How it works
How Pretalq works
Every part of this product exists to do one thing: tell a manager how to deliver a message to the specific person hearing it.
What it is
Private guidance, right before the conversation.
Pretalq is not a training course and it is not a coach. You open it before an important conversation, pick the person and what it is about, and it tells you how to approach them.
It takes seconds. A tool that takes longer than that does not get used, and unused advice is worth nothing.
The flow
Set up once. Seconds for every conversation after that.
- 1The company onboards. Each employee does a ten minute, game-style setup, once. That is how Pretalq learns the way each person prefers to be approached.
- 2The manager picks the person. They are already in the system, so the guidance is tailored from the very first use.
- 3The manager picks the conversation type. A termination, negative feedback, a recurring issue, a regular 1:1. Each one changes the approach Pretalq recommends.
- 4The manager picks Quick or Deep. A single line, or the full strategy.
- 5The conversation happens. In person or online. Pretalq is not in the room, is not listening, and is not taking notes.
- 6Both sides rate the approach. One second each. That rating is the only thing Pretalq records about the conversation, and it sharpens every piece of advice that follows.
Two modes
One for routine. One for high stakes.
Five seconds before a routine conversation. One line: the single thing to get right with this person.
Lead with the decision. With this person a long build-up gets read as bad news before you have said anything.
The full approach for a conversation you cannot afford to get wrong. How to open, the pushbacks you are likely to get and how to answer them, what to avoid, and what to do if it goes badly anyway.
How it knows each person
A ten minute setup, done once by each employee.
The setup is game-style rather than a questionnaire, which is why people actually finish it. It produces a structured profile written as what helps this person, never as a personality label.
Labels describe who someone was on the day they were tested. A year later they are often wrong and nobody has noticed. Pretalq describes what works with the person now.
How it stays sharp
Both sides say whether it worked.
After a conversation, the manager and the employee are each prompted to rate how the approach landed. Both can skip. Neither is asked what was discussed, only whether the approach worked.
That rating updates the profile. Most tools only ever hear from the manager, but the person the message was aimed at is the one who knows whether it landed. Pretalq asks them.
How guidance is generated
Assembled the moment you need it.
Pretalq combines three things when you ask, not before:
Guidance is retrieval based, pulled from a live knowledge base at the moment it is needed rather than read off a fixed script. Each recommendation is generated for that exact person and that exact situation.
The model is our own, fine-tuned and self-hosted. Your company's conversations do not pass through a third-party API.
Privacy
Advice to the manager. Nothing else.
- Onboarding answers and feedback are never shown to the manager. Only the derived guidance is.
- No access to email, calendars, files, meetings or HR systems. Pretalq is a standalone app.
- It never joins, records or transcribes a conversation.
- What gets stored is a structured profile and a rating. There is no transcript, because there was never a recording.
The manager gets advice on how to work well with someone, not data about them.
Where it lives
On the surfaces you already work in.
A web app and a mobile app are in build, with Slack, Teams and email integrations to follow.
Pricing
A few common questions.
- Who pays?
- The company, not the manager. Pretalq is a B2B tool bought for a company's managers.
- How much?
- £10 per manager per month, and £1 per employee per month.
- Any account rules?
- At least one manager account for every 12 employees.
- Cost per conversation?
- None. You pay for the team covered, not for usage, so a manager can check before every conversation without weighing it up first.