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Thirst

The #1 Learning Platform For SMBs

Thirst is a UK-based SaaS learning platform for SMBs that centralizes onboarding, compliance, and skills development. It offers AI-powered content creation and recommendations, assessments and certifications, analytics and reporting, automations, and a ready-to-use content library for growing teams.

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Use Case

Thirst centralises onboarding, compliance, and skills development so growing teams can launch structured learning fast, keep people compliant, and prove impact with real-time analytics. It solves common pain points like scattered training content, low learner engagement, heavy admin for L&D, proving audit readiness, and access friction via SSO. Typical use cases: role-based new-hire onboarding; mandatory training with due dates, reminders, assessments and certificates; skills-based development and social learning; manager visibility into progress and risk; and automated assignments via HRIS sync.

Create dedicated, purpose‑built hubs for onboarding, compliance, role- or team-based learning, and campaigns. Learning Spaces let L&D organise content, activities, updates, and community interaction in one place, then automatically deliver the right resources and announcements to the right people by team, role, group, or individual. Unlike one-off courses, spaces support ongoing learning with flexible structure and low admin overhead, so content can be added, removed, or updated without rebuilding as teams and priorities change. Ideal for launches, awareness campaigns, and leadership or manager communities where engagement and relevance matter.

Target Audience

SMBs and growing teams needing an all-in-one learning platform; L&D, HR/People Ops, compliance and team managers across industries such as Finance, Retail, Hospitality, Tech, Healthcare, Government, Manufacturing, and Education. Especially suited to organisations wanting fast onboarding, ongoing compliance, and skills-focused development without heavy LMS complexity.

Data Residency

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Target Segments

KMUMid-Market

Source URLs

  • https://thirst.io/about/
  • https://thirst.io/?utm_source=openai
  • https://help.thirst.io/subscription-tiers-in-thirst?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/security/?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/blog/new-feature-microsoft-sso/?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/accessibility/?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/integrations/bamboo-hr/?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/solutions/lms-for-tech/?utm_source=openai
  • https://thirst.io/pricing/

learning_design_delivery

  • Learning Journeys with structured, gated paths
  • Learning Blocks with step-by-step progress
  • Events for live or in-person sessions with RSVPs/auto-enrolment
  • Spaces as team/role hubs
  • Custom branding and multilingual support

ai_capabilities

  • AI Quiz generation from PDFs
  • AI Recommendations for personalised content
  • AI Summaries
  • AI Writing Assistant

assessment_compliance

  • Assessments: quizzes, reflections, written/video/file submissions
  • Certifications: auto-issue and tracking
  • Due dates and notifications
  • User roles and Groups for assignment and tracking
  • Content moderation
  • Accessibility-aligned learner experience

learning_structure

  • Learning Journeys (guided pathways)
  • Learning Blocks (step-by-step modules)
  • Spaces (role/team hubs)
  • Events (live/virtual)

ai_automation

  • AI Quiz generator from PDFs
  • AI Summaries to create highlights from long docs
  • AI Recommendations for personalised learning
  • AI Writing Assistant to draft/rewrite learning content
  • Auto-assign content by role/group
  • HRIS integrations to sync people data and trigger learning

content_and_localisation

  • User-Generated Content with moderation
  • Translations in 70+ languages
  • Thirst X premium content library

reporting_insights

  • Real-time analytics and reporting
  • Managers Overview to compare teams
  • My Team view to track progress, at-risk learners, certifications/compliance

reporting_views

  • Analytics & Reporting
  • Managers Overview
  • My Team
  • Custom analytics/reports (add-on)

content_library

Bite-sized, audio, and accredited courses across compliance, leadership, wellbeing and more; audit-ready completion records.

branding_and_extensibility

  • Custom branding included
  • Custom domain available as add-on

accessibility

Designed to conform to WCAG 2.1 AA; captions/transcripts, keyboard-first navigation, screen reader support; authoring guidance on alt text, captions, headings, contrast.

reliability_and_access

  • Unlimited storage
  • iOS and Android mobile apps
  • WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility
  • 99.9% uptime claim

mobile

iOS and Android apps available.

service_reliability

99.9% uptime; 24/7 monitoring; regular backups; vulnerability scanning; annual third-party penetration testing; AWS hosting; UK/EU data residency.

tiering_limits_examples

Core/Growth/Premium plans with limits on Spaces, Groups, flagged content, languages, custom skills, analytics viewers.