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.
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.
Honen
@andika_fadhilah One of the reasons we built it this way is that training and AI agents often end up drifting apart. If one gets updated and the other doesn't, you end up with multiple sources of truth.
The goal is for both learners and agents to be operating from the same knowledge foundation, while still giving teams control over when changes actually go live.
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@andika_fadhilah @esan_durrani Adding to Esan & Ryan, this admin checkpoint is by design. Even though Honen can detect changes and draft the revision automatically, we deliberately keep a human in the loop so nothing goes live until someone signs off. You can run it as hands-on or as hands-off as you want, but the option for full oversight is always there.
Congrats on the launch! When a knowledge base item changes, the course update is gated behind approvals right? But does the MCP feed to the agents wait on that same approval or get the raw change immediately?
Honen
@artstavenka1 All changes made by either our course editor agent or MCP are stored as a draft revision that you have to apply to learners!
Mailwarm
How do you prevent it from teaching the wrong thing if a doc gets edited badly or is outdated?
Honen
@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!
Honen
@thamibenjelloun @ryan_trattner That's one of the reasons we're so focused on the knowledge base itself. Training quality is ultimately downstream of knowledge quality. If the source of truth improves, the learning experiences improve with it.
SonOf
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.
Honen
@oleksii_sekundant @ryan_trattner This is actually why we're excited about the concept of living training. Historically, updating a course was enough work that teams would batch changes and let things drift. We think the future is training that evolves continuously alongside the business rather than being rebuilt every few months. super excited!
The half-stale-by-launch problem is real - I've watched companies spend 6 figures on training that's outdated by Q2. Auto-updating from the actual docs/tools beats curated content by a mile. Curious how you handle role-specific deltas (e.g. ops needs a different slice of the same source). Following.
Honen
@david_marko Anything you put in your knowledgebase can be scoped to specific groups or roles inside of your organization and shared with specific people. This allows you to create courses on specific sources in your knowledgebase which are scoped to specific roles or groups. Not sure if this is what you meant but creating the same course but with different content for multiple diff roles based on their available knowledge is actually a great idea!
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@david_marko @ryan_trattner One thing worth adding: the same role-scoped knowledge also feeds your AI agents over MCP, so the ops team and the agents working alongside them would be pulling from the identical slice. This keeps people and agents from drifting onto different versions of the truth.
Shadow
my friends and I have been talking about a product like this for some time now and its cool to see someone working on this! would you say that it is specifically designed for corporate learning or something that could be extended to desk-less workers as well?
Honen
@hersh_singh Appreciate it! It's designed for all types of learning! We've actually been exploring a lot of work in the trades and non-desk roles specifically (such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical etc.) and building out courses that can help specifically with learners in those fields.
We're trying to make this as general a platform as possible and hit as many fields as possible.
@hersh_singh @ryan_trattner You are also able to make edits after the course is created, simply go into the course editor and there is a place to drag and drop different materials.
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@hersh_singh @ryan_trattner It's also worth noting that the platform can also go external. A company can stand up a public-facing academy and put courses and certifications in front of customers, partners, or the general public, not just employees.
It extends into education too. Our NVIDIA partnership is bringing AI literacy training to 250,000 high school students, and the same model works for universities and broader student populations.
So it spans desk and deskless, internal and external, workforce, and student learning. The common thread is any group of people who need to learn something that keeps changing, whether that's your own team, your customers, the public, or students.
@ryan_trattner Thanks for sharing what you've been building!
As others have previously indicated, the auto-updating aspect of the @Honen system is a notably attractive feature. Since human reviewers will necessarily approve updates before deployment, I'm curious about the process for review. How will the proposed changes be marked for the reviewer? How will the reviewer approve/deny a given change?
Honen
@underuncertainty Thanks! Every course has revisions that are visible in a "Draft" mode for instructors, so they can go through exactly what the learners see and ask to make any changes if needed, then you can choose to roll it out to learners.