Capabilities & Activities
From investigative role-play and Socratic tutoring to scenario audits and live voice practice, Dialog Lab provides structured, instructor-guided AI conversations tailored to your course goals.
Activity Formats
Design dynamic learning experiences tailored to your discipline and learning objectives. Dialog Lab supports diverse pedagogical modes, whether participants collaborate in small groups or develop skills through solo practice.
Participants step into authentic professional roles to interview, negotiate, or advise stakeholders. Personas hold asymmetric information, private constraints, and realistic blind spots that participants must uncover through probing questions.
Customer discovery, difficult feedback, stakeholder interviews, historical inquiries.
Participants maintain their own identity to advise or coach a fictional or historical character through structured frameworks—applying theoretical models to authentic dilemmas.
Reframing founder stress, SMART goal criteria, strategic decision matrices.
Participants solidify mastery by explaining complex concepts to an inquisitive novice persona who makes common beginner mistakes and needs plain-language analogies.
Supply and demand elasticity, financial statements, core scientific mechanisms.
The AI enacts or generates a realistic workplace exchange or draft artifact. Participants audit the interaction to diagnose cognitive biases, logical fallacies, or policy violations.
Spotting Groupthink in product meetings, bias audits, compliance reviews.
Interactive high-dosage tutoring where an AI tutor challenges participant understanding with progressive hints, refusing to accept passive answers or give away solutions.
Exam concept mastery, algorithmic complexity, constitutional law analysis.
Participants collaborate interactively with the AI to author realistic mini-cases, crisis scenarios, or stakeholder dilemmas designed for peer critique and seminar solving.
Business ethics dilemmas, crisis communication cases, organizational edge cases.
Individual, repeatable skill-building across text, guided voice, or live spoken phone-style calls with randomized counterpart personas and objective question records.
Consultative sales discovery, intake interviews, client qualification calls.
Frictionless, link-based entry for open houses, admissions, and community showcases. Anonymous visitors explore individual conversations without accounts or join codes.
Admissions career exploration, alumni showcases, interactive symposiums.
Platform Features
Everything instructors need to design authentic scenarios, monitor active conversations live, and facilitate rich lab debriefs.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Design the activity | |
| Persona Builder | AI-assisted first draft of a character, with the scenario, key facts, and blind spots. You edit everything before participants see it. |
| Interaction archetypes | Cast personas as clients, Socratic tutors, skeptical counterparts, evaluators, novice students, scenario facilitators, or guides. |
| Scenario exhibits & resources | Attach shared case context, source documents, data tables, and learning objectives that ground the AI’s responses. |
| Run your labs | |
| Individual or group conversations | Participants work alone or share one conversation per group, using the same lab design. |
| Flexible access & roster enrollment | Participants join a Lab Series with a join code. You can keep it open, restrict it by email domain, or limit it to your roster. |
| Public event mode | Share a single link for open houses and showcases, automatically provisioning individual conversations for anonymous visitors. |
| Guide it live | |
| Live monitor | Follow every conversation as it unfolds in real time, and see which groups have asked for help. |
| Instructor notes | Post a clearly labeled message into a conversation. The persona never sees it, and it doesn't count as participant participation. |
| Pause lab or participant messaging | Pause the whole lab for a teaching moment, or pause a single participant’s messaging. |
| Rewind and branch | Fork a conversation at an earlier message to steer it differently. Participants move to the new branch automatically. |
| Review and debrief | |
| Transcripts and exports | Export transcripts, participation summaries, and message records from a completed lab for your debrief or your own assessment. |
| Review flags | Messages that may need a second look are flagged for you as cues, never as automatic enforcement. |
| Preserved records | Completed labs are read-only, so the record of what participants asked and concluded stays intact. |
| Organize and reuse | |
| Lab Series and Labs | Keep each term’s activities, rosters, and conversations organized into a Lab Series. |
| Template library | Start from a template, save your own activity as one, or duplicate an activity to refine it for next term. |
| Clear visibility | Each conversation states who can read it, so participants know what instructors and peers can see. |
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