CoreValence Whisper

The coach in your corner, for the conversations that count.

Whisper listens to a live conversation and gives you the next move in one to five words — short enough to use mid-sentence. Most of the time it gives you nothing.

Cues are hypotheses about the conversation. Whisper does not score truthfulness and will not tell you someone is lying.

The test bench

Watch a real replay.

Hundreds of bench runs against scripted characters. Four excerpts — words and cues, exactly as they happened.

test bench · run 6745956a · credibility mode The runway thread

A second meeting, before she takes the deal to her partners: the real runway.

You

Marcus, good to see you again. Before we dive back into the deck, let's just ground ourselves in the cash position — what's the actual bank balance right now, and what's your real monthly burn?

holding

No cue at this beat. The gate held.

Also on the bench
Dmitri Kovac · default alive, and proud of itPriya Nair · narrates the company as “we”Jonah Reyes · “revenue is revenue”Ray Mercer · every word technically trueKevin Doyle · his first insurance claimTom Brady-Ellis · interviewing one level up

Scripted characters, a simulated coached side, excerpts lightly trimmed. In a real meeting, Zoom shows every participant its own notice that an app is receiving meeting content.


The honest turn

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In controlled studies where half of all statements are lies, people identify deception at about that rate — a coin flip. The figure is an artifact of that fifty-fifty lab setup, and no demeanor signal moves it (Levine, 2019).

So a machine that tells you who is lying is the product Whisper refuses to be. No truth scores, no trust ratings, no labels on people. Whisper works on the part that can actually be coached: what was claimed, what is still unverified, and what to ask next.

Every cue on this page is a question or a next move.
Three modes

You pick what you are working on. Whisper picks the moment.

One mode per conversation. It changes which playbook is in play, and leaves how often Whisper speaks alone.

01
Credibility

The claim still hanging in the air.

Whisper keeps the ledger while you talk and surfaces the one claim still unsupported — with the question that would check it.

get it in writing ask how they’d check
02
Influence

Moves that work in daylight.

Every cue passes the disclosure test first: it has to keep working even after the other person learns you were coached to make it.

name the tradeoff let it land
03
Understanding

Their reasons, in their words.

When you catch yourself filling in someone else’s reasoning, Whisper hands you the question that gets the real version.

ask for dates what changed since spring?
Four rules

The constraints are the product.

They are what makes a coach usable in a real conversation.

01

Silence is the default.

At most one cue per beat, and most beats get none. A coach that talks constantly is a second conversation.

02

Hypotheses, never verdicts.

Whisper tells you what to check. It never tells you who to trust — there is no lie score and no label on a person, in any mode.

03

Every cue survives being seen.

A move is only suggested if it still works once the other person knows you were coached to make it. If a tactic needs hiding to work, Whisper will not whisper it.

04

Overt use only.

The other person knows — that is the point. Consent up front, a visible indicator, one tap to switch it off. In a Zoom meeting, Zoom shows every participant its own notice that an app is receiving meeting content.

Current deliverable

Whisper for Zoom.

A side panel in the Zoom desktop client. It reads the live transcript of a meeting you host, shows the cues while you talk, and writes the debrief afterwards. Meeting on the left, panel on the right.

Early access: a private app on allow-listed accounts. There is no Marketplace listing to install from yet, and this page says so instead of showing you an install button.

CoreValence Hypotheses, never verdicts · transcript in, cues out

Built end-to-end by one person and a lot of Claude. The refusals above are written down in the product spec, and this page inherits them.