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SmartRole
The readiness layer for customer support

Stop CX failures before they reach your customers.

Smart Role is the pre-production readiness layer for customer support. We institutionalize agent proficiency through high-stakes simulations, protecting your brand from the "black box" of outsourced or internal training.

Unlimited scenarios · No credit card required · SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001

LiveLive scenario · Missed connection

Persona · Stressed traveller, chat, hard mode

"It's MRG2847. My first flight just got delayed by 6 hours. Now I'm going to miss my connecting flight!"

82

Empathy

74

Accuracy

88

De-escalation

Readiness 83/100

+12 pts

Trusted by CX leaders

  • Concentrix
  • WNS
  • Etraveli Group
  • Bumble
  • Outschool
  • Pontica Solutions
  • Dash BPO
  • CustomerHD
  • FastGrowingTrees
  • CCD Health
  • Présence Verte
€250k+
Annual operational recovery
+15 pts
CSAT lift, preventing churn
30% faster
Time to proficiency for new agents
100%
Visibility on your BPO vendors
+20%
Guaranteed performance lift
Up to 100 h
Manager time saved every week

Eliminating brand risk in internal and outsourced support teams

Your support team is learning on real customers.

Your current QA is a smoke detector

It only tells you when the house has already burned down: the customer has been failed, the ticket is closed, the review comes weeks later.

Smart Role is the firewall

We close the "Knowledge Debt" gap by ensuring agents can handle high-stakes situations before they touch a live ticket.

How it works

Institutionalize agent proficiency

We close the "Knowledge Debt" gap. Smart Role replaces inconsistent manual role-plays and after-the-fact QA with a systematic readiness loop that validates performance before agents touch a live ticket.

01

Real scenarios, zero risk

Turn your complex tickets and brand-specific edge cases into mandatory simulations.

Agents don't just "study" your SOPs, they prove they can execute them under pressure.

No agent enters production until they pass the Readiness Gate.

A simulated customer chat about a missed flight connection, with inline coaching
02

Feedback while it still matters

Stop reactive coaching.

Smart Role provides instant, objective feedback that corrects behavior inside the simulation.

We move from flagging errors in QA reports to preventing them in 24 hours.

Conversation evaluation with an overall score and suggestions for improvement
03

Global vendor oversight

Eliminate "process drift" across internal and BPO teams.

Our dashboards provide a documented audit trail of agent readiness, ensuring every team member, regardless of location, meets your exact brand standard before going live.

Skills radar of an agent across the scorecard criteria

Three steps, one afternoon

No instructional designer, no recording studio, no three-month rollout project.

  1. 01

    Turn real failures into simulations

    Pick a template or turn a complex ticket into a scenario in a few sentences: the customer, their mood, what they need help with, and what a great answer looks like.

  2. 02

    Agents practice in a safe simulator

    Agents handle the simulated customer via chat, email, or voice. It pushes back, escalates, and changes its mind, exactly like the customer they will meet tomorrow.

  3. 03

    Objective Readiness Gate

    Every conversation is scored against your scorecard, with quotes to back it up. Nobody goes live before passing the Readiness Gate.

Product

Everything you need to make practice a habit

From the first scenario to org-wide rollout, without a single spreadsheet.

Scenario builder

Write a scenario like you'd brief a colleague

Describe the situation, the persona and the goal in plain language. Smart Role turns it into a playable conversation, with a personality, a mood and hidden objections.

Voice & text

Talk out loud, not into a form

Real-time voice with natural turn-taking and interruptions, or text when your team is in an open space. Both are scored the same way.

Scorecards

Feedback you can actually argue with

Define the criteria that matter to you, weight them, and get a transparent score with the exact quote that justifies it.

Training paths

Onboarding that runs itself

Chain scenarios into a path, set a passing score, and let new hires unlock the next step on their own.

Enterprise ready

Multi-team from day one

Organizations, workspaces, roles and SSO. Roll out to 20 people or 2,000 without rebuilding your setup.

API first

Your stack, your rules

Everything you see in the product is available through a typed API, so you can plug Smart Role into your LMS, CRM or data warehouse.

Analytics

Measure what coaching used to guess

Every conversation is scored against the criteria you define. No more gut feeling, no more coaching that depends on which tickets happened to be reviewed.

Skill scorecard vs. team benchmark

EmpathyAccuracyDe-escalationProcessToneCompliance
  • Score
  • Benchmark

Average score, 8 weeks after onboarding

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8
  • Objective scorecards: the same criteria, applied the same way, to every agent.
  • Track progression per agent, per team, per site and per scenario, week after week.
  • Spot the skill gap before it shows up in your CSAT or your QA reports.
  • Export everything through the API or push it to your BI stack.
Who it's for

Built for the teams your customers talk to

One platform, four very different jobs to be done. Each team gets its own scenarios, scorecards and dashboards.

