The Structured Build

I read everything you already run. The deck, the facilitator guide, the policy nobody’s opened since 2023. I want the parts that aren’t filed anywhere, too. The thing your best trainer always says out loud that never made it into the slides.

Then I ask you the one question your material can’t answer. After somebody takes this course, what should they do differently? And who’s going to notice?

Then comes the hard part, which is cutting. A day in a room doesn’t become a day at a desk. Half of what works live only works because a person was reading the room. Somebody has to say what goes, and on your subject that’s a real decision with real consequences, so you make it. We do it in week 2, on paper, while it’s cheap.

You get a Course Plan. Who it’s for, what it has to do, how it’s built, what got cut and why, and how I’m handling accessibility. Short enough to read in one sitting. Specific enough to argue with. When somebody turns up in week 9 with opinions, this is what you hand them.

This part should be boring, and I work at keeping it boring.

I build what you approved, in Rise or Storyline. Nothing new turns up. No screen you didn’t read. No question with a different answer. If something in the build surprises you, that’s a bug and I’ll fix it.

Accessibility goes in while I’m building, not after. We already settled all of it in phase 1.

You get a Review Build. A real, working course on a link you can send around.

Two rounds, included. I don’t sell them back to you later.

Consolidated just means you send me one list. You gather what everybody said, you decide what’s in and what’s out, and I work from your list. That’s more work for you. It’s also how you stay in charge of your own project instead of refereeing an email thread.

Two rounds is enough because we already had the hard conversation in phase 2. These rounds are for what nobody could catch on paper. A transition that reads fine and plays slow. One click too many. A term your director wants changed.

If a review round turns into a redesign, phase 2 failed. I’ll tell you so, and I won’t bill you for fixing it.

You get a Final Build. Corrected and signed off.

Most vendors keep the source files. Nobody says that out loud on a sales call, but it’s how a one-time project turns into a permanent dependency. Every small change after that has to come back through them, at their rate, on their calendar.

I hand it all over. Published files for your LMS, the editable source, and the IP, on final payment. Change it yourself next year. Hand it to somebody else. It won’t turn into a fight.

You get a Handover Package. Everything, in a form somebody who isn’t me can open.