The new anatomy of workplace training: short, personal, finished
Built to be finished.
Kinema turns the documents and recordings your company already owns into training series people watch to the end: onboarding, compliance, systems.
Turn your first document into videoThe pattern repeats at the companies people love working for: training arrives as short video series, delivered in the flow of work, finished because it respects attention. And the economics just broke open: AI-assisted production has cut the median cost of a finished video minute by roughly 40%.[4] What took an e-learning vendor and a quarter’s budget now takes one person and Kinema.
The material exists. The video doesn’t. Yet.
Every company sits on years of training material: guidelines, process docs, screen recordings, including the rough ones your experts record themselves. People learn best from colleagues, and a phone recording is enough. Kinema reads what you have and drafts the full video structure: chapters, scenes, voiceover, visuals, in short episodes built for the flow of work, not the training room. Your job starts at directing, not at writing. It’s how the strongest L&D teams work now: from material, not from scratch, and without the four-to-eight-week production cycle that used to come with it.[5]
From source file to first draft in a single session. Drop in your first documentThe difference between clicked through and watched is craft.
A presenter when you want one: the same face and voice for every safety briefing, no studio booked. Visuals that stay consistent across a whole series, not just a single clip. Motion graphics (lower thirds, callouts, chapter cards) already in your brand. And a soundtrack composed for the cut, so even mandatory training carries momentum. Kinema episodes are built for the attention research is blunt about. The courses people praise were always produced with this kind of care. The difference: it no longer takes a studio.
Built to hold attention past the first minute. Give your training a crewThe warehouse doesn’t talk like the boardroom, and the Berlin branch doesn’t train in Czech.
One master module, delivered the way each audience works: the shop floor gets scenarios from the shop floor, the sales team gets theirs, the board gets the summary. Attach roles, sites and skill gaps, and Kinema produces the versions. Skills-first, not title-first: map the gap, ship the module that closes it. One production, no reshoots.
Already have a training library in one language? Localize it. Kinema takes finished courses to every market: local language, subtitled by default, brand and terminology locked, nothing lost between headquarters and the branch. Multinationals used to do this with a vendor in every country. Now it’s the same person who made the master. The payoff is documented: multilingual training programs report 25% higher productivity and 30% better employee retention.[6]
One master. Every role, every branch, every language. Version it for every branchYour expert comments on the scene, not on a document.
Subject-matter experts review directly in the cut: a comment lands on the exact shot it concerns. You regenerate that one scene; the rest of the series stands untouched. Brand and terminology stay locked across every episode, no matter who’s reviewing. In the strongest L&D teams, expert review is the fastest step of production, not the bottleneck. Traditional production plans for two to four full revision rounds;[5] Kinema plans for a comment and one rebuilt scene.
Review cycles measured in hours, not weeks. Put your expert in the cutBuilt for the IT and legal review.
Your data stays yours
Content you upload is never used to train AI models.
GDPR-ready
Built for European companies and European rules.
EU AI Act ready
AI-generated content transparently labeled, ahead of Article 50 requirements taking effect in August 2026.
Accessible by design
Captions and subtitles on every version.
From clicked through to watched to the end.
Finished shows up where it matters: fewer errors, faster ramp-up, fewer support tickets. The next series your people finish starts with a file you already have.
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Read why it lands →- Industry research on learning completion rates (eLearning Industry): microlearning around 80% against long-form around 20%.
- ATD State of the Industry: 35 hours of formal learning per employee in 2020, 13.7 hours in 2024.
- Association for Talent Development, 2025: engagement with training video drops sharply after the sixth minute.
- Digital Applied, 2026 production benchmarks: the median cost per finished video minute fell around 40% with AI-assisted production, from $4,200 to $2,500.
- Industry production benchmarks (Clutch agency survey, 2026 production reviews): 4–8 weeks from concept to delivery, 2–4 revision rounds.
- ACTFL (via Language Network): multilingual training raises productivity 25% and employee retention 30%.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act), Article 50 — transparency obligations effective 2 August 2026.