Torch
Leadership coaching with senior coaches, the Spark AI agent and 360 feedback measurement.
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Bottom line
Torch is a leadership coaching platform for mid-market and enterprise talent teams that want coaching tied to their own strategy. It is quote-only, with no public prices or trial. Spark AI simulations and before-and-after 360s give it a measurement angle that plain coaching marketplaces lack.
Stands out for: Every Torch engagement starts by turning your strategy into a set of leadership capacities, then anchors a 360, coaching and the Spark AI agent to them, with a closing 360 on the same instrument. Its network of about 350 coaches is senior, and Torch says many hold doctoral qualifications in psychology or therapy.
Watch out for: Torch does not publish prices or offer a trial, so budgets depend on a scoped quote. Integrations are limited to Slack, Zoom and SAML single sign-on, with no public API.
Overview
Torch organizes its product into three parts: change coaching, the Spark AI agent and organizational intelligence. Coaching runs 1:1, in groups or as team engagements, with manager alignment meetings and colleague feedback built in. Spark, strengthened by Torch's 2025 acquisition of Praxis Labs, offers adaptive simulations for high-stakes conversations and can be used alone or between coaching sessions.
Program managers get reports on engagement, coaching themes, coach satisfaction and impact, plus Torch 360 results rolled up by leadership capacity. Torch says it never records sessions or shares transcripts, only anonymized trends. Customers named on its site include Airbnb, Reddit and Tripadvisor.
Who it's for
Best for
- Mid-market and enterprise talent teams developing managers and executives
- Companies going through AI adoption, restructuring or mergers
- HR teams that need 360-based proof of behavior change
- Programs that mix 1:1, group and AI coaching
Not ideal for
- Organizations wanting a very large global coach pool in many languages
- Buyers who need a public API or HRIS integration
Key features
Change coaching. 1:1, team and group coaching from senior coaches with at least five years of experience.
Spark AI agent. Adaptive simulations let leaders rehearse hard conversations and get feedback between sessions.
Torch 360. A baseline 360 assessment and a closing reassessment measure behavior change on the same instrument.
Org intelligence. Dashboards aggregate anonymized coaching themes against your leadership capacities.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Spark AI agent runs adaptive simulations of difficult leadership conversations with real-time feedback | Spark AI Agent |
| Spark gives on-demand guidance and lets users share insights with their coach | Spark AI Agent |
| AI-generated analysis of anonymized coaching themes in organizational intelligence dashboards | Enterprise coaching |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
Torch does not publish pricing. Its own comparison page says pricing is enterprise-quoted, based on seat count, contract length and the mix of 1:1 coaching, group coaching and Spark AI access. No free trial is listed. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 19 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Torch expensive?
Torch does not publish a price. It is one of 14 quote-based tools among the 17 learning tools in our directory. 0 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $8 a month.
- 14 quote-based
- 0 free tier
- 3 public price
Worked out automatically from every learning listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Coaching and AI tied to your own leadership capacities
- Before-and-after 360s measure behavior change
- Spark AI simulations extend practice beyond coaching sessions
Cons
- No published pricing or trial
- Small integration list and no public API
- Coach network is smaller than global coaching marketplaces
Integrations
Slack Zoom SAML single sign-on
How Torch compares
See all Torch alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torch (this tool) | – | Sales-quoted | – | – | |
 BetterUp BetterUp adds a workforce-wide AI coach with a free Grow trial and an official MCP server, beyond Torch's leadership focus. | – | Sales-quoted | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
 CoachHub CoachHub has 3,500+ coaches in 80+ languages, better for multinationals than Torch's smaller senior coach network. | – | Sales-quoted | – | – | Compare |
| | – | Sales-quoted | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $4/seat/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
BetterUpSales-quoted MCP API
BetterUp adds a workforce-wide AI coach with a free Grow trial and an official MCP server, beyond Torch's leadership focus.
CoachHubSales-quoted
CoachHub has 3,500+ coaches in 80+ languages, better for multinationals than Torch's smaller senior coach network.
Sales-quoted MCP API
Culture Amp runs engagement surveys and performance reviews rather than coaching, useful if the goal is measurement across all staff.
$4/seat/mo MCP API
Lattice covers performance reviews, goals and engagement in software, without human coaches.