01The problem
Executive coaching costs $500/hour. The people who benefit most from coaching, new managers, high-potentials, individual contributors navigating complex organizations, almost never get it. HR buys workshops. Managers get nothing between those workshops.
The question we asked: what if you could give every employee the equivalent of a world-class coach, available whenever they need it?
02What we built
Risely is a full AI coaching platform, not a chatbot. It covers 83 workplace skills across manager and IC tracks, runs in voice and text, works in 40 languages, and lives natively inside Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Tech highlights
- Conversational AI with 83 distinct skill coaching programs
- Voice + text input across 40 languages
- Slack and Microsoft Teams native integration
- Separate tracks for managers and individual contributors
- Daily nudges with 73% engagement rate
- Session-based coaching with 15-message avg depth
03Outcomes
- 5,000+
- users coached
- 40+
- companies
- 10
- countries
- 26%
- avg skill improvement in 12 weeks
- 87%
- of invited users engage in week one
- 82%
- still engaging at day 30
What this means for you
We didn't consult on Risely. We built it end to end, in production, at scale. Every decision about architecture, AI model selection, UX, and business model was ours to make and ours to live with. That's the difference between a studio and a consultancy.