The Atlas edge: How our AI coach transforms learner skills into business impact

That's why we're evolving the Multiverse Platform to ensure no learner is ever alone on their upskilling journey.

Our 24/7 AI coach, Atlas, is more than a learning companion. Now, Atlas actively suggests, challenges, and offers instant feedback, empowering your teams to hone new skills rapidly and apply them in the workplace.

Keep reading to find out how Atlas helps your teams unleash real business value.

In the age of AI, competitive advantage isn't just about adopting new tech - it's about how fast your teams build the skills to use it.

A recent study on workforce intelligence reveals how skills velocity(opens new window) (the ability to quickly develop new industry and tech skills) will be the secret to unlocking real competitive advantage in the AI age.

That means continuous upskilling will become more vital than ever. Over two thirds of leaders say new workforce skills will be needed to remain competitive by 2030.

But to drive maximum impact, learning can’t be limited to individuals or specific teams. You need the ability to scale skills quickly across your entire workforce.

Atlas serves as a point-of-need solution, adapting to learner needs, industry, and role contexts, ensuring the development of the right skills at the right time.

A paradox is emerging with many AI tools. They’re designed to make work tasks easier - but that risks making teams less skilled by offloading critical thinking.

An MIT study on 'Cognitive Debt(opens new window)' found that using AI assistants for writing tasks led to reduced brain activity, while other academic papers show that 'Cognitive Offloading(opens new window)' - delegating thinking to AI - is directly correlated with a decline in critical thinking skills.

So, how does Atlas avoid this pitfall?

Rather than simply allowing learners to offload cognitive work, Atlas is designed to foster what academics like Siemens and Moldoveanu (2025) call "interactional intelligence(opens new window)".

Practically, this means Atlas uses a Socratic, context-aware method to encourage critical thinking within the context of a learner's role and industry.

This helps your teams build a crucial skill - using AI not as a shortcut, but as a collaborative partner to deepen understanding and solve complex problems. But we don’t stop there. Learners are also actively taught to critically assess AI outputs, and strategically guide it to respond to their needs.

Our data shows this in action. Our learners are using Atlas as a thinking partner, not an answer machine. They’re conducting complex, goal-oriented activities, that demonstrate true engagement:

To build this deeper engagement, our expert Product Teams - with deep industry expertise in artificial intelligence, educational psychology, and learning science - are enhancing three features that help learners actively engage with Atlas.

Atlas is built into every page of the Multiverse platform. It knows exactly what learners are working on and tailors its guidance to that moment.

Whether they ask Atlas to help locate key resources, understand their learning schedule or troubleshoot issues, Atlas leverages its role and context-aware capabilities to provide real-time support.

Sometimes AI isn't enough. If a question is too complex or needs a human touch, Atlas will recognise this and connect your learner to the right person - whether that’s one of our expert instructors, or one of our support teams that help to resolve tooling issues, support additional learning needs and learner wellbeing.

Atlas is a transformative partner that empowers learners to engage deeply, think critically, and apply their knowledge with immediate impact.

To close the gap between learning and application, Atlas helps learners to brainstorm high-value project ideas in the context of their industry and role. Atlas acts as an invaluable collaborative partner.

It suggests innovative approaches, challenges underlying assumptions, and provides instant feedback on initial concepts.

This iterative dialogue guides learners toward the most impactful opportunities at work, ensuring learners apply their skills on areas that will have the most benefit to them, their team and their organisation.

As learners embark on applying new skills in a workplace project, Atlas functions as a powerful coach.

Atlas challenges learners to deepen their understanding, helping to explain unfamiliar terms in language that resonates to each learner, and helping to break down complex topics into manageable steps.

When a learner is writing a report, Atlas can act as a thinking, writing, and editing partner, helping to outline, develop arguments, spark counter-arguments, and refine in real-time.

Similarly, in coding, Atlas can assist with code generation and debugging, transforming a traditionally individual task into a collaborative one. This interactive approach ensures that skills are not just learned, but truly mastered and applied.

The Multiverse Platform, powered by Atlas, champions a future where human potential is amplified, not diminished, by AI. We’ll help you build a workforce equipped with future-ready skills - and provide expert guidance to help your teams power productivity and performance.