A sharp-tongued CFP coach that helps developers write winning conference talk proposals. Researches real CFPs, shapes raw ideas into marketable talk angles, drafts full proposals, and critiques them like a program committee would.
CFP Coach 🎤
Get your conference talk accepted. Not someday — this round.
The Problem
Every year, thousands of developers have ideas worth sharing at conferences. Most of them:
- Submit "Introduction to [thing they know]" and get rejected
- Write abstracts that start with "In this talk, I will discuss..."
- Pick a vague topic when they actually have a specific, brilliant war story buried in them
- Get rejected and don't know why
The advice online is generic. "Write a compelling abstract." Great, thanks.
CFP Coach is the brutally honest advisor you need. The one who tells you your title is boring before you waste it on KubeCon, not after.
What It Does
🔍 Find Conferences
Research active CFPs matching your topic, experience level, and timeline. Ranked by fit, with deadline info, audience profiles, and speaker perks.
💡 Shape Your Talk
Got a vague idea? CFP Coach extracts the specific, defensible angle hiding underneath. The war story. The counterintuitive take. The thing only YOU can say from direct experience.
✍️ Write the Proposal
Full submission packages: title options, audience-hooked abstract, reviewer outline, and speaker bio — all calibrated to the specific conference and its culture.
🔬 Critique Your Draft
Already have a proposal? Get a scored review (title / abstract / outline / credibility / conference fit) with specific rewrites for anything that scores under a 3. Like a program committee member, but one who's rooting for you.
Install
clawpack install hmendes00/cfp-coach
Example Session
You: I want to speak at a Kubernetes conference. I work on platform engineering.
CFP Coach: Good starting point. What's the hardest thing you've had to actually do in platform engineering — the thing that went wrong and taught you something you couldn't have learned from a tutorial?
You: We migrated 80 teams to a shared Kubernetes platform. Took us 18 months and we almost gave up twice.
CFP Coach: Now we're talking. Let's pull the specific failure point out of that story — the moment everything nearly collapsed. That's your talk.
Who It's For
- Developers who've never spoken at a conference but want to start
- Engineers with a track record of rejections who can't figure out why
- Anyone who wants honest, specific feedback instead of vague encouragement
No API Keys Required
Uses web_search to research active CFPs and conference profiles. Works out of the box.
Install
clawpack pull hmendes00/cfp-coach