Say it out loud
You answer out loud, the way you will on the day, not in your head.
RoundZero
Career coaching for your next move.
Call Carmen and her team about a job, a promotion, a team you are building, or a business you want to grow. Talk it through until the next step is clear.
For people, teams, and builders. Free to use, plus 30 voice minutes on us. No card.
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Whatever you are building next.
A new role, growth on your team, a business idea, or a skill you need. Pick a focus and Carmen builds the plan around it.
Built on research people still use.
Each step of a practice round comes from published work on how people get better at things, and how interviews are scored fairly. Labs study it. Hiring teams run it. Serious careers are built on it.
One fix, not ten
After each answer you get the one change most worth making, about the answer, not about you.
Take Two
Answer the same question again with the fix, so you hear yourself get it right.
Spaced reps
Come back to a question over several days instead of drilling it all in one night.
Coming up
Give your interview a date and turn the night before into if-then steps: if I blank, then I...
Scored on anchored rubrics
Every question is scored against the same written levels, the way a structured interview is.
Who trains this way
Researchers who mapped the methods, and practitioners who hire and grow people with them. Member stories stay off until we have written consent on file.
From the researchSay it out loud
“Getting better is not about logging hours. It is about focused practice on a specific weakness, with feedback, repeated until the hard part moves.”
K. Anders Ericsson
Psychologist, deliberate practice research
Summarised from Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Römer (1993) on deliberate practice.
From the researchOne fix, not ten
“Feedback helps when it points at the task. It often hurts when it points at the person. One clear fix beats a pile of judgment.”
Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi
Feedback intervention researchers
Summarised from Kluger and DeNisi (1996) meta-analysis on feedback interventions.
From the researchTake Two
“The strongest way to believe you can do something is to succeed at it yourself, not to watch someone else or get pep talks.”
Albert Bandura
Psychologist, self-efficacy research
Summarised from Bandura (1977) on performance accomplishments as a source of self-efficacy.
From the researchSpaced reps
“Spreading practice across days beats cramming the same amount into one night when you need to remember it later.”
Nicholas Cepeda and colleagues
Learning scientists, spaced practice
Summarised from Cepeda et al. (2006) on distributed practice.
From the researchComing up
“People who decide in advance, if X happens then I will do Y, follow through on hard goals more often than people who only set the goal.”
Peter Gollwitzer and Paschal Sheeran
Researchers on if-then planning
Summarised from Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006) on implementation intentions.
In practiceScored on anchored rubrics
“The same questions, scored the same way, beat unstructured chat when you are trying to predict who will do the job well.”
Laszlo Bock
Former SVP of People Operations, Google
Summarised from Work Rules! and Google re:Work guidance on structured interviewing.
Our own numbers
We re-score the same answers to check our scoring holds steady.
- Same answer, scored twice: how often the score matches
- 94% within 5 points
- Average gap between two scores of one answer
- 2.8 points
- Answers re-scored so far
- 3,400+
Meet your AI team.
Carmen is your coach for careers, teams, and businesses. She brings in the right specialist when you need one. Tap to hear each voice.
Carmen
Career Coach
One clear next step, never busywork.
Chama
Career Strategist
Shows you the trade-offs honestly.
Nora
Research Lead
Tells you how sure she is.
Vera
Résumé and Profile Writer
Writes only what you can back up.
Theo
Practice Coach
Practises with you until it feels natural.
Kai
Communication Coach
Rehearses with you, so you never sound scripted.
Start free. Upgrade when you want more.
Every plan includes Carmen and the whole team, whether you are growing a career, a team, or a business.
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- Voice sessions up to 15 minutes
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200 minutes every 30 days. Cancel anytime.
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- Voice sessions up to 30 minutes
Questions, answered
Round Zero is an AI career coach, Carmen, with a team of specialists behind her. Tell her where you want to go, whether that is a new role, growth in your job, leading a team, starting a business, or learning a skill, and she builds a plan around your background. She brings in the right specialist for each step: strategy, research, résumés, practice, and hard conversations.
Open your team and call Carmen or any one of her specialists, or call the whole team and whoever fits the question answers. You talk, they answer out loud in their own voice, one at a time. The transcript is saved, so you can pick it up later in chat. Calls use your voice minutes.
ChatGPT is great for a quick answer. Round Zero is built for getting somewhere: it remembers your goal, résumé and practice history in one place, you practise out loud and get scored with quotes from what you actually said, and each part of your career is handled by a specialist, with Carmen keeping it together. Vera only writes what you can back up, and Nora shows her sources.
Yes. People use Carmen to grow in their role, lead a team, develop people around them, and to shape, pitch, and grow a business. Tell her whether you are building a career, a team, or a company, and she starts from there.
Pick a role or paste a job description, choose voice or text, and a live AI interviewer asks role-specific questions and pushes back on your answers. You get an evidence-backed score when you finish. Practice is one focus among several, not the whole product.
A coach for your line of work
Practice when the moment asks for it
Interviews, pitches, and hard talks, ready when you are. One focus among many.
Your next step starts today.
Tell Carmen whether you are growing a career, a team, or a business. She builds the plan around that focus, with practice ready when you need it.
Free to use · 30 voice minutes on us
Round Zero is an AI career coach, Carmen, with a whole team behind her. Use it for career development as an individual, for growing and leading a team, or for starting and growing a business. Tell her whether you want to land a new job, change careers, get promoted, learn a skill, pitch an idea, or talk something through, and she builds a plan around your background. Mock interview practice, résumé tailoring, LinkedIn audits and company research are included when you need them. 30 free minutes, no card needed.