Shiken

Best Second Nature Alternative with a Full Platform

Shiken vs Second Nature

Second Nature offers conversational AI sales roleplays with video avatars, multi-persona meetings, scoring in 30+ languages and SCORM or LTI delivery to your LMS. Shiken delivers AI roleplays and scoring too, then adds a built-in meeting recorder, roleplays generated from your calls, microlearning from your docs, a full LMS and communities inside one platform.

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Conversation intelligence in Shiken: headline cards for sessions, average talk time, longest monologue and average rubric score, the weakest and strongest objectives, and a ranked bar chart of average score per evaluation criterion.
Feature
Shiken
Second Nature
AI sales roleplays
Yes
Yes
Conversational avatar practice
Yes
Yes
Multi-persona meeting scenarios
Yes
Yes
Scoring & feedback
Yes
Yes
Custom scenarios
Yes
Yes
Multilingual roleplaysShiken 40+ languages; Second Nature 30+ languages.
Yes
Yes
LMS delivery via SCORM or LTIShiken SCORM export on Enterprise plans.
Yes
Yes
Built-in meeting recorder & real-call scoringSecond Nature describes Deal Coach for live deals; recording or scoring real calls is not described at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Roleplays generated from your own recorded callsNot described on Second Nature’s published pages at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Microlearning generated from docs & callsNot described on Second Nature’s published pages at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Built-in LMS / LXP (certificates, paths)Not described on Second Nature’s published pages at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Communities & membershipsNot described on Second Nature’s published pages at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Delivery via Slack / Teams / embedNot described on Second Nature’s published pages at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Free plan and published pricingSecond Nature offers free sample roleplays and demos; a free plan and published pricing are not described at the review date.
Yes
Not listed

How we compared

Second Nature ratings last reviewed on 21 October 2026. Each row reflects what Second Nature's published product pages described on that date, and Shiken's own product at the same date. "Not listed" means the capability was not described in those materials; it does not mean the vendor cannot offer it another way. Capabilities and packaging change, and some are tied to specific plans or add-ons.

Sources checked: secondnature.ai.

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Why teams switch from Second Nature

What that looks like in Shiken

Practice is only half of it. Shiken scores the real calls too, so you can see the rehearsal turning into results.

Role-play results for a cohort: median best score, pass rate and average score change, with a median-score-by-attempt trend line and a histogram of best-score distribution.
Median score by attempt and the spread across a cohort, so improvement is a number.
Conversation intelligence in Shiken: headline cards for sessions, average talk time, longest monologue and average rubric score, the weakest and strongest objectives, and a ranked bar chart of average score per evaluation criterion.
Delivery metrics and average score per criterion, drawn from real calls as well as practice.

AI Roleplay

Practise with characters who feel real

Every scenario is played by a lifelike AI character who listens, answers and pushes back — scored against your rubric, available any time, in 40+ languages.

  • Executive stakeholder

    enterprise, sales, negotiation and board-level scenarios

  • Line manager

    coaching conversations, feedback and performance reviews

  • Clinician

    healthcare, clinical simulation and patient conversations

  • Frontline colleague

    retail, hospitality, deskless teams and language practice

  • Customer contact

    onboarding, customer education and compliance conversations

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