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0:00Um, extra time for questions at the end.
0:02So, I guess we'll kind of do questions
0:04both throughout the demo and at the end.
0:06Um,
0:08So, a little bit about myself. So, nice
0:10to meet y'all. My name's Ethan. I'm one
0:12of the co-founders of Mindsmith. Um,
0:15I started Mindsmith, uh, myself and my
0:17co-founder, we started in in college,
0:19actually.
0:21Um, we were part of a
0:23an accelerator in college that gave us
0:26basically a ton of school credit for
0:28starting a tech company. Which in my
0:30opinion, like, you think about like
0:32education and learning and Bloom's
0:35taxonomy, it's like there's really no
0:38better way to learn how to do something
0:40than by doing it. Like kind of being
0:43thrown into the deep end. Um,
0:46my co-founder, Zach, had been in the
0:48e-learning industry for a while. Um, he
0:51had basically like helped push a global
0:54e-learning, uh, or an e-learning
0:56initiative global and like kind of
0:57managed a team of instructional
0:59designers when he was pretty young. He
1:02was like a 19-year-old and managing like
1:04instructional designers and and creating
1:07e-learning content. Um,
1:09it was like, uh, it was an English
1:11learning e-learning initiative. So, it
1:13was done by like tens of thousands of
1:15learners and by now it's been done by
1:17like hundreds of thousands of learners
1:19every year. So, it's kind of cool.
1:21Um, the the sort of story around
1:23Mindsmith is that,
1:26um,
1:27Zach had just like, as part of like
1:29leading this initiative, just kind of
1:31kept running into the limitations of the
1:34existing authoring tools. Um, he was
1:37like, "These are not modern and none of
1:40these are like really fitting my needs
1:42very well."
1:43Um, he also happened to be like a really
1:45talented, um, developer. And so, he
1:48started tinkering around and building
1:50his own authoring tool and kind of
1:52experimenting on what that would look
1:54like.
1:55Um,
1:56we met up in the summer of 2022 through
1:58a mutual friend. Um, and I pretty
2:01quickly realized that the authoring
2:03tools industry was an industry like
2:06pretty ripe for disruption, I would say.
2:09Like, just had a large incumbent that
2:11had been sort of struggling to keep up
2:14with the pace of software design tools.
2:18So, there's a lot of like low-hanging
2:19fruit. Um, this was kind of at the same
2:22time as Jasper AI and like other
2:26startups that were being built basically
2:29around, um, GPT-3. So, the precursor of
2:33ChatGPT. Like, so these companies would
2:35um, use this model and they would, um,
2:38train it. So, they'd spend a lot of
2:40money training it for a specific use
2:41case.
2:42Um, and then, you know, Jasper, for
2:45example, was around marketing.
2:47Um, and it was really exciting that AI
2:49was getting pretty
2:50okay at writing content. Um, we ran some
2:54tests. So, we were like, "Okay, Jasper's
2:56doing that with marketing and there are
2:58a few other, you know, companies doing
2:59interesting things in different types of
3:00content." We're like, "E-learning is, at
3:03the end of the day, content.
3:05We think that maybe we could do a
3:06similar thing within our authoring
3:08tool."
3:09Um,
3:10we ran some tests and they didn't go
3:13very well. I don't know if any of you
3:14like actually use GPT-3, but it just
3:17like wasn't quite there from a
3:19technology perspective. And so, we kind
3:22of set that aside for a few months,
3:24started building the authoring tool
3:25itself. And then, in November of 2022,
3:29ChatGPT dropped and suddenly like the
3:31out-of-the-box models, so the
3:33non-trained models, were way
3:35outperforming like fine-tuned expensive
3:38GPT-3 models. Um, and they were a tenth
3:42to a tenth of the cost. And so, we like
3:44built a feature in an afternoon that was
3:46basically useless. Um, which was you
3:50type in the title of your lesson. We
3:52were very like microlearning focused
3:54back then. You type in the title of your
3:56lesson and it would just like generate
3:57all of this They would just like
3:59generate a microlearning like
4:01e-learning for you. And despite it being
4:04like useless, um,
4:07people were still really interested in
4:08like how AI was going to change their
4:11workflow. And how AI would change
4:14instructional design and e-learning
4:16content development.
4:17Um, and so we got a lot of traction even
4:20with this like stupid thing that we
4:21built in an afternoon. Um, and as we
4:24talked to more and more with
4:25practitioners and L&D leaders, we
4:28realized that, um, there was a lot of
4:30opportunity to build an AI-native
4:33e-learning authoring tool. So, that's
4:35really what we've leaned into since is,
4:38um, how do we give like real
4:40instructional designers tools that
4:42they'll actually use, like AI tools that
4:44they'll actually use that don't feel
4:45like toys. Um, and then, how do we build
4:49around your workflow? So, the way of
4:51creating content that you're comfortable
4:52with. And then finally, like, how do we
4:55give you output that you're proud of?
4:57So, that's really a core focus for us.
4:59Like, an output from the AI that doesn't
5:01feel like slop. Um,
5:04so those are sort of the, I would say,
5:05the central guiding questions of
5:07Mindsmith. Um, is there any plans to
5:10release a Mindsmith MCP? Yes, we can
5:12talk about that later. Um, someone asked
5:14that in the chat. Um,
5:17so that that's kind of the core
5:19principles of Mindsmith is, um, there's
5:21an opportunity to innovate on the
5:23authoring tool itself. So, you'll notice
5:25things throughout the demo like
5:26real-time collaboration,
5:29um, a more intuitive user experience. We
5:32also invented this thing called dynamic
5:34SCORM.
5:35Um, so like innovating on the authoring
5:36tool while also taking an AI-first lens.
5:39So, like really thinking through, again,
5:42how do we give you tools that you'll
5:43use.
5:44So, that's kind of the core thesis of
5:47Mindsmith. Um,
5:50I'm thinking we'll just jump right into
5:52the demo then. Um, any like I I am
5:55curious, actually, does anyone have any
5:57like high-level questions about us or
5:59like who we are or where we came from or
6:02or myself that I can answer just really
6:04quickly?
6:11Ooh, naming question. Why did you call
6:13it Mindsmith?
6:15>> [laughter]
6:15>> The name Mindsmith. So, um, GPT-3 gave
6:19us the name Mindsmith. So, they had a
6:21sandbox and we asked it to give us,
6:24um, when we first started Mindsmith, we
6:25weren't sure whether we wanted to play
6:27in like higher ed, K-12, or we wanted to
6:30play in workforce learning. Um, so we
6:32asked it to give us like top 10 edtech
6:35names from a like like which domains are
6:39like available and Mindsmith was Hey.
6:42GPT-3 was not good and so the best name
6:45it could come up with was Mindsmith,
6:47which is fine. It's like a decent name,
6:49but, um, it's, you know, there were nine
6:53not good names and then one like okay
6:55name. So, we picked the okay name from
6:57it.
6:57>> there. Yeah. Yeah.
7:01Awesome. Okay, so I'm going to share my
7:03screen. We'll just jump into a demo.
7:05Um, I think with, uh,
7:09Google Meet, I have a hard time seeing
7:13the chat as I'm going through the demo.
