Lessonly

Powerfully simple training, coaching, and enablement software that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work.

Enablement Platforms
★★★★☆ 4.3
2012 Founded
201-500 Employees
1,200+ Customers
Indianapolis, IN, United States Headquarters
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Quick Facts

Website
seismic.com →
Starting Price
300
Pricing Model
tiered
Company Type
acquired
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About Lessonly

Lessonly is a training, coaching, and enablement platform originally founded in 2012 in Indianapolis to help teams "Do Better Work" through simple, scalable online learning. The product focuses on making it easy for revenue, support, and operations teams to create engaging lessons, assign structured learning paths, and track progress across large, distributed workforces. Over time it became a go-to solution for organizations that needed to onboard new hires quickly and standardize how frontline employees learn and practice core skills.

The platform includes a powerfully simple lesson builder, interactive quizzes, and rich media support, so enablement and L&D teams can rapidly turn tribal knowledge, playbooks, and policies into repeatable training programs. Lessonly also emphasized practice and coaching workflows, letting reps rehearse calls, emails, chats, and product demos, then receive targeted feedback from managers. This focus on real-world practice helped the product stand out from traditional LMS tools that were more content- than performance-driven.

In August 2021, Lessonly was acquired by Seismic and rebranded as Seismic Learning, becoming the learning and coaching pillar of the Seismic Enablement Cloud. The combined offering connects learning content, sales content management, and analytics in one environment, allowing leaders to correlate training engagement with revenue outcomes and customer experience metrics. Today, Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly) serves more than a thousand organizations and millions of learners worldwide across industries such as technology, financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Market-wise, Lessonly sits at the intersection of corporate LMS and sales readiness platforms. Compared with legacy LMS vendors, it prioritizes ease of use, time-to-value, and frontline use cases. Compared with pure-play sales enablement vendors, it offers deeper course authoring, structured learning paths, and practice workflows. As part of Seismic, the product is now positioned as an AI-powered readiness solution that partners closely with Seismic Content and Seismic Knowledge to give go-to-market teams a unified enablement experience.

Key Features

Powerfully simple lesson and course builder - drag-and-drop authoring for text, images, video, quizzes, and embedded content.

Learning paths and curriculums - sequence lessons into structured onboarding and ongoing training journeys with prerequisites.

Practice and coaching workflows - simulate real calls, emails, chats, and tickets with video, audio, and screen-recorded submissions.

Assessments, quizzes, and knowledge checks - multiple question types and passing scores to validate learner comprehension.

Certifications and gamification - award certifications and badges tied to completion, scores, and role-based requirements.

Smart Groups and automation - dynamically assign learning based on role, team, attributes, or triggered events from other systems.

SCORM-compliant content support - import and deliver SCORM packages alongside native Lessonly lessons.

Analytics and reporting - track completion, scores, time spent, and engagement across teams, roles, and individuals.

Manager and coaching dashboards - give leaders visibility into readiness, overdue assignments, and areas that need coaching.

Embedded learning in workflows - surface lessons inside tools such as Salesforce, Slack, Seismic Content, and other systems.

Single sign-on and user management - integrate with SSO/IdP and HRIS systems for secure provisioning and deprovisioning.

AI-assisted content and feedback - leverage Seismic's AI to generate, summarize, and refine learning content and coaching guidance.

Mobile-friendly experience - allow learners to access and complete training on web and mobile devices.

Community and knowledge sharing - support internal knowledge bases, best-practice sharing, and learner feedback on lessons.

Pros & Cons

👍 Pros

  • Very easy-to-use, intuitive interface for both admins and learners, with little to no training required.
  • Fast and flexible lesson creation using drag-and-drop authoring, templates, and rich media like video and images.
  • Engaging practice and coaching tools that let reps rehearse calls, emails, chats, and demos and receive targeted feedback.
  • Responsive, friendly customer support and customer-success teams that help with implementation, best practices, and optimization.
  • Clear reporting on completion and performance that helps managers see who is on track, who is behind, and where knowledge gaps exist.
  • Strong ecosystem of integrations with CRM, support, HRIS, collaboration, and enablement tools that keep learning in the flow of work.

👎 Cons

  • Customization of layouts, themes, and some content types is more limited than in some enterprise LMS platforms.
  • Reporting and analytics, while solid for most use cases, can feel constrained for very complex or regulatory-heavy training programs.
  • Some users report occasional performance issues such as slow loading or glitches when uploading or playing large video files.
  • Pricing and minimum seat requirements are not fully transparent publicly, which can make evaluation harder for smaller teams.

User Reviews

G2
4.7
★★★★★
Capterra
4.7
★★★★★
TrustRadius
6.9
★★★★★

Integrations

Salesforce HubSpot Zendesk Slack Zoom Outreach Salesloft Dropbox Oracle Rippling BambooHR Namely Zenefits Okta Highspot MaestroQA Mediafly Seismic Content JumpCloud Wufoo Gong Greenhouse Google Sheets Microsoft Excel Typeform People HR Ambition SalesScreen DataGrail TalentLMS

Best For

Company Size

smb mid-market enterprise

Industries

Technology SaaS Financial Services Healthcare and Life Sciences Telecommunications Retail and eCommerce

Use Cases

Sales onboarding and ramp-up Ongoing sales enablement and product training Customer support and call-center training Partner and channel enablement Compliance and policy training Internal knowledge base and SOP training

FAQ

What is Lessonly?

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Lessonly, now branded as Seismic Learning, is a cloud-based training, coaching, and enablement platform designed to help organizations quickly onboard and continuously develop their customer-facing teams. It provides tools to create interactive lessons, build structured learning paths, run practice and coaching scenarios, and track readiness and performance across sales, support, and other frontline roles.

How much does Lessonly cost?

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Lessonly's pricing is quote-based and depends on factors such as number of learners, feature package, and contract length. Third-party sources like Capterra list a starting price around $300 per month, but the vendor generally sells Pro, Pro + Coaching, and enterprise plans on a custom-quote basis. Buyers should expect an annual subscription negotiated with Seismic's sales team rather than fixed self-serve pricing.

What are the main features of Lessonly?

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Key Lessonly features include a drag-and-drop lesson and course builder, learning paths and curriculums, interactive quizzes and knowledge checks, practice and coaching workflows for calls, emails, chats, and demos, certifications and gamification, SCORM support, smart groups and automation, SSO and HRIS integrations, reporting and analytics, and AI-assisted content and feedback as part of the broader Seismic Enablement Cloud.

Who are Lessonly's main competitors?

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Lessonly competes with both LMS vendors and sales readiness platforms. Common alternatives include Mindtickle, Showpad Coach, Highspot, Litmos, TalentLMS, LearnUpon, and 360Learning. The best fit depends on whether an organization prioritizes deep course management, sales-specific practice and coaching, or tight integration with an existing enablement stack.

Is Lessonly good for small businesses?

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Lessonly can work well for growing small and mid-sized businesses that have dedicated sales or support teams and need structured, repeatable onboarding and training. However, its pricing and typical minimum seat counts are geared more toward organizations with at least a few dozen learners. Very small teams or solo operators may find lighter-weight, self-serve LMS tools more cost-effective, while Lessonly shines once training needs become more complex and ongoing.

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