Your CTO just asked you a question you half-know the answer to. What do you say?

Parod sends you realistic workplace questions from AI personas and evaluates how well you communicate - not just whether you knew the answer. Written feedback, calibrated to your career level, delivered in minutes.

See how it works

The problem nobody teaches you to solve

You're good at your job. You can debug a distributed system, design an API, review a pull request with your eyes half-closed.

Then someone walks over - or drops into your DMs - and asks a "quick question." Maybe it's your CTO wanting a status update in 30 seconds. Maybe it's a PM asking you to explain your architecture decision without jargon. Maybe it's a skip-level VP you talk to three times a year, and every answer is forming an impression.

You know the answer. But the pressure of the moment makes you over-explain, under-explain, bury the point, or freeze entirely.

This isn't a knowledge problem. It's a communication and composure problem. And there's nowhere to practise it - because you can't rehearse being put on the spot.

That's what Parod is for.

How it works

You get a question

A realistic workplace scenario from one of Parod's AI personas. Not a generic quiz - a specific situation with a specific person who has specific expectations.

You write your answer

Type your response the way you'd actually reply in a Slack message, an email, or a meeting. Don't know the answer? Hit "let me find out" - you'll get a quick primer and research pointers before you respond. Just like real life.

You get honest feedback

A score, specific strengths, specific improvements, and an example of what a strong answer looks like at your target career level. Not "good job!" - actual feedback. The kind a great mentor gives.

See it in action

Here's a mid-quality answer to Orla's question - the kind you might actually send on Slack. Hit send and see what Parod would say.

Demo session

Orla

Orla, your Tech Lead, catches you on Slack 30 minutes before the planned release.

I need a quick sanity check - we're about to ship the new checkout flow to 100% of users but staging tests passed on only 60% of our test cases. The PM is pushing to go live by EOD. What's your take?

Watch Orla's reply appear here…

The people you'll practise with

Fifteen personas, each with a different communication style and different expectations. What impresses Derek will bore Helen. What satisfies Orla will confuse Meg. That's the point of Parod, you have to adapt to each one.

Derek

CTO

The CTO - terse, wants the bottom line fast, hates waffle

Meg

Product Manager

The PM - non-technical, needs analogies, asks "but why?"

Orla

Tech Lead

The Tech Lead - wants precision, edge cases, trade-offs

Aled

Intern

The Intern - intimidated, vague questions, needs encouragement

Marcus

Principal Architect

The Architect - challenges assumptions, plays devil's advocate

Helen

Director of Engineering

The Director - business-focused, wants impact not implementation

Raj

VP of Engineering

The VP - calm, open-ended, evaluating judgment

Suki

Senior Designer

The Designer - visual thinker, empathy-driven, cross-disciplinary

Finn

External Client

The Client - professional, direct, paying for results

Freya

Engineering Manager

The EM - empathetic, recently promoted, wants honesty

Theo

Security Engineer

The Security Engineer - defaults to no, wants risks explicit

+4 more

Nadia, Ellis, Malcolm, and Sammy - each one a different kind of difficult.

Built for every level

Junior engineers

Get questions about fundamentals from peers and managers. The focus: clarity and confidence.

Mid-level engineers

Face design decisions and trade-off questions from tech leads and PMs. The focus: depth and audience-awareness.

Senior engineers

Tackle system-level thinking and cross-team communication from directors and architects. The focus: strategic framing and leadership communication.

Staff and principal engineers

Handle executive communication, organisational strategy, and external stakeholders. The focus: influence and business impact.

You set your current role and your target role. Parod calibrates everything - the questions, the evaluation, the scoring - to the gap between where you are and where you're going.

Pricing

Free

£0 forever

Dip your toes in.

✓ 1 question per week
✓ Choose from 3 free personas
✓ AI-evaluated feedback
✓ Score + strengths & improvements

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Questions

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT to quiz me?

ChatGPT can ask you a question. It can't pretend to be Derek - a CTO with 30 seconds of patience - then evaluate whether your answer was calibrated for his seniority, track your improvement over 8 weeks, and push back with a follow-up that references the specific weakness in your response. Parod isn't an AI conversation. It's a structured coaching system with personas, career-level evaluation, progression tracking, and a question library designed by engineers.

What if I don't know the answer to a question?

Hit "let me find out." You'll get a quick primer on the topic, key concepts to understand, and search terms to research further. Then come back and answer with what you've learned. In real life, "let me look into that and get back to you" is a valid professional response. Parod treats it the same way.

Is this just for Senior+ engineers?

No. The questions and evaluation adjust to your level. Junior engineers get questions about fundamentals evaluated on clarity and confidence. Staff engineers get questions about organisational strategy evaluated on executive communication. You set your current role and target role - Parod calibrates to the gap.

What does "written-first" mean?

You type your answers. Engineers communicate primarily through writing - Slack, pull requests, design docs, emails. Every competitor in AI communication coaching focuses on speech. Parod evaluates the quality of what you communicate, not how you sound saying it.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Monthly billing, cancel whenever. No contracts, no hoops.

What's "Parod" mean?

It's Welsh for "ready." Our parent company is Druidic. Yes, we have a theme.

Be prepared

Your next hard question is coming. It might be tomorrow in a stand-up, next week in a 1:1, or next month in a skip-level. Parod makes sure you're ready for it.