7:15>> Okay. Yeah. Um, so, yeah, Heidi, if you
7:19want to monitor the chat, um, and then
7:21let me know if there are like questions
7:22popping up. And then, um, or if you want
7:26to just anyone can go off mute and
7:28interrupt me and we can chat.
7:30Um,
7:32okay, cool. So, yeah, this is Mindsmith.
7:35This is the tool. This is like the
7:37dashboard you would see when you log in.
7:39You can see it's a pretty like
7:41straightforward boring dashboard. I
7:43would say there's like nothing exciting
7:45about this dashboard. I've got like
7:47folders up top. I have uncategorized
7:49lessons below. We give you like some
7:52different like filtering and, um,
7:55and sorting options up here.
7:58Um, you do all your management here on
8:00the side. So, a couple things that I do
8:02like to shout out that are kind of
8:03interesting. The first is the way that
8:06you manage access to your content are
8:09through what we call team spaces. Um, so
8:12if you're on our business tier, which is
8:14one of our self-serve tiers, um, you can
8:16have one shared team space.
8:19Um, within a team space, everyone who's
8:21added to that team space has access to
8:23that content. And the content is saved
8:27to the team space. It's not saved to an
8:29individual person's account. Um, you can
8:32you can have your own personal team
8:33space. So, you'll have your personal one
8:35and then your shared one. And so, if you
8:36want to move things in your personal
8:37one, you can. But, in the shared one,
8:39all of this stuff is shared to that team
8:41space.
8:42Um, and then if you're on our enterprise
8:44tier, you can have as many team spaces
8:46as you need. So, you can manage your
8:48team spaces, which is really helpful,
8:50especially for larger teams,
8:52um, where you may have multiple
8:55different departments or different
8:57instructional design teams or you may be
8:59working with a subject matter expert.
9:02And so, you may create a team space just
9:04for that subject matter expert so they
9:05don't have access to all of your like
9:07kind of core content. So, you can choose
9:11One person can be in multiple team
9:12spaces. They can be in one team space.
9:14You can manage it from there.
9:16Um, the other cool thing about the team
9:17spaces is like I said, um, the content
9:19is shared to the team space, but you can
9:21also work collaborati- collaboratively
9:23in real time with everyone in that team
9:26space. So, a lot of teams that we work
9:28with are used to this like, um, kind of
9:31workflow where I create something and
9:33then I send it out as a review link to
9:35my stakeholders and then they like make
9:37their comments and then they like send
9:39it back to me and then I resolve those
9:40comments and then I send it back to them
9:42and then it's like this kind of long
9:44back-and-forth process. Which we do
9:46support, by the way. So, if that's
9:48something like important to you, this
9:49kind of asynchronous collaboration, we
9:51support that. But, it's nice to have the
9:53option to like get everyone on at the
9:55same time, schedule a 30-minute call
9:58and resolve conflict or resolve
10:01comments and get approvals and like be
10:04done at the end of that 1 30-minute call
10:06instead of doing this like long back and
10:08forth process. So, when you're
10:09collaborating with others, um you can
10:11like see the cursor of the person you're
10:13working with. You can see as they type,
10:15you can see their avatar on the
10:17filmstrip. So, it's just designed to be
10:19this more like I would say modern
10:21collaborative experience.
10:23Um so, that's a little bit about
10:25collaboration.
10:27Um these are the settings for a team
10:28space. I'm obviously not going to like
10:29do a deep dive into these, but a few
10:32cool things worth calling out. One is
10:33the glossary. So, this is a translation
10:36glossary. If you deal with a lot with if
10:38you deal with a lot of languages
10:40um and your company, if you're working
10:41in workforce, has um like
10:44industry-specific terms or acronyms or
10:46whatever, you may want to upload the
10:48that translation glossary so the AI
10:50translations, which we'll show later,
10:52are more accurate.
10:53Um the other one I like to show also
10:56really quickly are the different um
10:58license types. So, we have author,
11:00admin, and viewer. The viewer one is
11:02really cool because it's a free license.
11:05So, your viewers can see all of the
11:07content in the team space and make
11:09comments
11:10um without needing uh like paid license.
11:14So, it's really helpful if you do want
11:15to do more collaboration with people as
11:18like, "Hey, I'll just add you to the
11:19team space. Let's work on this lesson
11:20together." and then you're kind of off
11:23and running instead of like managing
11:25links. Which again, you can manage links
11:27and we have review links and people
11:29don't need a license to look at the
11:30review links, but it's a nice option to
11:32have.
11:33Okay. Um oh, another thing worth calling
11:35out quickly. This is also helpful for
11:37like the larger enterprises.
11:39Um within your members, you can manage
11:43uh you can you buy a number of licenses
11:46and then you can like activate and
11:48deactivate those licenses as you need.
11:50So, if you need to reassign them, which
11:52is again especially helpful if you're
11:54collaborating with people that maybe
11:55don't need access for an entire year.
11:58It's like,
11:59"We'll give you this license for 2 weeks
12:01and then I'm going to give it to a
12:02different person."
12:04Um whereas obviously like the full-time
12:06instructional designers are going to
12:07have like a license all the time cuz
12:09they're always like working on stuff.
12:10But, it's a nice option to have. Maybe
12:12you'll buy like one or two extras for
12:13collaborating with people beyond your
12:15team.
12:16Um
12:17you will notice a theme in this like
12:19collaboration, which is um the idea that
12:22like you can bring people to the
12:25e-learning table. Like some people feel
12:28like and often people feel like um they
12:30don't have a seat at the table at the
12:32organization, but what this allows you
12:34to do is say like, "Hey, let's just work
12:36on this e-learning really quickly for a
12:38couple weeks. Come join my e-learning
12:42experience." And then they come in, make
12:44their comments, collaborate with you.
12:46So, it's a nice option to have if you
12:47want to sort of expand your sphere of
12:49influence within your company.
12:51Um okay.
12:53So, that's the dashboard. That's the
12:54boring stuff. The fun part is actually
12:56generating content. So, in MindSmith, um
12:59what you'll do is Oh, there's a quick
13:00question in the chat that I think might
13:02be good before we get to there um about
13:05integrations um
13:08and does it integrate with any other
13:09SaaS products like an LMS or Workday or
13:12whatever else the business uses?
13:15Sure. Yeah, so the most typical way to
13:17integrate with a learning management
13:19system is through what we call dynamic
13:21SCORM.
13:22On your end, it functions the same way
13:24as a SCORM file, but on our end, we can
13:26communicate with that file sitting in
13:28your LMS, which means if you make a
13:31change in MindSmith, it will update in
13:33the LMS automatically or anywhere where
13:35that file is sitting. There are also
13:37some other cool things that it enables
13:39us to do, which we'll talk about later,
13:41but for those of you who have managed
13:43SCORM files, that by itself is like such
13:46a huge time saver. It's such a headache
13:49having to manage versions and all of
13:51that.
13:51>> [snorts]
13:52>> Um
13:53so, yeah, that that's the typical way to
13:54integrate. We do have partnerships with
13:56other LMSs. That's legit huge actually.
13:58Thanks, Luke.
