Most performance problems don’t arrive with a label.
CoTrainer helps you find the right one.
Describe what you’re seeing. CoTrainer asks better questions, helps separate symptoms from root causes, and builds a leadership-ready consulting package — grounded in four decades of performance science.
Grounded in Schunk (2020) · Gilbert’s BEM · Kirkpatrick
Stolovitch & Keeps (2004) · MS LDT, Purdue
Most AI tools answer the question you ask. CoTrainer helps you ask a better question first.
A volunteer drops off after onboarding. A new employee keeps making the same mistake. A manager asks for a course — but the real issue is confidence, workflow, reinforcement, or role clarity.
Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model shows that most performance gaps have environmental causes that training cannot fix. CoTrainer diagnoses the real cause first — then decides what to build.
The deeper methodology stays in the background. You don’t need to know the models. You just need a clearer way to think through the problem.
Training is often the wrong answer. CoTrainer doesn’t assume the solution is a course — it helps you decide whether training will help, or whether the better move is something simpler, faster, or more practical.
A checklist. A job aid. A coaching conversation. A process change. A manager guide. A leadership brief. A follow-up system. Whatever fits the actual problem.
A full consulting workflow — from your phone
Start with a messy problem. Walk out with a leadership-ready diagnosis and a complete consulting package.
Start with a messy problem. Leave with a clearer path forward.
No jargon required. CoTrainer helps turn the messy first version into something leadership can act on.
Describe the problem
Start with what you’re seeing. No consulting experience needed.
Answer better questions
Morgan asks what a good performance consultant would ask — moving away from blame and toward understanding.
See what kind of problem it actually is
CoTrainer identifies whether the issue is unclear expectations, missing knowledge, confusing tools, broken workflow, low confidence, or competing priorities.
Decide whether training is even the right answer
CoTrainer doesn’t assume the solution is a course. It helps you decide — and if training isn’t right, it points you toward what is.
Turn the diagnosis into action
Once the issue is clearer, CoTrainer drafts a leadership summary, coaching guide, training recommendation, or follow-up plan. You leave with something useful.
Track your consulting engagement
Named projects with auto-populated build checklists. The diagnosis context carries through every build automatically.
Four professional consulting documents.
One diagnosis. 60–90 seconds.
Answer five diagnostic questions and CoTrainer produces a complete consulting package — grounded in Gilbert’s BEM, Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels, and Stolovitch & Keeps’ intervention selection framework. The kind of deliverable that used to take a consultant two weeks.
Executive Summary
Leadership-ready problem analysis with root causes, environmental findings, recommended actions, and risks of inaction — plus a confidence score showing how much evidence supports the analysis.
Stakeholder Interview Guide
Diagnosis-specific questions for executives, managers, performers, and SMEs — plus a checkable evidence request list and the assumptions that need validation before committing resources.
Intervention Scorecard
All 24 performance interventions from Stolovitch & Keeps (2004) scored 1–5 for your specific situation. Top 5 with concrete implementation actions. Full ranked list of all 24.
Consulting Role Analysis
Six performance consultant roles allocated as percentages for your situation with role-specific task lists and sequence-of-work guidance. From Stolovitch & Keeps (2004), pages 83–86.
24 interventions. Every one scored for your situation.
Most tools give you one answer — build training. CoTrainer gives you a scored assessment of 24 performance interventions, from Performance Standards and Feedback Systems through Organizational Redesign and Culture Change.
The scoring is grounded in Stolovitch & Keeps’ intervention selection framework from Training Ain’t Performance — ensuring the intervention matches the cause, not just the symptom.
Training only scores 4–5 when a genuine knowledge gap is confirmed.
Seven learning science frameworks.
One situation. Seven fundamentally different briefs.
Each advisor voice shapes the entire Leadership Brief. A Systems Thinker summary leads with Level 4 business outcomes. A Behaviorist summary leads with observable performance standards. Same diagnosis. Completely different consulting perspective.
The Behaviorist
FREESkinner · Mager · Behavioral Chain Analysis. Observable behavior change, reinforcement architecture, criterion-referenced objectives.
The Cognitivist
FREEGagné · Keller ARCS · Sweller · Cowan. Cognitive load management, Gagné’s Nine Events, ARCS motivational check.
