Get your frontline teams customer-ready
Well-trained teams enhance brands
Get teams productive fast with upleveled training
Retail and casual and fast-food businesses struggle to provide consistent service when the workforce is often transient, on-the-go, and bring varying degrees of experience and education to the table. You need to build customer service skills, and keep employees up to date on the latest products, promotions, and procedures — all while being measurable, engaging, and ready immediately.
Are you struggling to…
Continually create and adapt courses to match changing products, promotions, and safety regulations
Juggle a complicated tech stack that overpromises, underdelivers, and drains resources
Onboard new hires quickly enough to keep up with high turnover and seasonal hiring spikes
Deliver consistent training to a deskless, mobile workforce across hundreds or thousands of locations
Quickly gather meaningful learning metrics that tell you how your teams are doing
Easily and securely manage training materials for store teams, managers, and franchisees in one place
Impact turnover, compliance, and customer experience with one learning platform
Replace fragmented systems with a single, AI-powered platform and operate more efficiently, reduce compliance exposure, accelerate ramp time, and drive measurable business results — from speed of service to average purchase size — from your training programs.
Award-winning platform for training
CYPHER has received multiple awards for our innovative learning technology, including Forbes Advisor’s “Best Overall Employee Training Software” and “Best LMS."
Create skills-based courses in minutes
Imagine building competency-based, gamified, personalized courses based on your secure, proprietary resources in just 10 minutes:
- Roll out new menu items, product launches, and promotions in days, not months – using your own proprietary IP and trusted sources
- Optimize for speed while maintaining full editorial control with our industry-leading, award-winning AI course builder
- Ensure subject-matter proficiency for every team member with a personal AI learning agent to teach, coach, and assess — including realistic customer service role-plays
- Automatically align training modules, assessments, and more to skills for proficiency-oriented development your operators can measure
Traditional way vs. CYPHER’s approach
Spend fewer resources navigating a convoluted and complex stack of training development and delivery technology and more time developing learners. Here are just a few ways CYPHER is leading the necessary disruption of modern learning.
Traditional way
What you get with CYPHER
A learning platform designed for retail
See how CYPHER can help your business grow
1Combine the power of CYPHER Agent with your content
UPLOADED CONTENT
Use CYPHER Agent to create courses grounded in your own content. Upload videos, PDFs, brand standards, or operations manuals, and CYPHER Agent will create a full course complete with quizzes, gamification, competencies, and more. With CYPHER, course creation is quick and simple, so you can meet training demand with fewer resources.
About CYPHER Agent for course creators
2Automatically manage certifications
CERTIFICATION
Automatically enroll team members in required certifications — OSHA, food handler, brand standards — and track completion. Create a reminder notification cadence that brings learners back to update and recertify without any manual intervention on your part. Carefully managed certification programs help cement compliance and brand integrity; a win for your operators and your customers.
3On-demand insights
REPORTING
Run built-in or custom reports to get insights on learning at the user, store, region, or organization level. Identify where your team members are performing well and where they need to improve to ensure consistent guest experience and course effectiveness.
4Scalable skills-based learning
COMPETENCY MAPPING
Align courses to 3,000+ pre-existing or AI-generated competencies to help crew members, associates, and managers achieve mastery-level proficiency. Advanced reporting helps you monitor learner progress and course effectiveness to continuously improve training programs.
5Support on-demand, personalized development
PERSONAL LEARNER AGENT
Support learning in the flow of work with coaching, self-assessment, and on-demand learning that responds to the learner’s experience and draws on your proprietary material. Imagine team members refreshing learning on their own terms right when they need it — between rushes, before a shift — or role-playing customer interactions and getting real-time feedback.
About CYPHER Agent for learners
6Central control with regional flexibility
MULTI-ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
Using a multi-organization structure, you can retain oversight of regions, banners, and locations while providing limited permissions at the lower levels. This enables regions, owners, and franchisees to add localized content on top of corporate standards, keeping your brand consistent and responsive.
7Customize your learning portal
BRANDING
Provide your team with a seamless experience by adding your logo, a custom color scheme, and related images to your CYPHER environment. Make it a space that reflects your brand. Create multiple portals for subsidiaries or regions, each with their own unique look, but managed centrally.
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8Fun, engaging, and effective courses
GAMIFICATION
Make your course offerings more compelling, engaging, and effective with gamification elements. Reward progress with points, badges, and team-based challenges between stores or shifts, promoting an enjoyable learning experience and boosting the effectiveness of your course offerings.
About gamification
9Centralized training offerings
EFFICIENCY
Centralize training across stores, regions, franchisees, and partners. Create dedicated organizations for each banner or operator with unique portals, users, product courses, and resources, promoting streamlined management and access.
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What CYPHER retail and restaurant customers say
“We have seen so many improvements across our organization, not just speed but also flexibility in terms of learning. We’ve seen that our employees’ competencies have improved just by using the platform.”
Paulo Perez, Chief Human Resource Officer
“The best feature is its interface. It has a good user experience, and overall the site looks clean and not cluttered. This makes it very easy to use. One of the best parts of online learning is its convenience since you get to learn when you’re at home.”
Isabelle Javier, Brand Specialist (Digital)
“What I like most about CYPHER is that it’s very user-friendly. Even users who are not computer savvy will be able to complete the modules without any navigation issues.”
Raymond Opina, International Business Development Manager