Work and career · 27 scenesBy rehearsing the actual conversation with someone who asks the hard questions. Kari's 27 work and career roleplays are live voice scenes: Elena from HR smiles while hiding trap questions in the interview, Víctor the boss hides behind a limited budget when you ask for a promotion, Marta from recruiting insists the offer is the top of the band, and Bosch on the steering committee gives you five minutes before he loses interest. You speak, they react, and you have a mission to complete. The report then shows what an interviewer would have noticed: filler words counted, silences over four seconds, whether you ended sentences downward or trailed off, whether you asked anything back. The evidence for the method is direct. Exposure plus skills training beats exposure alone on judge-rated skill (randomized trial, N=106, d=0.87), which is why every scene here pairs with a spoken lesson on the technique it demands.
Scene list below is the app's full work and career catalog as of 2026-09-12. Every scene is a live voice conversation; you speak, the character answers, and the session ends with a report.
You're in the make-or-break job interview to land your dream position.
Elena — the company's HR lead, very friendly, though she's hiding a few trick questions.
Mission: Present your strengths and experience with confidence without coming across as arrogant.
You're in a crucial meeting you requested yourself to talk about your future.
Víctor — he's your boss and he's pretty skeptical about your request, arguing the budget is tight.
Mission: Back up your worth with hard data and ask for your promotion clearly and directly.
You make a cold sales call to a senior executive's office.
Mr. Ferrer — a very busy, impatient exec who warns you up front he only has two minutes to hear you out.
Mission: Get past his defensive resistance in the first few seconds and get him to book a meeting.
You've just been offered the job you want, but the initial salary offer is too low.
Marta — the company's recruiting lead who stands firm, saying the current offer is the top of the salary band.
Mission: Negotiate upward and lock in your pay proposal with solid, convincing arguments.
Your boss has called you in to give you a pretty negative review of your latest performance.
Inés — a direct, demanding boss who's giving you feedback, though she's been a bit unfair on one specific point.
Mission: Hear her out without getting defensive and calmly clear up the unfair point.
You've got the tough job of telling a teammate that his performance is hurting the team.
Pablo — a teammate who's been underperforming lately and tends to get defensive at the slightest comment.
Mission: Get the problem across to him based on facts and impact, without making him feel humiliated.
You've just been handed a completely wrong coffee order at a packed counter.
Barista — an employee working under a lot of pressure, in a real rush and trying to brush off his mistake.
Mission: Claim what you ordered firmly and politely until they sort it out for you.
You're at a networking event and a mutual contact suddenly introduces you to a key person for your field.
Director Rius — a very busy professional who'll only give you thirty seconds of her valuable attention.
Mission: Give a memorable, compelling and super concise intro about yourself in under half a minute.
You walk into your direct manager's office ready to ask for the raise your new role deserves.
Boss Mireia — a pragmatic manager who'll shut down any money request by hiding behind the annual budget.
Mission: Present your wins with solid numbers, ask for an exact figure and hold your ground without apologizing for asking.
You get just five minutes to convince the impatient board of directors to fund your flagship proposal.
Committee (voice: Director Bosch) — a pragmatic senior exec with a tightly scheduled agenda who hates endless presentations.
Mission: Kick off with your main value proposition and hook his interest so they grant you a full meeting.
Your boss comes to your desk late on Friday to ask you to take on managing an urgent new account.
Boss Óscar — a very persuasive boss who tends to overload his staff by appealing to their commitment.
Mission: Turn down the task professionally by explaining your real workload and offering a workable alternative.
In the middle of the department meeting, the general director throws harsh criticism at your team's performance.
Director Camps — a very demanding executive who judges results based only on incomplete reports.
Mission: Defend your team's work by countering her criticism with hard data and without getting defensive.
You're having a beer at an industry conference cocktail when the star rep from your direct rival comes over.
Rival Genís — a very charismatic sales rep from the competition who uses friendliness to fish for info.
Mission: Keep a fun, professional conversation going without giving away any sensitive details about your current projects.
You call your most important client to tell them the project will be delayed two weeks because of a slip-up on your end.
Client Mrs. Pons — a very demanding client whose business was put at risk by a direct mistake from your company.
Mission: Own the mistake without making excuses and offer her an immediate solution to keep her trust.
