Roleplays
noun.
See how candidates persuade, listen and think when the conversation gets real.
e.g. “The customer wants a refund.”
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What candidates tell us
Everyone says they can handle tough situations.
See how they actually perform through roleplays.
Roleplays / Scenario library
Search roleplaysASAngry Customer Complaint
A loyal customer of four years gets a late, wrong order and five days of silence.
Cold Call: Busy Prospect
An ops manager picks up on the way into standup and gives you ninety seconds, tops.
Negotiating a Renewal
Contract up in three weeks and the customer is using usage data as leverage on price.
Objection Handling: Price Pushback
Procurement has a quote 30% cheaper on the desk. Make the premium feel justified.
De-escalating a Refund Demand
Four months into an annual plan, they want a full refund and threaten a chargeback.
Escalation Call: Client at Risk
Six weeks of integration failures. Their VP of Operations is on the phone, evaluating.
Delivering Difficult Feedback
A missed deadline burned the team. Address it directly without breaking trust.
Reactivating a Lost Deal
A VP who chose a competitor six months ago is back in market guarded, fifteen minutes.
Handling a Missed Deadline
The launch slipped twice. Tell the client before they hear it from someone else.
Check out our vast library of roleplays.
Just pick the roleplay, and assign it.
Nura
AI Roleplay Agent · Xobin
Live transcript
Candidate: Sarah MillerOur AI agent conducts the roleplay according to the scenario.
Why roleplays work
Our interviews don’t rely on prompts. They rely on research. Every interview, assessment and recommendation is built on years of psychometric research and validated hiring science.
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Research-backed
Built on academic rigor and real-world validation.
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Psychometrically validated
Designed using proven psychological principles and methodologies.
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Predictive of job performance
Outcomes that correlate with on-the-job success.
For more information, visit xobin.com/research
What actually happens
Live conversation practice against Nura.
- 1
Set the character and the stakes
Choose who Nura plays, how hard she pushes and what a good outcome looks like before the conversation starts.
Roleplays / Scenario setupStart callChurn-risk CFO
Difficulty: high
NuraUnderperforming rep
Difficulty: medium
NuraSalary renegotiation
Difficulty: high
NuraAngry patient family
Difficulty: high
NuraSkeptical procurement
Difficulty: medium
NuraResignation save
Difficulty: medium
Nura - 2
Nura reacts to what you actually say
She interrupts, tests weak claims and rewards specifics, so the conversation goes where the participant takes it.
Roleplays / Live Tyler NashNura
Your renewal is 40% higher. Walk me through why that isn't a price grab.
TNTyler Nash
Your seat count grew 3x this year the rate per seat actually dropped.
Nura
Then show me the per-seat math, not the total.
TNTyler Nash
$41 down to $27 per seat. I'll send the breakdown before we hang up.
Pressure curve peaked at 0:04:12 · recovered by 0:05:30
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Coaching notes with the receipts
Each attempt is scored on the rubric and cites the moment that moved the score, so the next run has something concrete to fix.
Reports / Roleplay Tyler NashConversation rubric
78 / 100
Discovery82Objection handling88Value framing71Close and next step68Strong recovery on the pricing challenge; never asked for a decision date.
What you get out of it
Practice the hard conversation before it costs you a customer.
- Unlimitedreps
Nura plays the difficult customer as many times as a rep needs, at any hour.
- ~25%faster ramp
New hires reach call-ready confidence without burning a manager's calendar.
- Scoredon your rubric
Objection handling, empathy and control are rated the same way every time.
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Before you ask.
An AI counterpart playing a defined character an unhappy customer, a skeptical buyer, a direct report that stays in role and responds to what the candidate actually says.
Discovery, objection handling, clarity, tone and outcome, against a rubric you can edit. The full transcript is attached to the score.
Yes. Recording, transcript and scoring breakdown sit on the candidate record for a hiring manager to review or override.
Yes for the major platforms Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, Ashby and others through native sync or API. Anything custom is handled with a webhook or scheduled sync.
Data stays inside your account and is never used to train models outside it. Xobin is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with GDPR-aligned data processing and configurable retention.
Most teams are live in two to three days. The variable is usually your existing tooling and approvals, not the product itself.
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