PITCH PRACTICE FREE — NO ACCOUNT
Practice your pitch on someone who owes you nothing
The room won't tell you when it stopped listening. A stranger will.
Run the pitch end to end, then spend the rest of the 30 minutes finding out where attention went, which slide lost them, and what they'd ask if it were their money.
Pick a time that works.
Availability comes straight from the calendar — if a slot is open, it's yours. First names only. Nothing is recorded.
See open timesWhat to bring — three things
01 / 03- A
The deck, or no deck
Share your screen and run it, or just talk. Both count as the pitch.
- B
The real opening
Not the warm-up you use on friendly rooms. The first thirty seconds you're actually going to say.
- C
The question you dread
Pricing, competition, why you. Much better answered badly here than in the room.
HOW THE HALF HOUR GOES
Full run, then the hard questions.
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You run it
No interruptions, timed if you want it timed. They watch like an audience, not like a coach.
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Where eyes glazed
The slide where it drifted, the sentence that needed reading twice, the number nobody believed.
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Then the questions
The ones a polite room won't ask. You get to answer them clumsily once, in private.
What you walk away with
You leave with a tighter pitch than you arrived with.
Shorter opening, fewer slides, and two answers you didn't have half an hour ago.
- The moment you lost the room, with a rough timestamp
- What a stranger would repeat to someone else afterwards
- The two questions you're not ready for
- The slides you can cut without losing anything
Questions about pitch practice.
Is this only for investor pitches?
No. Sales demos, conference talks, internal proposals, interview presentations — anything where someone has to keep listening to you voluntarily.
How do I practice a pitch without using my friends as the audience?
Run it on someone who doesn't owe you a laugh. Friends stay with you past the slide where a real room would check out. Book a pitch run-through and a stranger will tell you the moment they stopped listening.
Can they play a specific role?
Ask when you book. Plenty of feedback givers will happily be a skeptical buyer or a bored executive for half an hour.
Can I record it to watch back?
No — nothing is recorded, on either side. That's the deal that keeps people honest. Take notes instead, or bring the same pitch back for a second run with someone new.
How much fits in 30 minutes?
A ten-minute pitch and twenty minutes of reaction is about right. For anything longer, bring the opening and the part you're worried about.
Better to lose a stranger's attention than the room's.
Shorter opening, fewer slides, and two answers you didn't have half an hour ago.
Book a pitch run-through