Launching today
Honen
Automated teaching + learning infrastructure for any company
717 followers
Automated teaching + learning infrastructure for any company
717 followers
Create employee training that keeps up with your company. Honen turns team knowledge into interactive AI-led courses in seconds, complete with adaptive lessons, simulations, and learner insights. When your docs, tools, or processes change, courses update automatically.
Honen
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Ryan, one of the makers of Honen, and I'm pumped to finally share what we've been building!
Quick backstory: at StudyFetch, we've helped 8 million students understand everything from first-year history to advanced healthcare topics.
So we took everything we learned and brought it to businesses and the workforce. That's Honen.
The problem we kept seeing: Companies are spending billions on generic training that teaches outdated material and leaves people behind. By the time a course is finished, the skills it teaches are already half-stale.
What Honen actually is: A platform that automates a company's entire learning and training infrastructure, so businesses can teach new skills faster and adapt their people to an ever-changing world.
How it works:
🟢 Building a course starts in seconds. Drag in your existing training docs, connect to internal knowledge sources, or just type a topic. Honen acts as a researcher and curriculum designer at the same time, it reads your material, understands the subject, and builds the full course structure. You pick how interactive and how deep.
🟢 Ship it instantly. Send the course to any learner with a link, or sync into your existing LMS / HR system.
🟢 Built for engagement, not just completion. Our AI teacher guides learners through visuals, interactive artifacts, podcasts, games, and flashcards, each personalized to the learner's interests and preferences.
🟢 Hands-on projects, not just videos. Live scenarios where a learner runs a mock virtual client meeting and is graded on how they handle it. Screen-share projects where the AI teacher walks them through setting up and using 3rd party software in real time.
🟢 Admins get a real-time view. You can ask the course agent anything — "my learners are struggling with this topic, what's going on?", and Honen visualizes the answer, then uses what it knows to auto-adjust the content or teaching style.
🟢 One knowledgebase, two kinds of learners. Drag any file into Honen's knowledgebase or write new ones with the Workspace Assistant. Then turn that knowledge into courses for your people and serve it to your AI agents over MCP. We call it parallel training, a single source of truth that teaches your team and gives the agents working alongside them the same context and skills, so everyone in your org stays in sync.
Launch news: As a first step, we're collaborating with NVIDIA to bring professional AI training to students and professionals, starting with 250,000 high school students nationwide.
Our goal with Honen is to let every business, whether you've got 10 employees or 10,000, invest in their people in the most efficient and scalable way possible. So learning actually continues across someone's entire career, not just during week-one onboarding.
Free to try at honen.com, no card needed. Your first course takes about 30 seconds.
Hanging in the comments all day, ask us anything 🙏
@ryan_trattner congrats on the launch Ryan, how do you deal with assessment and post course retention so this isn't just a tick box tool?
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@zolani_matebese We're taking a lot of the ways we track mastery and learning from our flagship product studyfetch.com and applying them here on the new product. The goal is hopefully learners "Actually know" what they just took, project based learning which is inside of honen helps a lot.
Honen supports assignments and assessments for instructional teams out of the box with different settings for completion and grading.
@ryan_trattner Congrats. A little curious about how do you make sure your courses aren't just another check on a list? Also, how do you make sure it doesn;t teach something that's either outdated or misaligned or just wrong?
Honen
@swati_paliwal We've learned a lot about what it takes to master a topic through our work on studyfetch. The #1 thing has always been "doing" not just taking a test, so theres a large focus on project based learning (for example scenarios) on Honen, and we will be adding more over time. For the misalignment, it structures courses based off the knowledge in your team knowledgebase (like documents you already have) and can also do research on the web for the newest up to date practices on how things are taught.
@ryan_trattner Very cool product - congrats on the launch AND Nvidia collaboration!! I just sent this to one of my Clients who does training and SOPs in the restaurant industry. She's also very low tech (in her words) so something easy and user-friendly like this appears to be, would be great for her! Curious what pricing will be like for the Solo/small biz folks? I can see this being useful for several Clients of mine.
Honen
@anna_ludwinowski Thank you so much! We're trying to get the product to be as easy to use and simple as possible, and or it to do most of the work for you! If you're buying for your team as a small biz pricing can be just under $10 / seat / month! Feel free to schedule a demo and we're happy to walk you through it https://honen.com/contact
@ryan_trattner Ok wow, that's super reasonable - great to hear. I'll mention the demo to her, thanks!
Product Hunt
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@curiouskitty Great questions! (you might know a thing or two about AI courses haha)
These are some important things that we've taken into account when designing Honen.
We think of course maintenance in two ways on Honen:
The first is our course creation, management, and editor experience, which is built with full version history. Each course is a revision, you can deploy, rollback any version. This allows you to deploy a specific revision to a cohort of learners (via assignments), so you can choose wether you want to update a course mid-flight while learners are taking it, or only for the future students.
For the documents, we centralize knowledge in something called the Honen knowledge base. This allows you to connect external sources or upload documents, or craft knowledge manually. When courses depend on knowledge they can reference the knowledge base item, when that item changes it flags, and the course agent can update the course (subject to approvals).
The auto-updating piece is the real standout, internal courses always go stale because nobody maintains them, having the course rewrite itself when the source docs change solves the exact reason corporate training fails the version history with rollback per cohort is a smart touch too, most tools would just push changes live and break things mid-course, one question, how do you handle the case where a doc gets updated badly or with wrong info? does a human have to approve before it reaches learners or can a bad edit silently propagate?
Honen
@imoluuu Thanks! Yes a human always approves and releases the draft. They can make changes in seconds using the course editor if something feels off.
Uselink
hold upppp!!! it's so incredible that it turns source into sections/lessons so that I won't be swamped with unstructured docs & resource. I really like it
what's your take on honen positioning vs notebook LLM?
btw I found some text/title is hard to read. some tweak there and should be good to go.
andddd when will we have dark mode? I'm a night learner and would love it!!!
congrats on the launch! it looks promising
Honen
@nathan_tran2 Appreciate you trying it out and thanks for the feedback (we just fixed those colors!).
Notebook LM is a great product, Honen is created to perform a different type of job:
Notebook LM operates more as an individual / group study experience where you drag in something and learn it, Honen is built to be a system that a company can use to up-skill / train its whole workforce similar to an LMS with built in assignments / roles / analytics etc.
As for the courses: Honen courses are very structured and lead the learner down a path while Notebook LM focuses more on input to output. Course creation and managing are more tailored towards instructors creating very robust courses for learners to use, while Notebook LM would likely feed of an already created material.
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@nathan_tran2 Also you can access dark mode by clicking on your profile in the bottom left corner!
The automatic course updating definitely caught my eye. How seamless is that process in practice? If we completely overhaul our internal wiki, does Honen flag the changes for admin review first, or does it just push the new course version live?
Honen
@andika_fadhilah It'll read through the entire changes vs the course and make changes, it might just take a bit longer. You apply the revision draft manually before the changes goes live to learners.
Mailwarm
How do you prevent it from teaching the wrong thing if a doc gets edited badly or is outdated?
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@thamibenjelloun It uses knowledgebase documents as the source of truth for the course, so it currently expects those to be updated properly and correctly to base its changes of of. Of course everything is able to be approved / published by a person!
DIY UX Test
The auto-updating piece is the standout for me — training that rewrites itself when the underlying docs change solves the exact reason internal courses go stale. Congrats on shipping. How do you decide which changes actually warrant a lesson update versus noise?
Honen
@oleksii_sekundant We try and make small impactful changes e.g. if a small number changes from 5 to 10, thats still worth a change and the course assistant editor will make it as the information is technically not correct.