Changelog

Sites you can share, and a Knowledge Base that reads the web

• Sites can be open to anyone with no sign-in, shared with editors who can publish, or live at a path on a site you already have — your academy, on your terms.
• Point the Knowledge Base at a website and Honen crawls it into searchable pages, on a schedule. Paste a YouTube link and the transcript comes with it.
• Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or Loom link into a reading and the video plays on the page.
• Workspace admins can open any course their team made and start editing, with no invite to wait on.
• Improved Slack threads so teammates appear by name. Improved Knowledge Base picking from Google Drive.

• Connect any MCP server — the standard way a tool hands its data to AI. Point Honen at one and it works out the sign-in itself, on the first try, including from your own domain.
• Publish Knowledge Base folders as a live docs section on a Site. Edit a document in Honen and the academy updates without a redeploy.
• Improved MCP connections so they stay signed in, complete against more tools, and keep working from a custom Honen address.
• A security review of the whole MCP sign-in handoff. The keys to your tools stay yours.

• Sharing on every course. Private, your workspace, or anyone with the link — and people who need access can request it in one click.
• Audience targeting for Explore. Curate a different front page for each group.
• A clearer path to a plan: set your exact seat count, see the cost broken down, and compare plans side by side.
• Your own branded Slack bot keeps its own starter prompts.
• Improved Explore so curation is easier to edit. Improved booking calendars so the full month stays in view.

Single sign-on

• Single sign-on. Your people reach their workspace with the company login they already have.
• Courses launched from your LMS carry their interactive pieces through, and a learner who opens several SCORM packages is recognized as one person, so their record stays whole.
• AI assistants connected over MCP see the diagrams and screenshots inside a Knowledge Base document, not only its words.
• Improved test analytics so every past attempt is graded against the version that learner actually took.

Full Sandbox projects

• Real coding assignments that run in the browser. Hand learners a starter project with folders and files, choose how much computing power they get, and stack up the checks that grade their work as they go.
• Sites can live on your own domain, take on your brand's colors, and be renamed any time. Preview the learner's view from inside the editor.
• The Knowledge Base shows exactly what changed between two versions of a document.
• Send workspace email from a domain you already own.
• Improved Full Sandbox so learner environments stay online and grade as they go. Improved walkthrough editing so drafts stay intact.

• The Knowledge Base keeps every document versioned and current, even if an upload is interrupted.
• Google Drive sync follows nested folders. PDFs, Office files, images, and Google Docs arrive as searchable documents, and a long import resumes where it paused.
• Each workspace shows its own courses, so moving between clients or departments gives you a clean dashboard every time.
• Improved Drive and image imports so finished files appear on the page as they complete. Improved Knowledge Base search across large libraries.

Your academy, live

• Sites go live on a Honen address, with custom onboarding for people outside your workspace and curricula with certificates on the academy.
• Free team workspaces. Bring colleagues in, build something together, and see it working before you spend anything. Coupon codes work at checkout.
• Choose exactly how many seats you need during checkout, and see the total before you pay.
• Drop screenshots into the explainer video editor, and every video takes on your course's branding.
• Improved course creation so a course opens as soon as it is ready to teach, and anything still building finishes in the background.

Explainer videos and house style

• Explainer videos. A narrated whiteboard walkthrough of any topic, generated for you, with the transcript beside the player.
• Rules and Skills for your workspace. Write down how your organization teaches once, and every course and assistant works to it.
• Average scores read from whatever a course actually grades on — tests, projects, or quizzes.
• Connect Granola so meeting notes land in the Knowledge Base.
• Improved walkthroughs with a drag-to-place hotspot editor and a cleaner player. Improved analytics tables with sort and filter.

Reporting, and Sites you can talk to

• Reporting. Import learner records, compile funder and compliance reports, and keep an audit trail — the picture a grant or a board asks for.
• Sites get an AI editor. Describe the academy you want and Honen builds the pages, theme, and navigation with you.
• Learners see what's left on an assignment as an itemized checklist, with a Resume button that drops them back where they stopped.
• Build a curriculum by talking to the assistant — add courses, set the passing grade, attach a certificate.
• Improved cloning so you can start the next course from one that already works. Improved Knowledge Base so people can text it from their phone.

