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What kind of work
do you sell?

The four conversations are the same in every service business. Picking your line of work just swaps in examples you'll recognise, so you're reading about a client you could actually have. You can change it any time.

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The hard part isn't finding clients.
It's what you say next.

Thread is a practice tool for the conversations that decide whether a freelance or consulting deal happens. Sixteen scenarios, four replies each, and you get graded on the judgement behind your choice rather than on whether the imaginary client says yes. The examples are set in software work, but the calls being tested are the same in any service business: when to ask instead of pitch, when to give a number, and when to walk.

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The four hard moments
A simulator has never closed a deal. This is here so the first time you meet one of these moments isn't the first time you've thought about it. The scenarios are invented and the scoring reflects how these conversations usually go, not a guarantee about how yours will.
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