The Constructivist
FREEVygotsky · Kolb · Kapur · Situated Cognition. Problem before instruction, Kolb’s full cycle, ill-structured scenarios.
The Systems Thinker
PRONew World Kirkpatrick · LTEM · Gilbert BEM. Backward design from Level 4 outcomes, LTEM transfer chain.
The Rapid Builder
PROAllen SAM · MVT · Assumption Mapping. Every output is Version 1.0 Prototype. Weights quick-win interventions.
The CIP Architect
PROAnderson ACT-R · Chi Self-Explanation · Bjork. Declarative before procedural, generation effect, self-explanation protocols.
The Social Modeler
PROBandura SCT · Zimmerman · Coping Models. Observational learning, self-efficacy building, self-regulation for culture gaps.
Tested with real workplace challenges.
Feedback from performance consultants, managers, educators, and L&D professionals who ran a real diagnosis.
Everything a performance consulting engagement produces.
All from your phone. No consulting team required.
Performance Diagnosis
Five BEM-grounded questions. Confidence score based on evidence quality. Root cause identification across all six BEM cells.
Executive Summary
Leadership-ready findings with root causes, environmental findings, recommended actions, and a confidence meter.
Stakeholder Interview Guide
Diagnosis-specific questions for executives, managers, performers, and SMEs with checkable evidence requests.
Intervention Scorecard
24 performance interventions scored 1–5 for your situation. Top 5 with specific implementation actions.
Consulting Role Analysis
Six roles allocated as percentages with situation-specific task lists and sequence-of-work guidance.
Environmental Intervention Design
Six BEM cell flows for non-training interventions. Immediate actions, structural changes, and manager scripts.
8 Training Asset Builders
Job Aid, Microlearning, Scenario, Needs Analysis, Observation Checklist, Course Blueprint, Kirkpatrick Evaluation, Training Calendar.
Project Management
Named projects with auto-populated build checklists and diagnosis context that carries through every build.
99-Term Glossary
Plain-language definitions with workplace examples for every learning design and performance consulting concept.
Anyone asked to solve a performance problem.
CoTrainer is built for people doing important work with limited resources — often without a full consulting team.
🎓 Instructional Designers
Your theoretical frameworks operationalized into a mobile consulting workflow. Run a diagnosis, generate a leadership brief, justify recommendations with an evidence-scored intervention scorecard.
👔 Managers & Team Leads
You’ve been asked to “fix the performance problem.” CoTrainer tells you whether training is the right answer — and produces a leadership-ready brief explaining what is.
🏢 HR Professionals
Turn performance data into a structured consulting package. Walk into leadership meetings with a confidence-scored executive summary and a validated intervention recommendation.
🏪 Small Business Owners
A performance consulting practice in your pocket. Diagnose gaps, brief your leadership, design interventions, and build training — without hiring a consultant.
🌱 New to L&D
CoTrainer is a performance consulting education disguised as a productivity tool. Use it consistently and you’ll start thinking — and delivering — like an experienced consultant.
🔬 SMEs & Consultants
Your domain expertise structured by performance consulting science. CoTrainer helps translate what you know into professional deliverables.
Start free. Day 1 is fully unlocked.
Experience the complete consulting workflow before deciding. No account required.
Everything you need to diagnose and start building.
- Unlimited performance diagnoses
- Full Leadership Brief Package (all 4 documents)
- All 7 advisor voices
- All 8 training builders
- All 6 BEM environmental flows
- 99-term glossary
- 3 builds per day after Day 1
- 3 saved projects
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited builds per day
- Unlimited saved projects
- PDF export
- Training Calendar push notifications
- Priority access to new features
Built by an instructional designer.
Grounded in four decades of performance consulting 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 diagnostic question, every voice prompt, every intervention score, and every role allocation is grounded in established learning science and human performance technology — not generated by a model trained to sound authoritative.
Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model
Kirkpatrick and Thalheimer’s LTEM (2024)
Van Tiem ISPI HPT Model
Stolovitch & Keeps — Training Ain’t Performance (2004)
Blue Edgewater Consulting · blueedgewater.com · jason@blueedgewater.com
Five questions.
Four consulting documents.
One performance problem solved.
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