AI Assistant · 🧭 Manager mode
Handle a hard conversation with someone on your team
You hold the power in the room, which changes everything about how the conversation should go. The Guide adapts the Communication Protocol to leading people.
When this helps
- Someone’s performance has slipped and you don’t know why yet
- You need to give feedback that’s been building for too long
- A behavior is affecting the rest of the team
- You’re worried a good person is about to quit
Built by David and Shannon Baxter at Beanchain Coffee, a worker-directed café, to run their own company. Why we built this →
Want to build leadership practices (one-on-ones, feedback habits, team processes) instead of handling one situation? That’s the Mentor’s specialty.
Open the Mentor in Manager mode →See a full example conversation
- Rebuilding one-on-ones that nobody wanted → A newly promoted manager inherited a 12-person team whose one-on-ones have decayed into status meetings everyone quietly dreads.
- The employee who kept arriving late → A team lead is fed up after the fourth late arrival this month, and has already decided what it means.
Conversations are saved to your account and only visible to you. Prefer a general conversation? Open the Guide → Or learn the system first: the Communication Protocol →