Case Study: Hats & Ladders expands faster and reduces tech debt with Learnosity

Hats & Ladders launches rebuilt platform in 9 months with Learnosity

Hats & Ladders, a company helping young people with career discovery and skill identification, faced significant scaling limitations with its homegrown assessment system. The platform's tight coupling of content and engineering teams led to slow publishing, a lack of engaging question types, and an inability to expand into new markets like K-12 education without accruing technical debt. To modernize their platform, they partnered with Learnosity and its embedded assessment APIs.

By implementing Learnosity's Author, Items, and Reports APIs, Hats & Ladders decoupled its authoring and delivery systems, enabling faster content iteration and richer, gamified question types. The results were immediate: support tickets due to lost work plummeted to zero, and the content feedback loop shrank from weeks to days. Learnosity provided the foundation for Hats & Ladders to expand its product offerings across new markets without increasing the size of its development team, unlocking significant business growth.

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