Practise your pitch out loud, hear what the buyer hears, and sharpen it against other members in live pitch battles.

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Before and after

“Opening a discovery call.”

The same voice answers twice. Press play and follow along.

Illustrative voices

The first answer

Hey, um, thanks for, uh, taking the time. So basically we’re, like, a platform that kind of helps teams with, um, a bunch of stuff around reporting, I guess, and, yeah.

Pace
before 167, words a minute.
Fillers
before 6, marked words.
Hedges
before 2, marked phrases.
Pauses
before 2, 0.35 s or longer.

Measured on these two clips. Pace is words over the clip’s length; pauses are silences of 0.35 seconds or longer. Fillers are marked, hedges underlined. One synthesised voice reads both takes.

Where it goes wrong

Three things to practise, each with its instrument.

  1. 01 / 03

    Open with energy, not filler.

    The first ten seconds decide if they keep listening.

    • Energy and pitch range measured on every take
    • Filler words flagged on the timeline where they cost you attention
    • Find the opening you would buy from

    Energy, first ten seconds

    Move across Sample

    Second 7
    Flat
    41
    Lifted
    77

    The first ten seconds decide if they keep listening.

  2. 02 / 03

    Pace that sounds like control.

    Rushing sounds like pressure. Pausing sounds like confidence.

    • See your pace in words per minute, and where it spikes
    • Practise the pause after the price
    • Handle objections without speeding up

    Silence after the price

    Move across Sample

    Pause
    1.6 s
    Sounds
    Held

    Let the price land.

  3. 03 / 03

    Pitch against a real person.

    Practise with stakes.

    • Live Battles: two speakers, a timed turn each, judged on clarity, tonality, structure, energy and intellect
    • Rounds in the Exprea app: speak when called up, and the room rates you on five axes
    • Watch your win rate climb with your scores

    Live battle scorecard

    Point at an axis Sample

    ClarityTonalityStructureEnergyIntellect
    You
    Opponent

    Two speakers, five axes, one judge.

Your place on the Path

Start at Level 4: Persuasion.

Five levels, one question each. Open any of them to see what it asks of you.

Level 4 · Start here

Persuasion

Can I move someone?

You can argue for your own work and change what happens to it.

Moving somebody. Making a case a person can act on, and staying standing when they push back on it.

See the whole Path

Free, about three minutes

Hear yourself the way they will.

A free 3-minute Communication Analysis shows where you stand today.

Start the free analysis

Speech thirds

  • Opening

    0.22

  • Body

    0.55

  • Close

    0.23

Vocabulary diversity

  • Ideal
  • You
  • Average

  • Narrow

  • Varied

Questions

Record your pitch out loud. Exprea reports on pace, energy, filler words and pauses, and tells you the one thing to change first.

Two speakers, a timed turn each, judged on clarity, tonality, structure, energy and intellect. Turns run from one to three minutes depending on the format.

Yes. Record your answers to the objections you hear most and work on staying calm and clear.

Yes. You practise the delivery itself. Exprea does not join or record your live calls.

Individuals can start with a free first week. For teams, write to [email protected].

Something else? Every question we get asked, or write to us.

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