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# Thought Industries
## Sitemaps
- [XML Sitemap](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/sitemap_index.xml): Includes all crawlable and indexable pages.
## Posts
- [Content Authoring for Speed and Scale: Maximizing Modular Learning with Atomic Design](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/content-authoring-for-speed-and-scale-maximizing-modular-learning-with-atomic-design/): This article is a practical how-to guide for making modular learning content, using atomic design principles, and expert advice from Emily Masterson and Eric Regnell from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), an organization that hosts more than five hundred courses across proprietary, third party, xAPI and SCORM content within Thought Industries.
- [The Silo Tax: What Fragmented Customer Education is Really Costing You](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/the-silo-tax-fragmented-customer-education-is-costing-you/): Thought Industries’ CEO Irana Wasti recently sat down with Vicky Kennedy, CEO of Echtus to discuss how customer education is evolving in the AI era, making it critical for businesses to break down organizational silos to meet their strategic goals.
- [Rethinking learning delivery in the era of “I’ll just ask AI”](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/rethinking-learning-delivery-with-a-headless-lms/): AI has fundamentally changed the way customers find and consume product information and learning content, and is now impacting how and where companies deliver customer education. Our Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Alicia Fontaine, sat down with Janice Lee, Director of Education Services Research at TSIA, to discuss where a headless LMS fits into the AI era, and how it can serve up personalized, contextual customer education that meets the user where they are.
- [Beyond the Buzz: Why AI Matters for Customer Education](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/beyond-the-buzz-why-ai-matters-for-customer-education/): AI is reshaping customer education from the ground up, changing not just how content is created but how, when, and where customers encounter it. Truth or hyperbole? Just how much of the AI talk is hype, and how much has the potential to make a genuine impact on the customer experience? Below, we take a look at five customer education “jobs” that AI makes easier. From how learning is designed and delivered, to how the internal teams better align themselves to customer outcomes, these are the AI capabilities you’ll want to prioritize.
- [Seven Customer-Centric Capabilities for the AI-ready Academy](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/seven-customer-centric-capabilities-for-the-ai-ready-academy/): AI is frequently framed as a productivity play, a way for internal teams to move faster and do more with less. Less often do we examine what AI can do for the people who are critical to the success of your business: your customers. When customer education teams use AI to improve the learning experience, it does lighten their own workload. But more importantly, it changes how customers discover, consume, and apply what they learn.
- [AI Feature Adoption: How Customer Education Teams Keep Pace with Product Innovation](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/customer_learning-promotes_ai_feature_adoption/): We asked customer education leaders at two rapidly growing software companies with AI-driven products how they keep up with product innovation. They shared two approaches to increasing product adoption that are rooted in learning practice, certification and targeted intervention, as well as a way to track AI product adoption separately.
- [Accelerate Product Adoption with Targeted Learning](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/accelerate-product-adoption-with-targeted-learning/): A strong customer education program is grounded in clear business objectives, such as product adoption, and we love watching how some of our customers use our platform to put this into action. In a recent Thought Industries webinar, Adoption Accelerator: How Ironclad Guides Customer Outcomes with Prescriptive Learning, we sat down with Bill Kelleher, Senior Manager of Learning Experience Design & Documentation at Ironclad, to discuss how his team responds to one clear customer demand: “Just tell us what to do!”
- [How AI is Changing the Way Customers Learn and Discover Education Content](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-customers-learn-and-discover-education-content/): Customer education teams face mounting pressure to prove their impact on business growth. The courses, content, and experiences they create are expected to drive product adoption, increase retention, and reduce time-to-value for their users. However, the traditional approach to customer education delivered via an LMS may struggle to achieve these goals in light of recent changes in user behavior. Customers now want immediate solutions to their product questions, and traditional learning models force them to interrupt their workflows to search for help.
- [Why Conversational AI is the Future of Customer Learning](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/why-conversational-ai-is-the-future-of-customer-learning/): For customer education leaders, this makes digital learning content more accessible to customers. Users do not need to understand your internal jargon or product architecture to get help; they only need to know what they are trying to achieve.
- [Omnichannel Learning for Customer Education](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/omnichannel-learning-for-customer-education/): When customers need answers to questions about your product, where do they go? Odds are, they consult search engines, ask artificial intelligence chatbots, and refer to colleagues in Slack. If your customer education content lives exclusively in a standalone academy, you miss critical moments of discovery and engagement.
- [The Learning & Intelligence℠ Era Starts Now: Thought Industries Unveils AI Wave](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-unveils-ai-wave/): Boston, MA – April 22nd, 2026 - Thought Industries introduces Omnichannel Learning and Conversational AI Learning to deliver the right answer, the right next step, in the right moment to power customer growth.
- [Conquering Organizational Silos with Customer Education](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/conquering-organizational-silos-with-customer-education/): The possibilities for customer learning don’t end with customers. Companies with mature customer education programs, the ones who have made customer education a true growth engine for the business, use their learning content to reach employees, partners, prospective customers, and even LLMs.
