Rapid eLearning Solutions
Built from the content you already have: PowerPoint decks, ILT facilitator guides, SOPs, PDFs, recorded sessions. White-label, SCORM-ready, delivered in 5 to 7 weeks at a fixed price you can quote your clients against. No blank page, no five-month build cycle.
Get Your Free Proposal
Send us the source content and we’ll come back with a fixed quote, a delivery date, and an honest read on whether rapid is the right model for it.
There’s no obligation — just mutual fact-finding to make sure we can actually help. We’ll get back to you within 3 business hours.
No time works for you? Email venchito@rainmakermastery.com and we’ll arrange a schedule.
What is rapid eLearning?
Rapid eLearning is a production model that builds finished, LMS-ready courses from content that already exists – decks, facilitator guides, SOPs, recorded sessions – instead of developing new content from scratch. Fewer sign-off gates, parallel production, and proven interaction patterns compress a build from months into weeks.
For training providers and consulting firms, it’s how a catalog gets digitized without hiring a production team. For enterprise L&D, it’s how compliance, onboarding, and product training ship before the content goes stale. Every build is white-label, SCORM 1.2 / 2004 or xAPI/cmi5 packaged, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessible as standard.

Rapid eLearning isn't right for every project
It's a delivery model, not a discount. It works when the content already exists and the constraint is time. It doesn't work when the hard part is figuring out what to teach.
Use rapid eLearning when
- The content already exists in another format and is stable
- You’re digitizing a catalog of workshops you already deliver live
- Compliance or regulatory refreshers that repeat annually
- Onboarding and policy training for a large, distributed audience
- Product, process, or system updates that need to ship before they’re obsolete
- An RFP or client deadline is fixed and external
- Your SMEs have the content but not the time to build it
Don’t use rapid eLearning when
- Learners need branching scenarios or realistic decision practice. That’s our Professional Build, and we’ll quote it as one
- Safety-critical procedural work where the cost of getting it wrong is physical
- Nobody has decided what learners should actually be able to do yet
- The real problem isn’t a knowledge gap. It’s process, tooling, or incentives
- The content is contested and will change substantially during the build
If you land mostly in the right-hand column, say so on the scoping call. We’ll price the Professional or Enterprise Build instead, or tell you it isn’t a training problem at all. A rushed course aimed at the wrong problem is money spent twice, and if you’re reselling it, it’s your name on it, not ours.
Rapid or custom - which one you're actually buying
Rapid eLearning isn't a stripped-down product. You can still get original video, custom illustration, and professional voice talent - those are scoping decisions, not things the model rules out. What changes is where the content comes from and how the build runs.
| Rapid eLearning | Traditional custom | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 5–7 weeks | 14–20 weeks |
| Cost per course | From $2,999 | $12,000–$35,000 |
| Where content comes from | Material you already have — decks, SOPs, ILT guides, recordings | Built from scratch with SMEs over multiple discovery cycles |
| Instructional design | Objectives mapped to existing content, restructured for self-paced | Full analysis, custom curriculum architecture, learner research |
| Visual design | Custom to your brand | Custom to your brand |
| Media | Original video, custom illustration, and professional VO all available — each moves the timeline and quote | Same, built into scope by default |
| Interactivity ceiling | Knowledge checks, click-to-reveal, tabs, drag-and-drop, scored quizzes | Full simulation, adaptive branching, software and process sims |
| Review rounds | One consolidated round, applied live in the authoring tool | Staged sign-off at storyboard, alpha, beta, gold |
| Localization | Priced per language from a single approved master | Each language re-tests against the custom build |
| Best for | Catalog digitization, stable content, fixed client deadlines | Flagship programs, high-stakes skill-building |
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Traditional-custom figures are market estimates for comparison. Need the middle ground? That’s our Professional Build — full branching on the same rapid schedule.
What actually happens in those weeks
Every rapid eLearning page on the internet says 'weeks, not months' and none of them show the weeks. Here's the schedule for a standard 5-module build from existing content. Two columns, because the timeline only holds if both sides move.
You supplySource files, one named SME per module, one decision-maker with sign-off authority, LMS platform and version.
You supplyApproval of the storyboard and the sample screen within 3 business days. This is the gate that matters. Because there’s one review round later, both structure and look are locked here, not after the build.
You supplyNothing. This is heads-down time on our side.
You supplyOne consolidated feedback document covering all modules, from all reviewers, within 5 business days. Anyone who needs to comment must comment now.
You supplyLMS sandbox access — ideally arranged in week 1, not week 6.
Most builds land between 5 and 7 weeks depending on module count, media, and how fast the week 2 gate clears. SME availability is the single biggest variable — every time.
What we can build from
Rapid works because you already own most of the raw material. The question isn't whether you have content - it's what shape it's in. Here's what we take in, what comes out, and what actually happens to the source in between.
PowerPoint deck to self-paced interactive module
Slides get restructured, not skinned. Bullet-heavy slides are broken into screens, speaker notes become on-screen or narrated content, and we add the knowledge checks the deck never had because a facilitator was doing that job live.
ILT facilitator guide to self-paced course plus job aid
The parts that depended on a room - discussion, group work, live Q&A - get rebuilt as scenarios and decision points, or moved into a downloadable job aid where they work better than a simulation would.
SOP or policy PDF to scenario-based microlearning
Procedural documents make poor courses read straight through. We pull the decision points out and build them as situations, then keep the document itself as a linked reference rather than making people memorize it.
Recorded webinar or SME interview to chaptered video course
Transcribed, cut into segments by topic, dead air and housekeeping removed, checkpoints added between chapters. Usually the fastest input to work from - and the one most firms already have sitting unused.
