

Tough Tongue AI offers a new way to do professional coaching including leadership development. Our library has a set of scenarios that are designed for professional coaching. Some of them are:

Salary Negotiation
Performance Review
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Selling your ideas
Handling conflict at work

You can also create your a collection of custom scenarios for your firm. Tough Tongue AI is designed to work alongside traditional 1:1 coaching, giving you a handy, 24/7 resource—right when you need it, even minutes before an important meeting.

This can be good solution for: people managers, project leaders, individual contributors stepping into leadership roles, etc.

What is AI Counselling?

When you're preparing for MBA or doing a career pivot, the first step is often to understand your journey, strengths, weaknesses, and goals among other things.

This exercise often required sitting in front of paper, and trying to write down your thoughts, which can be quite lonely and hard. We have turned this into a conversational experience with AI interviewer.

We have created a collection of 10-min interactive AI counselling sessions each focusing on specific aspect of career counselling. Each session is a guided, thoughtful conversation with AI to understand your career path. Our goals here is to help you brainstorm, reflect, and ideate with AI interviewer and collect rich set of information along the way.

At the end of the career counselling session, you can run analysis and get a summary from AI on various helpful parameters. This in itself might not be the complete answer, but a good prep work before you meet coaches, peers, or mentors.

Here is more information on this feature.

How can I get my Tough Tongue AI subscription reimbursed?

If you're using Tough Tongue AI at Google, you can now get your subscription reimbursed as part of job-related and personal learning benefits.

We're actively working to expand this program to more companies. If you'd like your organization to be added to our list of supported companies, please send us your Learning & Development team's contact information so we can follow up with them.

To request reimbursement from your employer, you can download our official reimbursement letter from our Resources page. This document outlines the professional development benefits of Tough Tongue AI and can be submitted to your HR or finance department.

How to write good prompt for Scenario creation?

Scenario input decides three key things:

Role of the AI agent including tone it takes and how it behaves
The agenda of the conversation that AI agent will follow
Evaluation criteria for the conversation

We generally get questions on first two points. Here are some tips to create good prompts for AI agent role and agenda:

Recommend naming scenario as [Coach Name]:[Situation]. For example, "PM Interviewer: Analytics Question", "Dating Coach: First Date", and "MBA Interview: Kellogg School of Management". This helps AI agent to understand the context and behave accordingly.
Use "You are [Role]" to set the role of the AI agent. For example, "You are a PM Interview Coach helping candidates with analytics questions". Whenever possible, also give a tone: postive, abnoxious, humorous, skeptical, etc.
For agenda, you can add list of questions that AI agent will ask and how it should probe/follow up
It's generally good idea to give example based on the role and agenda. One easy way to do this is to add context: PDF document, link of blog post, youtube video link, etc. For example, if you found a nice interview blog or youtube video, you can use it as context for AI to behave in the conversation.

Third, is specific to interview scenario, where the scoring criteria is generally more clear. If no scoring criteria is provided, AI evlautes on general professionalism and communication skills.

How to create scenarios of specific length?

The AI agent will naturally disconnect the call when it sees all agenda items have been covered and the discussion has reached its conclusion. However, you can also set a fixed time limit for your scenarios:

Enable "Conductor Mode" in the conversation strategy settings
Use conductor messages to control the timing:
- For example, to end at exactly 10 minutes, add a message at 600 seconds (10 × 60) instructing the AI to disconnect
- For a smoother conclusion, add a warning message at 540 seconds (9 minutes) telling the AI "You have one minute left to conclude the discussion"
- Then add a final message at 600 seconds saying "Now immediately disconnect the session and say thank you"

This approach allows you to create consistently timed scenarios, which can be useful for standardized interviews or time-constrained practice sessions.

How to choose a conversation strategy?

