Performance under Pressure with Mara

Win the room.

The world's first AI coach that watches you, listens to your voice, and trains your nervous system.

Created by Jade Matthew · Award winning actress · Performance Psychologist · Creator of the ICOP Method

Data driven and evidence based. Six performance areas scored on every run. Built over 18 years of professional practice and 500+ senior leaders coached.

Switch on your camera. Present. Mara watches your voice, your body, your nervous system. Then you go again, better. That shift, visible on camera, is what changes how you show up.

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Mara · Live Session

Camera on. Run it again, better.

Six performance areas scored on every run

Three ways in

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Live AI coaching, any time. Camera on, six areas scored, run it again until it lands.

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For HR, People and L&D leaders. Try it free for 15 minutes, or apply for a 7 day pilot.

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A short walkthrough of how the diagnostic, the programme, and the coaching actually work.

Leaders from these organisations have trained with Jade privately

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"I don't feel like the non-native speaker in the room anymore. I feel like the person leading the conversation."

Mateusz K. · VP Engineering · Berlin

01 · How it works

Record. Reveal. Rehearse again.

Step 01 · Record

Speak as if you're in the room

Camera on, mic on. A pitch, a board presentation, a difficult conversation. The bot sets up a realistic simulation and listens without interrupting.

Step 02 · Reveal

See exactly what happened

Voice pitch in Hz, pacing, presence, nervous system activation. The bot shows you the moment your state shifted and tells you why it matters.

Step 03 · Rehearse again

Watch yourself improve on camera

A physical reset, one specific technique, then a second run. Watch both recordings back to back. The difference is visible. That shift is what you take into the real room.

Improvement does not happen in theory. It happens in repetition.

02 · What Mara does

Not a course. Not a video. A live coaching partner that watches you and tells you the truth.

Practice

Structured runs. Scored debrief. Physical reset between each take. Start here.

Coaching

Full method. Voice, body, ICOP integration. The Killer Question. Mara pushes hard.

ESL Leaders

For professionals presenting in English as a second language. State, not vocabulary.

Select a mode above to see what happens inside it.

Tell Mara what you are preparing for

She adapts the entire session, the pressure, the personas, the language to your specific room.

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Investor pitch

Run your pitch. Mara is a sceptical Series A investor. She interrupts, challenges your numbers, pushes on traction. You hold your ground or you do not. Then you go again.

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Board presentation

The impatient executive cuts you off at two minutes. The detail questioner drills into your numbers. Your close needs to land with authority. Mara runs the room.

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Sensitive conversations

The conversation that needs to land well, not just be had. Mara works on how you frame it, how you pace it, how you hold the relationship while delivering the message. Language, tone, and the moment you soften when you should stay clear.

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Time pressure drill

Set a countdown. 2 minutes for an elevator pitch. 5 for a client brief. What survives constraint is what is truly embedded. The countdown changes everything.

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Client pitch

The Busy Client has seen four agencies today. You have ninety seconds of real attention. Mara plays them. You find your power line or you lose the room.

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All-hands and keynotes

Large rooms, minimal feedback, one chance. Mara coaches your opening, your energy, your close. The silence after your last sentence is the measure of impact.

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Job interview

The question you dread. Answered clearly, under pressure, without the filler. Mara drills the moments that collapse most candidates until they feel automatic.

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ESL under pressure

The linguistic freeze is a state problem, not a vocabulary problem. Mara coaches the state. Explicit pause permission. Personality transfer. Your accent is your authority.

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Media and camera

The camera close-up removes every environmental anchor. Mara coaches your register, your stillness, the pre-recording warm-up that changes what you look like on screen.

Every run scored across six areas

Pace

Vocal Range

Energy

Clarity

Presence

Impact

Not "be more confident." Specific numbers, specific observations, one technique per area. Your scores shift between runs. You can see it happen on camera.

New Series Mode · the Meeting Observer

It is not one meeting. It is a campaign. Mara watches the whole run.

