On-the-job training for frontline teams
Get new hires working on their own sooner, and know who's ready.
We capture how your most experienced employee does the job, build short practice from it for new hires, and give you a sign-off record once each one has done it on the job.
Four-week pilot, one procedure, one team. We do the setup.
Excavator pre-use inspection
Chris Nguyen
Signed off Oct 14 by Rob T., foreperson
- Walk-around and fluid check
- Lockout and zero-energy check
- Controls and safety devices tested
- Pre-use form completed
Next check: Jan 12
Sample record. Observed on the job, not a quiz score.
The hidden cost of shadowing
For frontline ops teams (40–500 employees) where new hires learn by shadowing — and nobody can say for certain who is ready for which procedure.
When ramp-up relies on shadowing, your best people become full-time trainers.
New hires often take months before they can work independently.
Experts can lose 5–10 hours/week to shadowing + re-teaching
When one person leaves, workflows stall
Procedures change, training often lags behind
Symptoms you'll recognize:
- Shadowing never ends
- Procedures drift quietly
- Same questions keep coming back
- You can't prove autonomy
Example
'Excavator lockout' done five different ways across crews → missed steps → near misses and audit findings.
From one conversation to a signed-off new hire
Readiness is tracked per procedure, not per course completed.
Week 1
We interview your expert
20 minutes on-site with your most experienced person. No existing documents needed.
Weeks 1–4
New hires practice on their phone
Short, realistic scenarios for one procedure, built from what your expert told us.
Week 4
You sign off who's ready
A clear record for each person and each procedure, with a date to re-check.
For COR-certified contractors
Proof for the training part of your COR audit
COR auditors check training with records, on-site observation, and interviews with workers. An orientation sign-in sheet shows someone attended. A Talum sign-off shows a supervisor watched them do the task correctly.
- A sign-off for each person and procedure, with a re-check date
- Built from your most experienced worker's way of doing the job
- Exports as PDF or CSV for SALUS, SafetyCulture, SiteDocs, or Avetta
Talum doesn't perform COR audits or guarantee audit results.
Procedure source of truth
Codex is a living competence graph: roles, prerequisites, and what must stay current.
When a procedure changes, Talum tells you who must re-validate. — Codex identifies all affected content, the people who learned from it, and lets you notify them in one step.
- Ingests from Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, and more
- Dependency graph powers procedure prerequisites
- Auto-detects when source materials change
Create practice modules in minutes
Short modules, scenario checks, retrieval built in.
Multi-agent AI that transforms documentation or expert interviews into complete practice modules with synchronized video, transcript, and animations.
No docs needed: Interview your best person for 15–20 min → Talum drafts the first procedure + practice checks.
See who knows what, verified
Verified readiness + retention risk at a glance.
Dashboard for managers to see procedure coverage, retention rates, and skill gaps across teams. Assign practice, track real understanding, and prove ROI.
- Verified readiness per procedure (not just completion)
- Retention / decay risk alerts
- Procedure assignment to cohorts
- Who's autonomous, who needs shadowing
- Measure ROI on competence investment
Readiness ≠ completion. Overseer tracks demonstrated readiness and retention — not checkbox training.
Built on learning science, not guesswork
Retention reduces re-teaching and repeat mistakes. Talum combines multi-agent AI with the latest research on how people actually retain skills on the job.
Based on 100+ years of memory research (Ebbinghaus, Roediger, Karpicke)
Readiness = you can recall + apply the procedure correctly over time (not just once). Prevents "it looked fine last month" drift.
Retention scores are based on spaced-repetition models, not just one-off quiz scores.
What our pilots are targeting
Based on industry benchmarks and early testing