Rehearse the conversations that decide your future.

A simulator for the moments that define you. Practice interviews, negotiations, and hard feedback with AI that plays the humans you'll face, before it's real.

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Live · 00:47
Interview · Round 1
Maya Chen, Head of Product

Walk me through a time you had to push back on a senior stakeholder. What happened?

You

Last quarter my VP wanted us to ship a feature I was convinced would hurt retention. I had two days…

Listening
Respond when ready
Feedback · Session 1
3.9 avg
Content4.2
Structure3.5
Delivery3.8
Role skills4.0
“Last quarter my VP wanted us to ship a feature…”

Tighten the situation. Name the stakes in one sentence before you dive into the timeline, interviewers anchor on impact.

Why rehearse

The moments that shape futures are the ones you can't practice.

Coaches cost $200+ per session. Books don't build muscle memory. AI chat answers questions but doesn't simulate pressure. Hopper does.

Real stakes

Real stakes, rehearsed

Interviews, raise conversations, PIPs, first 1:1s as a new manager, the conversations where one wrong answer costs you the job, the role, or the team.

Memory

Stakeholders with memory

AI characters have persistent personalities, agendas, and memory across the conversation. They push back. They remember what you said five minutes ago.

Feedback

Feedback that compounds

Every session scores you on content, structure, delivery, and role-specific skills, with quoted coaching. Watch your growth across sessions.

The library

Start with interviews. More scenarios on the way.

We're starting where the stakes are highest and the feedback loop is broken: the job interview. Every other high-stakes moment is in the lab.

Live now

The interview simulation.

Multi-round, branching, tuned to the exact role and company you're targeting. Paste a JD and interview with an AI hiring manager who adapts to your answers in real time. Voice in, voice out, scored end to end.

FormatVoice in · voice out
Length20–45 minutes
StyleBranching, role-aware
PersonalizationJD + resume + company
OutputEvidence-backed report

In the lab.

Coming soon
Difficult conversationsSoon

Hard feedback to a low performer

Deliver tough feedback to a direct report who has explanations, emotions, and pushback.

Salary negotiationSoon

Negotiating the offer

Counter a lowball. Handle a multi-offer. Push for equity. The recruiter has a target and a ceiling.

First 90 daysSoon

Your first stakeholder meeting

The room has an agenda of its own. You're expected to add value without stepping on toes.

First-time managerSoon

When team conflict surfaces in a 1:1

A star performer is complaining about a peer. You've been a manager for three weeks.

The report

When the call ends, the real coaching begins.

Every interview ends with an evidence-backed report. Not vibes. Concrete strengths and gaps, a skills delta against the role you're targeting, an action plan, and the exact moments that mattered, pulled verbatim from your transcript.

Interview report · Sample
Senior backend engineer · system design loop
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78/ 100
Solid
Headline

Strong technical foundation and confident senior-level instincts; biggest opportunity is structuring complex answers to land impact upfront.

What worked
  • Anchored every architecture decision in a tradeoff (latency vs. cost, consistency vs. availability) rather than defaulting to a stack. Strong sign of senior judgement.
  • Drove the system design conversation actively, clarifying requirements before sketching, then iterating on weak points without prompting.
  • Quantified prior wins crisply: 'cut p95 from 1.2s to 280ms by moving lookups to a Redis cache layer.' Concrete, measurable, ownership clear.
Where to sharpen
  • Buries the lede in long answers. The strongest answer about scaling the search service started two minutes in; the interviewer almost moved on before you got there.
  • When pushed on tradeoffs you hadn't pre-thought (write-heavy vs. read-heavy patterns), defaulted to listing options instead of taking a position.
  • Limited reference to mentoring or org-building. For a Staff-level loop, expect one or two questions probing on this; would prepare two concrete stories.
Skills check

Self-rating vs. evidence in the transcript.

System design· w5
0
Communication· w4
-1
Tradeoff reasoning· w4
+1
Leadership scope· w5
-1
Stakeholder management· w3
0
Notable line · From your transcript

I'd rather take the consistency hit in exchange for sub-100ms reads, because the recovery path is well-understood and the alternative locks us into a synchronous fan-out.

Textbook tradeoff articulation. This is the answer that should have opened your system design block, not closed it.
Action plan

Two things to do this week.

High priorityThis week
Adopt a topline-first answer template

Three of your strongest answers landed in the second half of the response. A two-sentence headline up front would have made the same content feel sharper to an interviewer.

High priorityNext 2 weeks
Build two leadership-scope stories

Staff loops weight 'multiplied your team' heavily. Today's transcript had no story where the impact came from someone other than you.

How it works

Three clicks to talking.

From “I need to prepare for this” to practicing it out loud, in under two minutes.

01

Pick your scenario

Browse archetypes by role and industry, or paste a job description to generate a custom simulation. Both land you in the same place: ready to practice.

02

Talk it through

Voice-first. You talk to an AI stakeholder, interviewer, manager, direct report, who adapts to what you say, pushes back, and remembers what you told them.

03

See exactly how you did

A dedicated feedback page with per-dimension scores, quoted coaching, full transcript, and the next simulation Hopper thinks you should run.

Feedback

Feedback is a destination, not a notification.

After every session you land on a full feedback page, not a pop-up, not an email. Four dimensions, quoted coaching tied to what you actually said, and a tracker that shows you getting better over time.

  • Content & substanceDid your answer hold up under scrutiny?
  • StructureSTAR and scenario-appropriate frameworks, scored against your transcript.
  • DeliveryPacing, filler words, confidence cues, the voice stuff you can't see yourself.
  • Role-specific skillsOwnership, specificity, anchoring, tuned to the scenario you just ran.
Session 4 · Salary negotiation↑ Improving
Content4.4+0.3
Structure4.1+0.6
Delivery3.6+0.5
Anchoring4.2+0.8
“I was thinking somewhere around market rate for the role…”
Lead with your number. You've given away the anchor. Try: “Based on similar roles at comparable companies, I'm targeting $185K base, where does that land for you?”
Pricing

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550 simulation credits per month, custom scenarios, progression tracker.
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  • Custom scenarios from JD + resume
  • Progression tracker across sessions
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FAQ

Questions people ask before their first run.

Is this text chat or real voice?+
Voice from day one. You talk, the AI stakeholder talks back in real time. Text fallback is available if you'd rather type, but we built Hopper because muscle memory requires hearing yourself out loud.
How realistic is the AI interviewer / manager / report?+
Each stakeholder has a persistent persona, personality, agenda, communication style, and memory across the session. They push back. They follow up. They connect what you said five minutes ago to something you said now.
What happens to my resume and transcripts?+
Resumes are encrypted at rest and tied to your account. Transcripts are retained so you can review and watch your progression. Audio is not stored, it's streamed, transcribed, and discarded. Delete your account and everything goes with it.
Can I practice for a specific company?+
Yes. Paste a job description or use on-demand generation with your target company. For marquee companies (Amazon, Meta, Google, Stripe, and 20+ others) we have curated scenario rubrics. For everyone else, Claude generates a scenario grounded in public signals about the role and company.
What if I'm preparing for something that's not on the list?+
Every paid tier includes custom scenario generation. Tell us the moment you need to rehearse, "denying a raise to a tenured employee who's threatening to leave", and Hopper builds the scenario, the stakeholder, and the rubric in under 20 seconds.
Is there a team or company plan?+
Not at launch. Hopper is self-serve for individuals in v1. Team, outplacement, and HR-department plans are on the roadmap for later this year, if that's you, drop your email and we'll reach out when it's ready.
Ready when you are

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