Ready on the day.A rehearsal plan for the talk you actually have to give.
Add the talk and the date. Rehearse out loud. Walk in knowing your length, your pace, your filler words, and your longest pause.
In private beta. Launch pricing held for waitlist members.
How it works
The talk is on a date. So is the plan.
Add the talk
Title, audience, how long you have, what kind of talk it is, and the date. “Q3 board update, exec team of twelve, eighteen minutes, March 4.”
Rehearse against a plan built for the days you have left
Nine days out looks different from nine weeks out. The plan fits the time on the calendar, and it changes as your rehearsals change.
Walk in knowing your numbers
Not a feeling about whether you're ready. A last run that came in at seventeen forty against an eighteen minute target.
A plan that reads your talk back
It works on what you say, not how you said it.
Footholds reads your script and your actual rehearsal transcripts, and rewrites the rest of your plan to match the talk you're really giving. The point you wrote down and never said out loud. The section you've rehearsed four times, and the one you've never touched. The question that audience is obviously going to ask.
When it finds a step that isn't pulling its weight, it proposes a swap and tells you why. Nothing changes until you tap.
Suggested change · Q3 board update
Replace
Cold read of the full script, twice
Scheduled for Wednesday, day 6 of 9
With
Out-loud run of the risks section only, timed
Eight minutes, not forty
“You've rehearsed the opening and close four times each and landed them every time. The risks section hasn't been said out loud once — and it's the part the board will push on. Spend Wednesday there.”
Example suggestion. Every proposal comes with the reason, and the plan stays put until you accept it.
What gets measured
Counted facts, not opinions.
After each rehearsal you get four readouts. That's the whole report.
Length vs. target
17:40
target 18:00
Words per minute
142
steady across the run
Filler words
23
“um” 14 · “like” 9
Longest pause
4.2s
at 06:18
What it will never do is tell you how you sounded. Delivery gets counted, not graded.
No confidence score, no coach persona, no “you seemed nervous.” A machine can count seconds, words, and silence; it cannot tell you whether you were convincing, so Footholds doesn't pretend to. The numbers are yours to read. The readouts above are examples from a rehearsal.
The last five minutes
For the part where your hands go cold.
You're in a corridor, or a side room, or the back of a hall, and you're on in four minutes. There's nothing left to practise. Open the talk and Footholds gives you a short grounding sequence to run instead of spiralling.
It takes about ninety seconds. You can do it standing up, holding your notes, with people walking past.
“Breathe all the way out before your first word — not in.”
“Put both feet flat. Feel the floor take your weight.”
“Find one person you'll say the first sentence to.”
“Your first line is already decided. You don't have to think, only say it.”
After the talk
The second talk is easier because the first one was recorded.
When it's over, Footholds asks one question: how did it go? A sentence is enough. It's saved with the talk, the date, and every rehearsal you ran for it.
Next time there's a talk on the calendar you're not starting from nothing. You have a record of what you did last time, how long it actually ran, and what you told yourself afterwards.
Your history
- March 4
Q3 board update
6 rehearsals · ran 17:40
- January 22
Team all-hands
3 rehearsals · ran 11:05
- November 9
Best man speech
9 rehearsals · ran 6:12
Placeholder — example history, not a real user's.
Pricing
A speaking coach is $150–600 an hour.
Most people can't justify that for one board update. Footholds is what you use instead, or between sessions.
One talk
$79one-time
For the talk that's already on the calendar. One talk, its full rehearsal plan, every rehearsal you want to run, the grounding sequence, and the record afterwards. Less than half an hour with a coach.
Regular
For people who speak constantly$39per month
Unlimited talks and rehearsals, and a history that runs across all of them. Built for sales reps, founders, and team leads giving thirty to a hundred talks a year — reps and a record, not therapy.
Launch pricing, held for waitlist members. Prices go up after the public launch.
There's a date on the calendar. Start there.
Join the waitlist and we'll invite you in small groups, closest talk first.
Questions
Yes, a phone app. You rehearse out loud into it, so it needs to be wherever you are — the kitchen, the hotel room, the car in the parking lot before you go in.