Poised alternatives (2026): Poised shuts down on 8 October

Poised is closing on 8 October 2026. Its homepage says so in one line and its help pages say nothing more. This page is written by a competitor, and it is also the only place that separates the two things Poised did, because they need different replacements.

Nobody is going to replace the live overlay this month. Almost everybody can replace the part they actually used.

What Poised did, and which half you used

Poised ran as an overlay inside Zoom, Google Meet and Teams. While you talked it flashed prompts: slow down, fewer filler words, you are taking up the room. After the call it wrote a summary on clarity, pacing, energy and filler words, and over weeks it drew a trend.

Ask yourself which of those you looked at. In their own reviews, most users say the post-call summary was the part they used, and the live prompts were the part they noticed and could not act on before the sentence was over. That matches how attention works. Reading a nudge and speaking a sentence compete for the same resource.

If you are in the small group who genuinely changed course mid-sentence because of a prompt, the honest news is below. If you are in the larger group, the move is straightforward.

What is going away

• The live overlay, on 8 October.
• The post-call summaries and the trend charts, with the account.
• The line Poised added to the description of every Google Meet you organised, which some users will not miss.
• Your history. Download what you want before the date.

The alternatives, named

Tool	Shape	Best when
Vocanti	Reads your real meetings afterwards, works one habit at a time, checks the next meeting	You used the summaries and want them to add up to something
Yoodli	Rehearsal scoring and AI roleplay	You want to practise a set-piece before it happens
Orai	Mobile rehearsal with short daily drills	You want practice on your phone
Speeko	Daily vocal exercises	The issue is voice and delivery rather than what you said
Vocal Image	Voice, tone and accent training	Accent work, which none of the others do
A meeting assistant with speaker statistics	Records and summarises the call, shows talk time	You only wanted the talk-time number
Sales roleplay tools	Simulated buyer, scored on deal progress	You are a rep and the measure is the deal
A human coach	Judgement, strategy, the hard conversation	The problem is what to say rather than how you said it

Poised charged $19 a month, or $13 a month billed annually. Individual plans for Yoodli, Orai and Vocanti sit in the same band. Prices move, so check them at source.

If you used the live prompts

There is no established live coach for individuals to move to right now. The category has one fewer product, not one more.

Two things are worth knowing before you go looking. First, the reason the live shape is thin is not that nobody tried it; it is that acting on a prompt while speaking is hard, and most people end up reading the prompts afterwards. Second, if a live nudge did work for you, the behaviour it corrected is probably one you can also see in a transcript after the fact, and fix by habit rather than by alarm. That is a slower loop and a more durable one.

If you used the post-call summary

This is where most Poised users are, and it is the case Vocanti was built for.

The summary told you the meeting’s pacing, filler count and energy. What it did not do was point at the line. Vocanti records the real conversation, separates the speakers, and marks the specific words that cost you: the eleven words you hedged before committing to a date, the answer that arrived after two minutes of context, the position you dropped when pushed. It then prescribes one habit, and when you record the next meeting it tells you whether that habit moved.

That is a different promise from a weekly trend chart. A chart tells you a number went down. The next recording tells you whether the thing your manager named has changed.

If you want prompts while you speak, Vocanti is not that. It reads the meeting afterwards, with the other people in it, because half of what it scores is how you handled them.

Moving over before 8 October

1. Save your Poised history. Trend charts are useful evidence if a review is coming.
2. Check the refund policy if you paid annually.
3. Decide which half you used. Live prompts: read the section above and lower your expectations. Summaries: pick a post-call tool.
4. Record your next real meeting in whichever tool you pick, so the history does not start from zero.
5. Tell the people in your meetings what you are doing, and drop it for that call if someone objects.