Connect the Meeting Observer to your Zoom and Google Meet calls and record a run of real meetings: three VC pitches in a week, a monthly board, a round of interviews. Mara finds the pattern that repeats across every room, then replays the exact moments. She jumps to each one, names what happened, coaches it, and moves to the next. The moments that landed are in there too, so you know what to keep doing.

GOOGLE MEET

REPLAY

PITCH 1

BOARD

INVESTOR CALL

A moment to work

Voice rose under challenge

Minute 14 · 14:02

I was watching. When the pushback came, your voice went up and the sentence that mattered most came out smaller than everything before it. The room read it before you finished. We build the reset that interrupts that.

The technique: two breath reset before the response

Record the rooms

One click before a Zoom or Meet. The Observer captures the call on device and assigns it to your Series. Two to five meetings of the same type.

Mara finds the pattern

Not one debrief three times over. A single read across the run. The same moment in three different rooms is not a bad day. That is structure, and structure can be changed.

Replay the moments

The player jumps straight to each flagged moment. Mara names it, coaches it, then moves to the next. The moments that held are shown too, so you can repeat them on purpose.

03 · Who it is for

Anyone who has walked out of a room thinking I could have done that better.

Founders Preparing for investor pitches who need to land their message under real pressure.

Executives Presenting to boards who want to show up with authority, not just preparation.

Agency leads Pitching to clients who need to command the room, not survive it.

ESL leaders International professionals leading in English as a second or third language.

Senior managers Who feel the gap between how they are in low-stakes rooms and how they are in high-stakes ones.

Anyone Who has tried the courses, read the books, and found that nothing changed, because the block is not intellectual.

Three modes: Practice · Coaching · ESL Leaders.

04 · The method underneath

The five systems that separate leaders who command a room from the ones who survive it.

Presence is not charisma. It is five internal systems, working in alignment. Mara trains all five. Click any to explore.

Presence

Five Systems

One alignment

State

Signal

Clarity

Attention

Authority

System 01

State

Your nervous system. The foundation of everything. When this is trained, everything else becomes available. Until it is trained, no technique survives real pressure.

Train this first. Every other system rests on it.

The four-stage arc behind Mara

Clear the pattern first. Build the presence on ground that holds. The only method that trains both together.

Identify

Root cause mapping

Clear

Inner work · root removed

Presence

Outer work · voice, body, authority

Maintain

Your protocol · permanent

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05 · For ESL leaders

The inner critic runs in your mother tongue. That is where the real work is.

You lead in English. You think, feel and doubt yourself in another language. In low-stakes rooms the gap is invisible. In high-stakes rooms it becomes the difference between the leader they see and the leader you are. This is not a language problem. It is a state response.

"Working with Jade wasn't about improving my English at all. It was about learning to think and lead in English."
Mateusz K. · VP Engineering · Berlin

01 · The freeze

Linguistic processing under pressure

Words disappear mid-sentence. Not vocabulary failure. The linguistic processing layer collapsing when the amygdala fires. The protocol targets the physiological trigger, not the language.

02 · The inner critic

Runs in the mother tongue

Adds an additional processing layer in high-stakes moments. The belief underneath is identical to native speakers. The target is the same. The method is the same.

03 · The accent

A signature, not a problem

The work is clarity, intentionality, and pace, not reduction. You do not abandon your own voice. You make it fully available under pressure.

04 · The phrase bank

12 to 15 transitions, automatic

Scaffolding that keeps communication flowing when the brain is processing content simultaneously in two languages. Trained until it is instinctive.

06 · What actually changes

The version of you that belongs in every room.

Prepared but losing the room

Before

"I was producing good work but somehow it wasn't translating into how people perceived me."

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After

"Within one quarter I was leading high-stakes discussions rather than sitting quietly in them. My manager told me I seemed like a different person in the room."

Arjun S.

Senior Product Leader · Global SaaS · London

ESL · authority in English

Before

"I was being overlooked in rooms where I was the most technically capable person."

↓

After

"I don't feel like the non-native speaker in the room anymore. I feel like the person leading the conversation."

Mateusz K.

VP Engineering · Series B Fintech · Berlin

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