Learning Curve Group · Education & Training
Learners increasingly expect timely and accessible support, including outside standard working hours. At the same time, LCG wanted to improve the consistency of guidance and reduce pressure on teams without introducing a series of disconnected AI products, each requiring its own content, controls and user experience.
The requirement was therefore broader than deploying a single chatbot. LCG needed an approach that could support an immediate learner use case while establishing a scalable model for future agents across learner, customer and staff services.
Hult Ashridge · Corporate Executive Education
Executive learners on Hult Ashridge programs receive coaching sessions, but the gaps between sessions are where development stalls. By mid-2025 learners were filling that gap with ChatGPT: generic answers with no knowledge of Hult Ashridge's proprietary research or coaching frameworks.
Hult Ashridge Executive Education, part of EF Education First, partners with global organizations to deliver leadership and organizational development solutions that create lasting change. Backed by triple-accredited Hult International Business School, it has been delivering transformational leadership and organizational development since 1959, and runs 2,000+ programs a year across all sectors. Emma Thompson, Head of Technology, leads an engineering team that maintains two platforms: Xceed (program delivery and cohort management) and Leadership Live (a content library with research, video, audio and interactive exercises).
A learner finishes a coaching call, wants to revisit a concept or apply a framework to their own situation, and has nowhere to go except a static content library or a generic chatbot that knows nothing about their program. Leadership Live had the content. Xceed had the program structure. Neither had a conversational layer that could connect a learner to the right material in context. The content existed; the access path did not.
Mindtools Kineo · Learning & Development
Mindtools Kineo's 3,000-item content library is a core part of its value, but when a manager needs coaching between meetings, that same library becomes a blocker: too much content, too hard to find, at exactly the wrong moment. Learners weren't reaching the right content at the point of need.
Mindtools Kineo has produced management and leadership content since 1996. The library runs to over 3,000 articles, videos, toolkits and structured short courses, serving 200+ client organisations (including the NHS, British Council, Volvo, Whitbread and Center Parcs) across 160 countries.
The L&D market is moving fast. Content expectations have shifted, and Mindtools Kineo was also integrating recently acquired products. The first two use cases were clear: find a resource or topic quickly, and get a specific question answered at the point of need. A manager handling a difficult conversation needs an answer in the moment, not a browsing session.
Future Talent Learning · Learning & Development / Apprenticeships
FTL needed to scale coaching support across 1,300+ apprenticeship learners without growing their coaching team proportionally. Coaches were spending significant time on routine learner questions, and FTL needed to prove an AI-assisted model quickly — within a three-month window.
Major Learning Platform · Online Education
Learners were overwhelmed by 5,000+ courses without clear starting points. Completion rates were low and certificate sales underperformed due to limited perceived value.
BreakPoint · Leadership Development & Wellness
Traditional senior management training diluted as it cascaded through teams. Employees struggled with content accessibility and engagement. Break Point needed to scale teaching without relying on hierarchical information distribution.
Training Industry · Learning & Development
Training Industry had 200,000 monthly visitors browsing free content then leaving without converting. Thousands of articles, podcasts, and videos made discovery overwhelming, and legacy content was buried.
Persimmon Life · At-Home Health & Beauty
Regional growth managers spent 60–80% of their time answering repetitive FAQs from 500 trained nurses. Resources were scattered across Google Drives and learning platforms, and healthcare compliance required accuracy guarantees.
5app · E-learning SaaS
5app needed to deliver meaningful AI innovation quickly while managing competing priorities and a complex multi-tenant SCORM environment. They lacked dedicated engineering resources for a custom AI build.
HACT · Social Impact & Housing
HACT faced pandemic-driven behavior shifts requiring digital transformation. Manual processes prevented scalability, and the organization had limited digitization experience while needing cost-effective solutions.
AchieveUnite · Partner Training & Enablement
AchieveUnite needed products supporting a recurring revenue model. Their vast collection of books, assessments, and learning materials required on-demand delivery at the point of need for enterprise clients like HP, Lenovo, and Atlassian.