NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
Adobe Captivate alternative
The Adobe Captivate alternative with no desktop install
Build the course and the avatar video from your documents in a web app, then export SCORM. Avatar minutes come with the plan instead of credits billed per second.
Bring a real document to the demo. Leave with a first draft.
4.6 on G2 from 500+ reviewsFORVIA HELLA
Experts draft it themselves
Cora makes it much easier for experts to turn their knowledge into a strong initial draft
Illinois Principals Association
Course back up and running
It was easy to go in, create an actor with a voice, and get the course back up and running. Faster than redoing the course...
★★★★★
Into the LMS, first time
We've been able to produce high-quality, engaging videos that have been integrated into our Learning Management System (LMS) successfully.
Paramount
10 hours of meetings replaced a month
We've been able to replace an average of 10 hours of walkthrough meetings every month by generating a Colossyan video.
Sonesta
Easy updates, real savings
The ease of content update and cost savings are remarkable.
Mentor Group
90% lower video production cost
Scaling and maintaining content has been cost-prohibiting, but with Colossyan, we were able to cut around 90% of our video production costs.
An AI agent, plus everything
a real production needs.
Give Cora your existing policies, decks or SOPs and get a complete video plan back in minutes, with every scene yours to review and approve. Then ship it in 120+ languages, wrap it into a full course, or make it interactive, without opening another tool.
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START FROM A SOURCE
From source to video.
Cora reads your handbook, deck or help page, writes the script and lays out each scene. Nothing renders until you approve it. Start from a PDF, a PowerPoint or a web page.
AI Video Generator
New Joiner Onboarding
NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
Our journey so far
Script Northwind was founded in 2014, and today we are 2,000 people across eleven countries.You will meet many of them in week one.How we work
Script Three working agreements shape every team here: write things down, ship small, and ask early.setupTue13Wed14Meet
buddyThu15Fri16First
ticket
Your first week
Script Monday is setup, Wednesday you shadow your buddy, and by Friday you will own your first ticket.
Where to get help
Script Three people have your back from day one: Sam, Laura and Daniel.Reach out to any of them, any time.
Hello there,
I'm Cora. Let's turn your documents and ideas into videos.
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120+ LANGUAGES
Every language, one recording.
Pick a language and the voice, captions and lip-sync follow, across the video, the on-screen text and every interaction. Same presenter, same timing, translated into 120+ languages.
Translation
US
Hi, I am Riley, and I will be your guide for the next three minutes.
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ONBOARDINGWelcome to
NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
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FULL COURSES, NOT JUST CLIPS
Full courses, SCORM-ready.
Build modules, knowledge checks and pass marks in Colossyan Learn, then export SCORM to your LMS. When a policy changes, you update the lesson instead of rebuilding the course.
Colossyan Learn
LESSON 1 · START SECURE
Build secure defaults from day one
Learn the simple habits that protect your accounts, messages, and devices throughout the workday.
Most breaches start with an ordinary moment, a reused password, a link that looked internal, a laptop left unlocked. This lesson covers the defaults that remove those moments from your day.
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INTERACTIVE VIDEO
Video people can click.
Add branching scenarios, quizzes and clickable action buttons to the same video. Every choice reports back to your LMS as a tracked event.
Interactive video
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Hi, I am Riley, and I will be your guide for the next three minutes.
ONBOARDINGWelcome to
NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
NorthwindYour first week, in three minutes
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The short version
Which one fits your team?
Choose
Adobe Captivate
- You build deep software simulations with demo, training and assessment modes
- Your designers live in Creative Cloud and want desktop authoring on Mac or Windows
- You need xAPI or AICC export, or responsive, widget-heavy slides
Choose
- You need minutes of avatar video a month, not seconds of credit
- Your team wants to start from documents in a web app, with no installs or activations
- You translate training video, with narration re-voiced and lip-synced per language
Compare
Colossyan vs Adobe Captivate, side by side
| Adobe Captivate |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Courses & tracking | ||
| Where you build | Desktop app on Windows or macOS, online activation | Web app, nothing to install |
| Start from documents | PowerPoint import into editable objects | Cora drafts a course from Word, PDF, PowerPoint or images |
| Quizzes and interactions | 5 question types, pools; widget gallery | Question, matching, ranking, hotspot blocks; quiz pass mark |
| LMS export | SCORM 1.2 and 2004, AICC, xAPI | SCORM 1.2 for courses; SCORM 1.2 and 2004 for video |
| Video | ||
| AI avatar video | Since Nov 2025; ~70 s per seat a month on enterprise credits | Minutes in every plan; 30 a month on Professional, plus 10 NEO 2 |
| Avatar choice | Stock narrators; no own-likeness avatar documented | 300+ stock avatars, instant avatars, Avatar Studio |
| Software simulations | Strong: demo, training and assessment modes | Screen Capture extension turns clicks into a SCORM simulation |
| Localise & keep current | ||
| Translation | Per text block by AI prompt, or export and re-import | Video script and on-screen text, one click per language |
| Changing avatar narration | Regenerate the video, using credits again | Edit the script and regenerate, using plan minutes |
| Review | Browser review links; no real-time co-authoring | Comments on video drafts and scenes, from Professional |
| Security & plans | ||
| LMS included | No; Adobe Learning Manager sold separately | No; share link, or SCORM to your LMS |
| Free option | 30-day trial; no free plan | Free Starter plan, no card; SCORM from Professional |
Avatar seconds are our arithmetic from Adobe's rate of 10 credits per second.