You walk into your boss's office with your resignation letter after accepting an offer from the competition.
Boss Martí — a hot-tempered boss who takes team resignations as betrayal and reacts with hostility.
Mission: Announce your departure gratefully and firmly, closing out your time with professionalism no matter what.
You see the biggest name in your field chatting alone by the buffet at an event and decide this is your big shot.
Engineer Ferran — a prestigious engineer with a packed schedule who tends to dodge young pros asking for advice.
Mission: Introduce yourself with a strong hook and ask for advice so specific he can't refuse to help.
You're leading an urgent team meeting and a coworker keeps drifting off topic, eating up precious time.
Coworker Aleix — a real talker who uses any turn to speak as a chance to ramble about off-topic stuff.
Mission: Cut into his monologue assertively and steer the meeting back to the agenda without him feeling offended.
The company is reorganizing your department, they want to let you go, and they're pressuring you to sign a voluntary resignation.
Santiago — a cold, ruthless HR director looking to minimize the company's severance costs.
Mission: Refuse to sign the voluntary resignation and get them to approve an unfair dismissal with the full severance you're owed.
A top client is three weeks late sending you the copy for their website, but demands you keep the delivery date.
Andrés — a very disorganized client who's always late with his deliverables and tends to push the pressure onto his suppliers.
Mission: Get him to formally commit to sending you the materials today or to signing off on pushing the final deadline.
In the weekly team meeting, your coworker presents your automation proposal as if it were entirely his own idea.
Raúl — a very ambitious teammate who has no qualms about taking credit for others' work to shine in front of leadership.
Mission: Get him to openly admit in front of the rest of the team that the original idea and the proposal are yours.
You've sent a brand identity proposal to a client and she replies saying she's got quotes three times cheaper.
Beatriz — a tough businesswoman who wants to squeeze every resource and tends to undervalue creative design work.
Mission: Defend the standout value of your proposal and get her to accept your original quote with no cuts or discounts.
Your boss constantly interrupts you asking for status reports and check-in messages, keeping you from getting any work done.
Fernando — a very controlling, insecure boss who needs to oversee every little detail to calm his own work anxiety.
Mission: Set a clear professional boundary by agreeing on a single daily report so you can manage your day with autonomy.
You're in the final stage of the hiring process and the interviewer pressures you to reveal your current salary.
Gema — a very experienced recruiter who uses pressure tactics to find out your salary limits too early.
Mission: Dodge the question with professional grace and get her to reveal the salary range planned for the role.
A coworker from another department is trying to convince you to handle his invoices because you use the software faster.
Óscar — a coworker who takes it easy and uses charm and flattery to offload his admin tasks onto others.
Mission: Assertively refuse to take on his task and encourage him to learn to use the software on his own.
Your co-founder hasn't contributed ideas in weeks, shows up late to investor calls and seems to have lost interest.
Marcos — really burnt out on the project and evasive because he doubts you'll start billing anytime soon.
Mission: Get him to commit to an action plan of three critical tasks for this week, or agree to renegotiate his equity share.
In a crucial job interview, they ask you directly why you left your last company after only six months.
Isabel — an analytical, probing interviewer who's wary of candidates who spend little time in their jobs.
Mission: Explain your exit gracefully, without bad-mouthing your former boss, turning the move into proof of your firm values.
The only supplier who makes the part you need has raised prices 20% unilaterally, blaming transport costs.
Manuel — an old-school, very stubborn businessman who refuses to negotiate because he knows he has a waiting list.
Mission: Get to keep last year's rates in exchange for committing to a higher volume or signing a long-term contract.
Yes. Kari's interview scenes put you in front of an HR character who asks real questions, including the trap ones, and reacts to how you answer. Afterwards the report counts your filler words, measures your pauses and tells you the one thing to change before the real interview.
There are scenes for negotiating compensation, defending a promotion and pushing back on a lowball offer. The characters use the real objections (budget, band, timing), so you rehearse holding your number without permission words or over-explaining.
Yes. Scenes cover giving difficult feedback, saying no to your boss, presenting to leadership under time pressure and handling tension in a meeting. The Leadership presence skill has five spoken lessons that pair with them.
27 work and career scenes, each with a character who reacts and a report that counts what you did. Five minutes.
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