The Professional Speaker's Evaluation Platform

Your voice
has a shape.
Sharpen it.

DOUGLASS · 1818

"You've written the speech. You've read it twice. You still don't know if it's going to land — and you step to the podium in 48 hours."

Five speech domains. Five weighted criteria. The rhetorical DNA of history's greatest orators — applied to your manuscript before you step to the podium.

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Most speakers stop getting real feedback after the people who love them start saying it's good. That's where improvement stops. This is where it starts again.

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Cicero — Structural Logic
Lincoln — Moral Economy
Douglass — Narrative Evidence
Churchill — Rhythmic Defiance
King — Prophetic Layering
Demosthenes — Urgent Precision
Aristotle — Rhetorical Architecture
Noonan — Intimate Scale
Sorensen — Antithetical Drive
Sojourner Truth — Moral Repetition
Cicero — Structural Logic
Lincoln — Moral Economy
Douglass — Narrative Evidence
Churchill — Rhythmic Defiance
King — Prophetic Layering
Demosthenes — Urgent Precision
Aristotle — Rhetorical Architecture
Noonan — Intimate Scale
Sorensen — Antithetical Drive
Sojourner Truth — Moral Repetition
The Method

Four steps from draft to delivery-ready.

I
Choose your domain
Select from five speech types — each mapped to its own rhetorical tradition and weighted criteria.
II
Submit your manuscript — or just an outline
Paste a finished draft, or give us a few bullet points and let the Lab write your first draft for you. Either way, the same editorial read follows — not a spell-checker.
III
Receive your score
Five weighted criteria return a composite score from 1–5 with behavioral anchors drawn from the historical masters.
IV
Apply the diagnosis
A three-paragraph editorial analysis tells you what's working, what's costing you, and one revision to make today.

Every speech has a purpose.
We score all five.

Different occasions demand different rhetorical tools. The Lab knows the difference.

📜
To Inform
Transfer knowledge so clearly your audience can act on it the moment you stop speaking.
Training briefing · Conference keynote
⚖️
To Persuade
Move an audience from where they are to where you need them to be — logically and emotionally.
Sales pitch · Fundraising appeal
🏛
To Commemorate
Honor a person or moment in a way that bonds your audience to shared identity and values.
Eulogy · Retirement tribute
🎤
Special Occasion
Serve the weight of the moment — inaugural, ceremonial, ritual — with words that match it.
Valedictorian speech · Best man / maid of honor toast
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To Entertain
Delight your audience while delivering a message they carry out of the room long after the laughter fades.
Wedding roast · After-dinner speech

Two interfaces.
One standard of excellence.

Choose the environment that matches how you think.

4.2
Strong thesis. Tighten the close.
Manuscript Mode
The Podium
A living manuscript. Scores appear as editorial annotations in the margin as you write. No dashboard — the page is the interface.
Thesis
5
Ethos
4
Pathos
3
Logos
2
Certification Mode
The Rostrum
Three certification levels. Expert coaching on every retry. AI evaluation against a 100-point rubric built on 2,500 years of oratory.
The Rostrum · Certification Program

Three levels. Three credentials.
One speaker who can prove it.

Every Rostrum level you pass earns a named designation — evaluated against a 100-point rubric drawn from 2,500 years of oratory. Not a participation badge. A scored competency credential.

Level I
CFO
Certified Foundational Orator™
Level II
CRP
Certified Rhetorical Practitioner™
Level III
CMS
Certified Master Speaker™
Complete all three levels — earn something worth displaying.
Every credential comes with a personalized certificate, a LinkedIn-ready digital badge, and a unique credential ID. Pass Level III and receive a complimentary AI-written speech — crafted to the same 100-point standard you were just certified against.
Add your designation to LinkedIn in under two minutes  ·  Credential ID included  ·  No expiration  ·  Verifiable at speechwriterslab.com
Law enforcement leaders  ·  Ministry communicators  ·  Executives  ·  Anyone whose voice carries weight
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The Genome

Twenty orators. Every criterion traceable to one of them.

01
Cicero
106–43 BC
Structural Logic — the three-part argument
02
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Prophetic Layering — vision layered on legal argument
03
Winston Churchill
1874–1965
Rhythmic Defiance — brevity wielded as a weapon
04
Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865
Moral Economy — Biblical cadence, fewest possible words
05
Frederick Douglass
1818–1895
Narrative Evidence — lived testimony as irrefutable proof
06
Demosthenes
384–322 BC
Urgent Precision — every word carried consequence
07
Aristotle
384–322 BC
Rhetorical Architecture — codified the art of persuasion itself
08
Peggy Noonan
1950–present
Intimate Scale — conversational tone at 10 million viewers
09
Sojourner Truth
1797–1883
Moral Repetition — repetition deployed as a hammer
10
Theodore Sorensen
1928–2010
Antithetical Drive — complexity rendered inevitable
11
Barack Obama
1961–present
Narrative Arc — personal story as national mirror
12
Ronald Reagan
1911–2004
Optimistic Frame — humor and hope as political tools
13
Quintilian
35–96 AD
Pedagogical Rigor — rhetoric as character formation
14
Patrick Henry
1736–1799
Ultimatum Structure — binary choice forced on the audience
15
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902
Declaration Mirroring — existing authority turned against itself
16
Pericles
495–429 BC
Civic Elevation — audience raised to the dignity of the moment
17
Daniel Webster
1782–1852
Forensic Grandeur — legal precision at epic scale
18
John F. Kennedy
1917–1963
Chiasmic Inversion — the sentence that reverses and illuminates
19
Booker T. Washington
1856–1915
Pragmatic Appeal — progress framed as mutual interest
20
Theodore Roosevelt
1858–1919
Arena Courage — the man in the arena as rhetorical identity
The Standard

Not a spell-check.
A surgical evaluation.

Every criterion is scored 1–5 against behavioral anchors drawn from the masters' own work. Score 1 means the criterion is absent. Score 5 means the historical masters would recognize what you've done.

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1
Needs Work — criterion absent or harmful
2
Below Standard — attempted, fails more than succeeds
3
Developing — present but inconsistently applied
4
Competent — reliable, minor lapses only
5
Mastery — the masters would recognize this
What Others Say

Voices from the Lab

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I homeschooled my two boys from kindergarten all the way through senior year, and if I’m honest, public speaking was always the piece I felt least equipped to teach. I could build a lesson plan on almost anything — but coaching real confidence at a podium? That’s a different skill. Looking back now, I think about what it would have meant to hand my boys a tool where they could get coached by the same voices behind the greatest speeches in history — not just a rubric, but actual guidance shaped by people who’ve spent their lives studying what makes someone worth listening to. It would have saved me hours of guesswork and given them something I couldn’t fully give on my own: the confidence that comes from real, expert feedback. I wish this had existed when we started.

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Brandy D.
Homeschool Parent · 16-Year Homeschool Graduate · Mother of Two

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