The company story
CopperTeams helps teams perform better through coaching. The next step was a product — Kora — that could carry the methodology between human sessions so the company could grow without thinning the craft.
Performance improvement guarantee
20%
Guarantee
20% performance
Shipped
Kora voice MVP
Role
CTO / build
CopperTeams — impact snapshot
The pressure
What was on the line
Human coaching alone could not scale without burning the team. They needed product judgment, architecture, and a path from concept to a production platform clients would trust.
What changed
The arc of the work
- 01
Define the product around real coaching
Kora was built on research-backed team effectiveness frameworks — not a generic chatbot wrapper. The product had to feel like continuous coaching, not another SaaS dashboard.
- 02
Ship the AI system end to end
RAG over coaching expertise, assessment visualization, automated reporting, and context-aware chat — with voice coaching on the assessment platform as the shipped wedge.
- 03
Build delivery capacity to run it
Stood up engineering delivery capacity around a lean CTO + senior developer model — so the product could ship without waiting on a bloated hiring wave.
Product in the wild
Kora — real output
Real product output from copperteams.ai — shown in greyscale to match this site’s palette. Visit CopperTeams for the live product.
Before and after
What people could feel in the week
Coaching impact limited to live session time
→Continuous AI coaching between human sessions
Growth required more coaches in lockstep
→Same staff can serve more client teams
Where they are now
The outcome that stuck
Kora carries methodology between sessions as a voice coach on the assessment platform. CopperTeams keeps the 20% performance guarantee; continuous AI support is the wedge for serving more teams without thinning the craft.
For technical readers
How it was built
RAG with vector retrieval over coaching frameworks, assessment visualization, automated reporting, and context-aware chat. Voice coaching MVP on the assessment platform; broader workplace integrations remain on the roadmap.
RAG + vector search · Team effectiveness frameworks · Voice coaching · Assessment platform
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