Why Your SME Review Process Is Broken (And How AI Fixes It)
SME review is the #1 bottleneck in L&D content development. How structured frameworks and AI-assisted drafting cut our review cycle from 6 weeks to 2.
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Practical frameworks tested in real L&D environments — not demo accounts, not vendor briefings.
The 31% Problem: How Systems Thinking (Not Just AI) Cut Our Development Cycle Time
Our team hit 31% reduction in dev cycle time. The AI tools were 30% of it. The other 70% was systems thinking, planning, and accountability.
Read guide →Prompting for L&D: A Framework That Works
Not a list of prompts. The RCTCO framework — built for instructional design — bridges the gap between generic AI advice and real L&D work.
Read guide →Why L&D Professionals Need a Personal Knowledge System (And How to Build One With AI)
L&D teams research constantly but retain almost nothing between projects. How to build a knowledge system with Obsidian and Claude that actually compounds.
Read guide →Using Obsidian as Your AI Knowledge System: Memory, Research, and the LLM Wiki
How to use Obsidian as persistent memory for Claude, build an LLM-maintained research wiki, and stop re-explaining context every session.
Read guide →How We Built a Content Machine: From 50 to 637 Modules in One Year
12x content scaling in one year. Here's the systems story — what we built, what broke first, and what actually drove the number.
Read guide →Why Your L&D Team Doesn't Have a Playbook (And What That's Costing You)
Most L&D teams run on tribal knowledge. When one person leaves, half the process walks out the door. The case for a minimum viable playbook.
Read guide →How to Scope Every Training Request in Under 10 Minutes
Most training requests aren't training problems. The triage framework that protects team capacity without damaging your business partner relationships.
Read guide →How to Hire for Learning Operations (Not Just Instructional Design)
Most L&D teams hire IDs and wonder why nobody's running the infrastructure. A case for operations-first hiring in modern L&D.
Read guide →The Measurement Problem Every L&D Leader Avoids
We have Kirkpatrick. We have LTEM. We have Phillips ROI. What we don't have is the willingness to use them. Here's why, and a path forward.
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