What one platform replaces
3 line items, or one platform
One web platform for the course, the video and its translations, with unlimited viewers.
With Adobe Captivate
Line item 1Captivate seats installed on up to 2 computers each
Line item 2Firefly credits for avatar seconds
Line item 3Translation by exporting and re-importing text
With Colossyan
- Courses and quizzes
- AI avatar video, minutes in the plan
- Video translation in 120+ languages
- SCORM export
- Brand kit
OrlaFernway
Lesson 1 of 5 · 6 min
Build trust first.
How new managers earn their team’s trust in the first month.
How this course works
Five short lessons, one for each week of your first month. Each ends with a quick check.
Choose look
PlayBrand kit
Add a block
What you get
Everything a finished course needs.
The parts that usually take a second tool come with every course.
AI video in every lesson
Avatar-led video drafts planned with the AI Video Generator. 300+ avatars, 120+ languages.
Your brand on every page
Pull colours, logo and fonts from your website into a brand kit Cora uses from the first draft.
Change the course, not the link
Edit it or ask Cora, publish the changes, and new learners get the new version on the same link.
Share anywhere
A link that opens with no login, or a SCORM 1.2 package with completion and pass mark.
Build together
See who is in the course and edit side by side in real time.
Learners on any device
A mobile-friendly player that saves progress. No app to install.
Training goes out of date faster than you can build it.
Most teams still juggle an authoring tool, a video tool and a translation agency, so every update means starting over. Teams on Colossyan draft in an afternoon, keep the final say on every scene, and update without rebuilding. Here's how Paramount, AmeriSave and others made the switch.
Media
10 hrs
of meetings replaced every month
“Reducing time in meetings, especially in a hybrid environment, has been a huge time and cost saver.”
Carmine ValenteVP of Information Security
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Hospitality
80%
reduction in video production costs
“…translation capabilities have revolutionized our training processes…”
Kristin BroadheadDirector of Learning & Development
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Financial services
70%
reduction in video production costs
“…creating a short video took around 4 hours. Now, it’s only an hour…”
Steffen HartungTrainer & Business Coach
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Insurance
2–3x
faster communication than email
“For me, Colossyan makes communication 2, or even 3 times faster.”
Rick SerranoHead of Strategy & People Transformation
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Logistics
50%
more efficient onboarding
“…significantly improved our new hire training program productivity.”
Franklina TawiahHR Project Manager
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Healthcare
80–90%
time and cost savings on video production
“…we can now deliver neuroscientific training 80–90% quicker…”
Torsten SeelbachFounder
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Financial services
50%
time saved on video content creation
“…training material that never goes obsolete.”
Magesh SarmaChief Information Officer
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The platform
Everything your training needs,
Everything your training needs,
in one place.
AgentAI speed, human-quality control
VideoUnbeatable engagement
CoursesComplete training programs
AI video translator
Instantly translate videos into 120+ languages
Adapt your training videos into different languages, so every team gets the same content in the language they work in. Same presenter, same timing, new voice and lip sync.
Moving over
Switching from Adobe Captivate
What comes with you
- Your original PowerPoint decks and documents
- Brand fonts and colors, set once in a brand kit
What we do
- Rebuild your first course with you in the demo
- Migration planning with our team on Enterprise
- Your brand kit applied to every course
Plans and pricing
Plans that scale with your team
Start free, upgrade when you need more minutes and seats.
