Sutra

Sutra is a new approach to online learning that that lets anyone create self paced, conversational courses that generate higher engagement, completion, and peer to peer connection using AI facilitation.Hello Product Hunters,

I am excited to introduce Sutra to you. I’m Lorenz, one of the co-founders here. Sutra is an entirely new approach to online learning.

Here’s the problem with online courses: 97% of them don’t get finished, there’s low engagement, and there’s no connection - no opportunity for participants to learn with and from each other.

When my partner and I started taking online courses together we quickly realized that if we didn’t have each other, we would never complete the courses we started.

Self paced courses are hard to complete because they’re basically like a digital book. You’re entirely on your own. There’s no opportunity to meaningfully connect with, learn from, and be supported by other participants.

Sutra’s new Conversational Courses let you create rich, AI facilitated experiences that generate higher engagement, completion, and peer to peer exchange.

And, it’s super easy to create a learning experience like this.

Our Notion like editor lets your organize your content into sections divided by discussion prompts. To unlock the next section, a participant has to respond to the prompt. Our AI engine highlights the best responses, summarizes contributions, and finds connections between what people share.

(Check out the interactive demo we posted to get the idea.)

Participants automatically get notifications that engage them in meaningful conversation.

It’s like having a professional facilitator support your course to maximize participation and completion.

Sutra is super easy to set up and every participant in your learning experience makes it better. As participants share their understanding and experience, it improves the overall body of knowledge that your course covers. Our AI powered conversational engine makes sure the participants actually complete your experience, which in the long run also helps you make more money.

This is a total game changer and we’re super excited to be launching here on Product Hunt.

Thanks for your genuine feedback and support.

With love,

Lorenz@lorenzsell congrats on the launch Lorenz and team, I’ve been looking forward to this. It’s such a great approach to enhancing your skills. I find my self getting bored in longer online tutorials and masterclasses. I feel this will help alleviate this. Excited to check this one out!@claytonwalker yes, totally. The norm right now is long, self paced courses with endless module that nobody ever actually complete. There is so much room for improvement. We're really excited to see what emerges here.@claytonwalker Let me know if you have any feedback on the product. I welcome your thoughts.@claytonwalker thank you for your support and yes this entire product is born out of my own inability to stay engaged and complete a self paced course over time. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback once you give it a try.@lorenzsell This looks really cool! Can it be used for language learning?This is an interesting approach to take with courses. Any stats on comparison to the traditional way as yet?

Congrats on the launch. Stellar use of AI!@izakotim Most of our understanding with this approach comes from qualitative observation. We started Sutra in 2016. Since then we've design and supported hundreds of experiences and had over 50,000 people participate in group learning experiences on our platform. From what we've observed, the level of engagement and completion with this interactive approach is significantly higher.Sutra looks so powerful—it gives a lot of flexibility to the creators to build their programs strategically—for course design itself, the operations and workflow, and the marketing and positioning. I like how the product empowers me via modular components to build my stack, the community, the funnel, and its rich source of design components to customize the content experience is a huge plus.

Great work by the team, congratulations!@vingar thanks for your support and feedback. Yes, it's an easy tool to use to set up your program, the landing page, collect registrations and manage all communication. I would say the best part is that it actually engages the learners with each other through meaningful conversation.@vingar Thanks for you kind words Vinish. Running a learning experience has a lot of moving parts and we've built a tool that takes care of everything in one place.Sutra looks promising. As a digital creator, this is one of things I fear. People buy courses that they do not complete. Kudos and all the best@10xmarketer ya, totally. The vast majority of courses don't get completed. I feel like there's a huge room for improvement in this territory. We're excited to be launching something that really moves the needle.

Have you created any courses yourself?@10xmarketer yeah, there is so much wasted content out there and creators spend so much time and energy in setting it all up and then there's no way for them to tell what kind of impact their program is actually having on someones life. For the content to be truly valuable it needs to be applicable and the best way to figure out how to integrated it into someone's world is to share that with others.