Brainshark alternative
Brainshark is no longer a standalone product. It is sold as Bigtincan Readiness, brainshark.com redirects to bigtincan.com/readiness, and the business now sits inside the merged Showpad group. PitchMonster covers the practice side directly, with live AI buyers and one scorecard across practice and real calls.
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Yes. If your team bought Brainshark for onboarding, video coaching, certification and manager scoring, PitchMonster covers that ground and adds the part Brainshark was built before: reps talking to an AI buyer that pushes back in real time. Both platforms give you course and scenario assignment, manager review, rubric-based scoring, certification tracking and reporting that rolls up to a team view. Both connect to Salesforce. Both are bought by enablement and sales-training leaders rather than by individual reps.
Worth knowing before you evaluate: Brainshark is now sold as Bigtincan Readiness, and brainshark.com redirects to bigtincan.com/readiness.
| Decision area | Recommended | Brainshark |
|---|---|---|
| Product name today | PitchMonster, sold under one name since launch | Sold as Bigtincan Readiness. brainshark.com returns a 301 redirect to bigtincan.com/readiness, and G2 lists the profile as Bigtincan Readiness (formerly Brainshark) |
| Company behind it | European company, independent, single product line | Bigtincan acquired Brainshark in 2021. Vector Capital acquired Bigtincan in April 2025 and merged it with Showpad on 30 October 2025, with the combined business operating under the Showpad brand |
| Primary buyer | Enablement, sales training and revenue leaders running practice programmes | Enablement and training teams running onboarding, certification and video coaching, buying Readiness alongside Bigtincan Content and Engagement |
| Practice modes | Phone, face to face and screen-share, plus post-sale, recruiting, leadership and hiring role-plays | RolePlayAI runs as text or audio activities. Screen-share or presentation-mode practice is not publicly documented |
| Scenario setup | Built from your own script, transcript, document or a real call recording in about two minutes, with 40+ customizations in the role-play editor | Enablement sets communication style, pain points and conversation goal per RolePlay activity, and builds courses with AuthoringAI |
| Persona behaviour | Configurable buyer persona, difficulty levels, voice and accent, with responses around 1.5s so the rep gets interrupted like on a real call | Practice against communication styles described from intense to easygoing |
| Post-session coaching | AI Coach opens a two-way conversation the rep starts on demand after any role-play, asks what they would change, then shows the scorecard | CoachingAI returns instant scored feedback on vocal clarity, pace, pausing and filler words, plus perception vibes, with managers reviewing submissions afterwards |
| Real-call analysis | Call Analysis scores real recorded calls on the same scorecard reps practice against | Conversation Intelligence imports Zoom calls and multi-speaker recordings into VoiceVibes for vocal analysis. Whether that analysis runs on the same rubric as readiness practice is not publicly documented |
| Content authoring | Scorecard template library and role-play editor. We do not produce training video at their depth | Stronger here. Voice cloning from one recording, video dubbing, auto captions and SCORM export into an external LMS |
| Languages | 29 languages and dialects with identical scoring criteria, included at no extra cost | AuthoringAI documents over 30 languages available to purchase for translation |
| Integrations | Salesforce, Gong, LMS integration, webhooks, SSO and 2FA | Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and SCORM export to external LMS platforms |
| Data residency and certifications | European company with EU data residency, GDPR and SOC 2 | Not publicly documented. No public security or trust page was found on bigtincan.com in August 2026 |
| Pricing model | Sales-led, no public pricing | Sales-led, no public pricing. Two platform editions named Essential and Elite, with Readiness also sold on its own |
| Decision rule | Choose PitchMonster when the gap is live conversation reps have to survive, scored on one rubric across practice and real calls, in Europe | Programmes mainly about producing and certifying training video at volume, inside the same suite as content management and buyer engagement, weigh that against live practice depth |
Last reviewed: August 2026. Competitor details come from their own published documentation and change often. Check the current version before you decide.
Brainshark no longer exists as a standalone product.
Decide whether the thing you need produced is video or conversation.
Give both vendors an identical brief, then judge what arrives after the session.
Reps rehearse in role-play, call analysis scores the real calls, and the AI coach turns every gap into the next assignment.
Reps practice realistic conversations with AI buyers before speaking to real prospects. The AI adapts to objections, pushes back, and behaves like your actual ICP, across 29 languages. A judgment-free space to fail, repeat, and get it right before it matters.
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If the programme is mainly about producing and certifying training video at volume, inside the same suite as content management and buyer engagement, this is the product for it.
Some history matters here. Bigtincan acquired Brainshark in 2021, Vector Capital acquired Bigtincan in April 2025, and the business merged with Showpad on 30 October 2025, now operating under the Showpad brand. The Readiness product is still sold, and still good at authoring.
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Data residency and certifications are not publicly documented - no public security or trust page was found on bigtincan.com in August 2026. If your review needs one, ask for it in writing early.
Same brief to both, with one instruction that separates authoring from practice.
Then compare what arrives after the session: a scored breakdown of vocal delivery, or a coaching conversation the rep opens themselves. Book a demo to see a scored session and the AI coach debrief.
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Yes. If your team bought Brainshark for onboarding, video coaching, certification and manager scoring, PitchMonster covers that ground and adds the part Brainshark was built before: reps talking to an AI buyer that pushes back in real time. Both platforms give you course and scenario assignment, manager review, rubric-based scoring, certification tracking and reporting that rolls up to a team view. Both connect to Salesforce. Both are bought by enablement and sales-training leaders rather than by individual reps.
