Rehearsal or live support: which one you actually need

There are two kinds of time on your balance — rehearsal and live interview support — and they are counted separately because they are not the same product. People who buy the wrong one usually conclude the tool does not work, when what happened is that they solved a problem they did not have.

They fix different failures

Rehearsal fixes: I don't know what I sound like.

You have the experience. You have never said it out loud. The first time you say anything is the worst time you will ever say it, and doing that in a real interview is an expensive way to find out your opening takes ninety seconds.

Rehearsal is practice against the role, with a review afterwards. Nothing is at stake, so you can be bad at it, which is the entire point.

Live support fixes: I know this and I can't retrieve it.

A different failure. You are prepared. The question arrives phrased in a way your memory is not indexed under, and nothing comes. Short cues drawn from your own material close that gap — not new information, just the thing you already knew, surfaced.

How to choose

Buy rehearsal when:

• the interview is more than a couple of days away
• you have not said your answers out loud yet
• you are changing role or sector and your framing is untested
• you have been rejected after interviews and do not know why

Buy live support when:

• the interview is imminent and you have rehearsed
• your problem is freezing or blanking, not knowledge
• the role is broad and you cannot predict which of your projects will come up
• you have a lot of material and struggle to pick the right example under pressure

Buy both when you have a real interview round: rehearse in the week before, keep live time for the day itself. Most people who are happy with the tool are using it this way.

The order matters

Live support during an interview you have not rehearsed for goes badly, and it is worth understanding why.

Cues are short by design — a few lines, not a script. Reading three bullets and turning them into a fluent spoken answer is a skill, and if the first time you try is mid-interview, you will sound like someone reading bullets. Rehearsal is where that skill gets built. The cues are the same in both; what changes is whether you can use them.

This is the single most common way to be disappointed by the product: buying the live hour, skipping the practice, and discovering that prompts do not substitute for having said the words once.

Two practical notes

Pauses stop the clock, so a long interviewer monologue is not burning your balance.

Time is added the moment you pay and stays on your balance until it expires — you are not committing to a subscription, and you can top up mid-round if a process runs longer than you expected.

If you only buy one

Rehearsal. It is the cheaper of the two and it improves every interview you do afterwards, including the ones where you use no tool at all. Live support improves the interview you use it in.

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Both are on the pricing page, priced per hour, paid once.