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It allows corporate Learning & Development leaders
to make data-informed decisions and business cases,
while their team members enjoy a more efficient
workflow. We do this by bringing important parts of
their daily work, such as training intake and design, that are typically scattered across
tools into one software.
Our Mission
We aim high, and think big. Roll up your
sleeves, and don’t be afraid of pursuing
a challenging goal.
We encourage everyone to share their
ideas and contribute in new ways.
Each interaction is a partnership in
which everyone wins — be they
customers, employees or other
stakeholders.
We know that building a great company
is hard work. So, while we push
ourselves, we make work fun.
Our Story
Cognota was founded in 2015. Ryan Austin was running a training services business when he learned, firsthand, how difficult it was to produce high-quality training at scale. Processes were manual, time-consuming and generally inefficient.
His plan to build software that would bring the Learning & Development workflow into one platform got media coverage in Austin, Texas, where he was working. A Fortune 10 company got wind of the article and became Cognota’s first customer before the product was even built.
Today, Cognota’s many customers do much of their daily work in the platform, generating insights for L&D leaders to make defensible, data-informed decisions. On top of this, to empower L&D organizations to develop strong and scalable learning operations processes, customers rely on Cognota services such as CLO coaches and our LearnOps® community. By offering all this, Cognota powers L&D across the enterprise.
Ryan Austin founded Cognota to solve a problem he was experiencing running a consulting company that developed learning solutions for its customers.
Managing and developing training programs was time consuming. And using different tools for intake, planning and design — such as spreadsheets and project planners not built for L&D — created more slowdowns and collaboration issues.
A local paper got wind of what Ryan was considering developing to solve this problem and asked for a meeting. After hearing the vision, and before a line of code was written, Cognota had its first customer.
Reach out to learn more.
To learn more about Cognota and our mission, feel free to reach out or follow our social channels.
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To learn more about Cognota and our mission, feel free to reach out or follow our social channels.
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