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ROUGH CUT · BY ASCENT LABS

Every great course starts rough.

Feedback arrives from three SMEs, two reviewers, and a Review 360 export. The revision plan is still on you.

Turn SME feedback into an approved revision plan in minutes.

Citation-firstHuman approvalBuilt for practitioners

One project. Three modules.

The same project moves through Rough Cut as it matures — from a single SME session, to synthesized revisions, to a preflight readiness verdict.

PROJECT · COMPLIANCE 2025SARASTORYSYNCCOURSEREADY
FREE · NO LOGIN

SARA

SME Analysis & Response Accelerator

Paste a single SME session (meeting notes, an annotated PDF, a comment thread) and SARA returns a structured revision checklist, a draft reply email, and a follow-up tracker. No account, no setup. The fastest way to convert one round of messy feedback into something you can act on this afternoon.

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PAID · ENTERPRISE

CourseReady

Preflight QA Platform

Run synthetic learner personas across a draft course before a single SME sees it. Get a readiness verdict, a remediation backlog, and the receipts to defend it. Catch what your reviewers would have caught, but earlier, and at scale.

PREFLIGHT · 3 PERSONAS
  • STRUGGLING LEARNER

    Step 3 assumes SAP navigation skills this role does not have.

  • REGULATOR

    Slide 9 cites a superseded policy version.

  • ADVANCED LEARNER

    Module 2 repeats the prerequisite course.

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PAID · TEAM

StorySync

Course Review Copilot

When feedback arrives from three SMEs, two reviewers, and a Review 360 export, all at once, StorySync synthesizes them into a single revision plan, flags conflicts, and pushes approved tasks straight to your PM tool.

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THE STATUS QUO

The competition is a spreadsheet and an inbox.

Review cycles run on copy-paste, comment threads, and one person reconciling it all by hand. The same five steps, side by side.

Five review-cycle steps compared: by hand versus with Rough Cut.
The workBy handWith Rough Cut
From SME meeting to task listAn evening of copy-paste from notes, transcripts, and comment threads.Paste the session, get a draft revision plan in minutes.
Conflict detection across reviewersTwo reviewers disagree on slide 9. Someone notices in week three.Disagreements are flagged side by side before the plan is approved.
Citation traceabilityScroll the thread until you find who asked for the change.Every suggested revision cites the comment it came from.
PM-tool handoffRetype each approved task, one card at a time.Approved tasks push straight to your PM tool.
Preflight QA before SME reviewA colleague skims the draft if anyone has the time.Synthetic learner personas run the draft and return a remediation backlog.
FOR TRAINING DIRECTORS & L&D LEADERS

Your IDs are spending hours every review cycle doing work that should take minutes. Rough Cut automates the translation layer between feedback and execution, so your team spends their time improving content, not managing spreadsheets.

NEXT STEP

One signup. All three modules in your workspace.

Start free with SARA, then upgrade to StorySync and CourseReady as your team's needs grow. Same workspace, same projects, same login.