Talksmiths OS
Placement tests and audits, live lessons with certified coaches, homework, progress and the reports HR receives, all in one place.
One thread, five steps.
From the placement test to the final audit, each step of a programme is recorded in one place, and each one shapes the next.
First, we listen.
Every learner starts with a placement test, which finds their exact CEFR level, and an audit with their coach. The audit follows our Student Intake Profile: their role, who they report to, the real situations where English gets difficult, what they love talking about and what to avoid, how they like to learn, and what success would look like to them. Those goals become a measure of the programme in their own right, as important as the move in CEFR level.
- A placement test for the exact starting level
- An eight-part intake audit of their work, needs and goals
- Their goals, in their own words, measured alongside CEFR
- 1IdentityOmar Lahlou · Tangier · Arabic, French
- 2Professional contextFinance Director · reports to the Group CFO in Graz
- 3Self-assessment“Fine in email. On calls I lose the thread.”
- 4Interests, and what to avoidFootball, supply chains · avoid: politics
- 5How they learnLoves role-plays · dislikes grammar drills
- 6Goals and motivation“Present the monthly variance to HQ without notes.”
- 7Teacher notesDrops the past tense under pressure
- 8Lesson historyBaseline audit · 13 Aug
A programme built around them.
We go back to our library of business English lessons, written by hand by our Head of Pedagogy and our certified teachers, and choose the ones that fit the learner's job, their level and everything the audit told us. Then their teacher reworks every lesson, so the situations, articles, videos, examples, role-plays and case studies come from the learner's own working life.
- Lessons chosen for their role, level and goals
- Each one rewritten around their real situations
- A clear objective for every session
Live lessons with a certified coach.
Lessons are taught online by a certified Talksmiths coach, one-to-one or in a group, in Teach Mode: the slides, exercises checked in the lesson, and notes only the coach can see. Attendance is taken at every session, each correction and new phrase is logged as it happens, and the lesson report reaches the learner the moment the coach sends it.
- One-to-one or group lessons, online
- Attendance and hours recorded at every session
- Corrections logged live, a report after every lesson
Their own words, on their phone.
Learners get a portal built for the phone: the next session and its link, homework they can answer in writing or with a voice note, every lesson report, and My English, where everything they were corrected on waits to be practised before the next lesson.
- Join the session and preview the slides in one tap
- Homework by text or voice note, reviewed by the coach
- Practise mode: say it better, then tap to see
Progress you can point to, reported to HR.
Every session feeds the record: attendance, hours, lessons completed, and the level each audit measures at the start, the mid-point and the end, skill by skill. HR has its own portal under the company's logo and colour, and a monthly attendance and progress report. Levels, scores and what anyone said stay out of it, because the sponsor often sits in the same cohort.
- Baseline, mid-point and final audits, skill by skill
- A monthly attendance and progress report for HR
- No levels or scores in the HR view, enforced in the data
- 1IdentityOmar Lahlou · Tangier · Arabic, French
- 2Professional contextFinance Director · reports to the Group CFO in Graz
- 3Self-assessment“Fine in email. On calls I lose the thread.”
- 4Interests, and what to avoidFootball, supply chains · avoid: politics
- 5How they learnLoves role-plays · dislikes grammar drills
- 6Goals and motivation“Present the monthly variance to HQ without notes.”
- 7Teacher notesDrops the past tense under pressure
- 8Lesson historyBaseline audit · 13 Aug
One platform, three portals.
The learner, their teacher and the HR team each have their own portal on the same programme. What happens in a lesson reaches everyone it should, and no one it should not.
Teacher portal
The intake profile and audits, the lesson library, Teach Mode, attendance and the lesson reports, for every learner they teach.
Learner portal
The next session and its link, homework, every lesson report, and the phrases they were corrected on, ready to practise.
HR portal
Who is enrolled, lessons completed, planned hours and audits done, under the company's own logo, and a report every month.
From audit to certification.
Five stages, laid out in the sponsor’s view, with each person’s audits marked as they happen. The audits are recorded in the OS; the final report is written by the coach from them, against the CEFR and against the goals each learner set at the start.
- 01
Audit
A placement test for the exact level, then a structured 60-minute audit per person: the situations that matter in their role, and the goals they want to reach.
- 02
Foundation
The language the work runs on: reporting, numbers spoken aloud, the grammar that carries precision under pressure.
- 03
Application
Live scenarios drawn from the audit: their own meetings, reviews and escalations.
- 04
Consolidation
Mid-point review at week 8. What has moved, what has not, and what the last six weeks are for.
- 05
Certification
The final audit against the baseline, and a written report from the coach: a CEFR level evidenced by recorded movement, and progress against their own goals.
Written by teachers, for the person in the room.
Our lesson library is curated by our Head of Pedagogy and our team of certified teachers, and every lesson in it was made by hand. Then each one is made personal: the learner’s teacher reworks it until the situations, input and role-plays are the ones they meet at work.
Written by hand
More than fifty business English lessons from A2 to B2, written by our Head of Pedagogy and our certified teachers from years of teaching professionals.
Mapped to the CEFR
Every lesson sits at a CEFR level and opens with a clear objective: what the learner will be able to do by the end of the session.
One method: IDEA
Interactive, Discovery, Experiential, Adaptive. Every Talksmiths teacher plans and teaches to the same four principles.
Reworked for each learner
Before a lesson reaches a learner, their teacher rewrites it around them: their situations, their figures, articles and case studies from their industry.
- IInteractive
- DDiscovery
- EExperiential
- AAdaptive
The opening of a lesson, reworked by Omar’s teacher with his own plant’s September figures.
From the first test to the monthly report.
Where a learner starts, how far they have come, and what HR hears about it.
Placement test
Reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary, taken online before the first lesson, for the exact starting level.
Progress charts
Each audit's band and score, skill by skill, on one chart from the baseline to the final audit.
Monthly report to HR
Sessions, hours and attendance to date, sent to the sponsor on the last working day of every month.
Often the sponsor is in the cohort too.
So the sponsor’s view in the OS shows the programme and leaves out each person’s levels, scores and corrections, so nobody is graded in front of their colleagues.
No public sign-up
There is no way to sign up. Every login is issued by Talksmiths to someone on a programme.
Scores stay out of the HR view
Sponsors see the programme: who is enrolled, attendance, lessons completed and which audits have happened. Levels, scores and what anyone said are left out of their view and their reports, in the data itself.
Each learner sees their own
A learner's lessons, reports and corrections are theirs alone. No one else on the programme can open them.
Taught by certified coaches
The OS carries the programme. The audit, the lessons, the teaching and the judgement come from a certified Talksmiths coach.
Every product screen on this page uses a fictional company and fictional people.
See it with your own team.
We will walk you through the OS with a demo programme: the placement test and audit, a live lesson, the learner’s phone and the view your HR team would have.