Voice-first conversational AI, grounded in 30 years of learning science research, that extracts what your best people know and makes it navigable, teachable, and genuinely understood.
Talk to us about your knowledgeAnd the hardest to transfer. Current approaches deliver content and test recall. But understanding — the ability to derive, explain, and apply knowledge independently — requires something fundamentally different.
Your most experienced people carry knowledge they can’t easily articulate. When they leave, it leaves with them. No document captures how they actually think.
Training delivers information and tests recall. But recognising the right answer on a test is not the same as being able to derive, explain, and apply it independently.
People approach learning in fundamentally different ways. When the teaching approach mismatches how someone thinks, learning doesn’t just slow down — it fails.
Our AI-assisted Informed Assistant conducts structured voice dialogues with your subject matter experts, extracting not just what they know but how their knowledge connects.
We sit with your experts and, through AI-assisted conversation, probe their knowledge — insisting on derivation, checking for connections, surfacing the structure behind their expertise.
The result is not a slide deck or a manual. It is a navigable, interconnected knowledge structure that learners can enter from any point and explore in the way that suits how they think.
Our system detects how each learner approaches the material — sequential or contextual, narrow or broad — and adjusts accordingly. No two learners experience the same path.
Assessment is through conversation and demonstration, not testing. Can the learner explain, derive, and teach the knowledge back? That is understanding. Everything else is recall.
CoExplorer is not a speculative approach to AI-assisted learning. It is the practical implementation of Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory — a rigorous, experimentally validated account of how genuine understanding emerges through dialogue, developed over thirty years of research.
Integrated with Elliott Jaques’s framework for cognitive development and Gillian Stamp’s appreciative methodology for detecting how people process complexity, the result is a system that sees each learner as they are, meets them where they stand, and supports them in constructing understanding that is genuinely their own.
The theory is complete. The technology to implement it — voice-based conversational AI, graph databases for knowledge structures, adaptive interfaces — has only recently become possible.
Conversation Theory. The mechanism by which understanding is constructed through dialogue, derivation, and teachback.
Structural complexity. The developmental stages through which a person’s capacity to handle complexity grows.
Appreciative methodology. How to detect where a person stands without reducing them to a test score.
The approach works wherever expert knowledge needs to be transferred to learners. These sectors are where the need is most acute.
Clinical reasoning, continuing education, diagnostic knowledge
Regulatory knowledge, compliance training, risk assessment
Systems knowledge, technical onboarding, expert capture
Leadership capability, strategic thinking, organisational learning
Ocean literacy, systems thinking, science education
CoExplorer’s technology powers the College of Exploration, a non-profit dedicated to ocean science literacy and systems education. Since 1991, the College has brought together diverse minds to co-explore the interconnected systems that sustain life on Earth.
Our first domain — the Seven Essential Principles of Ocean Science Literacy — demonstrates the platform in educational practice. The ocean is vast, interconnected, multi-scale, rich in analogy, and largely unexplored. It invites exactly the kind of understanding that Conversation Theory is designed to support.
Visit the College of Exploration →Whether you’re looking to capture expert knowledge before it walks out the door, build genuinely adaptive learning, or explore what Conversation Theory can do for your organisation — we’d like to hear from you.
peter.tuddenham@coexplorer.org