Case Study: Teachable launches enterprise analytics dashboards in 4 weeks with Retool

Teachable accelerates time-to-value for its customers, launching analytics dashboards in record time

Teachable, the online course and creator platform, needed a faster way to deliver highly requested enterprise reporting and analytics features without adding engineering overhead or creating more technical debt. Traditional development cycles were taking 6 to 12 months, and cross-team dependencies were slowing delivery and putting customer relationships at risk. Teachable turned to Retool for External Apps to help accelerate feature delivery and improve time-to-value.

Using Retool, Teachable built a customer-facing analytics dashboard by connecting internal APIs, databases, AWS RDS, and Stripe, then adding charts, tables, SSO, and RBAC for secure access. The team launched a working prototype in the first week and shipped the dashboard in 4 weeks, an 83% faster development cycle than their traditional approach. Teachable rolled it out to 100 enterprise users in the first month and 1,000 by month two, while also creating a new upsell opportunity through advanced reporting capabilities.

Teachable

Richard Hunt

VP of Engineering