What Is SHIK? SHIK stands for Self-Hosted Identity Kernel — an architectural framework for giving AI agents a persistent, portable identity that survives across models, devices, and networks. The core problem: in most AI agent systems today, an "agent" is little more than a prompt template, some transient context,
We built something a little different for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge. Not a chatbot. Not a summarizer. An autonomous creative director that takes a dense corporate document and turns it into a deployable eLearning course in under two minutes. We're calling it Doc2SCORM Director. The problem we
L&D teams often spend hours on tasks that could be automated. Here are five places where that time is being lost—and what to do about it.
Your AI course images look like they were made by 10 different designers You spent four hours generating images for your new compliance course. The first slide has a confident woman in a blue blazer. By slide eight, she's somehow a different person — different face, different hair, different
SCORM still deserves credit. It gave our industry a shared package format, and for a long time that solved the biggest problem in eLearning: portability. But Giovanni Duarte is right, we are pushing a 2004 standard to do 2026 work. Read Giovanni’s article here. What SCORM still does well
Chrome just made websites "agent-ready" Google dropped something significant this week, and it flew under most people's radar. WebMCP is now in early preview. It's a new standard that lets websites tell AI agents exactly how to interact with them. Not through brittle screen-scraping
Soft skills training is hard. You can lecture about active listening, conflict resolution, or sales techniques—but until someone practices, nothing sticks. Traditional branching scenarios help, but building them takes forever, and they're static once published. AI Scenarios changes the equation. Build conversational roleplay experiences where AI responds
The SME Content Problem Nobody Talks About Every instructional designer knows the drill. Your subject matter expert schedules a "quick call" to hand off content. Two hours later, you're staring at a 147-slide PowerPoint deck, three Word documents, a folder of screenshots, and a sticky note
Here's an uncomfortable truth for 2026: AI is the fastest learner in your organization. It doesn't need onboarding. It doesn't forget content after training ends. It doesn't lose focus halfway through a module or attend compliance training just to tick a box.
Last month, I came across a Reddit post that stopped me cold. The title? "Articulate Rise Courses Held Hostage." The author, a freelance instructional designer, had built their entire course portfolio in Rise. Now they were racking up credit card debt—not because the tool was essential to
Every eLearning project needs media: images for slides, videos for engagement, voiceovers for narration, sound effects for interactivity. Traditionally, that means juggling multiple tools, subscriptions, and workflows. AI Media Studio consolidates everything into one platform. Generate images, videos, audio, and voiceovers—all powered by the latest AI models, all in
Your single page app is invisible to AI. While ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude reshape how people find information, SPAs remain hidden behind JavaScript walls. These AI systems can't execute your Vue, React, or Svelte code—they just see an empty shell. vite-plugin-llm-spider fixes this. One plugin, zero configuration,