Stop building training for problems training cannot solve.
CoTrainer is an AI-powered performance consulting system that diagnoses the real cause of your performance gap — then helps you fix it. Environmental conditions first. Training when it’s actually the answer.
Built on Schunk (2020) Learning Theories · MS Learning Design & Technology, Purdue University
Most AI tools start by generating content.
CoTrainer starts by asking whether you should build anything at all.
Training that addresses the wrong cause produces the right content for the wrong problem. Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model shows that most performance gaps have environmental causes — unclear standards, broken tools, misaligned incentives — that training cannot fix.
The Workflow
A complete consulting engagement in your pocket.
CoTrainer mirrors what a performance consultant does in a client engagement — compressed into a mobile workflow you can run in an afternoon.
Diagnose the performance gap
Answer five structured questions grounded in Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model. CoTrainer identifies whether you have an environmental cause (standards, tools, incentives) or a genuine training need — and gives you a confidence score based on the quality of your evidence.
Generate a Leadership Brief
Turn your diagnosis into an executive summary and stakeholder interview guide. Choose an advisor voice that shapes the framing — a Systems Thinker brief leads with business outcomes, a Rapid Builder brief focuses leadership on the fastest path to validation.
Fix the environment first
The ENVIRON tab guides you through designing non-training interventions for each BEM cell — standards and feedback (E1), resources and tools (E2), incentives and consequences (E3), capacity (I2), and motivation (I3). Each produces a concrete intervention plan with a manager script.
Build training assets with AI advisors
Once environmental causes are addressed, pick an advisor voice and let it draft your training asset. Your diagnosis context carries through automatically — answers arrive pre-filled based on what you already told the system. You edit, refine, and make it yours.
Build a Kirkpatrick evaluation plan
The Kirkpatrick Evaluation builder produces a complete four-level measurement plan before the training is delivered — defining what Level 3 behavior change looks like on the job and what Level 4 business outcome the intervention must produce.
Reinforce with a spaced retrieval calendar
The Training Calendar builder produces a reinforcement schedule grounded in Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve — with push notification reminders at Day 1, 3, 7, 14, 21, 30, and 60. The forgetting curve is not optional. This is.
The Advisor System
Seven learning science frameworks.
One situation. Seven different analyses.
Each advisor voice is grounded in a specific theoretical framework from Schunk (2020). The same performance problem produces different outputs depending on which advisor analyzes it — because different lenses reveal different aspects of the same problem.
What’s Inside
Everything a performance consultant brings to an engagement.
Who It’s For
Anyone asked to solve a performance problem.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you’re ready.
Day 1 is fully unlocked — experience everything before deciding.
- Performance diagnosis — unlimited
- Leadership Briefing Package
- 3 free advisor voices
- Job Aid, Microlearning, Scenario builders
- E1 and E2 environmental flows
- 2 builds per day after Day 1
- 3 saved projects
- 99-term glossary
- Pro advisor voices (4)
- Pro builders (5)
- Unlimited builds and saves
- Everything in Free
- All 7 advisor voices
- All 8 training builders
- All 6 BEM environmental flows
- Unlimited builds per day
- Unlimited saved projects
- PDF export
- Training Calendar push notifications
- Priority access to new builders
Built by an instructional designer. Grounded in real learning science.
CoTrainer was designed by Jason Boursier, an instructional designer and AI developer with an MS in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. Every question, every voice prompt, every diagnostic flow is grounded in established learning science — not generated by a model trained to sound authoritative.
The theoretical framework is Schunk (2020), Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, 8th Edition. The performance improvement framework is Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model and the Van Tiem ISPI HPT Model. The evaluation framework is Kirkpatrick and Thalheimer’s LTEM.
Blue Edgewater Consulting · blueedgewater.com · jason@blueedgewater.com
Your first diagnosis is free.
Your first insight might change everything.
Download CoTrainer and run a diagnosis on your most pressing performance problem today.
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