Chronus, a leader in enterprise mentoring, has entered the AI coaching market with the launch of Rumi by Chronus, a platform that brings together AI-powered coaching and human-led mentoring to accelerate workforce readiness. Rumi by Chronus includes two offerings: Rumi Coach, the company's first AI coaching product, and Rumi Mentor, its proven mentoring solution with AI-powered matching and guided conversations.
Chronus has entered the AI coaching market with Rumi by Chronus, combining AI-powered coaching and human-led mentoring.
Rumi by Chronus includes Rumi Coach, its first AI coaching product, and Rumi Mentor, its mentoring solution with AI-powered matching.
Rumi Coach launches with Roleplays, letting employees practice important conversations with an AI partner by voice or text.
Employees can practice across 30 ready-to-use scenarios or custom scenarios built by their organization, and receive a readiness level after each attempt.
A World Economic Forum survey found employers expect 39% of workers' core skills to transform or become outdated by 2030.
Rumi Coach is available now as a standalone product or alongside Rumi Mentor.
"At the pace work is changing, development can't happen on a schedule anymore. Employees need coaching in the flow of work, but they still need a human mentor for the judgment and lived experience that AI can't replace. With Rumi, we're bringing together the best of both," said Ankur Ahlowalia, CEO of Chronus.
General-purpose AI tools can answer questions, but they don't know the company an employee works for or what drives the person asking. Rumi Coach knows both. Each customer decides what organizational context the AI can use, from roles and skills to goals and career paths, and Chronus's proprietary Purpose Assessment uncovers what motivates each employee.
Rumi Coach brings these together with what two decades of enterprise mentoring have taught Chronus about which skills matter most and how people build them. Employees can choose to share what they've worked on with their manager, mentor, or coach, so their next conversation picks up where the AI left off.
Realistic conversation partner: Employees rehearse high-stakes moments, from pushing back on an out-of-scope stakeholder request to giving difficult feedback to a direct report. Rumi Coach responds the way a manager, colleague, or customer would. Employees can practice by voice or text.
Feedback that measures readiness: Employees receive a readiness level and feedback on whether they applied the right approach, based on frameworks the organization already trains on, such as Situation-Behavior-Impact or Goal-Reality-Options-Will, plus tips on delivery such as pacing and filler words.
A scenario library built for the business: Admins can edit the ready-made scenarios, add their own, and decide which ones employees can access.
Guardrails and privacy by design: Admins choose which profile information the AI can use. Results stay private to the employee unless they decide to share them; no audio is stored; and admins see only aggregate insights, never individual transcripts or readiness levels.
About Chronus
Chronus brings AI coaching, mentoring, and communities together in one platform, Rumi by Chronus, to support workforce readiness. Backed by 20 years of talent development expertise and more than 14 million users to date, Chronus combines the best of AI and human connection to help every employee build the skills and connections they need to perform at work. Fortune 1000 enterprises and government agencies trust Chronus to develop their people, with measurable gains in engagement, internal mobility, and retention.
