Honen

<p>Hey Product Hunt 👋</p><p></p><p>I'm Ryan, one of the makers of <strong>Honen</strong>, and I'm pumped to finally share what we've been building!</p><p></p><p>Quick backstory: at StudyFetch, we've helped <strong>8 million students</strong> understand everything from first-year history to advanced healthcare topics.&nbsp;</p><p>So we took everything we learned and brought it to businesses and the workforce. That's Honen.</p><p></p><p><strong>The problem we kept seeing:</strong> Companies are spending billions on generic training that teaches outdated material and leaves people behind. By the time a course is finished, the skills it teaches are already half-stale.</p><p></p><p><strong>What Honen actually is:</strong> A platform that automates a company's entire learning and training infrastructure,&nbsp; so businesses can teach new skills faster and adapt their people to an ever-changing world.</p><p></p><p><strong>How it works:</strong></p><p>🟢 <em>Building a course starts in seconds.</em> Drag in your existing training docs, connect to internal knowledge sources, or just type a topic. Honen acts as a researcher and curriculum designer at the same time, it reads your material, understands the subject, and builds the full course structure. You pick how interactive and how deep.</p><p>🟢 <em>Ship it instantly.</em> Send the course to any learner with a link, or sync into your existing LMS / HR system.</p><p>🟢 <em>Built for engagement, not just completion.</em> Our AI teacher guides learners through visuals, interactive artifacts, podcasts, games, and flashcards,&nbsp; each personalized to the learner's interests and preferences.</p><p>🟢 <em>Hands-on projects, not just videos.</em> Live scenarios where a learner runs a mock virtual client meeting and is graded on how they handle it. Screen-share projects where the AI teacher walks them through setting up and using 3rd party software in real time.</p><p>🟢 <em>Admins get a real-time view.</em> You can ask the course agent anything — <em>"my learners are struggling with this topic, what's going on?"</em>, and Honen visualizes the answer, then uses what it knows to auto-adjust the content or teaching style.</p><p>🟢 <em>One knowledgebase, two kinds of learners.</em> Drag any file into Honen's knowledgebase or write new ones with the Workspace Assistant. Then turn that knowledge into courses for your people <em>and</em> serve it to your AI agents over MCP.&nbsp; We call it <strong>parallel training</strong>, a single source of truth that teaches your team and gives the agents working alongside them the same context and skills, so everyone in your org stays in sync.</p><p></p><p><strong>Launch news:</strong> As a first step, we're collaborating with <strong>NVIDIA</strong> to bring professional AI training to students and professionals, starting with 250,000 high school students nationwide.</p><p></p><p>Our goal with Honen is to let every business, whether you've got 10 employees or 10,000,&nbsp; invest in their people in the most efficient and scalable way possible. So learning actually continues across someone's entire career, not just during week-one onboarding.</p><p></p><p>Free to try at <a href="http://honen.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>honen.com</strong></a>, no card needed. Your first course takes about 30 seconds.</p><p></p><p>Hanging in the comments all day,&nbsp; ask us anything 🙏</p>

A lot of AI course tools look great for generating v1, but maintenance is the killer. When a source doc/SOP changes, how do updates actually work in Honen (change detection, approvals, version history), and what happens for learners mid-course so you don’t invalidate grades or confuse cohorts?

<p>This looks amazing, Ryan! And I just learned about StudyFetch as well (I'm a retiree who's now a part-time tutor of high school students, so that one really hit home for me).</p><p></p><p>Your point about the traditional training courses being outdated at businesses (I also worked at a Fortune 500 company for 25 years) is so true. I imagine your business clients will be even more amenable to AI tools, so this seems like an idea whose time has definitely come! Good luck with your new product; you have my upvote!</p>

<p>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?</p>