In collaboration · SU·COLLAB·MOTIVD·MMVI

SmarterUni × Motivd.

Motivd's performance coaches help author the track, run the live office hours, and bring anonymized client briefs into the curriculum. Learners ship coaching tools and protocols that coaches can actually use.

The relationship

Motivd's senior coaches sit on the brief authoring committee. Every brief in the track has been pressure-tested against a real coaching workflow before it ships to a cohort.

Mentors are drawn from Motivd's vetted coach pool. Learners ship tools — adherence trackers, programming aids, recovery dashboards — that go into a Motivd-internal toolbox if approved.

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Live experiments · 2

We treat the cohort like a study.

motivd-exp-01 · n=48 · 2026-03shipped

Coach-authored briefs vs platform-authored

HypothesisBriefs co-authored by working coaches produce more 'production-grade' learner artifacts than generic platform briefs.

MethodParallel cohorts, 24 learners each, identical mentor cadence, blinded rubric scoring by three Motivd coaches not involved in authoring.

Coach-authored cohort had 2.1× the rate of 'I would deploy this with a client' verdicts.

motivd-exp-02 · n=14 · 2026-04running

Mentor → hire conversion

HypothesisCoaches who mentor for 6+ weeks are 3× more likely to refer a graduating learner into their own practice.

MethodCohort tracking of mentor referrals against a control of cold-applied candidates.

Simulated case studies

Composite learners, real briefs.

Built from anonymized patterns across cohorts. Personas are composites; brief structure, mentor moves and outcome shape are representative.

[Simulated]Composite scenarios for illustration. Real student names and outcomes vary.

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What the data looks like.

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Where Motivd-mentored learners spend their week

  • Coach interviews2hrs
  • Building4hrs
  • Mentor critique1.5hrs
  • Writing & ship1.5hrs
  • Reading1hrs

Self-reported hour split across a 10-hour cohort week, averaged across the last two cohorts.

Research papers · 1

On the record.

SU-MTVD-2026-01
2026

Practitioner-authored briefs in vocational AI training: a controlled comparison

J. Park · Motivd Coaching · SmarterUni Research

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SmarterUni × Motivd (2026). Partner dossier. Retrieved from https://www.smarteruni.com/collaborations/motivd. Serial: SU·COLLAB·MOTIVD·MMVI.
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