Starter
For individual content creators
Free$27/mo
No credit card required
- All Colossyan AI avatars
- 20 video minutes/mo with NEO
- 15 custom avatars + 3 voices
- Brand kits
- 10 interactive videos/mo
- 15 auto-translations/mo
- Unlimited viewers
- Unlimited course creation
Professional
For professionals or small teams
$59/mo
+$30/mo per additional member
Editors
- Everything in Starter, plus
- 30 min/mo with NEO + 10 min/mo with NEO2
- AI image generation
- Watermark removal
- Unlimited MP4 downloads
- 5 SCORM exports/mo
- Up to 3 members + workspaces
Enterprise
Companies scaling training and enablement
Let's talk
Custom pricing for your org
- Unlimited video minutes, all models
- Unlimited custom avatars + voices
- Unlimited SCORM export, streaming + self-contained
- Unlimited auto-translations
- Custom studio avatars + branded avatars
- Analytics
- SSO/SAML, EU or US data residency
- Priority support 24/7 + dedicated CSM
| Capability | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Preparation | |||
| AI video and course creator | |||
| Course outline editor | |||
| PPT, PDF import | |||
| 2. Creation | |||
| Stock avatars | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ |
| Stock voices | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ |
| Video minutes with NEO | 20/mo | 30/mo | Unlimited |
| Video minutes with NEO2 | 0.5/mo | 10/mo | Unlimited |
| Custom avatars | 15 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Cloned voices | 3 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Interactive videos | 10/mo | 15/mo | Unlimited |
| Course creation | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Templates | |||
| Custom templates | |||
| Brand kits | |||
| Pronunciation library | |||
| Stock media assets | |||
| AI image generation | |||
| Screen recorder | |||
| Subtitles | |||
| Branded avatars | |||
| Conversational avatars | 1,000 min | ||
| Custom studio avatars | 1 included | ||
| API access | 360 min/yr | Custom | |
| 3. Review and Collaboration | |||
| Unlimited viewers | |||
| Maximum editor seats | 1 | 3 | Custom |
| Shared workspaces | |||
| Commenting | |||
| Draft and video sharing | |||
| Team permissions | |||
| 4. Localisation | |||
| Auto-translations | 15/mo | 20/mo | Unlimited |
| Language variants | |||
| 120+ supported languages | |||
| 5. Publish | |||
| Course SCORM export | 0 | 5/mo | Unlimited |
| Video SCORM export | 0 | 5/mo | Unlimited |
| Video resolution | Up to 1080p | Up to 1080p | Up to 4k |
| Watermark removal | |||
| Custom branded share page | |||
| HTML embedding | |||
| Multilingual videos | |||
| Video analytics | |||
| 6. Support and Security | |||
| Knowledgebase | |||
| Priority support 24/7 | |||
| Dedicated CSM | |||
| Custom SSO/SAML | |||
| EU or US Data residency | |||
Prices in USD.
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Enterprise-grade by default.
4.6 on G2 from 500+ reviewsRed Dot Design Award winner 2025
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited controls for security, availability and confidentiality.
GDPR compliant
Your data is processed and stored in line with EU data-protection standards.
Data privacy first
Your content is never used to train our models. You stay in control.
Enterprise SSO
SAML single sign-on and role-based access for your whole organization.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Not the project files themselves, which open only in Captivate. Bring the original PowerPoint decks and documents, and Cora drafts a course from them. You can also upload published SCORM packages for Cora to rebuild as editable courses, though we have not tested Captivate output yet, so review the result.
Yes, since Captivate 13.0 in November 2025. They are billed in generative credits: the individual plan needs extra Firefly credits, and enterprise seats get 700 credits a month at 10 credits per second, about 70 seconds of avatar video. Colossyan includes avatar minutes in every plan, 30 a month on Professional plus 10 with NEO 2.
No. Colossyan is a web app, so there is nothing to install or activate, and Mac and Windows teams use the same tool. Captivate is desktop software for Windows or macOS that activates online, reconnects every 30 days and installs on up to 2 computers per license. Its AI features also need allow-listing on locked-down networks.
Yes. The Starter plan is free with no credit card, with unlimited courses, AI course drafts and 20 minutes of video a month. SCORM export starts on Professional, at $59 a month billed yearly, with 5 course and 5 video exports a month. Enterprise adds unlimited exports and single sign-on.
Colossyan holds a SOC 2 Type II report and is GDPR compliant. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256, and customer content is not used to train AI models. Enterprise adds SAML or OIDC single sign-on. Security teams can request the SOC 2 report and policies through our Trust Center.
It is a 30-minute call with our team. Bring a real document, deck or existing course, and we build a first draft with you, show how video, quizzes and SCORM export fit your LMS, and agree a scoped plan. If you would rather explore on your own first, start free with no card.
See it on your own course
Bring a document, deck or SCORM export. Watch it become a course with AI video. Leave with a scoped plan.
