Hi, I’m David Bennett from the Hiring Team
Interviewer · Candidate Interviewer kit
David
The fastest way to build a PAL is to start with one.
Starter Kits are PALs with the conversation already built: a face, a voice, a personality and the skills for candidate screens, onboarding, sales practice, patient intake and more. You talk to one face to face, and it works alongside your team. Open a kit in PAL Maker, make it yours, and it’s live in a few clicks.
Pick a kit, answer three questions, go live
How a Starter Kit works
Start with the conversation
Twelve kits, each built around one kind of conversation, with a face, a voice and a sample scenario already in place. Open the one closest to yours.
Candidate Interviewer
Interviewer · David
Sales Discovery Call
Sales Coach · Deborah
Patient Simulation
Mock Patient · Ray
Three questions, then it’s yours
PAL Maker asks for the details that matter here: your company, the opening you’re hiring for, what you’re screening for. Your answers stand in for the sample scenario.
What is the company?
Northwind Coffee, 40 cafés.
What is the role title and description?
Assistant Manager, Bayside location.
What are you screening for?
Reliability and weekend availability.
Test it, then go live
Talk to your PAL on the Test tab, then deploy it as its own page, a widget on your site, an embed, or a teammate in Google Meet.
INTERVIEWER · DAVID
Give every applicant a real first interview, the day they apply
An interviewer who gives every applicant a real first conversation on their own schedule, asks the same role-specific questions each time, and hands your recruiters a consistent read. Who moves forward is still your call.
SALES COACH · DEBORAH
Run the discovery call before it counts
A sales coach who plays your buyer on a short discovery call, then steps out to coach the rep on what worked and what to sharpen. Practice that never costs a prospect.
MOCK PATIENT · RAY
A mock patient who reacts the way real patients do
A simulated patient clinicians in training can see any hour, as often as they need. Ray answers in character, holds back what he isn’t asked, and reflects on how the visit felt from his side.
BIOLOGY TUTOR · NINA
A patient tutor who teaches one topic at a time
A face-to-face tutor who works through a lesson plan topic by topic, puts a picture on screen, and checks understanding before moving on. Swap the subject, level and goal for your students.
HR ONBOARDING SPECIALIST · ANDREA
Orientation that answers questions, not just slides
An HR onboarding specialist who presents your deck slide by slide, answers questions in context, and picks up where each new hire left off. Your deck, your brand, the same warm first week every time.
Every kit, by what it’s for
Twelve kits today, more every month. Each one opens on its own page with the scenario, the skills and a demo you can try.
HIRING & HR
Hire and onboard.
Screen candidates and welcome new hires alongside your team, with a PAL that runs the same conversation every time.
SALES & GTM
Practice the call.
A buyer who pushes back, then a coach who tells you what worked.
HEALTHCARE
Train and check in.
A mock patient for clinicians in training, and a pre-visit check-in that hands the care team a clear picture before the appointment.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Teach, then check.
Tutoring, compliance and security training that explains one topic at a time and checks understanding.
OPERATIONS
Greet and route.
A lobby greeter that takes a name, finds the host and lets them know their visitor is here.
GAMES & ENTERTAINMENT
Play the part.
A trivia host who keeps score and a casting director who runs the read.
Everything is set up. Change anything.
make it yours
“Make him a little warmer, and skip the scoring.”
Personality · one sentence to Charlie, and the prompt is rewritten
David
A quiz card appears beside Nina mid-sentence.
Skills · Magic Canvas and Perception, on from the first call
Nina
Same conversation, a different face.
Face · pick any from the library, or make your own
Deborah
Rose: warm, clear, unhurried.
Voice · Andrea reads the deck in the voice you pick from the library
Andrea
Personality
Every kit ships with a system prompt written for the conversation: who the PAL is, what it covers, how it closes. David runs the screen without scoring or promising an outcome; Ray holds back three details until the clinician earns his trust. Swap the company, the case and the tone, and the rest holds.
Skills
The skills the conversation needs are already attached. Perception reads the room on every kit, Magic Canvas puts cards and quiz questions on screen for the Tutor, the Sales Coach and the Receptionist, and Slide Presenter walks the deck for Onboarding, Phishing and GDPR training.
Face
Each kit comes with a face that fits the conversation. Keep it, pick another from the stock library, or make your own in Face Studio from a photo or a single sentence.
Voice
Darius for David, Rose for Andrea, James for Julian. Keep the kit’s voice, choose another from the library, or bring your own.
Deploy Anywhere
A PAL is only useful where people actually are, so it goes to them. Invite it to a Google Meet like any teammate, drop it into your site or app with one script tag, or share it as its own hosted page, with nothing to build behind it.
The skills the kits are built on
SKILLS
Magic canvas
Magic Canvas lets a PAL put a card beside its face mid-conversation. The Tutor uses it for tap-to-answer quiz questions, the Sales Coach for the two setup cards, the Receptionist for the meeting-information card, and the intake nurse to read the summary back for the patient to confirm.
Presentation mode
Presentation Mode lets a PAL walk a slide deck and talk through it in its own words while it takes questions. The Onboarding kit runs the official deck in order, and the Phishing and GDPR kits teach page by page and check understanding after each one.
Google Meet
A PAL can join a Google Meet as a full participant, on camera, seeing and hearing the room, and taking its turn in real time. You bring it in the way you would anyone else, either by inviting its email to the calendar event or by passing a meeting link through the API, and it joins on its own, even a call that is already in progress.
Don’t see yours?
Describe it to Charlie
Every kit started as a conversation with Charlie, the builder in PAL Maker. If none of the twelve fit, tell him who your PAL is for and what you want it to help with, and he builds it with you, face, voice and all.
Starter Kit questions, answered
A Starter Kit is a ready-to-go PAL in PAL Maker, with a face, voice, personality, skills and a sample scenario already set up for one kind of conversation. Open one, answer a few questions about your use case, and PAL Maker swaps the sample details for yours.
No. Starter Kits live in PAL Maker, so you can customize and deploy one without writing code. If you want to go further, every kit is a regular PAL you can edit on the Build tab or reach through the Tavus API.
Most kits take about five minutes to a first run. Answer the quick-start questions, talk to your PAL on the Test tab, then go live from the Deploy tab as a shareable link, an embed for your site, or through the API.
Yes. Everything in a kit is a starting point. Swap the face and voice, rewrite the personality, add your own knowledge base, or attach different tools, objectives and guardrails.
Starter Kits run on Phoenix, Raven and Sparrow, the same models you can build with today: Phoenix renders the face, Raven handles perception, and Sparrow handles the timing of the conversation.
Start with a kit. Make it yours.
