Questions about
Empathic Edge

Empathic Edge is an AI-powered practice platform for negotiation, conflict resolution, and other high-stakes conversations. Through realistic roleplays, specific feedback, short lessons, and personalized recommendations, it helps people build skills they can apply in real conversations.

Choose a scenario from the library or create your own, then review the situation, your role, and your objective. You will practice the conversation with an AI counterpart that responds to what you say. When you finish, you will receive feedback and recommendations for what to try next.

You can also ask the AI Mentor for guidance before, during, and after the roleplay.

Empathic Edge is available through web browsers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. No special software or download is required.

After each roleplay, Empathic Edge reviews the conversation and provides specific, actionable feedback tied to what you said. You will see what worked, what you could try next, and how you demonstrated the skills emphasized in the scenario.

Your results may also include skill scores and recommendations for a relevant roleplay, lesson, or another attempt.

Recommendations are shaped by what you want to improve and how you use the platform. As you complete roleplays and lessons, Empathic Edge adapts its suggestions to help you decide what to practice next.

Yes. Edge+ members can create custom roleplays based on the situation, objective, and person they are preparing to speak with.

Empathic Edge also offers a library of ready-made scenarios across professional, academic, legal, and everyday contexts.

Empathic Edge is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your practice data responsibly.

Visit our Privacy Policy to learn what information we collect, how it is used and protected, and what choices you have regarding your data.

Empathic Edge offers a Free plan and Edge+. New users can try Edge+ free for 14 days, with no credit card required.

Edge+ provides access to the full scenario library, custom roleplays, and greater flexibility and personalization. Visit the Plans page for current pricing and a complete feature comparison.

Interest-based negotiation focuses on understanding the needs, concerns, and motivations behind each person’s stated position.

By exploring both shared and competing interests, people can identify more options, navigate tradeoffs, and work toward outcomes that address what matters most to everyone involved.

No. Empathic Edge is an educational practice tool. Its roleplays, feedback, lessons, and AI-generated content do not constitute legal advice, counseling, therapy, or another form of professional consultation.

Always consult an appropriately qualified professional when making legal, medical, mental health, or other consequential decisions.

Practicing with a classmate can be valuable. Empathic Edge adds structured scenarios, responsive AI counterparts, skill-specific feedback, and the ability to repeat a conversation using different approaches.

It is designed specifically for negotiation, conflict resolution, and difficult-conversation practice, with lessons and recommendations that help connect each attempt to continued learning.

Empathic Edge provides opportunities to practice skills relevant to the NextGen UBE, including negotiation and dispute resolution, client counseling and advising, and professional communication.

It can complement doctrinal study and formal bar preparation, but it is not a comprehensive bar-review course and is not affiliated with the NCBE.

You can use Empathic Edge independently or as part of a course, clinic, workshop, or training program.

Individual learners can choose scenarios, complete lessons, and practice at their own pace. Educators may also use roleplays to help students apply concepts introduced through readings, lectures, or classroom discussion.

Yes. Student pricing is available to eligible learners. Visit the Plans page for current pricing, eligibility details, and available access options.

Students participating through a school or program may receive access through their institution.

No. Empathic Edge is grounded in negotiation, dispute resolution, and legal education, but the skills it develops apply across industries.

Attorneys, mediators, managers, consultants, sales professionals, client-facing teams, business owners, and other professionals can use it to prepare for negotiations, feedback conversations, workplace conflict, leadership challenges, and difficult client interactions.

Empathic Edge focuses on six core skills:

• Strategy: Preparing, setting goals, prioritizing, and adapting your approach.
• Listening: Asking useful questions, clarifying, summarizing, and listening for underlying interests.
• Perspective: Understanding concerns, recognizing constraints, and building trust.
• Composure: Managing your reactions, de-escalating tension, and responding thoughtfully under pressure.
• Influence: Making clear asks, framing proposals, supporting your position, and responding to pushback.
• Problem-Solving: Generating options, navigating tradeoffs, and building workable agreements.

Different roleplays focus on different combinations of skills based on the situation and objective.

Empathic Edge is built around applied practice. Instead of stopping at information or theory, it gives learners opportunities to rehearse realistic conversations, receive specific feedback, reflect on their choices, and try different approaches.

Short lessons introduce useful strategies and concepts, while roleplays give learners a place to apply them in context.

Empathic Edge complements courses, clinics, workshops, coaching, and professional-development programs by giving learners a structured place to practice.

Roleplays can be used as a baseline exercise, an opportunity to apply a concept, skill, strategy, or approach introduced during instruction, or additional practice between sessions. After completing a roleplay, learners can download their feedback and transcript to review independently or share with an instructor.

Contact us to discuss how Empathic Edge could fit into your program.

Organizations can use scenarios from the existing library or create new custom roleplays around a particular situation, objective, and counterpart.

For select workshops and design partnerships, the Empathic Edge team may also collaborate on tailored scenarios aligned with a program’s learning goals. Availability depends on the scope of the partnership and can be discussed with our team.

Yes. Empathic Edge can provide individual practice within a class, workshop, team, or broader learning program.

Group access and partnership options are available for universities, organizations, and training providers. Group use is currently coordinated directly with partner organizations. Empathic Edge does not yet include a full institutional administration platform, and we are continuing to learn which management and reporting capabilities provide partners with the most value.

Contact us to discuss cohort size, timing, access, and pricing.

Currently, instructors and organizations cannot directly view an individual learner’s activity, feedback, or roleplay transcripts through an administrative dashboard.

Learners can download their own feedback and transcripts and choose to share them with an instructor. Any aggregated reporting or program-specific data use should be explained to participants before they begin.

Visit our Privacy Policy for more information about how personal and practice data is handled.