What Poised does

Poised is an AI-powered communication coaching platform delivered as a desktop application for Mac and Windows (not mobile). The software analyzes audio and video from online meetings in real time, providing private, participant-invisible feedback on communication metrics including filler words, pace, confidence, clarity, energy, empathy, and hedging. A custom audio driver called "Poised Speaker" routes only the user's own speech for analysis, enabling the platform to operate without injecting a bot into meetings. The product integrates natively with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Cisco Webex, and is positioned as privacy-first and SOC 2 Type II compliant on AWS infrastructure.

The platform is organized around three core modules — Real-Time Feedback, Analyze Trends, and Personalized Plan — supplemented by an add-on called Shortcut (AI voice dictation), a composite Poised Score, Live Speaker Notes, and AI-generated meeting summaries. Target users span nine horizontal personas including executives, sales professionals, product managers, designers, marketers, consultants, managers, interviewees, and speech coaches. Named reference customers include Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox, Accenture, Eventbrite, Lattice, and Stanford, alongside individual professionals.

Poised operates a hybrid go-to-market: a product-led growth front end with self-serve download at $19/month or $156/year, layered with a dedicated enterprise sales motion for team and enterprise deployments at custom pricing. The company is a subsidiary of Deepgram Inc. (per its privacy policy) and has raised approximately $6.5M total — a $4.5M seed led by Wing Venture Capital in June 2021 and a $2M round in February 2022 with Blue Moon, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Headcount is reported at 1–10 employees, and the company claims a user base of 100,000+.

Name

Poised

Legal name

Poised, Inc.

Website

https://poised.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Poised is an AI-powered communication coaching desktop app that analyzes speech and video during online meetings to deliver real-time, private feedback on communication skills. It targets professionals across sales, product, executive, and interview use cases via a PLG-plus-enterprise model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Communication Coaching Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Intelligent Practice & Mastery Learning Platforms (Spaced Repetition, Skill Drills) (EDAFAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sales Onboarding & Ramp Programs (EDABABAA)

Keywords

• AI communication coaching
• Speech analytics software
• Real-time feedback tools
• Meeting intelligence platform
• Presentation coaching software

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Monthly Plan: Monthly subscription at $19/month providing access to all Poised Pro features including real-time feedback, trend analysis, and personalized coaching plans. Auto-renews monthly.
2. Subscription - Annual Plan: Annual subscription at $156/year ($13/month equivalent) providing the same features as monthly plan with approximately 32% discount. Early cancellation refund calculated at $19/month for months used, with refund requests required before end of 6th month.
3. Enterprise Team Plans: Custom enterprise pricing for team deployments with additional features and dedicated support. Contact sales for pricing and included features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Poised is an AI-powered communication coaching desktop application for Mac and Windows that analyzes a user's speech during online meetings and presentations in real time. It provides live private feedback on filler words, pace, confidence, clarity, energy, and hedging, generates meeting summaries and action items, and tracks longitudinal communication improvement through personalized coaching plans.

Product overview

Poised is an AI-powered communication coaching platform offered as a desktop application for Mac and Windows (not mobile). The core product suite consists of three interconnected modules: Real-Time Feedback provides live coaching during meetings; Analyze Trends tracks performance over time with visualizations; and Personalized Plan delivers AI-driven recommendations. An add-on called Shortcut provides AI voice assistance. Additional features include Poised Score (a composite performance metric), Live Speaker Notes, and AI-generated Meeting Summaries. Users can connect their calendars for automatic meeting detection and the platform integrates with 800+ communication tools including Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Shortcut: AI-powered dictation shortcut tool that works at the speed of voice, available as a desktop application feature
• Saga

Products and services

• Real-Time Feedback Live AI-powered feedback delivered during online meetings and presentations on communication metrics including filler words, pace, confidence, clarity, energy, empathy, and hedging words. Alerts appear only after the user speaks to avoid distraction, and are private to the user.
• Analyze Trends Longitudinal tracking and visualization of communication performance over time across confidence, clarity, energy, pace, and tone dimensions, available after a user has been recorded in 3+ meetings.
• Personalized Plan AI-driven personalized coaching plan that delivers tailored insights and actionable recommendations based on individual communication goals and performance patterns, tracking growth-area progress over time.
• Shortcut AI-powered voice dictation and assistant desktop application that transcribes speech to text in real time and provides AI voice assistance, available on Mac with limited Windows support.