13:59Um
14:00we do have partnerships with other um
14:02LMSs where we'll integrate natively with
14:04them. So, it kind of passes the the data
14:07back automatically and allows their like
14:09AI systems to pull information from our
14:12content, but that's more on a like um
14:15like a per LMS basis. Um so, if you want
14:19to talk about that later, we can talk
14:20about it. But,
14:21typically, it's dynamic SCORM. We do
14:24also support We do also support xAPI if
14:26you want to do that and then we have
14:27other like sharing mechanisms, but
14:29dynamic SCORM, in my opinion, is the
14:31coolest.
14:32Um because here's here's the thing is
14:34like it's basically all of in my
14:36opinion, it's all the benefits of xAPI
14:39without the like implementation
14:41headache. Like you don't need an LRS,
14:43you don't need like you don't need to
14:45manage events and all that stuff. We
14:47just like do all the tracking and we'll
14:49show you the analytics and stuff.
14:51Okay. That's a long answer to that. That
14:53actually had a question on that note. Uh
14:56and this is kind of a lengthy question.
14:58Hold on, let me read it for you, Steph.
15:00Can you also talk about data reporting
15:02capabilities and if viewers are some of
15:04my key stakeholders who have an interest
15:06in data beyond view and completion
15:08rates, will that viewer license also
15:10allow them to see that info?
15:13Um
15:14good question. So, I'll I'll answer the
15:16first question first, which is just
15:18around analytics in general,
15:20which is um we'll pass back to the LMS
15:23all the typical SCORM stuff,
15:25but through dynamic SCORM, we can track
15:27a lot more than what you would normally
15:29get with SCORM.
15:31Um and I can jump into a lesson really
15:32quickly and show you the analytics.
15:34We're actually redoing this analytics
15:36dashboard to be a little bit better, but
15:38um so, you can see for example like
15:41where people are dropping off in a
15:42lesson. So, you can see like the
15:44percentage of people who viewed a page
15:45versus those who started a lesson. So,
15:47you may say, "Okay, 80% of people viewed
15:49page two, but 20% of the people viewed
15:51page three." Like something's happening
15:53in between these pages where people are
15:55dropping off.
15:56Um you can also see how people are
15:58performing on individual assessment
15:59questions. So, you may say, "Okay,
16:02people are really underperforming on
16:04this on multiple this assessment
16:05question number three or whatever."
16:07Um what are they choosing instead?
16:10Um so, we track all of that data. Right
16:12now, it sits in LMS or it's sorry, it
16:14sits in MindSmith and then you can
16:16export it as a CSV or PDF. Oh, you can
16:19also, by the way, if you want to see how
16:20an individual learner performs on an
16:22individual assessment question, you can
16:24see all of these analytics for an
16:26individual learner as well.
16:28Um and we can like if you want to, you
16:30can you can enable what we call enhanced
16:33SCORM integration, which will grab the
16:34name and email address um of the learner
16:37from the LMS so you can see them listed.
16:40Otherwise, it would just be anonymous
16:42and then you would just see the
16:43performance on of anonymous people.
16:46Um so, that's analytics. One thing that
16:47we'll probably be doing over the next
16:49like we'll probably release in the next
16:51month, month and a half is an API for
16:53these analytics.
16:55So, if you want to pump these analytics
16:56into like a BI tool, then you can do
16:59that.
17:00Um so, they won't just sit on MindSmith,
17:02they can sit in your um analytics
17:04dashboards as well. And then when we
17:06release our MCP, you'll be able to query
17:08it based on analytics. You can actually
17:10query the agent um on analytics as well.
17:13So, you could say like, "What are you
17:14noticing about this lesson that you feel
17:16like would be helpful for me to edit?"
17:19And it would say, "Hey, it feels like
17:20people are dropping off here based on
17:21these analytics. Here's what I'd
17:23recommend that you would change."
17:25Um
17:25so, you know, that was like a lot of
17:27answer to the analytics. Oh, that's only
17:29half the question. The other half is
17:30viewers.
17:31Um so, viewers right now cannot see
17:33analytics, but with the able to.
17:39And then there were a couple follow-up
17:41questions. Um
17:44can you help me understand how my data
17:46is kept secure once I create a course?
17:48Where exactly is it stored and how safe
17:50is it? And then another follow-up
17:51question, do you have safety features
17:54for K-12 schools re student data?
17:58Yes. So, um
18:02on security, the short answer is um
18:05we follow all the best practices. So,
18:08we're SOC 2 compliant. We work with some
18:10of the most locked-down organizations in
18:13the world. Um obviously, before just
18:16about any purchase, we have to fill out
18:17IT questionnaires and get IT approval
18:19and everything like that.
18:21Um the best place to go if you want to
18:23do a deep dive into our security is our
18:25trust center. So, just go to
18:26trust.mindsmith.ai.
18:28It even has a little AI agent that you
18:30can chat with at like everything in our
18:33trust center. So, all of our policies,
18:34all of our documents, and it will
18:36surface all of that for you.
18:38Um our data centers are hosted in US
18:42East 1.
18:43Um
18:44and we also have European hosting. So,
18:46if you're a European person and you need
18:49your data in Europe, then we can support
18:51that as well.
18:53Um
18:54did that answer the full question? Did I
18:55miss a piece?
18:57Um there was the part about student data
18:59in K-12
19:00as well. Yeah. Yeah, in K-12, um I think
19:04it's FERPA, so we're FERPA compliant. Um
19:07and you can go into our trust center to
19:08read more about that as well.
19:10Thanks.
19:12And then there was one other question
19:15here. Oh, now there's two questions
19:17about dynamic SCORM.
19:18Um
19:19we will we'll get to see it in a minute.
19:22I promise. Um hopefully.
19:24Um I'm just kidding.
19:26Uh so, do enterprise customers have any
19:29security issues with the dynamic SCORM?
19:31And then do the pushes affect the
19:34analytics or where a learner is in the
19:36course? Um and then if the dynamic SCORM
19:40file is updated, does the LMS
19:43administrator get a notification? And is
19:45there a possibility to pass it through
19:47IT as well?
19:49Okay. Um yeah, I'll answer the first
19:52question,
19:54which was um
19:56Oh, it's about dynamic SCORM.
19:58>> Which was
19:59customers have security issues with the
20:01updates and how they affect analytics.
20:03>> Yeah, so security issues, no, there
20:06aren't any major security issues with
20:08dynamic SCORM. They're hosted on our
20:09servers and we have to go through IT
20:12approval for you to use the tool in the
20:14first place, which means your learners
20:17can use, you know, dynamic SCORM. Um, we
20:21we do need for you to use dynamic SCORM,
20:23you do have to get the Mindsmith URL
20:25whitelisted. So, that's part of the
20:27process, but you need that to be able to
20:29create content in the first place
20:30anyway. So,
20:31um, those usually come together.
20:34Um, so the answer is no.
20:37>> it affects analytics and like where a
20:40learner is in the course. Does it like
20:41kick them out and start them over again
20:43if you update the file? Oh, good
20:44question. No. So, it saves where they're
20:47at. Um, if you delete the page that they
20:49were on, then they would uh bring them
20:51to the page before they were on,
20:53you know, before the one.
20:55>> Yeah, that makes sense. And then does
20:57the LMS administrator or IT get a
21:00notification if a dynamic SCORM file has
21:02been updated?
21:04Um, no, not right now. So, we do have
21:06version history.
21:08Um, so you can go back and see all the
21:10different versions of a lesson. We save
21:12version history automatically if there
21:14had been changes in the last 30 minutes
21:16and we also save it every time the agent
21:18makes an update. Um, so you can go back
21:21and see version history, but we don't
21:22have notifications on changes right now.
