How it works

Periagoge learns what you already know, what you can actually do, and what works for you — and uses it to decide what comes next.

Not a smarter search box. A coach that pays attention to what happens after you try something, and changes what it does because of it.

See it, don’t just read it · Peri makes vague concrete

“What do you want to get better at?”

You
Negotiating.
Peri
Negotiating what?
You
My job offer.
Peri
When do you need to respond?
You
Thursday.
Peri
Then here’s the real thing: reply to the offer by Thursday and counter toward your number. That’s negotiating a live offer — and Zera works on exactly this.
◆ Vague → concrete, live
Vague
“Negotiating.”
Skill
Negotiating a live offer.
Context
A job offer on the table.
Outcome
Counter toward your number.
Timing
Reply by Thursday.
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You experience the personalization — you don’t read about it.

What that looks like · Five steps, no diagram
01

Explain

It gives you what you’re missing — once, in plain terms.

02

Try

You take it into a real meeting, message, or decision.

03

What happened

It pays attention to how that actually went.

04

Change approach

It stops re-teaching, or picks a different move.

05

Less support

As the record earns it, the help steps back.

The Plan · It changes when you do

What you leave with is a Plan — and it rewrites itself.

Your planNegotiate the offer
Skill
Negotiating a live offer.
Next move
Counter toward your number — reply by Thursday.
Coach
Zera · Money & Finance

A week later: you countered, they held firm and hinted the range is capped.

Your planNegotiate the offerUpdated
Skill
Negotiating a live offer.
Next move
Trade salary for equity and a 6-month review — the lever they’ll actually move.
Coach
Zera · Money & Finance

The move changed because of what happened — not because a week passed. That’s the difference between a plan you fall behind on and one that stays alive.

The one thing to understand · Two dials

Every problem has a natural balance.

Knowledge vs Guidance — is this a gap in the craft, or do you know what to do and something underneath stops you? 1:1 vs Pod — work it alone with your coach, or alongside a few others on the same road. Where you sit isn’t fixed, and isn’t the same for everyone: more knowledge early, more guidance as you go; alone at first, ready for a pod later.

Aurelius
Work & Leadership
Knowledge-led
KnowledgeGuidance
65%
35%
1:1Pod
1:1
Pod
“When a team wants to make better decisions together” — knowledge-led, done as a pod.
Why not just ask a general assistant?

A general assistant answers the question in front of it and forgets you by the next one. Periagoge keeps a view of where you’re going, notices what you keep circling, tells you the hard thing, and picks up each time where you left off — because it stops re-teaching what you’ve already shown you can do. That’s the part a subscription to any chatbot can’t reproduce.

The difference isn’t a smarter model. It’s what happens between conversations.