Kolab Academy · Formasion In design
Training in five minutes. The HRDC refund claims itself.
Kolab Academy turns training into five-minute mobile lessons your frontline team actually finishes, in the language they think in. Every course, session and signature is kept in the shape an HRDC grant claim needs, so the levy you already pay comes back as skills.
- Five-minute lessons with photos and voice, built for phones on the floor
- Toolbox talks delivered, signed and recorded in ten minutes
- Expiry alerts before the forklift licence quietly lapses
- HRDC grant pack: sessions and attendance exported claim-ready
Made for
Training that sticks, paperwork that pays you back
Training in most Mauritian businesses is a paper attendance sheet at an all-day session everyone forgets by Friday. The safety briefing lives in one supervisor's head. The new joiner learns by shadowing whoever is least busy. Certificates expire silently, and nobody notices until an inspector or an accident does.
Formasion takes the opposite shape: five-minute lessons on the phone in the worker's own language, toolbox talks delivered and signed on the floor, onboarding paths that replace shadowing, and a permanent record per person. The compliance matrix reads those records across the whole company and shows the gaps in red.
Then the part nobody else has. Your business already pays the HRDC training levy, and most of it goes unclaimed because the grant paperwork is a career in itself. Formasion keeps every course, session and attendance record in the shape a claim needs, so the refund pack is a button, not a fortnight.
In design, built from working bricks
Formasion is a design-stage product looking for founding customers, but it starts from parts the family already runs, not a blank page.
- Kolab People Manager already tracks skills and HRDC grant claims; Formasion feeds both
- Read-and-sign with identity-stamped signatures comes from Formiler, already built
- Trilingual course content runs on the Tradiksion engine behind every Kolab surface
- Expiry alerts reuse the reminder engine proven in PractiQ
Modules
Everything inside Kolab Academy
Every module is a brick. Start with what hurts most, snap on the rest when you are ready.
Micro-courses
Five-minute lessons with photos and voice, built for phones on the factory floor, not laptops in a training room.
Course builder with AI drafts
Give it an outline and get a draft course back: lessons, photo slots and quiz questions. Your people polish it before it ships.
Quizzes & passing marks
A short check at the end of each lesson, with a passing mark you set and retries that teach rather than punish.
Toolbox talks
The ten-minute site briefing, delivered from a phone, signed by everyone present and recorded forever. The construction and factory heartbeat.
Read-and-sign
Policies and safety notices with identity-stamped signatures, so "nobody told me" ends. Built on Formiler patterns.
Onboarding paths
Day-one to week-four course sequences per role, so the new joiner follows a path instead of shadowing whoever is least busy.
Records & certificates
A permanent training record per person, certificates issued or uploaded, and expiry alerts before anything lapses.
HRDC grant pack
Sessions, attendance and outcomes exported in claim-ready shape, so the levy you already pay comes back as refunds.
Trilingual courses
English, French and Kreol Morisien via Tradiksion, so the worker learns in the language they think in.
Practical assessments
A supervisor observes, ticks the checklist and signs: skills proven on the machine, not on the phone.
Boost learning streaks
Points for completed lessons, badges for certifications, team challenges for full-crew compliance. Never public quiz scores.
Compliance matrix
Who is certified for what, across the whole company, with the gaps in red before an inspector finds them.
A closer look
How Kolab Academy feels day to day
Five minutes on the floor, in their language
A Formasion lesson is a photo, a short piece of text, a voice track and a quick check, sized for a phone and a tea break. The AI builder turns your outline into a draft, your supervisor makes it true, and Tradiksion makes it trilingual.
- Photos and voice first, long text never
- AI drafts the course, humans polish it before it ships
- Every lesson in English, French and Kreol Morisien
Who is certified for what, gaps in red
Every completed course, signed talk and issued certificate lands in one permanent record per person. The compliance matrix reads those records across the whole company, and expiry alerts fire while there is still time to rebook the refresher.
