EdTech · Course, Training & Certification Video
Accreditation moves faster than your production budget.
Course video and interactive assets, built at catalog volume, compliant on delivery, priced so a refresh cycle is a line item instead of a capital request.
You already know what your catalog needs. The problem is never the plan. It is that a full refresh quotes at six figures from a US studio, comes back from an offshore vendor failing an accessibility audit, and either way lands two quarters after the standard changed.
I build the production system instead of quoting the project. One pipeline, one component library, one compliance baseline, running across your whole catalog at a unit price that makes annual refresh routine.
01The problemWhy refresh keeps breaking
Continuing education and certification content is not optional to update. Accreditation forces it. Standards move, the catalog has to move with them, or the credential stops meaning anything.
That creates a permanent, predictable production need, and the market serving it is split badly. US custom studios price a thirty-minute piece between sixty and a hundred fifty thousand dollars, which limits you to refreshing a fraction of the catalog a year. Offshore shops quote a fraction of that and routinely deliver interactives that fail a WCAG audit, because accessibility was retrofitted instead of built.
Neither scales to a catalog. One is too expensive to repeat. The other is too risky to certify.
02ProofBuilt, shipped, running
Three course samples produced through the pipeline below, plus a five-piece interactive ladder running live on this site. Click into any of them.
The interactive ladder
Five working pieces from a knowledge check through a canvas physics sandbox, Levels 1 to 5, all self-contained and accessible.
Open the ladderCourse video production
How the video pipeline runs end to end, from topic through script, narration, visuals and publish.
See the caseK-12 curriculum credential
A full curriculum built for TreeRaise, plus clinical procedure walkthroughs and workplace scenario branching delivered against real client specs.
See the case03The systemLevel is set by execution, not by widget
The same accordion sits at Level 2 with four plain items and a text reveal, and at Level 3 with six steps, narration, custom graphics and real instructional scaffolding. Same component. Two levels apart.
A short paragraph unfolds. Plain typography. No media, no interaction beyond expand and collapse.
Same widget. Different execution depth. Different level.
That is the correct way to score complexity, and it has one practical consequence. The level has to be fixed when the asset is specified, not discovered during the build. Every asset is ordered at a named level. When a request arrives at Level 2 and the content genuinely needs Level 3 depth, I flag it before building. I do not absorb it, and I do not quietly deliver less.
That single rule is why this pricing holds at volume instead of degrading into change orders.
04The cardWhat it costs
Published, because you should be able to build a budget without booking a call first. Per delivered asset package. Includes design, build, media, accessibility conformance, cross-browser QA and LMS-ready packaging.
| Level | What sits here | One asset equals | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Informational screens, template layouts | A quiz or series up to 20 questions | $500 |
| Level 2 | Accordion sets, flashcard decks, hotspots, drag and drop | A series up to 20 items | $1,000 |
| Level 3 | Narration, custom graphics, scored responses, single-concept sandbox | Multi-page up to 5 pages | $2,000 |
| Level 4 | Multi-variable sandbox, procedural with photo and audio, scored branching | Multi-section up to 5 sections | $3,500 |
| Level 5 | Multi-system illustrated world, locked reference style | One directed simulation | Scoped |
| Level | What sits here | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Level 2 | Linear, voiceover narration, AI photorealistic host lip-synced across open, middle and close | $3,500 |
| Level 3 | Approved illustration style, voiceover narration, no visible host | $5,500 |
| Level 4 | Character animation in a uniform style system, animated host | $7,500 |
| Level 5 | Premium animation or photorealistic, interactive with embedded question points | $9,500 |
| 3D with AR | Rotatable model or environment with a browser AR viewer | Scoped |
Shorter runtimes price per finished minute against a style system establishment fee, minimum ten finished minutes. Level 1 is available inside a committed batch of twenty-five assets or more with at least forty percent at Level 2 or higher.
Before volume: program setup
$18,500Discovery, level calibration against your rubric, a vertical-specific visual system, the reusable component library, and two approved prototypes. Half of it credits back against your first committed batch of twenty-five assets or more.
This phase exists because inheriting an elementary-grade visual register for an audience of sixteen-year-olds entering a licensed trade is a creative direction failure before it is a production one. It gets settled first, on purpose.
05IncludedCompliant on delivery, not after the audit
- WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 conformance, including keyboard and screen-reader alternatives for drag-and-drop and hotspot interactions. This is precisely where low-cost builds fail.
- Self-contained HTML that runs offline, packaged for SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 or xAPI.
- Responsive behavior verified on desktop, tablet and Chromebook.
- A cross-browser QA matrix and a documented test pass you can hand to a reviewer.
- Source files and full transfer of ownership. You own what you paid for.
06CapacityVolume you can schedule against
07The benchmarkWhat course video actually costs in 2026
Get the 2026 production cost benchmark
US custom studio rates, offshore rates, what the AI avatar floor actually buys, and where each one fails an audit. Built from 2026 industry data, not vendor marketing.
Useful whether or not you ever work with me. If you are building a production budget this year, it will save you a bad assumption.
One email. No sequence, no drip.
08StartStraight answers
Do you work directly with institutions?
No. I work with the publisher and vendor layer that serves them. That is where the production volume lives, and where procurement does not add six months to a timeline.
Who writes the instructional design?
You supply objectives and approved copy. If activity-level design is needed from me, that adds sixty percent per asset and is agreed before anything gets built.
How is accessibility handled?
Built in, not retrofitted. Every asset ships with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 conformance, including keyboard and screen-reader paths for drag-and-drop and hotspot interactions, plus a documented test pass you can hand a reviewer.
What if an asset is specified at the wrong level?
I flag it before building. If you want it built as specified, it ships at that level's depth. The level is never discovered mid-build and billed back to you as a surprise.
Can you handle a full catalog refresh?
Yes. That is what the pricing is designed for. Thirty to forty packages a month with one pod, sixty to seventy with two. The setup phase exists so volume stays consistent instead of drifting asset to asset.
Who owns the finished assets?
You do. Source files and full transfer of ownership are included in every package.
Start with the calibration
The fastest way to know whether this fits your catalog is thirty minutes and one honest look at your rubric.