Why I Built RehearseAI

I’ve spent 20 years in corporate America, most of it in leadership roles, and I’ve sat on both sides of the interview table more times than I can count.

On the hiring side, what surprised me wasn’t how many candidates were unqualified. It’s how many were completely qualified and still lost the job in the first eight minutes — not because they couldn’t do the work, but because it was the first time they’d said any of it out loud.

On the other side: me. Getting the calls. Getting to final rounds. Getting the “we’ve decided to move forward with another candidate” email that always seems to land at 4:45 on a Friday.

Nobody tells you that interviewing is a separate skill from the job itself. You can be excellent at your work and terrible at explaining it to a stranger in 45 minutes. I was. I’d walk to my car and immediately deliver the perfect answer to no one.

Everyone says the same thing: practice. With who? The mirror doesn’t ask follow-ups. Your friends are too nice to tell you your “biggest weakness” answer is a disaster. And nobody volunteers for round four of behavioral questions at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday.

So I built what I wanted: a way to run the interview before the interview. Real questions for the actual role and stage — recruiter screen, hiring manager, panel, final — and honest feedback on what a hiring manager thinks but won’t say to your face.

Then I used it myself. Not as a founder testing a demo, but as someone who needed a job. I stopped losing final rounds, and ended up with the ridiculous problem of choosing between offers — a problem I’d recommend to anyone.

Why there’s a free interview every month

I remember exactly what it’s like to be job-hunting and broke, and the last thing I’d have paid for was “practice.” So every account gets a real practice interview, free, every month — no credit card, no trick, no “enter your details to unlock.” Use it the night before the one that matters. If it helps, the paid plan is there for people who want to drill every week and invite a real human to grill them — and it comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee, so that is not a trick either. If it doesn’t help, you’ve lost five minutes and gained a story.

What RehearseAI actually is

A calm place to rehearse. You paste in the job description and your résumé, and an AI interviewer asks the questions that role would actually ask — and follows up when you dodge. You answer out loud, like the real thing. Afterwards you get straight feedback on what you said and how you said it: the pace, the filler words, the moment you looked at the ceiling. And when you want a human, you can invite one — a friend, a mentor, an ex-colleague — to run the same interview over video, no account needed on their side.

No invented statistics, no fake testimonials, no “97% of users get hired.” Just the thing that worked for me, tidied up so it can work for you.

If you’re in the “interviews, no offers” phase right now: I’m sorry, it’s miserable, and it is not a verdict on you. Go rehearse. Your first one is on me.

— Dominique, founder of RehearseAI · Read the blog