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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.
@ryan_trattner Congrats on the Launch. Want to know how Honen avoids creating a course that feels personalized up front but ends up repetitive once lessons and quizzes start?
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@bhawna_rathee Thank you and great question! One of the amazing personalization features of Honen is your ability to chat with the tutor, describe what you are interested in and what you like e.g. your favorite movie, your favorite basketball team, and it'll sprinkle those into the activities. There is a little "magic" icon near the top of the readings for example that if you click it itll re-write the reading, keep the same learning objectives, but personalize it to you and include things that you like. I also think the dynamic of the scenarios being on the fly can also help with the personalization.
+ See the "personal" level of our learn engine which powers all of our products, it will be rolling out more to Honen in the coming months: https://www.studyfetch.com/blog/the-learn-engine
What's the latency like when a course updates? If our compliance policy changes on a Monday morning can employees be retrained on the new version by the same afternoon?
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@ana_popescu2 As fast as you want it to be! You can have it trigger on intervals e.g. check every day or just ask it to change with the new doc and it'll draft it for you right there.
We've seen people follow the courses completely and push changes right away, or spend some time editing revising and testing. Its up to you!
How granular are the learner insights are we talking completion rates and quiz scores or can managers actually see which specific concepts an employee is struggling with?
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@andrew_paul11 You can ask the workspace assistant almost about any question you can think of on how a learner has interacted with the course: completion, questions they are asking the tutor what they are struggling with and what they aren’t , how much time they spent on specific items and it can write its own code to analyze data and create custom reports and visualizations for you.
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.