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Honen
Automated teaching + learning infrastructure for any company
1.2K followers
Automated teaching + learning infrastructure for any company
1.2K 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.
The stale training problem is very real. Course generation is useful, but the stronger part is keeping courses connected to the knowledge base so updates don’t depend on someone remembering to fix onboarding docs later.
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@farrukh_butt1 Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it!
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Honestly this is the kind of thing that sounds minor on a feature list but quietly saves teams from a ton of avoidable confusion down the line.
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@farrukh_butt1 @daniel_hossa Agreed here, and I think a lot of training problems are really knowledge management problems in disguise. Keeping the course aligned with how the company actually operates, for example, six months later, is super important
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@farrukh_butt1
We also wanted to address the stale knowledge problem by making the knowledge base have more jobs than being a repository for information to create a more powerful incentive for people to keep it up-to-date by being AI-native from day 1 with Honen's MCP capabilities.
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
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@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 @ryan_trattner
Adding a bit more color here. NotebookLM is very much a personal research tool. You feed it docs and it helps you understand them faster, great for one person making sense of a lot of material.
Honen is a course creator + learning management system + centralized source of truth. One or more people takes source knowledge and deploys courses to a team of people, with assessments, simulations, projects, completion tracking, version control, and analytics on how they're performing. The job to be done is totally different. NotebookLM answers "how do I absorb this." Honen answers "how do I make sure 50 people actually know this, can apply it, and have an AI that understands my business."
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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?
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@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.
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@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?
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@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?
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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!
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@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.
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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?
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.