Shiken

Best Second Nature Alternative with a Full Platform

Shiken vs Second Nature

Second Nature offers conversational AI sales roleplays with an avatar and scoring. Shiken delivers AI roleplays and scoring too — then adds a meeting recorder, microlearning generated from your docs and calls, a full LMS, communities and roleplays in 40+ languages, so practice links to real conversations 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
Scoring & feedback
Yes
Yes
Custom scenarios
Yes
Yes
Meeting recorder & real-call intelligence
Yes
No
Roleplays auto-generated from your real calls
Yes
No
Microlearning generated from docs & calls
Yes
No
Built-in LMS / LXP (SCORM, certs, paths)
Yes
No
Communities & memberships
Yes
No
Roleplays in 40+ languages
Yes
No
Delivery via Slack / Teams / embed
Yes
No
Free forever plan
Yes
No

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

See how AI roleplay works

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