• Record a walkthrough of any product or workflow and Honen turns it into a click-through lesson, with the hotspots measured and placed for you.
• Full-stack learner apps deploy live in the course. The preview shows errors as they happen and can send one to the agent in a click.
• Slack bots and a public API, so Honen talks to the tools your team already uses.
• Projects can tailor themselves to each learner, attempt by attempt.
• Improved live previews so console errors stay in view and can go to the agent without wiping what you were typing.

Honen opens to everyone

• Start a team workspace yourself. Invite your people, pick a plan, and pay without a sales call in the way.
• Curricula. Sequence courses into a program, set the rules for finishing it, and award a certificate from a template you design.
• View as — see the platform exactly the way one of your learners will, before they do.
• Run your workspace on your own domain, and members land there automatically when they sign in.
• Improved tests so every attempt is kept, question by question. Improved invite and share emails so they use your logo, colors, and domain.

SCORM, Drive, and YouTube

• SCORM. Package a course and run it inside the LMS your organization already uses. Completion and score write back to the gradebook, and content can update without a re-upload.
• Google Drive folders land in the Knowledge Base and stay in sync. Paste a YouTube URL and Honen transcribes it as course material.
• A workspace Usage dashboard: who is learning, how long, and where.
• Text the Knowledge Base from iMessage. A QR card, no admin setup.
• Improved Sites with a public navbar, footer, and share image. Improved LMS setup so you can keep more than one connection.

Connect your LMS

• Connect Canvas, Moodle, or Skilljar. Deep-link a whole course or a graded assignment, with grades passing back to the LMS.
• An Integrations hub in settings — LMS, messaging, and knowledge sources in one place.
• Accessible by design — keyboard paths, screen reader labels, skip links, and reduced-motion support, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Assignment emails follow the work. Change a due date and everyone assigned hears about it.
• Improved course sharing with a dedicated share link. Improved the voice tutor so it can help inside simulations, notebooks, and scenarios.

• Connect Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and text as workspace channels. The assistant replies there, attachments included.
• Connect Google Calendar, Drive, and Gmail as tools the assistant can use.
• Instructors set assignment completion criteria — how many activities, whether tests count, a minimum score — and see each learner against them.
• Preview a course as a learner from the editor, so you see what they see.
• Improved assignments with reminder emails and a due date on the roster. Improved the Knowledge Base so instructors and learners can open it from the sidebar.

Knowledge Base

• Knowledge Base. A library for the workspace — folders, a real editor, share links, and tags — so the material you teach from lives in one place.
• Radar watches the web for the topics you care about and hands you an alert you can turn into a course.
• Admins curate the Explore page learners see.
• The assistant can search the open web when you ask, with cited results.
• Improved analytics so you can see time spent on each topic and activity.

The course creator

• Describe what you want taught, approve the outline, and watch each lesson build with progress you can follow the whole way. Research mode searches first and shows its sources.
• Interactive artifacts — hands-on pieces inside readings, quizzes, and tests, with each learner's work saved as they go.
• Workspace branding. Set your colors, logo, and style once, and every course you build starts from them.
• Improved artifacts so they sit in the reading and size themselves. Improved the voice tutor so it can see the project a learner is in.

• A workspace assistant you can talk to, answering with real cards for courses, people, and assignments rather than walls of text.
• Your workspace overview: alerts, courses, and training activity on one page.
• Alerts that watch what you'd otherwise check by hand — assignments due soon or overdue, courses finishing, streaks slipping.
• In-person coaching with the learner's phone as the camera, so a trainer can see the work in front of them.
• Improved the course editor with undo, a live learner preview of the draft, and an unpublished-draft notice.

• Assignments. Give a course to a group or the whole workspace, with a due date. Learners get My Assignments; new joiners inherit what the group is taking.
• Nested groups. Sub-groups, breadcrumbs, members in the tree.
• Role-play scenarios — voice or text, with characters, scoring, and attempt history.
• Publish or discard unpublished edits so learners see the version you chose.
• Improved course settings with People, thumbnails, and a custom tutor personality per course.