Meet Deb.
Debate Mate’s AI-powered learning companion is revolutionising skills training for businesses.
Deb offers employees with point-of-need, in-your-pocket access to custom-built practice scenarios, simulating difficult conversations and providing personalised feedback. Drawing on Debate Mate’s 10-years of expertise in corporate consulting, Deb assesses users across four key metrics:
Clarity
Composure
Influence
Impact
Deb delivers consistent skills development and real-world results, equipping users with the familiarity – and the confidence – to maximise their impact when the stakes are high and the pressure is on.
A bespoke solution
Effective training cannot be one-size-fits-all. Deb builds scenarios around your organisation’s actual challenges, industry dynamics, and cultural contexts. Rather than generic simulations, users practice with bespoke situations they’ll genuinely encounter in their own role.
Refinement in a safe space
Deb creates a low-pressure environment where users can practise, make mistakes, and refine their approach. Users can rehearse challenging scenarios multiple times, building muscle memory and a core-confidence that translates directly to real-world interactions.
Consistency at scale
Deb provides professionals company-wide with a common approach to effective communication. Reaching large cohorts simultaneously, whilst maintaining personalised user pathways, Deb creates a consistent standard of excellence that guarantees impact at scale.
Embracing challenge
Our debate-based methodology tackles difficult conversations head on, transforming challenges into growth and innovation. This principle is built into Deb through its simulations and feedback mechanisms, ensuring participants can navigate even the most difficult workplace interactions constructively.
The Value of Practice
Improves communication
Research shows a 53% improvement in communication skill scores after just two attempts at scenario-based practice conversations. (Elendu et al., 2024)
Deepens understanding
A phenomenon known as the ‘self-explanation effect’ shows that explaining ideas out loud – even to yourself – improves your clarity, understanding, and retention of a situation or topic.
Boosts empathy
The voice engages brain regions tied to empathy and emotion, making it a great tool for workshopping complex decisions or conversations that involve sensitive or interpersonal dynamics.
Advances problem solving
Psychological research suggests that speaking activates a “phonological loop,” reducing cognitive load and freeing up bandwidth for deeper logical reasoning and improved problem solving.
Customisation at Scale
Deb delivers bespoke learning experiences that reflect each organisation’s unique context, challenges, and communication culture.
Our onboarding and design consultation is structured to discern priority needs and objectives for each cohort, ascertain common scenarios and communication challenges, and understand each company’s unique learning and development principles.
This ensures every practice scenario that we build is tailored to your team’s precise roles and circumstances, with feedback based on the industry, role, and organisational objectives of each user, translating regular practice into direct real-world impact.
Interested in Deb for you or your team?
Whether you’re interested in our current training solutions or want early access to the next version of Deb – we’d love to hear from you.
