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Solidroad

AI-powered coaching platform for customer facing teams.

Solidroad provides quality scoring, personalised coaching, and feedback for your customer conversations in both training and live environments. Customer-facing reps can practice realistic conversations (phone, email, live chat & video call) with AI customers and receive personalised coaching and feedback in a risk-free environment. Solidroad also integrates with your live channels to score conversations and find skill gaps for continuous improvement. We are working with large sales and support orgs to reduce time to proficiency during onboarding, provide massive efficiency gains for enablement and operations teams and improve go-live CSAT scores. Solidroad reviews and evaluates 100% of your mock and live customer conversations meaning no more need for you to run manual role-play sessions or manually review calls/chats all day.
Solidroad
Founded:2023
Team Size:6
Location:Dublin, Ireland
Group Partner:Brad Flora

Active Founders

Patrick Finlay, Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Solidroad (W2025) and a second-time founder. Previously co-founded Monaru (S2019), where we helped creators earn $100k+ selling live classes online during covid. Before that, I was as a product engineer at Intercom, where I worked on tools for sales teams that used the product. I hold a degree in Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. Big fan of sea swims.
Patrick Finlay
Patrick Finlay
Solidroad

Mark Hughes, Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Solidroad (W2025), an AI-powered coaching platform for customer-facing teams. Before Solidroad, I founded Gradguide, a coaching and mentorship network for recent grads, where I raised €2M, grew the team to 20, and exited in late 2022. Earlier in my career, I led Sales, Support, and Customer Success for EMEA at Chargify (now Maxio) and worked as an early sales rep at Intercom. I studied Business at Trinity College Dublin and spent a year at HEC Paris.
Mark Hughes
Mark Hughes
Solidroad

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TLDR:

Solidroad is an automated training and quality assessment platform for customer-facing teams. For the first time ever, sales and support teams can evaluate simulated and real customer interactions using the same automated system.

Since launching this summer, we’ve reduced onboarding times by 50% at several of the world’s largest outsourced contact centres/BPOs and improved go-live CSAT at a leading crypto exchange by 3% (now above 90% CSAT).

If you run a large support or sales team and care about conversation quality - we would love to speak with you!

Demo Video:

The Problem:

Sales and support teams struggle to consistently deliver high-quality customer interactions. Onboarding new hires takes too long, trainers and QA analysts spend excessive time manually reviewing only a small sample of conversation volume (3-5% at best), and skill gaps often go unaddressed until it’s too late.

Without full conversation coverage, real-time insights and tailored training, companies face reduced win rates, poor customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores, and inefficiencies that cost time and revenue.

The Solution:

Solidroad automates conversation training and quality scoring. Sales and support teams use Solidroad to practice with AI customers through phone, email, chat, and video calls. Each interaction gets scored and is provided with tailored coaching and feedback.

The same scorecards can be applied to real customer conversations, spotting where teams need to improve. Solidroad replaces manual role-playing and call/chat reviews by analyzing every single conversation—both practice and real ones. By integrating with tools like Intercom, Zendesk, and Gong, Solidroad ensures teams are continually improving in both training environments and live customer interactions.

We help teams:

  • Reduce onboarding time for new hires with conversation training in a risk-free environment.
  • Save trainer & QA time with automated, scalable coaching & feedback loops.
  • Improve team performance, leading to higher win rates and CSAT scores.

About Us:

Patrick and I are both second-time founders and worked closely together at Intercom. Patrick would build cool tools at Intercom and I would then be the beta tester and try to sell them. One of these projects is still live 7 years on - https://pages.intercom.com/mark (I look a little younger in this video vs. the demo above 👴)

I sold my last company, Gradguide, which was a graduate training and mentorship platform for students and grads. Before this, I was the Head of Sales for Chargify in EMEA and an early sales hire at Intercom.

Previously, Patrick co-founded Monaru (S2019), where we helped creators earn $100k+ selling live classes online during COVID. Before that, he was a product engineer at Intercom where he built tools for their sales and support use case.

Our Ask:

If you (or someone you know) are hiring 100+ reps/month for their sales or support teams and are having trouble with their go-live CSAT scores or ramp times, please reach out.