Candor

Honest coaching for how you really show up.

Most professionals leave meetings not knowing if their thinking landed. Candor analyses your meeting transcripts and gives you specific, honest coaching — grounded in the best leadership frameworks — so you can communicate with more impact, every time.

Grounded in real moments

Coaching tied to what actually happened in your meeting, not generic advice.

Built for your context

Tailored to your specific role, audience dynamics, and professional situation.

Sharper over time

Tracks your communication patterns across sessions so you can see real progress.

The Method

Trained on the frameworks that shape how leaders actually communicate.

Candor doesn't invent advice. It coaches you through the lens of the practitioners, researchers, and operators who have spent decades studying how thinking lands in a room — and where it doesn't.

Core product leadership

The operating philosophy behind how the agent reads product decisions, prioritisation, and team dynamics.

5+

Marty Cagan · Inspired · Empowered

Empowered product teams and the language of outcomes over output.

Gibson Biddle · DHM Model

Delight, hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing — the lens for evaluating strategic bets.

Teresa Torres · Continuous Discovery Habits

Opportunity-solution trees and evidence-backed reasoning.

Petra Wille · Strong Product People

How PM craft and growth actually get coached in practice.

Peter Drucker · The Effective Executive

Executive effectiveness — time, contribution, decisions, priorities.

Communication & presence

How leaders shape thinking into something that lands in the room.

5+

Julie Zhuo · The Making of a Manager

Clarity in 1:1s, feedback, and the everyday craft of leading through words.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett · Executive Presence

Gravitas, communication, and appearance as readable signals — not vibes.

Liz Wiseman · Impact Players

How the highest-impact contributors frame problems and make themselves useful under ambiguity.

Barbara Minto · The Pyramid Principle

Bottom-line-first structure for how you open, frame, and close a point.

Nancy Duarte · Resonate · DataStory

Audience-first storytelling and the shape of a persuasive arc.

Courage & dynamics

Reading and navigating the human current underneath every high-stakes conversation.

4+

Brené Brown · Dare to Lead

Vulnerability, values, and the courage required to say the hard thing well.

Amy Edmondson · The Fearless Organization

Reading psychological safety and power dynamics in the room.

Amy Gallo · Getting Along · HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict

Practical moves for difficult colleagues and charged conversations.

Kim Scott · Radical Candor

Direct, caring feedback over polite ambiguity — the spine of every analysis.

Meeting prep tool

The structured prep guide built for each meeting.

1+

IDEO · Design Thinking · Empathy Mapping

Empathy mapping adapted for stakeholder prep — what they think, feel, say, do, and need to hear.

Negotiation moments (optional)

Pulled in when a conversation tips into a real negotiation.

2+

Fisher & Ury · Getting to Yes

Principled negotiation — interests over positions, BATNA, objective criteria.

Chris Voss · Never Split the Difference

Tactical phrasing — labels, mirrors, calibrated questions — for high-stakes moments.