Legacy eLearning rebuilt in a current tool
Flash-era content, abandoned authoring tools, courses whose source files are lost. We rebuild from the published output where we have to - mobile-responsive, current SCORM/xAPI, and this time you own the source files.
Pricing
Simple. Transparent. No surprises.
Fixed pricing. Fixed timelines. Every price is per course (30 to 60 minutes of seat time). Rapid Build is the model described on this page - the other two are here so you can see exactly where the ceiling is and what crossing it costs.
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Rapid Build
Clean, guided courses for essential knowledge
$2,999
per course
– 30–60 min seat time
– Limited interactivity — click-to-reveal, tabs, drag-and-drop, scored quizzes
– Custom, on-brand visuals
– AI / Human voiceover
– SCORM 1.2 / 2004 or xAPI / cmi5
– Kirkpatrick L1–2 built in
– One consolidated review round
– 5–7 week delivery
Professional Build
Full interactivity with a named on-screen facilitator
$4,500
per course
– 30–60 min seat time
– Full interactivity — branching scenarios with real consequences
– Custom animation + named on-screen facilitator
– Feedback that teaches after every decision
– AI / Human voiceover
– SCORM 1.2 / 2004 or xAPI / cmi5
– Priority project manager
– 5–7 week delivery
Enterprise Build
Maximum depth — simulation and fully custom design
$7,500
per course
– 30–60 min seat time
– Simulation — adaptive branching + software / process sims
– Fully custom design + motion graphics
– Named facilitator + scenario storytelling
– AI / Human voiceover
– SCORM + xAPI / cmi5
– Priority project manager
– 5–7 week delivery
Rapid eLearning FAQs
Rapid eLearning FAQs
Not in design or production standards – every rapid course gets real instructional design, custom on-brand visuals, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, and full QA before it reaches you. What’s genuinely capped is interactivity: Rapid Build gives you click-to-reveal, tabs, drag-and-drop, and scored quizzes, not branching scenarios or simulation. If a course needs a learner to practise a hard decision and feel the consequence, that’s a Professional or Enterprise Build and we’ll say so rather than stretching rapid past what it does well.
Yes. Everything is white-label – your logo, palette, typography, and tone, with no trace of a third party – and you receive the editable source files on delivery. Sell it, license it, bundle it into a client academy, or hand it to another developer later. Many of our partners are training providers and L&D agencies who build a catalog with us and resell it under their own name at their own price. How you package and price it is entirely yours to decide.
One consolidated round, in week 5. That single round is what makes the timeline work, and it’s why week 2 matters so much – you approve the storyboard and a fully built sample screen in the real authoring tool before development starts, so the review is about content accuracy rather than design preferences. Additional rounds are available and quoted per round, with a revised delivery date issued before you approve. They’re not a penalty; sometimes content genuinely shifts. But they’re a decision with a date attached, and you’ll see both numbers first.
Yes, and it’s the most common reason firms come to us. Courses built as a batch share templates, one design gate, and one review cycle, so the per-course cost and the per-course effort on your side both drop meaningfully – volume pricing starts at $1,500 per course in a bundle. For ongoing programs we set up recurring production with priority scheduling, so you have predictable capacity to plan pipeline and quote against without carrying full-time developers. Tell us your expected volume and we’ll build terms around it.
Usually not – messy is normal, and the week 1 content audit exists precisely to sort it. What genuinely doesn’t work is content nobody has owned for two years with no SME willing to vouch for it, screenshots of a system that’s since been redesigned, or material where the accurate version lives in one person’s head and that person hasn’t agreed to be involved. In those cases the honest answer is a short content-development phase first, quoted separately, then the rapid build. We’d rather tell you that in week 1 than discover it in week 4. Send the messiest example you have.
Yes. Every course is packaged and tested as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or xAPI/cmi5, so it loads, tracks completion, and reports scores cleanly in any modern LMS – yours or your client’s. We confirm loading and tracking on handover day rather than leaving you to find out during a client go-live. If you’re deploying into a client system you don’t control, give us the platform and version in week 1 and sandbox access before week 6.
Yes. Rapid Build includes scored quizzes with completion and score tracking through SCORM or xAPI, which is what most credential processes actually depend on, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility is standard so the program stays audit-ready and eligible for public-sector work. If certification is central to your model, say so at kickoff – we design the assessment strategy in from the start rather than bolting it on. Where a credential requires performance-based assessment rather than knowledge testing, that’s a Professional Build.
Say so on the first call and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s possible. There are real levers – fewer modules in the first release with the rest phased, reduced media, AI voiceover instead of human talent, and a compressed week 2 gate if your decision-maker can commit to a 24-hour turnaround. What we won’t do is agree to a date and then discover in week 5 that it was never achievable. If it can’t be done properly in the time available, that’s a better thing to hear before you’ve committed to your own client.
Yes, on delivery – the Rise 360 link and every Storyline .story file, plus the complete SCORM package and documentation. That means a policy change, a rebrand, or a client-specific variant never forces a full rebuild at agency rates. Update them in-house, bring them back to us, or hand them to another developer. You’re buying an asset you own, not renting access to one, and for anyone reselling courses that distinction is the whole business case.
Yes – 35+ languages, priced per language from a single approved master, with AI or human voiceover and re-testing in every language. The economics work best when localization is planned at kickoff rather than added after handover, because the master build can be structured for it. One proven course becomes an international catalog, which for training providers serving multinational clients is often where rapid pays for itself fastest.
Get Your Free Proposal
Send us the source content and we’ll come back with a fixed quote, a delivery date, and an honest read on whether rapid is the right model for it.
There’s no obligation — just mutual fact-finding to make sure we can actually help. We’ll get back to you within 3 business hours.
No time works for you? Email venchito@rainmakermastery.com and we’ll arrange a schedule.

