Different clients. Different problems. Every conversation feels real. Every conversation counts.
AI-powered professional conversation simulation where the AI is the client, and your learners have been hired to help.
For universities & HE programmes
For business support & training providers
The conversation gap
The moment that matters
You've taught them the theory. They can cite the models, analyse case studies, and write a pretty decent report. But there's a moment in every professional career where someone sits across from you, describes a problem they can't solve, and waits for you to say something useful. That moment is hard to teach, because until now, you couldn't simulate it. Not with role play between classmates. Not with a written case study. Not by observation when everyone knows they're being observed. Not with anything that scales past a handful of learners per year.
Meet Jenny
Here's what your learners experience. They sit down with an HR Director called Jenny. She tells them her company is losing experienced staff to retirement and can't recruit fast enough. Sounds straightforward. It isn't. The pay gap she hasn't mentioned, the two shift supervisors quietly blocking change, the redundancy plan the MD shared with her but nobody else knows about. None of that comes for free. Your learners have to find it through the kind of questioning that actual professionals do in actual meetings.
No two simulations alike
Next time, it won't be Jenny. It'll be Marcus, a cafe owner who thinks his problem is marketing but is actually that he's bleeding cash on a lease he can't afford. Or Priya, the logistics MD, who won't admit the real reason three senior staff left in six months. Every simulation generates a unique organisation, a unique client, and a unique problem with no neat answer. Information comes in layers. The surface stuff comes easy. The rest has to be earned. And the client is not there to help. They're there because they need help. The distinction matters.
The client remembers. The platform learns.
Your learners can leave and come back days later. Jenny remembers what they asked, what they missed, and what they said they'd come back to. And the more simulations they complete, the less patience the next client has for basic questions. That isn't a setting you toggle. The platform tracks how each learner develops and raises expectations accordingly.
Consultant Edition
For Higher Education
Your students practise consultancy skills with clients facing complex organisational problems. Calibrated to subject area and level, from Level 5 through to Level 7. And you can see every conversation, and add private notes without ever interfering. Last week it was Jenny, insisting nothing was wrong while her best staff walked out the door. This week it might be Priya, who knows exactly what the problem is but won't tell you until she trusts you. Next week... who knows?
Covers HRM, Leadership & Management, Strategy, Change Management, Operations, Marketing, and more.
Adviser Edition
For Business Support Professionals
Your trainee advisers practise with small business owners who need help but aren't always easy to help. Mapped to national occupational standards. You and your assessors get full oversight of every practice session. Last week it was Marcus, who doesn't want to close his beloved cafe but can't work out why it's losing money. This week it might be Asha, just getting started with her first business and not sure what questions to even ask. Next week... let's see, shall we?
Covers growth planning, start-up support, financial guidance, export readiness, and more.
Can't I just do this with a good AI prompt?
You could try. And you might get a conversation that looks kind of similar. But you won't really get one that develops professional skills.
Ask any AI to play Jenny on a bad day. It'll be Jenny for about five exchanges before it forgets what she was so cross about and starts being helpful again. Ask it to withhold information and it'll try, then fold the moment a learner pushes. Ask it what it's already told them. It might remember. Depends how far into the conversation they are. Or it might just start making things up. That's not a risk worth taking with your learners' development.
interloQ's clients don't break character. They track what they've revealed and what they're still holding back. They push back when your learners offer textbook advice or try to skip straight to a recommendation. They get less patient as your learners get more experienced. Try that with a prompt and a free ChatGPT account.
Then there's everything around the conversation that you need and a prompt can't give you. You and your tutors can watch every exchange, add private annotations, and track progress across a whole cohort. Scenarios are calibrated to subject area and academic level. Curriculum context will shape what gets generated, so the simulation tests the right skills without the learner ever knowing. All conversations are stored securely within your institution, with audit trails and proper data governance. Not sitting on someone else's servers with no oversight.
A clever prompt gets you a chatbot pretending to be Jenny. interloQ gives you the real Jenny. The real Marcus. The real Priya. And every difficult conversation your learners need to experience before they face a real one.*
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Why interloQ?
From the Latin inter (between) and loquī (to speak). To speak between. The conversation between a professional and a client, where the real learning happens in the space between the question and the answer.