Questions, answered

No. PanelReady is independent practice and preparation software. It is not affiliated with, authorised or endorsed by RICS, IChemE, or any awarding body, and it does not guarantee any assessment outcome. Awarding body names are used only to describe the assessment you are preparing for.

The panel reads your actual submission and asks one question at a time, choosing each next question from your last answer — pressing vague answers, challenging contradictions it found in your documents, and acknowledging strong ones. It follows your body's real interview structure and timing, and you can set the toughness from Gentle to Tough. It is designed to feel like a conversation with a live panel, not a quiz.

It's free for individual preparation. PanelReady runs on Google Gemini's free tier, which is rate-limited but ample for one candidate. An optional premium-voices upgrade uses additional Gemini quota.

Your documents, analysis and sessions are stored in your own account, encrypted in transit and at rest. The AI key is held only on the server and is never exposed in your browser, and we never put your submission text or transcripts in our logs or analytics. You can export your data, delete an individual document, or permanently delete everything at any time from Settings. Note that free-tier Gemini usage may be used by Google to improve their products — which is why we ask for your explicit consent before analysing a real submission. See our Privacy Policy.

On the free Gemini tier, content sent for analysis may be used by Google to improve their models, so before analysing a submission we ask you to confirm you're happy with that — and we recommend redacting client names, exact figures and identifying detail first (placeholders like [Client] and ~£14m work just as well for practice). For genuinely confidential submissions at scale, the recommended path is a paid or no-training provider tier, which removes the training concern. See our Privacy Policy for how to redact and how the tier upgrade works.

No. Voice is there so you can practise out loud the way the real interview happens — you hold to speak and the panel speaks back. But every answer can be typed, and the panel can be muted. If your browser doesn't support speech, PanelReady automatically falls back to text only.

Recording your answers works in any modern browser. The fastest live on-device transcription uses the Web Speech API, best supported in Chrome and Edge. The panel's spoken voices use your browser's built-in speech synthesis, available on most platforms. Where something isn't supported, the app degrades gracefully to text.

You can still use PanelReady in Generic Mode, which runs off the awarding body profile alone — you'll get the lesson plan and a realistic interview, just without questions tailored to your specific submission. Add your documents later to unlock the personalised experience.

Roughly 10 requests per minute and around 1,500 per day per Google project (check live limits in Google AI Studio). PanelReady keeps calls small — the lesson-plan outline once, each module when you open it, each interview question per turn — and handles rate limits gracefully with a friendly retry.