21:25Thank you. And then I will say we had a
21:27couple people ask specifically about
21:29software training. So, if we wanted to
21:31do the demo spin-up lesson somewhere in
21:34that realm, that would address those
21:35questions, too. Oh, yeah.
21:38Um
21:39We
21:40I'm not going to show that today because
21:43processing videos just takes a little
21:45bit longer.
21:46>> Oh, yeah, that's right.
21:48Um
21:49but I do actually have a demo on YouTube
21:52that shows that where I took a demo that
21:53I'd done on Mindsmith and created a
21:55software simulation training about it
21:57and I'll show you how to do it here. We
21:58just won't actually like perform it, if
22:00that makes sense, today.
22:02All right. It's all you. Back to you.
22:04>> Okay.
22:05All right, where were we before we
22:07talked about dynamic SCORM? And we can
22:09we can do a deeper dive into dynamic
22:10SCORM and talk about some of the other
22:12capabilities in a moment, but Um, okay,
22:15creating content. So, in Mindsmith, you
22:17can create either a lesson or a course.
22:20So, a lesson, it says 10 to 20. I would
22:22say now it's like 5 to 45 minutes, so
22:25it's a little bit more flexible.
22:27Um, but I would say it's kind of a
22:29shorter learning experience. And then a
22:31course is a collection of lessons. So,
22:33if you want to do like a 1-hour, 2-hour,
22:36even 3-hour learning experience, which
22:39you know, sometimes you have to do that
22:41whether you like it or not, um, you
22:43might choose a course.
22:44Um
22:45The other cool thing here worth shouting
22:47out quickly is um the import
22:49capabilities. So, we switch over people
22:52from a lot of different um
22:54authoring tools and as you may know,
22:56it's just like it's a huge headache
22:57generally to try to switch authoring
22:59tools because you have to rebuild
23:00everything.
23:01Um, but in Mindsmith, you can upload a
23:03SCORM package from your other authoring
23:05tools and we'll convert it directly into
23:07a Mindsmith lesson or course. Um, right
23:10now we support um
23:12Articulate Rise.
23:14Um, we support Easy Generator. We
23:16support
23:17um Echo360.
23:20Um, so you have the an authoring tool
23:21called Inkling. And then we just
23:23released this morning um Evolve
23:26as well. So, if a customer's switching
23:28over from any of those four authoring
23:29tools, we make it super easy. We are
23:31building out an Articulate Storyline
23:33one. It just is a little bit more
23:35complicated, as you can imagine, trying
23:37to map that stuff.
23:38Um
23:40We can also, if you are switching over
23:43and you're buying like more than 10
23:44licenses for Mindsmith, we can do a bulk
23:47export and a bulk import. So, you
23:49basically add us to your account with
23:51the other authoring tool, we'll run a
23:52script that exports everything from the
23:54authoring tool and then a script that
23:56imports it all. So, we recently switched
23:58over a customer who had like 13,000
24:01courses and they needed all of them. Um,
24:04and so we were able to do a bulk export
24:06in like
24:072 hours. So, it's pretty cool.
24:09>> [snorts]
24:09>> Um, saved them a ton of headache.
24:12Okay. So, let's talk about creating
24:15content, finally.
24:17So, this is the fun part about
24:18Mindsmith. So, what you're seeing here
24:20is the first page of our Mindsmith
24:23agent. A little bit of context about the
24:26agent. The agent is full service, so it
24:29sticks with you from the beginning of
24:31your content creation journey all the
24:33way to the end and it keeps your chat
24:34history with it. So, it knows what
24:37you're talking about and has the context
24:38of the lesson as it creates.
24:40Um, [snorts] the agent is really
24:42intelligent. So, it's on the cutting
24:44edge of the best AI models um and it's
24:47able to ask questions and like dig
24:50deeper into an a goal that you're trying
24:53to accomplish. So, it you might find it
24:55like pushing back on some things that
24:57you do. You might find it like asking
24:59clarifying questions to make sure that
25:01it's gathered the right context. It's a
25:03very, I would say, involved um not very,
25:06but more involved than maybe other um
25:10LLMs that you've experienced.
25:12Um
25:15Yeah, it it also has a lot of different
25:17tools that it can pull from and use. So,
25:20um, for example, it has the ability to
25:23um watch videos. It has the ability to
25:25grab clips from videos. It has the
25:27ability to take screenshots from videos.
25:29It has the ability to pull all of those
25:31into a non-linear learning experience to
25:34create a simulation if you wanted to do
25:36that. Um, you can prompt the AI like how
25:39to interpret each of the documents that
25:41you've uploaded. So, like you could
25:43upload a PowerPoint. Uh, someone asked a
25:46question, which LLM? It's based on
25:48Claude.
25:49So, mostly Claude Sonnet or Claude Opus,
25:51depending on the task.
25:53Um So, you could upload like you could
25:56say, "Okay, I'm creating a lesson on
25:59whatever. Maybe it's a technical
26:01concept. You're a big pharma company and
26:03you're doing a a technical training on a
26:06new drug that you've released. And you
26:07may say, "Okay, we have a a PowerPoint
26:11presentation from a subject matter
26:12expert and I want you as the AI, when I
26:14upload this PowerPoint, I want you to
26:16follow the content really strictly, like
26:17the structure and flow of that um of
26:21that PowerPoint, I want you to
26:22prioritize that content. But you may
26:24say, "I also have a video about one of
26:27our lead scientists like teaching a
26:29class on this particular drug and I want
26:32you as the AI to watch that video and
26:35and just grab any clips that you think
26:36are relevant. Try to keep the clips to
26:38like 5 to 15 seconds and pull those into
26:41the lesson. You can include screenshots,
26:43too, if you feel like they're helpful.
26:45And then you may also have a really long
26:46document, like maybe it's a very
26:48official like 200-page
26:50document on all sorts of drugs that you
26:53may say, "I'm not sure if there's
26:54anything relevant in here, but I want
26:56you to like read through it and tell me
26:58if there's anything relevant. I don't
26:59want you to add it into the lesson, I
27:01just want you to run it by me and I can
27:02tell you whether we include it into the
27:04content." So, like for every document
27:06that you upload, you can be very, very
27:07specific about how the AI is
27:09interpreting it, how the AI is using it,
27:11how it should work with you, all sorts
27:12of stuff.
27:13Um, I'm going to [clears throat] run a
27:15demo just with a very basic um
27:18lesson uh that I like to run. It's yeah,
27:22it's going to be pretty basic. It's
27:23pretty uh I would say general, but it
27:26gives you a good sense of like working
27:28with um the AI and how that feels.
27:31Um
27:32Let me pull up a
27:34um a document really quick.
27:38Oops, I spelled communication wrong.
27:46There's one. Okay. And we had a question
27:48in the chat that says, "Do we need to
27:50have the video already or can the AI
27:52search for a relevant video?"
27:54Um, the AI doesn't search the web right
27:57now. We did have search the web and it
28:00was like not that helpful and so we took
28:03it out. We probably will add it back.
28:06Um, but right now, yeah, you are either
28:08uploading your own video or um the AI
28:11can generate video, so it has some video
28:13generation and creation capabilities.
