ALYGN · the personal trainer for your emotional intelligence
For managers & leaders

Your words lead.
Make sure they land.

ALYGN estimates the gap between what you mean and how your messages read: in feedback, in conflict, and under pressure. Then it gives you three ways to say it. Free. Private.

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Three minutes · No account · Private by design
What ALYGN helps with

The scenarios managers face every week

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Feedback that actually changes behaviour
Most feedback fails because it triggers defensiveness before the message lands. ALYGN shows you, from your own draft, whether it reads as an attack on the person or a request about the work, and rewrites it three ways.
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Managing up without losing the room
How you frame a disagreement with your own manager decides whether it is heard as insight or insubordination. ALYGN estimates the gap so you can close it on purpose.
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Across functions
The same message reads differently to Sales, Engineering and Legal. ALYGN reads the emotional layer so you can adjust before sending.
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Under pressure
Under stress people fall back on their worst patterns: absolute language, blame, shutting down. ALYGN makes them visible in your own words before you send them.
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Developing your direct reports
Give your team a private communication mirror to use between 1:1s. Their style gives you a shared vocabulary for coaching conversations, without you seeing anything they do not choose to show.
How it works

From draft to a message that lands

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Paste the draft
A feedback note, a difficult email, a team announcement. ALYGN reads it as the receiver would.
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See the gap and the words behind it
ALYGN estimates the gap between what you meant and how it is likely to read, and highlights the words that open it. For managers the gap is often wider than expected: authority amplifies misreads.
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Read three ways to say it
Three genuinely different versions, in your voice: one that holds the line, one that builds the bridge, one that says it straight. Real language, not advice.
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Know your default
Three minutes of quiz tell you the style you fall back on under pressure. Naming it is the first step to choosing a different move.
What it rests on

Three ideas behind the readings

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The moves that wear relationships down
Criticising the person, contempt, defensiveness, shutting down: the same few moves erode teams as they erode couples. ALYGN names them in your own messages.
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Assertive, not aggressive
Assertive sits between passive and aggressive, and most managers swing between the first two. ALYGN keeps pointing at the third.
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Needs, not blame
The feedback that lands names what was observed, what it caused, what is needed and what is asked, without blame. The rewrites are built around that shape.
Know your default

Which style do you fall back on under pressure?

Every manager has a stress pattern. ALYGN names it, which is the first step to choosing a different response.

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Secure Connector
Direct, warm, quick to repair.
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The Softener
Empathetic, conflict-averse, over-apologises.
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The Absolutist
Intense, uses 'always'/'never' under stress.
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The Deflector
High EQ, expresses frustration indirectly.
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The Critic
High standards; tips into criticism under pressure.
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The Over-Processor
Overthinks, delays authentic expression.
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The Fixer
Jumps to solutions before hearing the feeling.

Try it before you recommend it

Paste a message, see how it lands, read the three ways to reply. It takes three minutes and it is free.

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What ALYGN is not. ALYGN is communication coaching for everyday messages. It does not diagnose, assess or treat, and it is not a psychological, clinical or counselling service. Its reads are generated by AI and can be wrong. It is not an emergency service: if you or someone else is in danger, call your local emergency number.

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