Frequently Asked Questions
What is Chrysalis Avatar?
Chrysalis Avatar is the only generative AI company offering custom avatars and an interactive platform that can provide deeper understanding of large content and data libraries. It’s an innovative new way to enhance learning opportunities for your teams that can help build and measure their critical and creative thinking skills. Your LMS has never been able to provide these kinds of metrics.
How do the components of the Chrysalis product work together?
Chrysalis uses your organization’s data and content — from any time and in any format — to create the “library” from which we’ll start. We build an avatar that can be of any of your people if you want, and that will interact with your audience in their voice and tone, or any you select.
We then use our proprietary, patented, generative AI to engineer the insights and practices from your library that your organization has developed over time. You may not even realize all of the institutional wisdom you’ve got, or be using it to its fullest extent.
Then, based on your objectives and our expertise and tools, we create learning journeys for your team to work with. When the platform is ready to use, the avatar leads your people through the process, answers questions and asks more of them, creating a unique, truly interactive platform.
You’ll also receive a dashboard for program administrators to track your users’ progress. The dashboard contains our innovative metrics that provide insight into their engagement and interaction with the learning program. The platform can even help course-correct learning journeys and suggest new ones if they’re needed.
For organizations that want to help their people build their critical and creative thinking skills in addition to learning technical skills and compliance, there’s no other system available today that can offer all this.
What are the benefits of the Chrysalis Avatar cognitive AI platform?
By leading people through asking better questions and thinking differently about solutions to issues, Chrysalis Avatar provides your audience more than just more information. People are rewarded with constructive challenges to how they approach situations and greater understanding of themselves and the world around them.
All that is not to overshadow the new type of metrics Chrysalis Avatar provides. Our innovative new Interaction and Engagement Indexes provide insight into the impact your learning platform is having in the real world. Our system for metrics was devised by Scott Marshall Brandon and based on his many years of experience and testing in education and systems design. Now our CEO, Scott built his ideas over time with industry titans including Bill Moggridge, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Maxine Greene, and Sir Ken Robinson.
Get the most from the investment your organization makes in AI by using it to help develop your teams and prove its value. You may be assuming your teams have learned and grown by seeing how many LMS modules they’ve completed. With Chrysalis Avatar, you can stop guessing and start proving their growth.
Who is the Chrysalis Avatar platform best for?
If your organization currently uses an LMS, you’re already investing in developing your teams’ knowledge. Chrysalis enables you to do more — you can help build their critical and creative thinking skills, and then get real measurements on their readiness for growth, change, and action.
But you don’t need to have an LMS to work with us. Chrysalis Avatar is a complete system all on its own. Based on your own data and content, we use your institutional knowledge to develop insights and practices, and help your teams build their skills and prime them for innovation. And we provide the metrics to prove it.
Why is Chrysalis Avatar different from other AI platforms?
Simply put, there are no AI platforms like Chrysalis Avatar. We offer custom, cognitive avatars at scale. And Chrysalis Avatar is the only company with expertise and understanding of building critical and creative thinking skills, their direct link to innovation, and how to truly measure the results.
Our platform reflects our innovation. It’s our desire to put AI to work for the good of humans.
Why isn’t a Chrysalis Avatar just another chatbot?
Our Chrysalis Avatar is different from a common chatbot because it is designed to understand and reproduce the cognitive style of a specific teacher, coach, or expert.
A common chatbot typically gives generic answers based on basic prompts, a decision tree, and training data. A Chrysalis Avatar goes deeper. It analyzes how an expert explains, structures ideas, builds reasoning, uses examples, and guides a learner step by step. From that, it creates a cognitive profile that allows the avatar to teach and respond in a way that reflects the expert’s method of thinking, not just their words.
What does imagination and creativity have to do with innovation?
Being imaginative is not about fantasy — it has much more serious considerations. In fact, we know that in order to be truly innovative, one must start with imagination and then apply it to an area of expertise. That active doing is what we call creativity.
So, what’s involved with imagination? Inspiration. It’s a word we’ve all heard that no one really ever defines well. But we can. Think of inspiration as your personal bank. In it, you store your experiences, curiosity, questions, empathy, observations — anything that’s impacted you in some way.
And you can enhance your “inspiration bank”. Because imagination skills are learned. It isn’t — what some believe — some secret gift that you’re either born with or not. If you’re human, you have the capacity to be imaginative and creative. Your medium may not be paint or clay, but you’re still creative. In fact, most people make dozens or even hundreds of creative decisions every day. They just don’t realize it. We miss out because we rarely think that business, accounting, sciences, leadership, and other areas actually require it as much as painting, teaching do.
And innovation can happen from anyone. From everyone. Teaching the skills makes us a lot more likely to succeed.
How can I identify AI use cases in my business?
Understand your organization’s goals. Define your objectives clearly for both the overall organization and each of your internal teams.
Verify your problems-to-solve and concerns with stakeholders to be sure you’re targeting the right areas to apply AI.
Contact Chrysalis Avatar. We’re experts in the creative and innovative application of AI that solves problems and helps people build creative and critical thinking skills, too.