28:16Um
28:17Yeah. So, it's not searching YouTube
28:19quite yet.
28:21Good question, though.
28:23All right. So, I gave it a prompt. Um, I
28:26also gave it a document. Um, you can see
28:28my prompt is super short. That's on
28:30purpose, just to like kind of
28:32demonstrate some capabilities here. I'm
28:34also going to say here, "Follow the
28:36document um very strictly for this
28:40lesson."
28:43Okay. The other thing that um I want to
28:46talk about are what we call skills.
28:48Skills are basically a pre-written way
28:51for how the AI accomplishes a certain
28:53task. So, a lot of these skills we've
28:56already written out. Um, simulation is
28:59going to be a classic one so that we've
29:01been talking about. So, you if you're
29:02doing a simulation, then you may want to
29:04use the simulation skill.
29:06Um, but I may say, "Okay,
29:09microlearning. My the way that my
29:11company approaches microlearning is
29:13actually a little bit unique and has
29:14some nuance to it. I'm going to create a
29:16skill on how to um how to do
29:21microlearning. So, this is how we do
29:23microlearning at my company." You just
29:25click on create a skill and then anytime
29:28anyone is creating a lesson on
29:30microlearning, Mindsmith will grab that
29:32skill and it will use it when it's
29:34creating the microlearning.
29:36Um, same thing for some of these others.
29:38Like these are different ways for the AI
29:40to interpret documents. Um, this is like
29:42if you already have a storyboard and
29:44you're uploading a storyboard to
29:45Mindsmith, how the AI should use that. I
29:48like to do the needs analysis skill cuz
29:49it will the AI will like dig a little
29:51bit deeper into like what we're trying
29:53to accomplish here. So, we'll do needs
29:55analysis today, but again, you can
29:56create a skill around anything. I may
29:58create a skill that's like we're very
30:00compliance-oriented, and so when you
30:03generate the storyboard, I want you to
30:05pull in quotes for everything that you
30:07teach from the document, so I know
30:08exactly where it's mapping to.
30:11Um but I also don't want those quotes to
30:13be included in the lesson itself. I just
30:15want to see them in the storyboard. Like
30:17you can create these very nuanced and
30:19specific skills about how you're
30:20approaching different problems, and
30:21again, the AI will grab them, or you can
30:23tag them here.
30:24Okay. Somebody asked if they can import
30:27skills that they already have in Claude.
30:29Um not right now, but we will have the
30:32ability to do that. Um
30:34the way that Yeah. I I would recommend
30:37that you create them fresh just because
30:39MindSmith has different tools that it's
30:40using than Claude.
30:42And then there was another quick tech
30:44question. Uh do you have a native local
30:46download mode where you can work
30:48entirely offline and completely exclude
30:51cloud storage?
30:53No.
30:54No, it's a cloud-based tool.
30:57But again, we work with some of the most
30:59locked-down organizations like in the
31:01world. Like we're working on FedRAMP
31:02right now, so like
31:04we're willing to work with your IT
31:06department.
31:08Okay.
31:10Um cool. So, okay, let's read what the
31:13AI gave us here. So, it's like okay, um
31:16love to help you out. Let me look at
31:18your document. I read the document. I
31:21reviewed your document. Here's what it
31:23covers.
31:25Um before I build anything, I want to
31:27make sure we create the right lesson.
31:30Who's the primary audience? I'm going to
31:32say, okay, it's managers and team
31:35leaders.
31:37The doc
31:39The document references civil military
31:41and aviation context.
31:43Uh
31:45should we keep that lens? I'm going to
31:46say no, adapt for healthcare.
31:50What level of prior communication
31:51knowledge? How long should this lesson
31:53take the learner to complete? What types
31:56of assessment? All of this is generated
31:58like on the fly. I'm going to have it do
32:00all of it.
32:01Um so, it really depends on what we're
32:04trying to accomplish. The AI will ask
32:06some questions to dig a little bit
32:07deeper into, you know, what we're trying
32:09to do here.
32:11Um
32:12yeah, any any other questions so far?
32:19Oh, it's asking me some follow-up
32:20questions.
32:22Oh, for some reason it paused.
32:24Of course,
32:26doing a live demo,
32:28it's going to
32:30pause for me randomly.
32:33Okay.
32:40Okay, so now it's going to build a
32:41storyboard.
32:43So, it's going to summarize the findings
32:46and then build a storyline a storyboard
32:48for me. The storyboard is a nice like
32:50in-between step where basically the AI's
32:53done some work here gathering context
32:56about what you we're trying to build.
32:58It's going to take all that context and
32:59create the storyboard. The storyboard is
33:02a text-based storyboard, so it's it'll
33:04give a description of every single page
33:06in the lesson. It may throw in like
33:08different interactives, especially if
33:10you ask it like, hey, in the storyboard,
33:12tell me which interactives you're using
33:13to do different things.
33:15Um or it and it will also tell you like
33:17the content that it's going to cover in
33:19that page or any other context that it
33:21thinks is relevant.
33:23Um the cool thing about the storyboard
33:25is that it's fully editable. So, you can
33:27see here it gave me kind of a title
33:28here, an overview of the lesson, and
33:30then again, it like I said, a
33:32description of every page. I'm actually
33:34going to go ahead as soon as this is
33:35done generating, we'll generate the
33:37lesson.
33:39Um so, it looks like it gave me kind of
33:41an overview here.
33:43Um some success criteria, why it chose
33:47different tone options, needs analysis
33:50summary, learning objectives, why it
33:53chose those, 14-page outline.
33:57Please review the storyboard. Okay, now
33:58I'm going to build the lesson.
34:00Um
34:01A couple of other cool things here. So,
34:03like the storyboard um will tag
34:05objectives. So, it gives objectives here
34:07at the top, and then it will tag those
34:09throughout. So, you can see like
34:10objective one is being covered here on
34:11the first few pages, and then it jumps
34:13into objective two and sort of works
34:15through the different learning
34:16objectives. Whereas you can see like
34:18page 13 is a final assessment, and it's
34:21going to cover all of the learning
34:22objectives.
34:24Um
34:25Again, like
34:26this is a very very flexible um
34:28storyboard. So, I could jump in and say,
34:30okay, I want to teach receiving feedback
34:32with a growth mindset using a story of a
34:34manager who like did the wrong thing. Or
34:37I could jump into the agent because
34:39again, it's the the same agent
34:40throughout this whole process, and I may
34:42say,
34:43I want to generate I want you to add
34:45more like videos here. And then the AI
34:48will usually say like, um what do you
34:51mean by that?
34:52Do you want me to um generate videos
34:55like with my AI video generator? Do you
34:57have a video that you want me to like
34:58process and use? Like how do you want me
35:00to approach this? Um and then it'll also
35:03be like, okay, also, where do you want
35:05these videos? Like do you want it as an
35:07intro and conclusion, or do you want to
35:08like teach some core content using a
35:10video? Um so, you can kind you go
35:12through that same process of like the AI
35:14digging deeper, making sure it has the
35:16right context, and then it can again
35:18edit the storyboard. So, um the
35:20storyboarding phase, I would say like
35:23the more time you can spend there the
35:25better because then the initial output
35:27of the lesson more closely matches your
35:30expectations of what you're trying to
35:32get out of the AI.
