The PerformaGo Diary
The story of building an L&D tool that extends learning into workplace performance
- A 'behind the scenes' look at turning an idea into a working product
- My personal journey from concept to launch
- The highs, the lows and everything in between
- The inside scoop on riding the wave of the 'no-code' revolution
What you'll find here...
This site is documenting the journey I’m on to build an L&D focused app, which will make it quick and easy to provide post-training performance support to learners.
To build this app, I’ll be using a new breed of development tool called ‘no-code’. As the name suggests, no-code tools are designed to help people like me, with little or no experience or knowledge of coding, to bring a software idea to life.
I think this could be quite a rollercoaster ride; but one definitely worth taking.
Read a bit more about me and why I’m doing this in the short section below. And if you’re interested, join me on the journey. I’m planning to post every week or so in The Diary section of the site. You can go there anytime and find out how it’s all going.
About me...
Hello, I’m Andrew Jackson, the co-founder of Pacific Blue Solutions and founder of Pacific Blue AI. I’ve spent the last two decades helping L&D teams amplify the impact and effectiveness of the training they design and deliver.
Back in 2011, I first came across a piece of research that changed everything I thought I knew about learning impact. It showed that post-training support — not the design of the training itself — was the key to real performance change.
The problem? It was almost impossible to provide effective post-training performance support at scale and cost effectively. Until now.
Over the past year, I’ve been taking a deep look at whether AI could provide learners with meaningful performance support. I’ve worked hard to avoid the hype. I’ve focused instead on practical use cases that might enable delivery of scalable and affordable high-impact post-training support.
I finally concluded that AI was up to the job and that it would be possible to put this technology into the hands of non-techie L&D folk.
That’s what led to the idea for the PerformaGo app. And the idea for this site, where I’ll be sharing the ‘behind the scenes’ journey of building the PerformaGo app.
You can read a bit more about me here.
And if you are interested in finding out more about the app or talking to me about anything I write about in the diary, just click on the button below and use one of the contact methods you’ll see listed.