Since 2016 · Tallinn and online
Spake Studio prepares founders, engineers and team leads for the talks that matter — investor pitches, conference sessions, internal reviews, difficult all-hands. No motivational theatre, just structure, rehearsal and honest feedback.
Three formats. Most people start with the first one and come back for the third before a big date.
Six sessions over five weeks. We rebuild one real talk from the ground up: message, structure, slides, delivery. Between sessions you record yourself and we review the recordings together.
One or two days with a group of six to twelve. Everyone brings a real presentation. By the end of day two everyone has delivered it twice and rewritten it once.
The week before the event. You run the talk end to end, we sit in the audience and push back the way a real room will. Usually three passes are enough.
Twenty minutes. What are you speaking at, who is in the room, what has gone wrong before.
You deliver the talk as it stands today. We watch it once without stopping and once with a stopwatch.
Message first, then structure, then slides. Delivery is last — there is no point polishing a sentence that should not be there.
Three full passes in front of people who are allowed to interrupt. This is where most of the improvement happens.
Fourteen slides cut to nine, the ask moved from the end to minute two. The founder stopped apologising for the price. Rehearsed eleven times over two weeks.
A forty minute talk that ran to fifty-five in rehearsal. We removed the second demo and gave the time back to questions. Ran to thirty-nine on the day.
Spake Studio started in 2016 as two people renting a room above a bookshop and running rehearsal evenings for anyone who had a talk coming up. It is now eleven coaches, most of whom came from theatre, teaching or product management, and a small studio near the old harbour.
We are deliberately narrow. We do not do media training, we do not write speeches for you, and we do not promise that nerves go away — they do not, and that is fine. What we do is make sure the thing you stand up to say is worth the attention of the room, and that you have said it out loud enough times to trust yourself.
We collect only what you send us through the booking form: a name, a way to reach you, and what you are preparing for. Session recordings stay with the coach and are deleted thirty days after the programme ends unless you ask us to keep them. We do not sell or share any of it, and we do not run advertising trackers on this site.
Programmes are booked by the block and paid before the first session. Sessions can be moved once at no cost with at least twenty-four hours notice; later than that the session counts as used. If you stop a programme halfway we refund the sessions you have not taken. Prices are quoted per programme on the intro call and hold for thirty days.
Tell us the date you are speaking and we will tell you honestly whether there is time to do anything useful.
Studio
Kalasadama 14, 10415 Tallinn, Estonia
Phone
+372 622 4180
Hours
Mon to Fri, 10:00 to 18:00 EET