35:34Um okay, I'm going to pause there again.
35:36Any other questions up until this point?
35:39We have a couple questions in the chat.
35:41One is, does this use sub-agents in
35:44order to build each block or page to
35:46manage context?
35:48Um yes. So, it's a system of agents and
35:51sub-agents. But there is kind of this
35:53overarching agent that will be um that
35:57is applying.
36:00Um and I think you answered this a
36:03little bit earlier, but that this one
36:05has like some specific tools. Does it
36:06support importing courses from
36:08Storyline, Rise, and Captivate?
36:11Um not Captivate, not Storyline, but
36:14yes, Rise. Okay. And then
36:18uh will there be an option to use the
36:20agent to build a course in an exact
36:23course/lesson templated format, such as
36:26specific size blocks, screen views,
36:28board progression, module title, text
36:29formats? Essentially, use the agent to
36:32produce a course that visually/screen
36:34layout and structure appears
36:36consistently the same even if you use a
36:38different course or content.
36:40Yes. So, there are two ways to think
36:42about that. The first is um I would
36:45create a skill that says, this is the
36:47structure and screen layout. So, the
36:49skills are text-based.
36:51Um the other option is you can duplicate
36:55it's the same agent that's working from
36:57the beginning all the way through the
36:58end. So, you could duplicate a lesson,
37:01and you could jump into the agent here
37:04and say, I want you to keep the same
37:06screen layout and all the elements the
37:09same about this lesson, but I want all
37:11of the content to be different. Here's
37:13what I want to teach about. And then you
37:16sort of start from scratch, but you're
37:17using the lesson as a template. Um
37:20that's sort of a workaround for
37:21something that we'll be designing over
37:23the next, I would say, month or so,
37:25which is um in that initial view where
37:28you can tag like your um
37:30tag your skills, you'll also be able to
37:32tag templates or other lessons. So, you
37:35can say, okay, I want you to look at
37:36this other lesson that I've created and
37:38use the same screen layout of that
37:40lesson, and it would use it as
37:43um a layout template. Or you could say,
37:46I want you to use this other lesson as a
37:48template. I like the content, um
37:51but it's not tailored to my
37:54organization. I want you to tailor it in
37:56these like specific ways, and it'll use
37:58the template of content, but tailor it
38:01to your
38:02company. So, there are different ways to
38:04approach templates, and we want to give
38:06you the flexibility to prompt AI on how
38:08it should approach those templates.
38:09Again, that's probably coming out in the
38:11next like month or two.
38:14Okay.
38:15Okay. And then one quick, could you
38:18please repeat where it came up with the
38:19needs analysis?
38:22Um that was a skill that we had
38:23developed, and so I had tagged the needs
38:25analysis skill.
38:27Um you can create your own needs
38:28analysis skill. You could say You could
38:31also create a skill that says, anytime
38:33you generate learning objectives, I want
38:34you to run them by me before you
38:36actually like do anything with them cuz
38:38I want to make sure that they're right,
38:39or you you can also do all sorts of
38:41stuff.
38:43I'm actually I do have the chat pulled
38:44up here.
38:46Um There's a few more questions coming
38:47in.
38:48Yeah, does each module use one
38:50storyboard? So, a lesson is going to use
38:52one storyboard. We do have a course
38:54generator, which sort of takes things up
38:56a notch and will outline the course, and
38:58then you'll have a story So, it kind of
39:00gives what you would might think of a
39:01storyboard for a course, and then gives
39:03a storyboard for each lesson within the
39:04course.
39:05Um Nathan says, awesome sauce. Awesome
39:07sauce, Nathan.
39:10love it.
39:10>> Formatting options. One of the
39:11frustrations of Rise was
39:13lack of rich text editing, visual
39:15formatting options, flexibility. Oh,
39:16that's where I was going next. Um
39:19Let me look at all these other ones
39:21really quickly. Generate animations. No,
39:23not yet. Um video training for creating
39:26skills. No, we don't have one of those,
39:29but you can go to our help center.
39:30Um and we have some uh best practices
39:33there. So, help.mindsmith.ai.
39:36Um so, learning objectives aren't an
39:38approval gate. Uh they aren't by
39:40default, but they can be. So, you would
39:42just create an a skill that's like
39:44anytime you generate a learning
39:45objective,
39:46run it by me.
39:47Um okay, uh formatting options. So, the
39:50authoring tool itself, um you'll notice
39:53are what we call tiles. So, every tile
39:55in MindSmith, you can roughly map it to
39:58what you would consider a block in
40:00Articulate Rise for those using Rise, um
40:02or there are a lot of different, you
40:03know, uh authoring tools that think of
40:05them in different ways. The tiles are
40:07cool because everything like generally
40:10looks good out of the box. Um so, it's
40:13just laid out really nicely, but it
40:15gives you flexibility that you don't see
40:18in other rapid authoring tools. So, I
40:20can like rearrange these tiles. I can,
40:22you know, pull the image across. I can
40:25bring this
40:27down. I don't know why you'd ever want
40:28to do that, but you can um do that or
40:31yeah, you can create three different
40:32columns there.
40:34So, there's a design flexibility that
40:36you won't see in other rapid authoring
40:37tools while still just being really
40:38intuitive. Like, seriously, anyone can
40:40jump in and start building. We do have
40:42all sorts of rich text options. Um so,
40:44you can change like the size of the
40:45text. You can change the color. You can
40:48change, you know, you can hyperlink. Uh
40:51that's comments, but you can do all
40:52sorts of stuff.
40:53Um so, that's the basics of editing in
40:57MindSmith.
40:59Um there are lots of different tile
41:01types. So, all the different tiles that
41:03you would expect to get, and you can
41:05just drag them and drop them in. So, if
41:06you want to pull in a chart, you just
41:08drag it and drop it in. You've got a
41:10chart.
41:11Um you can see that the AI has generated
41:13a few different pages here. So, it's
41:14sort of this is a process tile. It gave
41:17us an accordion tile. It gave us some
41:20flashcard grid here um that you can
41:23edit. Um every tile also, by the way, is
41:26going to have its own advanced settings
41:27specific to that tile. So, like
41:29flashcards, for example, I may want to
41:31add an image on the front. I can do
41:34that. You just click on edit, and then
41:37you would mess with the advanced
41:38settings that are going to be different
41:39for every single tile type.
41:41Um some tiles worth calling out quickly.
41:44Uh the first is the scenario tile,
41:47which we're actually rebranding to
41:49experiences tile. Basically, this is for
41:51creating any sort of non-linear learning
41:54experience. So, something that's a
41:56little bit more in-depth or involved.
41:58You can see it has this nice canvas node
42:01editor. We've added different nodes that
42:04um help you create more interesting
42:07learning experiences for
42:08in particular software simulations, but
42:10it can do a lot more.
42:12Um [snorts] this explore node is one of
42:13those. So, you can see with the explore
42:15node, I have these different like hot
42:17button areas, and I can say like, "Okay,
42:19they click on this lighthouse, and I
42:20want to take them to a video of a
42:22lighthouse." And then at the end of the
42:23video, I want to route them back. And
42:25when they click on this cloud, I want to
42:27take them to a video about a cloud. And
42:29then at the end of that cloud video, I
42:30want to take them to this video about
42:31the lighthouse or whatever. So, you can
42:32create these more interesting, dynamic,
42:35I would say immersive learning
42:37experiences. And the AI has access to
42:39these tools. Um so, you can tell it to
42:42design within these experiences, and it
42:44can um add these nodes. It can like
42:47literally in your video, it can see like
42:49where you clicked, and it can create um
42:52these boxes based on where you clicked,
42:54and it will like add text to the screen,
42:57and take video clips, and do all sorts
42:58of fun stuff.