- Expiry alerts on forklift, food handling and first aid
- Outside certificates upload with their expiry dates
- The same records feed the People Manager skills matrix
Lessons arrive where Mauritius already talks
No app to chase. Formasion nudges each learner on WhatsApp: today's lesson, the toolbox talk due on site, the quiz passed, the badge earned. Short, friendly, and in the learner's own language.
- Reminders timed to shifts, and paused on cyclone days
- Completions and badges confirmed in the same thread
- Supervisors see who is stuck without standing over anyone
Streaks and badges, never public quiz scores
Boost gives learning a pulse: streaks for showing up, badges for certifications earned, team challenges for full-crew compliance. Individual quiz scores stay between the learner and their record, always.
- Learning streaks with instant feedback after each lesson
- Certification badges worth a little pride
- Team challenges celebrate crews, not top scorers
Local by design
Training that speaks HRDC
Every levy-paying business in Mauritius is owed training money it rarely claims. Formasion is built around getting it back, in the languages of the floor.
HRDC refunds
Courses, sessions and attendance are kept in the shape a grant claim needs, so the levy you already pay comes back instead of sitting unclaimed.
Kreol on the floor
Safety briefings finally understood, not just delivered. The worker learns in the language they think in, with dignity intact.
Expiry alerts
Forklift, food handling and first aid certifications expire silently. Formasion warns in good time, with the refresher a tap away.
Season surges
Tourist season means dozens of joiners at once. Onboarding paths absorb the surge without borrowing your best people for weeks.
MQA on the roadmap
Internal training needs no accreditation to be useful. Support for MQA-recognised courses is on the roadmap, and we say so plainly.
DPA 2017
Training records are personal data: access scoped by role, retention rules built in, and exports your data protection officer will approve of.
Boost in Kolab Academy
Kolab Boost turns learning into streaks, badges and team pride. One rule is hard: individual quiz scores are never ranked publicly.
Learning streaks
A lesson a day builds a visible streak, with points landing the moment the quiz is passed.
Certification badges
First aid, forklift, fire warden: badges sit on the learner's profile, earned once and worn daily.
Full-crew challenges
Teams chase complete compliance together. The leaderboard celebrates crews, and nobody's quiz mark is anyone else's business.
In the wild
What it looks like in real businesses
Toolbox talks moved from one supervisor's memory to the phone: delivered in Kreol, signed on the floor, recorded forever. The safety audit that used to take a week now takes an afternoon.
A two-week onboarding path per role replaced shadowing. New staff reached the floor sooner, and the head housekeeper got her best people back.
Claimed its first HRDC refund ever, because the paperwork already existed: sessions, attendance and outcomes exported claim-ready in minutes.
Pricing
Kolab Academy pricing, in rupees
Indicative launch pricing, per staff member per month, minimum 10 staff, VAT excluded. Formasion is in design: founding customers lock these rates.
Formasion Solo
Courses, quizzes and records to start.
- Micro-courses and the AI course builder
- Quizzes and passing marks
- Training records, certificates and expiry alerts
- Trilingual courses: English, French, Kreol Morisien
Formasion Biznes
The compliance heartbeat, HRDC pack included.
- Everything in Solo
- Toolbox talks and read-and-sign
- Onboarding paths per role
- HRDC grant pack and compliance matrix
Formasion Group
For groups that prove skills on the machine.
- Everything in Biznes
- Practical assessments with supervisor sign-off
- API access and multi-company
- Priority support
Prices per person per month, VAT excluded. Annual billing takes two months off. Indicative pricing: nothing is charged before general availability, and pilot customers lock their launch price for two years.
Questions
Asked all the time
Does Formasion submit the HRDC claim for us?
Do our workers need smartphones?
Who writes the courses?
Are the courses MQA-recognised?
Can we track certificates from outside trainers?
Does it work with Kolab People Manager?
The levy is already paid. Come and claim it.
Formasion is in design and looking for founding customers: factories, hotels and sites who will shape the HRDC pack and lock the founding rate. Billed in rupees, taught in three languages.