Ervy

What Ervy is

Ervy is a microlearning platform for companies whose staff spend the working day in Microsoft Teams. A training team, or any employee, uploads a document the organization already has, such as a policy, a handbook or a procedure, and Ervy builds a short course from it: lessons, quiz questions with explanations, and podcast episodes, ready in under 10 minutes according to the home page. The lessons are then sent to employees in their Teams chat or by email, so nobody has to remember a separate login to a learning portal.

The product sits between an authoring tool and a business LMS. It writes the course, delivers it on a schedule, records who finished, and shows where the knowledge gaps are. The company's own headline is "Training that actually gets completed," and nearly every feature on the site targets the three reasons it gives for training not getting done: it is too slow to create, too hard to access, and too boring to finish.

Building courses from your own documents

The core workflow is document in, course out. Ervy reads the uploaded file and generates a structured sequence of lessons, each with a quiz question and an explanation of the answer. The home page says Ervy "builds the whole course, with lessons, quizzes and explanations, in under 10 minutes." Teams that would rather not start from their own files can pick from a ready-made library instead, which the site mentions next to AI course creation without listing its titles.

Course creation is not reserved for HR or L&D. The company's blog says any employee can build a course directly inside Teams, so the person who knows a warehouse procedure or a new expense policy can package it themselves. The blog adds that this tends to surface internal champions: people who build something useful, see colleagues engage with it, and start pushing for wider adoption without being asked. A customer quote from the State Chancellery of Latvia makes the same point from the admin side, saying course creation "required a lot of time and manual work. Now you can create a course in just a few minutes."

Every course can also be turned into audio. The Podcasts feature converts a course into episodes "for people who would rather listen," which gives staff a second way through the same material when reading a screen is not convenient.

What employees experience

Lessons arrive as chat cards in Microsoft Teams, or by email. The blog describes each lesson as taking 2-3 minutes, with a quiz question and explanations, sized to fit inside a normal workday without pulling anyone out of their work. Administrators set the schedule, so a compliance topic can be split into small pieces sent over several weeks instead of one long annual module.

Alongside the scheduled lessons, employees get an AI assistant inside Teams, which the site calls the AI teacher. It answers questions about the organization's own content straight away. The blog's example is an employee asking "how do I report a phishing attempt?" and getting an answer sourced from the company's own security policy, without searching SharePoint.

Gamification is part of the product rather than an add-on. The home page lists streaks and points. The blog adds that employees earn points for completing lessons and answering quizzes correctly, that monthly leaderboards track completions across teams, and that a social quiz has employees answer personal questions while colleagues guess who said what, with badges building up as peer ratings accumulate. The stated aim is a habit of short, frequent interactions rather than occasional long sessions.

Administration, reporting and data

For the training team, the main view is completion. The home page says you see "who has finished and where the knowledge gaps are." For compliance training, it says Ervy delivers short lessons on a schedule and logs every completion, "so you have proof when the audit comes."

Setup is light by design. You log in with an email address and build a first course before connecting anything; Microsoft Teams is connected when you are ready to send the course to your team. The site says no IT approval is needed to start and there are no implementation costs. The blog adds that Ervy installs from Microsoft Marketplace, connects to existing Teams groups, and needs no consultant or multi-month implementation project, with a first course live "within the hour."

On data, the home page is direct: "Your data is yours. We never train our AI models on your company documents." That matters for a product whose input is internal policy, procedure and security material.

Use cases the site names

The solutions menu covers cybersecurity, onboarding, compliance and leadership training, and the home page gives a short case for the first three:

• Compliance: short lessons on a schedule instead of one annual course, with every completion logged for audits.
• Cybersecurity: instead of "a 45-minute video everyone mutes," two-minute "pulses" in Teams that people actually read.
• Onboarding: the important material sent in small pieces over a new hire's first week instead of a pile of documents on day one.

The blog also describes a retail chain that needed consistent onboarding across 200+ stores. It converted its cash register manuals into training that every new hire completed within the first week.

Pricing and trial

Ervy publishes a starting price. The pricing section of its blog gives $4 per user per month for organizations under 300 users, with volume pricing "down to $1.05 per user for larger organisations." There is a 30-day free trial with full feature access, and the home page says no credit card is required. Teams that want to see it on their own material first can book a 30-minute demo, "built around a document you already use." The price steps between those two per-user figures are not spelled out.

Results and customers

The home page gives three figures: an 88% average completion rate, 5.7M+ lessons completed, and 60k+ learners reached worldwide. Three customers are quoted by name. Janis Jonikans, Information Security Manager at Latvia's Central Statistical Bureau, says cybersecurity training used to happen rarely and now runs as daily short lessons in Teams that employees complete, adding that "Cybersecurity awareness is part of the routine now." Vēsma Voitkēviča, IT Department Consultant at the State Chancellery of Latvia, gave the course creation quote above. Ivars Vjakse, IT Systems Manager at Madara 89, says that building courses from in-house materials "significantly increases the scale and impact of training." The company's blog also announces that Ervy joined the NVIDIA Inception Program and completed the Vienna Startup Package.

Who it suits and who it does not

Ervy fits organizations that already run on Microsoft Teams and whose training problem is completion rather than catalog depth. The blog positions it for companies of 150 to 1000 employees and says it fits the 150 to 400 range most naturally: large enough to feel the pain of spreading knowledge around, small enough to move without a procurement committee. Compliance refreshers, security awareness and onboarding are the cases the site builds for, and the document-to-course generator suits teams with plenty of written policy and no instructional designer to turn it into training.

The company is candid about where it stops. If Teams is not your primary collaboration hub, the blog says, the delivery model does not translate, even though lessons can also go out by email. It is not a talent suite either: organizations that need performance reviews or succession planning in the same system "will need to look elsewhere for those functions." Teams that want long, branching courses will find the product deliberately short-form, which is the trade it makes for completion.