Introduction:softrun simulates virtual audiences and provides persona-based feedback for speeches, pitches, stand-up sets, toasts, and other presentations.
softrun is a rehearsal tool for people preparing to speak in front of an audience. Users can define audience characteristics such as size, age, location, occupation, and tone, then evaluate a speech against the reactions of those simulated personas.
The feedback highlights sections that may lose attention, raise objections, or cross a particular audience's tolerance. It can be used to refine business pitches, comedy material, wedding speeches, eulogies, and other public-speaking content before presenting it live.
Research basis:
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How to use this tool
Create a new softrun project and paste the spoken draft, preserving useful line breaks so the system can interpret pacing and individual beats.
Build the intended room by choosing its size, age range, locations, occupations, demographic mix, and a feedback tone appropriate for the event.
Run the draft against that synthetic audience and wait for the per-persona reactions, aggregate score, engagement pattern, and prioritized issues.
Review disagreements between personas, identify lines that repeatedly lose attention or trigger objections, and revise only the sections supported by a clear pattern.
Save the audience, run the revised draft again, compare the results with the earlier version, and rehearse delivery separately because softrun evaluates the written material rather than live performance.
Core Features
✓Configurable synthetic audiences containing from one to 100 distinct personas.
✓Audience controls for age, city, occupation, gender mix, size, and feedback tone.
✓Per-line and per-persona reactions to speeches, comedy sets, pitches, and other spoken drafts.
✓Aggregate scoring with prioritized suggestions for the sections that need revision.
✓Engagement, objection, sensitivity, pacing, and message-clarity feedback.
✓Saved audience profiles that can be reused when testing multiple drafts.
✓Draft comparison for evaluating how revisions change audience response.
✓Purpose-specific simulations for keynotes, stand-up, sales pitches, toasts, eulogies, and similar material.
Use Cases
#1Practice a business pitch
#2Refine a stand-up comedy set
#3Review a wedding toast or eulogy
#4Prepare for audiences in different cities
#5Find weak sections in a speech
Frequently Asked Questions
softrun tests written material intended to be spoken aloud against a configurable synthetic audience before it is delivered live.
It supports speeches, keynotes, sales pitches, stand-up sets, wedding toasts, eulogies, presentations, and other spoken drafts.
Users can control audience size, age range, cities, occupations, demographic mix, and feedback tone, with plan-dependent persona limits.
It returns per-line and per-persona reactions, engagement and objection patterns, an aggregate score, and prioritized revision suggestions.
The Direct plan explicitly includes run comparison across drafts, while saved audiences and run history also support repeated iteration on other plans.
No. It primarily evaluates the words and structure of the pasted draft. Voice, body language, timing on stage, and improvised delivery still require human rehearsal.
The official site describes a typical 50-persona run on a short set as taking about 60 seconds, although timing can vary.
Yes. The Free plan currently includes three runs per month, audiences of up to 10 personas, two audiences, five scripts, and seven days of history.
Existing runs and projects remain readable, but new runs pause until the next billing cycle unless the account upgrades. Unused runs do not normally roll over.
No. It is a private pre-test for finding possible weak spots and demographic differences; final decisions should still consider human reviewers, rehearsal, and real audience response.
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