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Event Selection
Get your top speech event matches based on what makes you, you. Answer questions about your strengths, goals, workstyle, and preferences and receive matches to your top 3 speech events. Great for novices or students looking for double-entries!
Search
Find the scripts that actually fit you. Casting Agent clarifies your strengths, interests, and search strategy so you stop hunting blindly and start discovering smarter.
Practice Planners
Build a personalized rehearsal plan tailored to your event and progress. The Planner breaks practice into clear stages so you can train with focus and confidence.
Sharpen your central idea for Oratory or Informative. Topic Telescope helps you test, refine, and focus topics into a thesis that resonates with you and your audience.
Design a purposeful program. POI Architect helps you clarify your argument, shape the structure, and plan your research strategy before you cut.
Script & Outline
Get clear on the art of cutting. This article breaks down what cutting is (and isn’t), why it matters, and how smart editing transforms literature into a 10-minute performance.
Turn your chosen script into a clear, 10-minute map. This tool helps you identify key story elements, define themes, and focus your cutting with purpose.
Source Outline Builder
Stay organized while researching. Enter sources, pull key ideas, and instantly get a clean outline to structure your speech.
Build a strong, structured introduction that sets up your limited prep speech.
Draft & Stage
Learn how to make humor land. This article shows you how to craft purposeful, audience-centered jokes that connect, delight, and strengthen your speech.
One of the biggest differences between a good performance and a great one is the imagined environment. Learn think about and bring it to life in your performance.
Master the black book basics. This video walks you through holding, opening, closing, and page turns with intention so your binder becomes part of the performance, not a distraction.
Sound effects aren't about talent -- they are about control and committment. Learn the mechanics of creation and tools for practicing to enhance your performance.
Character Labs
Bring characters to life with distinct voices, faces, and bodies. Character Lab guides you through choices that make performances memorable and authentic.
Turn your ideas into visuals that teach, captivate, and transform. This tool helps you identify key concepts, match them to the right type of visual aid, and design visuals that bring your speech to life.
Blocking Brainstormers
Workshop movement and visual storytelling by identifying key moments and experimenting with how movement, space, and stillness shape the story.