Poised closed on 8 October 2026.
A Poised alternative, now that it has closed
What they do
Poised was the best-known standalone meeting coach: real-time feedback on filler words, pace and clarity while you were speaking, through a desktop app that listened to your calls.
At a glance
| Poised | betterput | |
|---|---|---|
| When you get feedback | Live, while you spoke | After, from the transcript |
| What it installs | A desktop app in every call | Nothing |
| What it coached | Delivery: pace, fillers, clarity | Delivery and your English |
| Past meetings | No, it had to be running | Yes, any transcript you still have |
Where we differ
Nothing runs during your call
Poised worked live, which meant a desktop app in every meeting. We work from the transcript afterwards: no app, no bot, no extension, and nothing to explain to a client. It also means we can look at meetings that already happened.
Your English as well as your delivery
Poised coached delivery: pace, fillers, clarity. If English is your second language, the thing costing you credibility is often the preposition or the tense, and that is a different kind of feedback. We do both in one report.
No live feedback
This is a real loss and worth being straight about. There is no nudge while you are talking. The trade is that you get a considered report on the whole conversation instead of a signal in the moment.
When they are the better choice
If what you valued was the live nudge mid-sentence, nothing transcript-based replaces that. The closest thing now is in-meeting coaching built into Teams or Read.
Common questions
- What happened to my Poised data?
- Poised closed on 8 October 2026. Whatever you exported before then is yours to keep, but we cannot import it: their feedback was generated live and never stored as transcripts. A fresh baseline here starts from your next meeting.
- Is there a Poised alternative that still gives live feedback?
- Not as a standalone product of the same kind. The live nudge now mostly lives inside the meeting platforms themselves: Teams speaker coach, and Read during a call. If the in-the-moment signal is the part you valued, that is where to look, and this is not a replacement for it.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. You paste a transcript you already have. There is no desktop app, no bot in the call and no extension, which also means nothing to disclose to a client.
Now find out how you sounded in it
Paste it in and get your talk share, your hedging, and your three clearest English fixes.
Try it freeThe free check needs no account and stores nothing.
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