AI Lesson Planner for Teachers -> Corporate L&D/Training Tool???
Hey all, I mainly joined product hunt to ask the community for any insight/advice you might have on this. Some background:
I've been working on an AI Lesson Planner for the past few months that creates lesson plans, and automatically curates the necessary resources to teach the lesson (slides, worksheets, graphic organizers, videos, internet sources, custom generated pictures, etc. etc.).
I've been targeting K-12 teachers (DTC), but since we're in the middle of summer break, most teachers want to distance themselves from lesson planning, so it's been hard to gauge interest.
On the other hand, I've felt some pull from the B2B side that I haven't really felt from teachers (I've had a few small business reach out who were interested in the tool. Pretty different from me always reaching out to teachers).
After the first couple meetings with these businesses, I was pretty adamant about staying focused on helping teachers, but now I'm not so sure.
I'm not fully ready to pivot yet, which is why I wanted to go on product hunt to see if there even is any fit for a product like mine in the Corporate L&D/Training space.
From my research so far, I haven't seen any tools in the space that generate lessons like mine. The delivery format for the lessons generated by these other tools are the self learning, read-through module type deals (which I've found to be immensely boring and hard to follow along with as a new hire), while my content is more so meant for the traditional classroom delivery environment.
So my question is: have any of you seen the need for a classroom-environment tool like mine in corporate L&D/Training? I haven't been in any companies that teach their employees in a classroom-like setting, which is why I'm skeptical but I wanted to ask you all too.
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In a past life I led HR Ops for a fairly large organization and worked pretty close with L&D. Instead of an answer I've actually got some questions for you (sorry!)
Namely, what about the B2B outreach seemed like it'd be a good fit for your product?
Whether it's a startup or a larger organization, my experience is content should be tailored to the business OR have the ability to be tailored. You mentioned your AI planner "automatically curates the necessary resources to teach the lesson".
How specific is this curation?
Can it not use the open web as an easy thing to set?
How would you gaurantee this and rather how would you gaurantee accuracy?
If I need to train my employees on something I could be held accountable for in court is that level of risk something you've considered?
Could you partner with another vendor (like Vanta - not affiliated) for taking care of more sensitive L&D gruntwork while your core application handled L&D for the "sexier" topics?
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In short if you want to tl;dr the above, is your product flexible as it is so that you can pivot to the needs of a corporate environment? Also, frankly, are the people who have reached out big enough to use you and also not likely to move onto the next best thing?
Lot of stuff to think about, not discouraging either way as B2B L&D is a great space with opportunity, but I'd be lying if I didn't mention how fickle it can be.
@csurita Thanks for the super thoughtful comment. I think I just need to get in front of some corporate stakeholders and figure out what they really need in this space, to answer these questions. Thanks a lot for your insight.
The features you mentioned like maintaining privacy, being flexible enough to fit the specific needs of a company, partnering, etc. are things that I'm confident I could figure out. It's just a matter of if they'll want it. It's good to know that this space can be fickle. A lot of good points to keep in mind as a start looking into this new space. Thanks again!