43:00Um so, that's scenarios {slash}
43:03experiences.
43:05Um
43:06questions around that. History of edits.
43:09Yes, we do have a history of edits.
43:11Um AI spoke with accessibility
43:13implementation. So, everything in
43:16MindSmith is what CAG AA accessible by
43:18default from a learner perspective. So,
43:21um that's 2.2.
43:24WCAG 2.2.
43:25Um what is the grading {slash}
43:28assessment info for nodes?
43:30Um there's not a lot of grading. There
43:32is a like um
43:35uh correct or incorrect at the end of a
43:37scenario. So, I think
43:39um it's here in the settings where I can
43:42say, "Yeah, the completion result is
43:44like if they reach this page, then I'm
43:46going to call it correct." versus if
43:48they reach this page, um I'm going to
43:51call it incorrect. I think you have to
43:53make it a final node somehow. Um um
43:56I haven't done it yet. So, I could say
43:58this node is incorrect or whatever.
44:00Um everything's WCAG 2.2. I tested drag
44:03and drop in quizzes months ago, and it
44:04didn't come out that way. Um shoot me a
44:06message about what you were struggling
44:08with, cuz we should be able to resolve
44:10that.
44:11Um okay.
44:13Move grading assessment. Change the
44:15background color of the tiles with the
44:17professional and or business account. Um
44:20so, you can change the background color
44:22on some tiles, but not all tiles. So,
44:25for example, this um text tile, I can
44:28add a background color to. I can add
44:31accent two, which is referencing my
44:33theme. And then anytime I change my
44:35theme here in MindSmith, then it updates
44:36everywhere where accent two is
44:38referenced. Um not every tile has the
44:40ability to change the color.
44:42Um all the tiles though are going to key
44:44off of the theme here.
44:46Um Rise like look and feel. Can learners
44:48navigate left to right? Um so, for the
44:52most part, it's going to be like a a
44:54vertical scroll, at least from a um
44:58from a
44:59uh da da da da
45:01when you're on a desktop. Um the
45:03exception to that is you can for mobile
45:06um have it do left to right. Uh where is
45:10that? Mobile navigation mode on mobile,
45:13you can turn turn to be left to right um
45:15where the learner can swipe or tap
45:18through the learning experience.
45:20Um okay.
45:22So, that was the branching tile.
45:27Um
45:27another one, so two more I want to call
45:29out quickly. It looks like we didn't
45:31generate a video. Let me add a video
45:33really quickly.
45:34Um we'll just create a blank one so you
45:36get a sense of what this looks like. In
45:37MindSmith, you can create videos. Um
45:39these videos are going to be um
45:43I would say text-based. So, you have the
45:45transcript here on the right, and then
45:46you have scenes on the left, and then
45:48you can edit the scenes. And then you
45:49can choose your avatars. We integrate
45:51with HeyGen, so you can switch out the
45:52HeyGen avatars. You can change the
45:53voice. And so, there's you can create
45:56nice-looking like 1 to 3-minute
45:58explainer videos. If you don't want an
45:59avatar, you can take the avatar out and
46:01just have the voice if you want to do
46:03that.
46:04Um so, that's video. Um the other one I
46:06want to call out quickly is um
46:08conversations.
46:10This is something we added recently.
46:11This is the only part of MindSmith
46:13that's an add-on in addition to your
46:14license. Um and you pay per
46:16conversation. If you're interested in
46:17this, we can chat pricing down the road.
46:19Um but I just figured I'd call that out.
46:21Um
46:22the cool thing about conversations is
46:24you can create a real-time interaction
46:26with an AI agent. So, it can be a
46:29role-play. It can be a discussion. It
46:30can be an oral exam. And all of that
46:32sits within the dynamic SCORM package.
46:35So, it's not like a separate platform
46:36that people have to log into just to do
46:39like a basic role-play.
46:40Um you can like if you're designing a
46:42role-play, we have all sorts of like uh
46:45levers that you can play around with.
46:47So, like character personality,
46:49situation. You can give it an agenda.
46:52The learner can be graded off um off of
46:54each of these points in the agenda. You
46:55can give the AI grading instructions for
46:58the agenda and feedback instructions.
47:00You can give the AI general instructions
47:03uh for each agenda item. Um you can give
47:05it uh skills the learner skills to
47:08demonstrate, other rules. Um you can
47:10give it um
47:12you can change the import no- input mode
47:14to be voice and text. We have example
47:16conversations, other custom prompting.
47:18So, a lot of like
47:19again, a lot of levers around these um
47:21conversations. And then these
47:23conversations are like
47:25uh really good. So, we use like Google's
47:28uh I would say latest models. Um
47:31we can I just want to show you what this
47:32sounds like real quick um just so you
47:34can get a sense of this.
47:38Hi. Thanks for meeting with me. I know
47:41you're busy, but I really needed to
47:43talk.
47:44Hey, Maria. I just wanted to welcome you
47:47to this conversation and tell you that
47:49you have a safe space um here for you to
47:52share anything that you're dealing with.
47:58Well, it's the patient load. Since the
48:01changes, I have seven patients per
48:03shift, up from five. I feel like I can
48:05barely keep up.
48:07So, you can interrupt it. It's just a
48:09it's a really nice like real-time
48:10conversation. So, if that's something
48:11you're interested, we can talk about
48:13that down the road.
48:15Um okay.
48:17I think I covered most of the tool
48:19itself. Dynamic SCORM, um
48:22there is one thing I or I
48:24I guess we talked about dynamic SCORM
48:26auto-updating. And do you want to also
48:28show language versions really quickly
48:30before I jump? I see there are a bunch
48:31of questions. So, before we jump into
48:32those, I just want to show this really
48:34quick.
48:35So, um we have AI translation. We
48:37integrate with DeepL, which is an AI
48:39translation service
48:40um to give you the first draft. So, we
48:43have lots of different languages here.
48:44You can create the Spanish version.
48:46We'll give you, like I said, the first
48:48draft automatically. And then you can go
48:50into those different versions and edit
48:53anything that you need to edit. And then
48:54the nice thing is that um you upload
48:57just one SCORM file to the LMS, and then
49:00the file itself will read the device
49:03language of the learner and give them
49:05the version that matches their device
49:06language. So, if their phone's in
49:08Spanish, you've created a Spanish
49:09version, then it will give them the
49:10Spanish version automatically, which is
49:13really nice.
49:14Um
49:16They can toggle between the different
49:17versions if they want to, but they're
49:18all tracked again as one
49:20uh as one version.
49:22Um okay, I think I just about covered
49:25most of the stuff. Um I didn't talk
49:27about, I guess, the AI agent for
49:28editing. The agent can do any sort of
49:31editing that you need to do here. So, if
49:33you need to do updating, you may upload
49:35a new document and say, "I need to
49:37update this lesson based on the new
49:39document. Tell me what I should update
49:41and then go out and do it. It'll be
49:42like, oh, I've identified these 11
49:43things. Do you want me to make the
49:45updates? Yes, go and do it. Okay, it's
49:46done.
