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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.
What happens to learner progress when a course auto updates? If someone is halfway through a module that just changed does Honen checkpoint them or restart them at the relevant section?
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@antonio_manuel1 You can deploy a revision to only new learners or existing learners. a lot of updates will be for new learner cohorts, but sometimes updating an existing course is necessary and can effect someone’s progress if it happens mid run.
if only the content is updated and no topics or units are removed or added progress won’t be impacted even on existing learners.
How does Honen handle institutional knowledge that lives in Slack threads or recorded Zoom calls rather than formal documentation is unstructured content on the roadmap?
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@carlos_leonardo1 Good question, and the short version is yes, this is squarely the kind of thing Honen is built for. The key is the knowledge base. It's the source of truth that courses are built from, and it doesn't matter whether knowledge started as a formal doc or a messy Slack thread. Anything you can get into it becomes usable course material. So a Slack export, or a Zoom recording's transcript, can be pulled in and turned into structured training the same way a polished SOP would be. Honen can bring in external systems as sources, so that institutional knowledge can flow into the knowledge base and stay current rather than living in threads nobody can find later.
What does the onboarding flow look like for a company's first course? Are we uploading docs and getting a draft in minutes or is there a configuration step before the AI can generate anything meaningful?
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@carter_son The goal is to get you to a usable first draft as quickly as possible.
Most teams start by uploading docs, connecting knowledge sources, or simply describing the topic. From there, the AI generates a draft course that can be refined before publishing rather than requiring a long setup process upfront.
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@carter_son @esan_durrani To build on Esan here: the part I'd add is what editing looks like after that first draft. Usually the draft comes out strong enough that there's not much to change, but when there is, you don't have to comb through the whole course manually. The AI course editor lets you make changes fast, just tell it what you want adjusted. We use Honen internally and I edit courses exclusively through the course editor because of how quick it is. Honestly, though, I rarely need to touch much, the first version is usually that good with little effort on the front-end.
I'd love to understand the AI led part more is the learner actually having a conversation with an AI tutor or is it more like a smart auto generated slide deck with embedded quizzes?
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@chen_hao3 Good question, and the short answer is it's much closer to the former. It's not a slide deck with quizzes bolted on. There's an actual AI teacher guiding the learner through the material, and it adapts to how that person learns. Beyond conversation, it pulls in interactive pieces depending on the topic, visuals, simulations, even hands-on projects like running a mock client meeting or walking through real software over screen-share while the AI coaches you. Quizzes and flashcards exist, but they're one mode among many, not the whole experience. So less passive content to click through, more of a tutor that teaches you and reacts as you go.
Interesting. Can the learner ask the AI questions during the training process? When creating a course, can you upload older videos that may be partially outdated?
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@natalia_iankovych Yes to both!
this is very interesting. i have courses on GEO and it's actually hard to update them. creating is easy but so many things change that it's hard to keep up.
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@heyitsirenechan Would love to hear your feedback after using Honen! Try creating a course (you can even bring in your existing information) and the updating is very seamless from the educator end. You can just describe the changes you want and roll it out directly to learners.
Happy to also show you on a call how we can get your existing courses imported into honen for you to edit and delivered to learners https://honen.com/contact
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@heyitsirenechan
We built with making updating courses just as easy as creating them here on Honen. Courses are only as valuable as how up-to-date they are so with that in mind, we not only made it easy to update and refine a course on Honen, but we also added the incentive of a knowledge base that does more than just be a wiki to help keep content as accurate as possible.
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Hi Product Hunt,
I'm Phillip, another one of the makers of Honen, and I'm stoked that this day is finally here.
@ryan_trattner already covered what Honen is. I want to talk about the thing that took the longest to get right.
The easy version of this product is a course builder. Drag in docs, generate a course, ship it. That part works and it's genuinely fast. But a course builder is still just a fancier static file. You make it once, it sits there, it goes stale.
The hard version is making the course aware of itself. Knowing when learners are stuck. Knowing when the material no longer reflects how the world actually works. Having a course update itself without having to go back in, identify, and make the changes yourself. That's what we kept pushing toward.
The other thing that took real focus: one knowledgebase that trains your people and your AI agents at the same time. Same source of truth, same context, in sync. We call it parallel training and I think it's the most forward-looking part of what we built.
Honen.com, free to try. First course takes about 30 seconds.
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@ryan_trattner @pj_in_pjs These guys played a huge part of building this. Excited for everyone to finally see what we've been working on and get their hands on it.