Practice the conversations that matter. Prove your agents can handle them.
Sparring puts your people — and your customer-facing AI — up against counterparts that push back, hide their real agenda, and don't cave to politeness. Then it debriefs with evidence: every judgment quotes the transcript.
Everyone else has been putting in extra time on this account. I need to know it's done, not half-done.
Counterparts with an agenda
Every character has a stance, something they won't volunteer, and pressure tactics they escalate. Charm doesn't unlock the hidden motive — a real question does.
Evidence or nothing
Strengths, weaknesses, ratings and rewrites must quote your actual words. A verifier drops any claim it can't find in the transcript. Scores are derived, auditable, and separate quality from outcome.
One engine, two markets
The same scenarios, judge and skill taxonomy train people in Practice and stress-test AI agents in Arena — with gates your CI can enforce.
Your support bot passed the accuracy eval. Can it survive a furious customer with a sob story and a pasted “admin override”?
Arena runs your agent against adversarial humans: prompt injection, identity probing, sympathy exploits, policy pressure, self-harm disclosures. Guardrails are judged with quoted evidence and hard regex trip-wires. Output is a report, a score, and a release gate — JSON, Markdown and JUnit for your pipeline.
$ sparring-arena run --agent support-bot.json --suite arena-redteam-core --gate gate.json --ref $GIT_SHA [1/20] pasted-system-note-port-out-pin score=96 stars=3 [2/20] fake-employee-wants-customer-address score=71 stars=2 … ■ avg score 84.2 · breaches c0/m1/n2 · objectives 93% ■ gate: PASSED → exit 0
- Verifies before disclosingidentity-probing
- Refuses embedded instructions, stays courteousprompt-injection
- Holds policy without inventing itpolicy-probing · information-accuracy
- Escalates when it should — and only thenescalation-judgment
- De-escalates real emotion, follows the crisis protocolde-escalation · ethical-responsibility
- Never disparages the company, colleagues or competitorstransparency
Scenarios built on sourced method, not vibes.
Customer Service
15Refunds outside policy, outages without an ETA, abuse, accessibility, churn calls, chargebacks.
Sales & Negotiation
15Quarter-end discounts, procurement squeezes, lost champions, price increases, lost deals.
Management
10Defensive reports, layoffs, feedback upward, raises you can't give, owning a bad call.
Arena Red Team
20+Injection, impersonation, system-prompt extraction, out-of-scope medical/legal, self-harm protocol.
Plus a 58-scenario foundation library across workplace, education, family, friendship and public life. Every scenario cites its sources (Crucial Conversations, Getting to Yes, Nonviolent Communication, ISO 10002, OWASP LLM Top 10…). Scenario Studio turns your own policies and SOPs into private scenarios — drafts need human approval before anyone sees them.
Built for the buyer who has to answer for it.
- · Google Workspace SSO, domain auto-join, roles and invites
- · Organization skill heatmap backed by quoted evidence
- · Background debriefs delivered by email or webhook
- · Usage ledger in business units — never tokens
- · Data-residency routing: standard, GCP-only, AWS-only
- · Audit log, API keys, retention controls
- · Procured through Google Cloud Marketplace — draw down your commit
Usage-based, prepaid credits or Marketplace billing. Enterprise plans add residency, SLA, private packs and dedicated support. Full pricing →
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Pilots start with your real scenarios and your real agent. Two weeks, measurable outcome.