LeaderCoreAI - Leadership Training

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We're Frank Basinski and the Blue Horizon Training team - leadership experts who've spent 20+ years in the executive trenches before building leadership development programs and coaching real leaders from around the world. Here's the problem we kept seeing: A newly promoted manager attends a €15,000 three-day workshop. Day one: personality assessments. Day two: awkward role-playing with colleagues who are too polite to give real feedback. Day three: ambitious action plans that will be forgotten by Thursday. The workshop itself? Often brilliant. The insights? Genuinely valuable. Six months later? That same manager is still micromanaging their team, freezing during conflict, and reverting to old patterns under pressure. And what about the €15,000 investment? The insights stuck with the participants. The behavior stayed the same. Everyone in that business knows that these training investments evaporate a lot, but there’s no better alternative - or so it was. The breakthrough insight: Leadership development works like physical fitness. You can't build muscle by reading about exercise or watching YouTube videos about squats from your couch. You need consistent, repeated practice under progressively challenging conditions. Great workshops teach you WHAT to do and WHY it matters. But there's a massive gap between understanding a concept and having it available when your toxic top performer just called a junior designer "aggressively mediocre" in front of the entire team, and nobody to help you deal with that! You don't get to hit "retry" in real life. And that's the problem. That's why we built LeaderCoreAI. It's not a replacement for great leadership training - it's the missing piece that bridges insights to action. Think of it as the practice space between the workshop and the real world. AI-powered leadership simulation where managers rehearse high-stakes conversations with realistic AI team members (we call them archetypes: the Optimist, the Realist, the Challenger, the Passive Observer, etc.) who respond authentically to their choices. (And challenge you to the bone in the higher difficulty levels!) No cringe role-playing. No predetermined scripts. No career risk. And definitely no one pretending Steve from Accounting can convincingly play "Angry VP from Marketing." ;-) What surprised us most: The first scenario 63% of users choose isn't "Strategic Vision" or "Decision-Making." It's "Addressing Low Motivation" - because many managers are actually in triage mode these days, desperately needing to stop their teams from falling apart. Turns out, managers aren't aspiring to be visionary leaders right now. They just don't want their teams to implode. (We should probably discuss this as a society.) Early results from a training cohort from EU-CONEXUS, a european university consortium: 100% of participants reported improved decision-making clarity. One department head told us: "The scenario responses helped me see blind spots in my leadership instincts. I became more self-aware in the moment and less reactive." Another COO's review? "It's scary good!" (We're still not sure if that's entirely a compliment, but we'll take it.) Who it's for: * HR Directors & L&D Managers who want their leadership programs to actually stick * Companies running great training that need the practice component to turn insight into skill * Organizations with first-time managers who understand concepts but freeze when stakes are high * Training providers looking to extend learning beyond the workshop walls The integration model: LeaderCoreAI works best alongside your existing programs: * Pre-workshop: Managers arrive confident, having practiced scenarios beforehand * Post-workshop: Continuous practice reinforces insights over weeks and months * Between coaching sessions: Unlimited rehearsal space when your executive coach isn't available * For ongoing development: Build leadership muscle memory through repetition that workshops can't provide The democratization part: Traditional leadership training programs costs €15,000-€70,000 for a single small cohort. The practice component that makes it stick? €89/month per user. Because knowing what good leadership looks like and having it available under pressure are two very different things. Try it yourself: We've made 4 scenarios free to experience for a limited time. No credit card needed. No sales call required. Just you, some AI team members, and the opportunity to practice being wrong in public without... actually being wrong in public. What impossible leadership scenario have you faced that nobody prepared you for?