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Audio-First Learning Platform: Full Platform — Web, iOS & Android — for an Established US Training Company

  • 09 Months
  • Web + iOS + Android
  • 2024
4
Surfaces Built
6mo
Concept to Live
2
Automated Engines
Live
Web + App Stores

The Challenge

What Problem Were We Solving?

Our client had a sharp thesis: corporate training mostly fails not because the content is bad, but because employees have no time for it. People won't step away from the job to sit through a course. They needed a product that flipped the model — learning that happens inside the workday rather than competing with it. The hard part wasn't the idea; it was building two complex automated systems that make it work at scale. One had to turn a plain-text lesson submission into ready-to-publish bilingual audio every week, with no manual step. The other had to track every learner in real time and deliver auto-generated manager reports without anyone in the loop.

The Solution

How We Built It

We built the entire platform end to end — four connected surfaces on one shared backend. The web app is the primary listening experience, engineered for learn-while-you-work. The admin panel lets the client's team manage, schedule, and publish a recurring stream of lessons across industries and languages. Native iOS and Android apps extend learning to commutes and off-desk moments. The analytics layer tracks each employee in real time, generates team-wise leaderboards, and auto-delivers manager reports — no manual step, ever. The content pipeline completes the loop: contributors submit plain text, OpenAI translates it into Spanish and generates finished audio in both languages automatically, then the system publishes on a recurring weekly cadence.

Key Features

What We Built

Audio-First Web App

The primary learning experience — engineered for listen-while-you-work, so lessons fit inside the flow of a workday.

Automated Bilingual Pipeline

Contributors submit plain text. OpenAI translates it into Spanish and generates finished audio in both languages — fully automatically, every week, no studio or manual step.

Admin Content Panel

The client's team manages, schedules, and publishes a recurring stream of industry-specific lessons from one panel.

Native iOS & Android Apps

Mobile apps extend learning beyond the desk — commutes, between meetings, anywhere the employee goes.

Real-Time Analytics & Leaderboards

Every learner is tracked in real time. Team-wise leaderboards surface engagement and drive healthy competition without any manual effort.

Auto-Generated Manager Reports

Manager reports generate and deliver themselves — managers see exactly how their team is progressing with no one in the loop.

Our Process

How We Delivered in 6 Months

1
Discovery & Architecture
Wks 1–3
  • Audio-first UX principles
  • Content-ops workflow design
  • Automated pipeline scoping
  • Multi-surface architecture
2
Design
Wks 4–6
  • Web listening experience
  • Admin content panel
  • iOS & Android mobile apps
  • Manager reporting dashboard
3
Development
Wks 7–20
  • React & Next.js web app
  • React Native iOS & Android
  • Node.js + MySQL backend
  • OpenAI translation + TTS pipeline
  • Real-time analytics & leaderboards
  • Auto-generated manager reports
4
QA & Launch
Wks 21–24
  • End-to-end pipeline testing
  • App Store submissions
  • Performance & load testing
  • Production go-live

The Outcome

Results That Speak for Themselves

The platform launched on web, iOS, and Android in 6 months. Both automated systems — the bilingual audio pipeline and the real-time manager reporting engine — run in production weekly with no human in the loop. An established company with a decades-long track record trusted us with a complex, four-surface build; it shipped on schedule.

4
Surfaces Built
6mo
Concept to Live
2
Automated Engines
Live
Web + App Stores

We built Audio-First Learning Platform in 6 Months.
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