Quantifiable outcome

• 92% Clarity (filler words reduction)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ZoomcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Zoom - users can set Poised Speaker as their audio output in Zoom settings to enable real-time meeting analysis.
• Microsoft TeamscoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Microsoft Teams - users can configure Poised Speaker in Teams meeting audio settings.
• Google MeetcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Google Meet - users can select Poised Speaker in Google Meet settings for meeting analysis.
• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Slack - mentioned as one of the 800+ communication tools Poised works with for seamless workflow integration.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationPoised hosts all software in AWS facilities in the USA. AWS provides SOC 1-3 and ISO 27001 compliance. All customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit using AWS infrastructure.
• DeepgramcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeepgram Inc. owns Poised and provides the AI voice technology. Poised's privacy policy is governed by Deepgram. The Shortcut feature appears to leverage Deepgram's voice AI technology.
• Google CalendarcoreTechnology or IntegrationCalendar integration allows Poised to automatically detect and join meetings. Users can connect multiple Google Calendar accounts for meeting detection.
• Microsoft OutlookcoreTechnology or IntegrationCalendar integration allows Poised to automatically detect and join meetings. Users can connect multiple Outlook calendars for meeting detection.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Yoodli: Yoodli is a direct competitor offering AI-powered communication coaching for sales calls, interviews, and meetings. Like Poised, it provides real-time feedback on filler words, pace, and clarity, and is positioned as a personal AI communication coach.
• Read AI: Read AI provides AI-generated meeting summaries, transcripts, and analytics on participant speaking time, sentiment, and engagement. It competes directly with Poised in the meeting-intelligence category for both individuals and teams.
• Fireflies.ai: Fireflies.ai is a meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings across Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet. It overlaps with Poised's meeting-summary and analytics features while targeting similar sales and customer-success teams.
• Wispr Flow: Wispr Flow is an AI voice dictation tool that competes directly with Poised's Shortcut product. Both target the AI-powered voice productivity space for desktop users, with similar Mac/Windows positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Otter.ai: Otter.ai is a meeting transcription and AI note-taking platform with a much larger user base and capital. While its core is transcription and meeting summaries, its OtterPilot and AI features increasingly overlap with Poised's meeting-summarization and analytics capabilities.
• Gong: Gong is the incumbent in sales conversation intelligence, analyzing recorded calls for coaching and forecasting. Poised's sales use case (cited by Atlassian) overlaps with Gong's market, though Gong targets enterprise sales orgs at much higher price points.
• Chorus.ai (ZoomInfo): Chorus.ai, now part of ZoomInfo, is a sales conversation intelligence platform similar to Gong. It competes for the same sales coaching budget as Poised's enterprise sales motion, though with deeper CRM integration and broader analytics.
• Microsoft Copilot for Teams: Microsoft Copilot integrates meeting summaries, action items, and coaching-adjacent features directly into Teams. As a native platform feature, it represents the largest bundling threat to Poised's enterprise value proposition.
• Zoom AI Companion: Zoom's native AI Companion provides meeting summaries, action items, and increasingly coaching-style feedback inside Zoom. Bundled with Zoom subscriptions, it directly competes with Poised for the same enterprise IT budget.

Emerging players

• Krisp: Krisp is an AI noise-cancellation and voice clarity app that integrates with the same conferencing platforms as Poised (and is referenced as a partner in Poised's docs). Its expanding feature set around meeting assistant and accent localization begins to overlap with Poised's coaching mission.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/poisedhq
• Facebookfacebook.com/poisedapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/poisedapp
• Instagraminstagram.com/poised_hq

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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