49:47Um
49:49Also, I actually do want to talk about
49:50one more thing before we jump into
49:52questions, um which is um here over the
49:55next probably 2 weeks, we'll be
49:57releasing the Mindsmith MCP.
50:00So, for those who don't know, MCP is
50:01basically a way for a large language
50:04model to like control and use your tool.
50:08So, um there are a lot of use cases
50:12here. One of the coolest ones, in my
50:14opinion, will be that agent will be able
50:18to of course use Mindsmith in any sort
50:20of sub agent capacity, but it will have
50:23access to all of the content in your um
50:26team space. So, in your library. So, you
50:29may say, we need to update our entire
50:32library We need to update the contact
50:33information of our company across our
50:35entire library of e-learning content. I
50:37want you to go through that um library
50:40and pick and find all the places where
50:43you're referencing our old stuff
50:45and then tell me what you're going to
50:47update and then go out and update it.
50:48And it'll be like, okay, I'm going to go
50:49do that. Um and then after it's done,
50:52it'll say, okay, here are the like 15
50:54links to the different lessons that I
50:56updated. Go out and check them out and
50:58make sure that everything's done right.
51:00Um so, very powerful feature there when
51:04you're having to do these like org-wide
51:06updates. Or you may even upload an
51:08image. Be like, hey, I need to change
51:10this image. Um so, really exciting from
51:12like a content management perspective is
51:14like, instead of having to like deal
51:16with content management systems that are
51:18all like tracked weirdly and you're, you
51:20know,
51:22it's crazy. It's just uh it uses AI to
51:25um do all of that. So, a lot of cool
51:27stuff coming down the pipeline. I kind
51:29of zoomed here at the end. Um I'm going
51:31to jump into
51:34questions. Is that right, Heidi? Should
51:35I just go ahead and
51:37>> we need to save a few minutes at the end
51:38to talk about the design challenge and
51:40announce who won the AirPods. But, we
51:42have like uh we can take it I think
51:44there were a couple questions that
51:46remained unanswered about um
51:49will the ability to change the
51:51background of all the tiles ever be an
51:54offered feature?
51:56That was one of the questions.
51:58Um I'm not going to commit to that.
52:01Sure. But, we are constantly changing
52:05Mindsmith and developing new things,
52:08responding to needs of instructional
52:09designers. And Mindsmith, um
52:13we do want to be like the ultimate
52:15e-learning medium. Like, anything that
52:17you would want to create and produce
52:18would be able to be created in
52:20Mindsmith. And so, design flexibility
52:22comes with that.
52:23Um we just kind of have trade-offs that
52:26we have to think about.
52:28And then another question was, will
52:29there be the opportunity to Hold on, let
52:33me go back to it.
52:35Um create videos to create avatars and
52:39clone your voice and things like that.
52:42Um probably not. We use 11 Labs um API
52:48and HeyGen API, which don't allow you to
52:51clone
52:52uh voices through the API.
52:55Potentially, but that's not on our road
52:57map. We will be able to We will have the
52:59ability to create custom avatars. So,
53:01you could probably upload an image of
53:03yourself. Just custom avatars aren't
53:05quite as good as the ones out of the box
53:06cuz they filmed those with like multiple
53:08angles.
53:12Okay.
53:13All right. So,
53:15um
53:16we need to announce who won the AirPods
53:18and I have randomly chosen a
53:21participant. So, Margaret McDowell,
53:25um you have won. Um she asked the
53:27question earlier about the community.
53:29So, congratulations, Margaret. And do
53:31you want her to reach out to you, Ethan,
53:33like via LinkedIn? Is that the best way?
53:36>> shoot me an email. So,
53:37[email protected].
53:40So, [email protected]. Got that,
53:42Margaret?
53:44Can you confirm in the comments?
53:47>> [laughter]
53:48>> Confirm in the comments that you will
53:50email Ethan because you won.
53:52Maybe she maybe she doesn't even know.
53:54Maybe she had to leave. Who knows?
53:55>> Is she still on the call? She's still on
53:57the call.
53:58>> Yeah, if she's still on the call, do we
54:00>> She's not on the call. She left the
54:01call.
54:02>> [laughter]
54:03>> Ooh, I don't Did Did we create a poll
54:05for this, Heidi? I don't think we did.
54:07But, she was here up until like 10
54:08minutes ago.
54:10That's okay. She was She was here. I
54:12know I like picked people who
54:13specifically were here. Uh um we'll find
54:15a way to reach out to her and if not, I
54:18had a secondary that I'm not like the
54:20like a different random number and I
54:22won't say it out loud just in case um
54:25cuz I don't want to get that person's
54:26hopes up. But, I'm I'm confident I can
54:28track her down. Um but, I did also What
54:31is it okay if I share the Google Docs
54:32link, right, Ethan, to the brief? Yeah.
54:35Um okay, perfect. Let me make sure I
54:37have that link. Um we are starting a
54:41design challenge. We're kicking off a
54:42design challenge as part of this.
54:45Um I'm sending you the link to the whole
54:47briefing. It not only includes the
54:51briefing for the design challenge, but
54:53also a code for 1 month free of
54:57Mindsmith Business. So, make sure you go
54:59ahead and click that link. But, don't
55:00worry if you don't catch it today. Um
55:03we'll be sharing it out on LinkedIn, of
55:05course. Um both Ethan and Mindsmith and
55:07I will be sharing this cuz we're going
55:08to run this design challenge for the
55:10next 2 weeks. And so, it'll give you an
55:13opportunity to check out Mindsmith for
55:15yourself, to try it out, to ask more
55:18questions following the demo today. I'll
55:20also be sharing the recording of the
55:21demo on my YouTube. So, look out for
55:24that on LinkedIn. Um but, the winner of
55:27this challenge is going to receive a
55:291-year Mindsmith Business subscription
55:32and AirPods and I will shout you out in
55:35the Useful Stuff newsletter as well. So,
55:38um check it out. Join us. It's not that
55:41difficult. 2 weeks is plenty of time to
55:44go ahead and create something.
55:47Oh, and then Susan had a question.
55:49Do we just do upgrade in Mindsmith to
55:52get the free usage?
55:54Yes, I I think there will actually be a
55:57a coupon code associated with the um
56:01free month, if I'm not
56:02>> Yes, there's a coupon code in that
56:04briefing that I just shared.
56:07And so, yes, you upgrade is you just
56:08click upgrade and then put in the code
56:11and then you should be good to go.
56:14Awesome.
56:16Well, thank you everyone for joining us.
56:18And if you have any other questions,
56:19make sure to connect with Ethan on
56:21LinkedIn and follow Mindsmith on
56:23socials. Um and good luck trying it out
56:26to everyone who's going to.
56:28Awesome. Thanks, everyone. And if you
56:30want to do a demo with the rest of your
56:31team, shoot me an email. We're I'm happy
56:33to jump on or route you to one of our
56:35account executives.
56:36Had to put that shameless plug in there.
56:39Of course. Yes, contact Ethan. Get in
56:41touch with him, for sure.
56:43Thanks, everyone. Bye. Thanks, all.

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