Interactive Calculators & Financial Tools
Model your true total cost of ownership and build finance-approved business cases.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
Compare the real 3-year cost of self-hosted Moodle vs. banded TalentLMS vs. per-active-user Personal Academy. Accounts for infrastructure and maintenance.
Procurement & Migration Toolkits
Templates and checklists to evaluate vendors and migrate without losing historical data.
The 30-Question LMS RFP Template
Cut through vendor buzzwords. The exact 30 RFP questions that uncover hidden user tier cliffs, SSO taxes, proprietary formats, and AI markup.
LMS Migration & SCORM Checklist
How to migrate off legacy platforms without losing course completion records, historical certificates, or learner progress. Includes pre-cutover tests.
Engineering & Architecture Research (Blog)
In-depth analyses of LMS pricing models, SSO security taxes, and e-learning standards.
The 41-User Problem: How Banded Pricing Punishes Growth
Why one hire can move you up a whole user bracket on bracket-priced platforms, and how per-active-user billing avoids paying for seats nobody uses.
The Enterprise SSO Tax: Why Security Shouldn’t Cost 4x
An empirical survey of SAML 2.0 and SCIM directory sync pricing across 12 LMS platforms. Why security is a fundamental right, not an enterprise upsell.
SCORM vs xAPI vs cmi5: The Engineering Guide
A pragmatic technical breakdown of packaging formats, runtime API communication, state persistence, and cross-domain tracking tradeoffs.
Standards, Security & Developer Guides
Technical specifications, API references, and security compliance documentation.
Enterprise LMS & Learning Standards Glossary
Complete terminology index covering SCORM 1.2, Tin Can / xAPI, cmi5, LTI 1.3, SAML 2.0, SCIM 2.0, and PostgreSQL RLS.
Enterprise Security Architecture & CISO Review Pack
Detailed security architecture: Row-Level Security isolation, Append-Only Audit trails, encryption standards, and pre-answered security questionnaires.
Developer REST API, Webhooks & LTI Guide
Documentation for our OpenAPI 3.0 specification, event webhooks, automated learner sync, and custom LTI 1.3 tool integrations.