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Articulate makes the dress rehearsal for work
A tractor, a hotel and a $1.5 billion funding round explain the appeal of Articulate: giving people somewhere to practise before the real job begins.
The School for Adults That Found Its Classroom at Work
LifeLabs Learning began with a slightly eccentric question: what if adults could practice the human skills nobody teaches in school? The answer became a global corporate classroom built around tiny behaviors, live rehearsal, and the useful discovery that a workshop is only the beginning.
Synthesia Found $4 Billion in the Gap Between PowerPoint and Pixar
The London startup began by making famous faces speak new languages. Its real business arrived when ordinary employees asked for something less glamorous: a way to turn the next PowerPoint, policy update or training manual into video without booking a studio.
Colossyan Turns the Training Deck Into Something People Might Watch
Talking avatars draw the eye; the clever move is turning a dusty policy deck into editable, multilingual training without booking a camera, a presenter or half the calendar.
Paul Eschen Is Betting Workplace Learning on Practice, Not More Content
The BizLibrary CMO has spent his career learning how attention becomes action. His current argument is pointed: in an age of abundant AI-generated information, the scarce ingredient is a safe place to practice.
Cloverleaf Built an AI Coach Before Anyone Wanted One. Now the Office Has Caught Up.
In 2018, calling software a coach made buyers nervous. Cloverleaf renamed the idea, kept building, and waited for the market to learn its language.
Melanie Fellay Put the Training Manual Where Work Actually Happens
A broken Salesforce rollout gave the operator in Melanie Fellay a question worth chasing. An elevator pitch, an octopus and eight years of company-building later, she is still trying to make workplace knowledge arrive at the exact moment it matters.
Virti
Virti is an AI role-play and interactive video training platform that helps organizations teach and measure the human skills that matter most - communication, leadership, sales, customer service and clinical care. Founded in 2018 by former NHS trauma surgeon Dr Alex Young, its no-code platform lets teams build realistic, branching video scenarios and converse with AI 'Virtual Humans' across mobile, desktop and VR, with computer-vision and natural-language analytics scoring performance and giving feedback at scale.