DAiVE · Live virtual coaching, using AI

Training built the knowledge.Coaching is where it meets the customer.

DAiVE is a live virtual coaching platform using AI, built for sales and service teams. Every person practices real conversations with a virtual customer, is scored against your own standard, and gets written coaching after every session.

You trained your people.  And they still aren't ready.

Training gives people the knowledge: they remember the product, the process, the standard. What happens next is a different skill. It is the moment a salesperson or a service advisor takes what they know and presents it in a way that is relevant to the person in front of them, and then works with that person through to a result. That skill is built the way every skill is built, through practice with specific feedback, repeated. That is coaching, and the research on it is consistent.

Coached people outperform.
Across randomized trials, the average coached person outperformed about two in three of the uncoached, and on behavior about three in four.
Nicolau et al., 2023, Frontiers in Psychology, 20 RCTs
Practice plus feedback beats practice alone.
Practicing with feedback nearly doubled the retention effect of practicing without it.
Rowland, 2014, Psychological Bulletin, 159 effects
Coaching time shows up in results.
In a 2,327-agent study, the individual coaching predicted measurable performance gains over time.
Liu and Batt, 2010, Personnel Psychology
Why coaching works, with sources

The problem was never whether coaching works.
It was getting it to your entire team.

Good coaching is very expensive: a professional coaching session averages US$272 an hour in North America (US$244 worldwide), and only 27 percent of organizations make it available to all employees (ICF, 2023). The usual alternative to a professional coach is the manager, who spends only about 13 percent of their time developing their people (Deloitte, 2025). When coaching is improvised, quality varies, and the research is blunt about what that costs: in the largest meta-analysis of feedback ever done, more than one-third of feedback interventions made performance worse (Kluger and DeNisi, 1996). Skilled coaching lifts results. Unskilled coaching often lowers them (Dahling et al., 2016).  DAiVE ensures the right coaching at the right investment.

Coaching has been scarce, uneven and hard to measure. Until now.
Why coaching quality decides the outcome

Practice. Get scored. Get coached. See the results.

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Practice with a virtual customer.
A live conversation about one of your products or a customer's concern, with a customer.   These are not our customers, they are your customers.
02
Scored against your standard.
Every session is checked against your own product knowledge and your own process, the same way for every person, every time.
03
Coached
Feedback after every session: what went well, what to work on next, and how to improve.
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Visible to the people who need to know.
Managers see readiness by proficiency, region, location and person. Learners see their own progress.
How it works

The coaching your training deserves, for every person, every day.

DAiVE takes the three things that have kept coaching scarce and removes them. Cost: every person on the team is coached, not the few a budget can cover. Consistency: one standard, applied the same way across the whole network, written from the research on what makes feedback work. Measurement: readiness you can see, by person and by location, instead of a feeling.

Manager coachingProfessional coachesRole-play in classDAiVE
Reaches everyoneWhen the manager has timeA few senior peopleTime consuming. Some roleplay customers, some as learnersEvery person, as often as they want
One consistent standardVaries by managerVaries by coachVaries by facilitatorThe same standard across the network
Specific, written feedbackSometimesUsuallyRarely written down, many points are missedAfter every completed session
MeasurableHardHardNot reallyBy person, location, region and organization
Cost per personThe manager's timeHighOnce, in the training budgetOne flat fee, unlimited sessions
Set up for you, from the material you already have. Nothing to build.
Works in a browser on desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. A microphone is all a learner needs.
Live in 2 weeks, with the first scorecards the same day people start.

What coaching delivers, by the numbers.

About 3 in 4
Share of uncoached people the average coached person outperformed on behavior in randomized trials.
Nicolau et al., 2023
Up to 26%
Performance lift from managers who coach well, in a study of 7,000 employees and managers.
Gartner, 2018
Nearly double
The retention effect of practice with feedback versus practice alone.
Rowland, 2014
21.6% vs 9%
People who reliably improved after practicing with an AI partner and written feedback, versus watching a coaching video.
Kumar et al., 2026, preprint
86%
Thirty-day retention held on one five-year national training program run by the team behind DAiVE.
Program data
DAiVE publishes client results as pilots report.
Research sources are on the Research page.
The team behind DAiVE has trained 62,000 sales and service staff across 24+ brands and built more than 200 programs.
About DAiVE

Questions

What is DAiVE?
DAiVE is a live virtual coaching platform using AI, built for sales and service teams. People practice live conversations with a virtual customer on video, are scored against their organization's own standard, and receive written coaching after every completed session.
What is AI role-play coaching?
Practice where a person talks with an AI-driven customer and receives feedback on the conversation. DAiVE runs it on live video, scores it against the organization's own standard, and writes the coaching automatically.
Does DAiVE replace training?
No. Training builds the knowledge. DAiVE is where people practice using it with a customer and get coached on how they did. The two do different jobs.
Is DAiVE only for one industry?
No. DAiVE is built around your product facts and your process, whatever the product.
How do we start?
Book a demo. We load one of your products and you watch a live session.

See a DAiVE session on your product.

Thirty minutes. We load one of your products, you watch a live conversation, and you see the coaching and the dashboard that follow.

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