When creating a scenario, you can choose from three different conversation strategies, each designed for specific use cases:

Talkative Mode: In this mode, the AI agent leads the conversation and will continue with its agenda even if the human participant remains silent. This is ideal for interview practice or scenarios where you want continuous guidance from the AI.
Quiz Mode: After completing the session, this mode immediately jumps to analysis, similar to how a quiz would function. There is no avatar display to offer a simple and uniform AI conducted quizzing experience.
Conductor Mode: This strategy allows you to instruct the AI to perform specific actions at precise moments during the conversation. You can set timed messages that tell the AI what to say or do at specified seconds into the conversation, including ending the call at a predetermined time.

Choose your strategy based on your conversation goals - whether you need a guided experience, quiz experience, precisely timed interactions or a mix of these strategies.

How can I embed AI conversation experience in my app/website?

We provide an easy-to-use widget to embed the AI conversation experience into your app or website. This can be achieved with just a few lines of code in a matter of minutes.

Check out this demo to see it in action. Here is a example integration page for a popular scenario for reference.

Why did my session got disconnected?

We limit the conversation length to based on token consumed (typically 10-12 min). This is a temporary limitation, and we're working on extending it in a cost-effective manner. In some case, when you use video, the token consumption is higher and hence conversation length is lower.

That said, you can restore it and continue from where you left off by visiting the session analysis page. Just click the restore button, and the AI will resume the conversation right from where it was interrupted. Learn more in the "Can I restore a disconnected session?" section below.

Do you offer an option to switch languages?

Yes! You can set your preferred language in the settings page:

Enable "AI language assistance"
Select your preferred language
The AI will now respond in your chosen language across all conversations

For Scenario Creators: Configure language in two ways:

Voice Accent: Set the language code (e.g., "fr-FR") in the "Appearance" section
Response Language: Include explicit instructions in your prompt (e.g., "Respond in French")

For Scenario Creators: Configure language in two ways:

Voice Accent: In the "Appearance" section when editing your scenario, select the appropriate language code (e.g., "fr-FR" for French). This controls the accent of the AI's voice.
Response Language: In your scenario instructions, explicitly tell the AI which language to use. For example: "Respond to the user in French."

Tips:

For a complete language experience (e.g., French speaking with French accent), set both the language code AND include language instructions in your prompt.
You can create interesting combinations - like setting French language code with instructions to speak English (resulting in English with a French accent).
Language settings in user preferences will override your scenario settings, so inform users to disable the language assistance feature for the intended experience.

My audio is not working. What can I do?

If you're experiencing audio issues, please follow these steps:

Navigate to the library page and attempt to start a scenario from there. This will display a pre-check screen showing which permissions are available or missing.
If microphone access is denied:
- Chrome: Click the lock/camera icon in the address bar (top left) to manage site permissions
- Safari: Click Safari in the top menu bar, then Preferences/Settings > Websites (top menu) > Microphone (left menu). Find our website in the list and select "Allow" from the dropdown menu
- Firefox: Click the permission icon in the address bar

You can view this demo for a step-by-step walkthrough on how to assign permissions.

If you're still experiencing issues after following these steps, you can book a time on our calendar for personalized assistance.

How can I delete my session data?

You can delete all your session data, including recordings, associated metadata, and analysis using the delete button on the session analysis page.

When you delete a session, all data related to that session will be permanently removed from our servers, giving you complete control over your privacy.

You can view this demo to see how to use the delete feature.

Can I restore a disconnected session?

If your session gets disconnected for any reason (internet issues, token limits, etc.), you can restore it and continue from where you left off. This feature is available on the session analysis page.

By clicking the restore button, the AI will resume the conversation right from where it was interrupted, allowing you to:

Continue sessions that exceeded the token limit
Resume sessions that were disconnected due to internet issues
Effectively have longer conversations by breaking them into segments

Watch this demo to see how to use the session restoration feature.

Limitations

Conversation Duration: Limited to 10-12 minutes per session (based on token consumption)
Use Chrome browser for best experience. We test and ensure you have the best experience on Chrome. Recording has issues on Safari.

We can't wait to see what you do with Tough Tongue AI!

Happy practicing!

For any questions, please reach out at help@getarchieai.com.