Find the learning seats nobody opens.
Fixed-price learning license audit: cut unused seats, rebuild one course as sprints, and hand your CFO a memo.
The Council12 chairsall open
Your chairThe audit at a glance
Your vendors sell seats. We sell the list of seats to cut.
Every LMS and content library earns more when you keep every seat. We don't sell any.
- Gartner, HR & L&D practice$75,300 median a yearAnalyst calls and research, built for large enterprise.
- i4cp executive boardPrice on requestPeer board and research, for 10,000+ employee firms.
- ed.cafe audit$4,950 flatSeats to cut, dates and a CFO memo, for 500-5,000 employees.
Gartner: Vendr marketplace median. i4cp: price on request; boards serve 10,000+ FTE firms. Prices checked 14 Oct 2026.
Five deliverables. One price. Nothing to install.
- Seat-use tableEvery license, 90-day activity and cost per active learner.
- Cut, keep, renegotiateA decision per line, sorted by renewal date.
- One course, rebuiltYou pick a long course. We blueprint it as five 10-minute sprints in Slack or Teams.
- A one-page CFO memoDollars recoverable, by date, with an owner for each.
- A 45-minute debriefWith the person who did the work. Not an account manager.
- Day 0We send a one-page intake and a data request.
- When you're readyYou send three exports: licenses, 90-day activity, renewal dates.
- +48 hoursReport and memo arrive.
- Within 5 working daysDebrief call.
- Day 30One email: did the cuts happen? Your answer goes in our ledger, unnamed.
- Admin access to your LMS. We work from exports.
- Negotiating with your vendors for you.
- Building the sprints. The blueprint is yours to use anywhere.
- A pitch for anything we sell. See the FAQ for how we disclose.
This is what lands in your inbox.
Invented company, invented numbers. The layout is real. Try the audit demo.
| License | Seats | Active, 90 days | Cost / active | Renews | Call |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content library A | 2,400 | 312 (13%) | $307 | Jan 2027 | Cut to 400 |
| Leadership video pack | 350 | 41 (12%) | $512 | Mar 2027 | Cut |
| Compliance suite | 2,400 | 2,208 (92%) | $19 | Jun 2027 | Keep |
| Coding practice platform | 180 | 97 (54%) | $223 | Nov 2026 | Renegotiate |
| AI tools course bundle | 600 | 188 (31%) | $160 | Feb 2027 | Renegotiate |
Twelve learning leaders. Four sessions a year. No pitches.
A small peer bench for people who own an L&D budget. Same method every time, so the time isn't wasted.
Format adapted from the School Reform Initiative consultancy protocol and Vistage-style issue processing.
- You own the learning budget at a company of 500 to 5,000 people.
- You'll bring one real number each quarter.
- Vendors, consultants and recruiters. Even quiet ones.
- Anyone who wants content without contributing.
Twelve chairs per circle, all open; the first circle meets once eight are filled. First topic: cutting shelfware and checking AI fluency on the front line.
The refusal list.
Sell you a platform
We resell no LMS, no library and no seats.
Take sponsor money
No vendor buys a slot, a panel or a mention.
Name your numbers
Benchmarks are pooled. Nothing is attributed to you or your company.
Renew in silence
We email 30 days before renewal. Reply "cancel" and it's done.
Four prices. All of them on this page.
No setup fees. No discovery calls. Card or invoice.
The shelfware and microlearning audit. Five deliverables, one debrief.
- Seat-use table and cut list
- One course blueprinted as sprints
- One-page CFO memo
- 45-minute debrief
Under most teams' discretionary approval limit.
Book the auditFour 90-minute sessions, pooled benchmarks, a private channel. Budget owners at 500-5,000-person companies only.
Apply for seatAn 8-page printable deck on learning ROI, built for a board pack.
Buy the dossierWant your CEO, CIO and CHRO at the table too? The Quad-Pass gives four seats across ceo.cafe, cio.cafe, hr.cafe and ed.cafe for $12,500/yr. Ask about Quad-Pass.
Not your signature? Send this.
A four-line email for whoever approves spend. It's already written, so just add their address.
Open the emailI'd like to spend $4,950 on a fixed-price audit of our learning licenses. It lists unused seats by renewal date and gives us a one-page memo on what we can recover. No system access.
Before you book.
Still unsure? [email protected] reaches the person who does the work.
What data do you need, exactly?
Three exports: your license list with seat counts and cost, 90-day activity by license, and renewal dates. A spreadsheet is fine. We never need a login.
Is 48 hours real?
Yes, from the moment the three exports arrive. If something is missing, we tell you within a working day. The clock starts again once it arrives.
Who's behind this? Will you sell me something later?
The Council is run by TheWorkCompany. It also owns learning products, including simplearning.com, certificate.school, skill.re and dojo.guru.
If one of them could fit your case, the report says so in writing and names two alternatives. You'll never get a follow-up pitch.
We're under 500 people. Can we still book?
You can book the audit. The council stays at 500-5,000, so the numbers members compare are comparable.
Why not just trust our LMS dashboard?
Dashboards report activity. They don't set it against cost or renewal dates, and they don't recommend cutting their own product.
How do I leave the council?
Seats are annual. We email 30 days before renewal. Reply "cancel" and you won't be charged again.
Your next renewal is already on a calendar.
Book the audit before it arrives. $4,950, flat.