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Deliver effective learning at scale
Arist is the only message-based learning platform. We help over 10% Fortune 500 companies and governments rapidly teach and train employees, entirely via messaging tools like SMS, Slack, WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams.
Arist is an enablement platform that acts as an in-pocket enablement team for enterprises, orchestrating needs analysis, creation, delivery, and analytics to improve talent development and enablement operations at scale.
Arist performs needs analysis via phone, SMS, and Teams to identify talent gaps, uses human-like voice AI to interview employees and generate real-time talent reports, and automatically creates personalized enablement interventions (nudges, communications, courses, media). It delivers content 1:1 inside Teams, Slack, and SMS, exports to LMS/CMS in one click, and ties interventions to existing data to prove impact, aiming to enable workflows in hours instead of months and to enable AI adoption across large populations.
Who itβs for: Large enterprises with distributed workforces seeking scalable enablement and talent development, AI adoption, and measurable impact on talent outcomes.
mentions of deployment at large enterprises, case references (Wolters Kluwer, Arvest/WinTrust) and growth in AI adoption indicate traction; no explicit funding/hiring data provided
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Arist, the AI sales enablement platform used by Microsoft, HP, Eli Lilly, etc. Michael is a Thiel Fellow.
Ryan Laverty is the founder of Arist. Prior to Arist, Ryan ran a public speaking coaching and training company.

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