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Beyond the Blueprint: Bringing Agentic Learning to Life

Lesley Cobbe, Senior Product Marketing Manager at LearnUpon

Today, our CEO & Co-founder Brendan Noud shared LearnUpon’s vision for the future of the LMS by introducing the Agentic Learning Platform, mapping out a blueprint for an ecosystem where AI technology helps you elevate human capability.

And it’s not just about blueprints on a page; over the last year, we’ve been laying the bricks of our strategic roadmap, reimagining how LearnUpon can support our customers as they navigate the AI era. Today, our Agentic Learning Platform is officially a reality.

We’re excited to share the practical steps we’ve taken to bring agentic learning to life: introducing powerful, built-in AI-powered features and intelligent AI agents designed to elevate your strategic impact and deliver on the long-awaited promise of personalized learning at scale.

How We’re Thinking About Agentic Systems

To understand where we’re going, it helps to look at how AI and agentic capabilities actually live and breathe within the LearnUpon Platform.

McKinsey (2025) notes that agentic AI maturity typically evolves through several stages, from basic individual augmentation to autonomous, cross-functional systems.

Our goal is to make that maturity curve instantly accessible. To achieve this, our agentic systems operate across three practical levels of sophistication, ensuring you have the right level of support for every task:

AI-Powered Features. Your everyday assistants for better, faster work; built-in tools like Create+, Ask Lia, and more that do the heavy lifting for you and your learners.
Our Agents. Intelligent agents that handle time-consuming tasks so you can focus on strategy that moves you forward, like our Journey Agent that builds highly personalized, multi-step Learning Journeys for different roles or skill levels, just by asking and refining.
Connect Your Own Agents. An open, interoperable ecosystem to connect your AI tools of choice like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, directly into LearnUpon using our Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server.

The Real Steps We’re Taking Today

Here is a closer look at the latest features, built to transform your daily workflows.

1. Create+: Your Agentic Co-creator

Earlier this year, we introduced Create+, bringing AI-native course authoring directly into LearnUpon to unlock content bottlenecks and allow your internal subject matter experts to create quality courses, fast.

But we know that democratized content has the potential to spiral into content chaos.

To keep your library polished, compliant, and fresh without the admin overhead, we’re launching our Agentic Editor. Now, keeping courses structurally sound is as simple as having a conversation. You can add images, modify videos, or execute sweeping bulk edits across entire lessons just by talking through your ideas with Create+ as your agentic co-creator.

“Create+ has proven to be a fantastic tool for quickly building courses on the fly using AI. If you already have strong prompting skills—or even if you just take a little time to learn how to prompt well—it’s impressively easy to use. My experience so far has been very positive, and I think anyone looking to streamline course creation will appreciate just how intuitive Create+ is.“

Christina Prince, VP/Training Manager at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union

2. Dynamic, Personalized Learning with our Journey Agent

When we introduced Learning Journeys, we gave you the power to say goodbye to static, linear learning.

Now, we’re reimagining that delivery with agentic AI.

With our new Journey Agent (currently in Beta), you no longer have to manually build your journey architecture. Instead, you act as the strategic architect, by simply asking our agent to do the work for you, mapping out tailored, multi-step learning journeys for different roles, regions, or proficiency levels in real time.

Building on this foundation, you will also be able to dynamically build learning journeys based on identified skill gaps. With the agent as your co-creator, you can spark immediate action from Skills insights, truly personalizing the learning direction based on real-time signals from your workforce.

“As we prepare to launch our Skills strategy for our organization, it’s exciting to see LearnUpon continuing to connect learning, skills, and AI in meaningful ways. That foundation creates new opportunities to build workforce capability at scale while delivering a more personalized learning experience for employees.”

— Jennifer Hovestadt, Director Learning & Development at Premium Retail Services

3. Ask Lia: Your Learner’s Search Assistant

As described by the Fosway Group’s Digital Learning Realities report, traditional learning platforms have “seldom been the launch point for learning that learners wanted.”

We’re rewriting that story for the agentic AI era with Ask Lia, our new AI-powered assistant designed to change that narrative for your learners. Lia is there for your learners 24/7 to help them grow, explore, and discover.

Instead of standard keyword searching, learners can interact with Lia easily with natural language.

Lia translates that user intent into a curated, conversational dialogue grounded purely in your learning content to recommend courses, connecting the dots between a learner’s live context, role, and goals to suggest what’s next.

“With over 4,000 courses in our learning catalog, Ask Lia helps employees quickly find relevant learning opportunities through a simple conversational experience in their preferred language. It empowers our people to take greater ownership of their development and learning journey.”

— Tim van der Linden, Global Talent Specialist at Perfetti Van Melle

Today, Lia is here to help learners find answers and discover learning faster. But we are just getting started. In the future, you’ll see Lia woven throughout the LearnUpon experience, supporting admins, instructors, and creators too.

4. Data in Your Daily Flow: LearnUpon MCP for Reporting & Insights

As the foundational first step in our Connect Your Own Agent framework, we are launching the LearnUpon MCP Server with Reporting & Insights.

We know your learning data doesn’t live in just one place. Teams are constantly switching between systems to connect learning, customer, and business data before they can take action. With LearnUpon’s MCP Server, you can connect AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini directly to LearnUpon, making it easier to access the insights you need, where you need them.

Query your learning data the way you’d ask a colleague, like “What is the status of initiative X? What patterns are showing up for learners who failed the exam, and what actions might I take?” and get trusted, real-time data directly into your preferred AI workspace.

“LearnUpon’s Reporting MCP has transformed how we manage and share our L&D insights. Answering stakeholder questions used to mean a deep dive into CSVs or complex BI tools. Now, we just ask our enterprise AI tool, and it generates engaging, dashboard-style data that tells a clear story of impact. It’s helped us transform progress reports into action, sending personalized, timely nudges to learners and leaders alike.”

— Aisling MacNamara, Director, Learning & Enablement at LearnUpon