- [Resolving the Customer Education Measurement Dilemma](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/resolving-the-measurement-dilemma-in-customer-education/): Are your training programs actually driving customer renewals? As a customer education leader, you know that relevant learning is the key to influencing customer behavior. Yet, personalized delivery is only as valuable as your ability to connect it to product adoption, customer retention, and revenue growth.
- [Tackling the Relevance Roadblock in Customer Education](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/tackling-the-relevance-roadblock-in-customer-education/): Customer education should never exist in a silo. Visit other functional teams to share your program's accomplishments and goals. Identify new opportunities for collaboration.
- [Overcoming the Capacity Crunch in Customer Learning](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/overcoming-the-customer-learning-capacity-crunch/): Customer learning is a proven driver of product adoption, retention, and revenue expansion. However, as your customer base grows, so does the demand for effective training. Every new customer requires more time from your team, and keeping educational materials current quickly becomes its own full-time job.
- [The 8 Components of a Mature Customer Learning Program](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/the-8-components-of-a-mature-customer-learning-program/): Building an exceptional customer learning program doesn’t come naturally to many organizations. Learning teams often find themselves challenged to “make do with less” while driving innovation and serving as evangelists for the value of education… all without a tried-and-true roadmap for success.
- [Onboarding Isn’t Enough: Turn Customer Learning Into a Growth Engine](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/onboarding-isnt-enough-turn-customer-learning-into-a-growth-engine/): While onboarding is often viewed as the start (and sometimes even the finish line) for customer education, it is just one milestone in a much broader customer learning strategy. To the experienced customer education leader, onboarding is a moment in a journey that begins before purchase and continues long beyond.
- [Show Me the Money: Turning Customer Training into a Revenue Driver](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/show-me-the-money-turning-customer-training-into-a-revenue-driver-blog/): For education teams, passion isn’t enough. If you can’t show how training drives revenue or retention, it’s hard to be taken seriously as anything more than a cost center.
- [Education Without Segmentation Is Strategy Without ROI](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/education-without-segmentation-is-strategy-without-roi/): Does your academy feel like a well-stocked library with no clear way to measure outcomes? While a central hub of education content is a great start, without segmentation it’s nearly impossible to know what’s working.
- [4 Mindsets of High-Performing Customer Education Leaders](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/4-mindsets-of-high-performing-customer-education-leaders/): We know - and so do you - that education is a huge driver of customer retention and product adoption. But, more often than not, scaling the education function in a business is easier said than done. We turned to the leaders of innovative customer education programs for insight into the mindsets that make them successful. They shared the vision, intentional design, focus on outcomes, and the alignment to business objectives that have empowered them to create high-performing customer learning.
- [Women’s History Month: Q&A with Irana Wasti](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/womens-history-month-qa-with-irana-wasti/): We have come a long way, and we still have work to do. McKinsey reports women make up 29 percent of C-suite roles, and that number did not change since 2024.
- [How Gong Turned Customer Education Into a Product Adoption and Growth Engine](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/drive-adoption-deliver-outcomes-why-customer-education-is-a-growth-lever-for-gong-blog/): Over the past five years, Gong’s Customer Education program has evolved from an initiative built to get valuable content in front of users faster into a true lifecycle growth engine. Today, education powers onboarding, drives adoption, supports enterprise rollouts and helps teams get ahead of renewal risk.
- [Learning & Intelligence: A New Chapter for Thought Industries](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/learning-intelligence-a-new-chapter-for-thought-industries/): When I joined Thought Industries in October, I spent my first weeks doing what I believe every new CEO should do: listening.
- [Thought Industries Unveils New Learning & Intelligence Vision Expanding Leadership Team with Chief Product and Strategy Officers](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-unveils-new-learning-intelligence-vision-expanding-leadership-team-with-chief-product-and-strategy-officers/): Strategic Appointments Follow CEO Arrival as Company Leads Innovation in AI-first Learning & Intelligence Platform
- [2025 Roundup: Advice from Customer Education Leaders in 2026](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/2025-roundup-advice-from-customer-education-leaders-in-2026/): 2025 is wrapping up, but we’re still excited and full of inspiration from the stand-out advice shared by customer education leaders this year.
## Pages
- [Platform](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/)
- [Integrations](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/integrations/)
- [Conversational AI learning](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/ai/conversational-ai-learning/)
- [AEO](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/ai/aeo/)
- [Academy showcase](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/resources/academy-showcase/)
- [Claude Plugin](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/ai/claude-plugin/)
- [Starter Plan](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/starter-plan/)
- [Pricing](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/pricing/): Choose the tier that fits your goals — AI capabilities come standard.
