You talk out loud and the other side answers out loud, in real time. It is software, not a person, and it will say so if you ask — but it stays in character under pressure, which is the whole point: you get to be interrupted, doubted and needled by someone who will do it again on request.

Nobody on our side hears it. Your microphone connects straight from your browser to OpenAI, the US company whose model gives Frankie its voice — the audio never touches our servers, OpenAI receives your IP address with it, and OpenAI's own terms apply there. What stays with us is the written transcript, on servers in Frankfurt, and it is deleted automatically 30 days after the session ends. Under Account & privacy you can export everything we hold, or delete your account and everything in it, yourself: no email, no waiting.

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Almost nobody is, in the moment — that is the actual problem, and it is trainable. Much of what works here is not wit at all: buying yourself a beat, answering the question under the question, saying the flat honest thing so the room can move on. Frankie will tell you when the funny answer was the wrong tool. You can stop mid-scene, say “again”, and replay the same jab until your answer sounds like you meant it. Nobody is watching.

Then this is the wrong tool, and it will say so. Repartee practises composure when a room turns on you: the hostile question, the jab, criticism delivered with an audience. It does not train comebacks to harassment, discrimination or bullying — a good line is not the answer to those, and treating it as one leaves you carrying something that was never yours to carry. That belongs with a manager, a works council, HR or a lawyer, and one of the tracks here is about telling the difference.