In-house support teams

Better CSAT, fewer escalations

Practise escalations, refund policies and angry customers on chat, email and voice without putting a real ticket at risk.

BPOs & outsourcers

Faster ramp-up on every contract

Branded scenarios and scorecards for every client, and readiness data you can show them before go-live.

Enablement & onboarding

Consistent onboarding at scale

Give every new hire the same first week, whatever the site, timezone or team lead they land with.

QA & CX leaders

Oversight without the black box

Move from flagging errors in QA reports to preventing them, with an audit trail of readiness across every site and vendor.

Customer stories

They stopped rehearsing on real customers

To further Level up on CSAT results, we have recently set agents up with an AI tool ‘Smart Role’ that acts as a customer in a chat conversation to let the agent practise soft skills, but it also gives the agent instant feedback once the conversation is done. With Smart Role we let the agents really prepare and practice their skills before they get to talk to one of our real customers.
AE

Allison Eberle

Director - First Line · Etraveli Group

SmartRole is a great tool and resource for assessing potential agents who are coming on as phone/chat/email agents.
AC

Aimee Cannette

Training and Development Manager · Fast Growing Trees

A big thank you for bringing a remarkable product into the market! Smart Role is truly a game changer in this era when mastering human soft skills will hold a premium over AI. Albeit we are using AI to make humans better ;)
MN

Mrinalini Naidu

Head of Training · Etraveli Group

I think it is an interesting tool, and we used it to help test our new hires’ ability to answer chats and emails before hiring.
JR

Jackie Ready

Director of Inside Sales and Support · Fast Growing Trees

It's pretty mind-blowing. It's pretty fantastic.
BG

Service Excellence Manager

Betsson Group

Thank you for building an amazing tool.
BH

Blossom Hackett

CS Skills Training Team Leader · Etraveli Group

Connects to the tools you already use

  • Zendesk
  • Intercom
  • Pipedrive
  • Notion
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • Webhooks
Pricing

Plans

From $29 per active user per month, with unlimited scenarios per user. Agents who did not train that month are not invoiced.

Free

Validate the Readiness Gate.

$0

No credit card required

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  • 10 role-play sessions
  • Unlimited seats
  • Unlimited personas
  • Unlimited scorecards
  • Unlimited scenarios
  • Unlimited data sources
  • All channels
  • Training paths
  • Zendesk & Intercom integration
Most popular

Core

Institutionalize team proficiency.

From $29/ active user / mo

Unlimited scenarios per user

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Everything in Free +

  • Unlimited scenarios per user
  • Conversation coach
  • Persona roles

Ultimate

Enforce global oversight.

Custom

Custom terms and volume

Talk to sales

Everything in Core +

  • Access to all beta features
  • Dedicated solution engineer
  • SLA & priority support
Trust

Serious about the boring parts

Built for teams that have to answer to a security questionnaire, and to their clients.

SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001

Independently audited controls. Reports are available from our trust center.

EU hosting & GDPR

Data stored and processed in the European Union, on Europe-hosted models. A DPA is available on every plan.

No training on your data

Your conversations are never used to train third-party AI models.

Environment isolation

Each client's data stays in its own isolated environment, with granular roles and an audit trail.

Success in customer service is 10% knowledge and 90% how you apply it in real situations.

FAQ

What exactly is an AI role-play?

Smart Role generates an AI persona from the scenario you describe: a role, a personality, a mood, a hidden agenda and the objections it is allowed to raise. Your team talks to that persona by voice or text, and the conversation is scored against a scorecard you control.

Does it really work by voice?

Yes. Voice conversations run in real time with natural turn-taking, and the persona can interrupt or be interrupted. Text mode exists for open spaces and noisy environments, and both modes are evaluated with the same scorecard.

How are conversations scored?

You define the criteria, their weight and what a passing score means. Smart Role scores each criterion and quotes the exact moment in the transcript that justifies the score, so the feedback can be discussed rather than accepted on faith.

Which languages are supported?

Smart Role runs simulations in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish and Arabic. A scenario can be written once and localised per market while keeping the same evaluation criteria.

How long does it take to build a scenario?

Under ten minutes for a first scenario. Start from a template, replace the persona and the context with your own, adjust the scorecard, publish. No instructional designer required.

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Ready to turn practice into performance?

Spin up your first scenario in minutes. No credit card, no setup call, no IT ticket.

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