- [AI Products](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/ai/)
- [Home New](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/)
- [Customer Learning Maturity Model Self Assessment](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/resources/customer-learning-maturity-model-self-assessment/)
- [Demo Center](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/demo-center/)
- [Unwrapping Customer Value Holiday Calendar](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/unwrapping-customer-value-holiday-calendar/)
- [Customer Value Agent](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/cvagent/ccosignup/): const isSignInText = target.textContent.trim().toLowerCase() === 'sign in';
- [Learning For](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/)
- [Education as Marketing](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/education-as-marketing/)
- [Use Cases](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/use-cases/)
- [Professional Learning](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/professional-learning/)
- [Member Education](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/member-education/)
- [Employee Learning and Development](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/employee-learning-and-development/)
- [Partner Enablement](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/partner-enablement/)
- [Customer Training](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/customer-training/)
- [Services](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/services/)
- [Certification](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/learning-platform/certification/)
- [Multi-tenancy](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/learning-platform/multi-tenancy/)
## Resources
- [AI-Powered Customer Education: Why the Academy Is the Source, Not the Destination](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/ai-powered-customer-education-guide)
- [Seven Customer-centric AI Learning Capabilities for 2026](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/ai-learning-capabilities-for-2026-guide%20)
- [AI-Powered Customer Education Action Plan](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/ai-powered-customer-education-action-plan)
- [Product Adoption Scorecard](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/product-adoption-scorecard)
- [Adoption Accelerator: How Ironclad Guides Customer Outcomes with Prescriptive Learning](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/how-ironclad-guides-customer-outcomes-with-prescriptive-learning-ondemand)
- [Customer Learning Maturity Model](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/customer-learning-maturity-model-thought-industries)
- [Gong Case Study](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/gong-case-study)
- [The Customer Education ROI Calculator](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/the-customer-education-roi-calculator)
- [Drive Adoption, Deliver Outcomes. Why Customer Education is a Growth Lever for Gong](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/why-customer-education-is-a-growth-lever-for-gong)
- [Show Me the Money: Turning Customer Training into a Revenue Driver](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/show-me-the-money-turning-customer-training-into-a-revenue-driver-thought-industries)
- [Institute of Management Accountants Case Study](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/ima-case-study-brief)
- [OneStudy Team and the Impact on Clinical Trials](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/how-onestudy-scaled-learning)
- [Why Thought Industries Customers Win](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/why-thought-industries-customers-win)
- [Aledade Case Study](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/aledade-case-study-brief)
- [3 Plays to Close The Value Gap and Drive NRR](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/3-plays-to-close-the-value-gap-and-drive-nrr)
- [NRR is a Perception Game: Here’s How to Win!](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/nrr-is-a-perception-game-webinar)
- [What if NRR is a Perception Game?](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/what-if-nrr-is-a-perception-game)
- [Unlocking Customer Value With Agentic AI](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/unlocking-customer-value-with-agentic-ai-thought-industries)
- [On-Boarding Isn’t Enough: Turn Customer Learning Into a Growth Engine](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/onboarding-isnt-enough-on-demand-recording)
- [Education Without Segmentation is Strategy Without ROI](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/education-without-segmentation-is-strategy-without-roi-webinar)
- [Right Sizing Strategy: Five Segmentation Levers to Deepen Customer Value](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/right-sizing-strategy-five-segmentation-levers)
- [Rethinking Customer Value: Close Value Gaps and Accelerate Revenue](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/rethinking-customer-value-white-paper)
- [Growth Starts With the Right Customers](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/growth-starts-with-the-right-customers)
- [How Customer-Obsessed Companies Boost Product Adoption](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/how-customer-obsessed-companies-boost-product-adoption)
- [Accelerate Lifetime Value with Customer Training](https://info.thoughtindustries.com/accelerate-lifetime-value-with-customer-training)
## About Thought Industries
> Thought Industries is an enterprise, AI-powered learning platform (LMS) built for customer and external-facing education. Software and B2B companies use it to run branded academies that onboard customers, train partners, certify users and grow product adoption, retention and revenue. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Key facts:
- Category: customer education platform, customer training software, extended enterprise LMS.
- Primary audiences: customers, partners, members and other external learners. Employee learning is also supported.
- Architecture: multi-tenant, so one instance can run many branded portals for different audiences. A headless option allows learning to be delivered inside other products and channels.
- AI: Conversational AI Learning, Omnichannel Learning, AEO (answer engine optimization) for learning content, and a Claude plugin.
- Commerce: course monetization and ecommerce built in.
- Customers named on this site include S&P Global, Gong, Ironclad, Onshape, CentralReach, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
Official Thought Industries sites:
- www.thoughtindustries.com: the main website.
- info.thoughtindustries.com: Thought Industries' own resource hub, with reports, case study briefs, guides, webinars and tools.
- support.thoughtindustries.com: the Thought Industries help center.
All other subdomains in the format [customer].thoughtindustries.com are customer-owned learning academies built on the platform. Their course content belongs to those customers and does not describe Thought Industries itself.
## Start here
- [Platform overview](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/): What the Thought Industries learning platform does and who it is for.
- [Customer training](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/customer-training/): Customer education and customer training software for onboarding, adoption and retention.
- [Partner enablement](https://www.thoughtindustries.com/platform/learning-for/partner-enablement/): Training and certifying channel partners,
