Rehearsal works. Now it doesn't take a year to build.
Aurora turns the real decisions your people face into realistic, branching simulations in weeks, not quarters. So more of your workforce gets to practise, and you finally see how they decide when it matters.
Because practice shouldn't be a luxury.
Everyone agrees rehearsal works. Few can afford to build it.
You already know people get good at difficult decisions by practising them, not by reading about them. Yet most workforces are still prepared with content. It's rarely a lack of belief in practice. It's build time. A realistic, branching simulation has traditionally taken months to design, so rehearsal gets saved for one or two flagship programmes. Everyone else gets e-learning, and it shows in hesitation, inconsistent judgement and costly mistakes.
Aurora removes that barrier. Our designers describe a real workplace challenge, Aurora generates a complete branching simulation, and our team shapes it around how your people actually work. So rehearsal reaches the teams that need it, not just the leadership cohort.
What does Aurora give you?
Your people step into the real situations they face at work, make a call and see what happens next – before doing it in reality. They can try again, so their confidence comes from doing, not from reading.
Every choice is captured, so you see the reasoning behind the result. You’ll know where people hesitate, where they take shortcuts and where they get it right first time.
Compare decisions across teams, roles and regions to see where judgement is strong and where it needs support, before those gaps show up in the real world.
Decisions are mapped to the measures your organisation already tracks. That means you can show your board how practice connects to performance, not just how many people completed it.
The data shows which parts of your wider learning offering are landing and which aren’t, so you know what to fix, what to keep and what to build next.
Practice at the speed your organisation moves.
If your people need to apply judgement in the real world, Aurora gets them rehearsing it in weeks, and shows you exactly where they're ready and where they're not.
Aurora is great for:
AI can write content in minutes. Content was never the problem.
Most AI learning tools speed up the thing that was already falling short: more modules, more information, more to click through. Aurora speeds up something different. Every simulation is shaped by our learning designers around one question: What will your people actually do when the decision is real?
You get the speed of AI without losing what makes rehearsal work: ownership, consequence, repetition and stakes that feel real. And because every choice is captured, you see how your people actually decide, not just whether they finished. It's built on 14 years of designing practice-based learning.
The Aurora way in action:
Find where performance breaks down
Pinpoint the decisions that matter
Build your simulation with us, in weeks
Run it live and watch decisions arrive
Act on the report, then build the next one
Evidence
Rehearsal changes behaviour.
Aurora's first-ever roll-out was for a large global enterprise. Their learners rated it 4.81 out of 5, and the team now uses Aurora to measure training outcomes and refine the learning that comes before it.
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4.81
out of 5 learner satisfaction on Aurora's first roll-out
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99%
Engagement and knowledge retention on PepsiCo's scenario-based onboarding
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24%
Return on investment from a KPMG simulation built around commercial judgement calls
The PepsiCo and KPMG programmes, like our work with Applied Driving Techniques (where hard braking fell 70% in five weeks), were built before Aurora existed. Aurora runs on the same principles: a real decision, a visible consequence and the chance to try again. What changes is how quickly we can put that in front of your people, and how precisely you can measure what happens next.
FAQs
Aurora is Totem Learning's text-to-simulation platform. It turns a described workplace challenge into a realistic, branching simulation, then measures how people decide inside it.
Weeks, not quarters. The exact timeline depends on what you want people to practise, and we'll set it out with you in your demo.
No. We design your first simulation with you, run it, and report on what it found. After that, you can keep building with our help or take the reins yourself.
Any decision where knowing the answer isn't the same as getting it right under pressure. Think difficult conversations, compliance judgement calls, customer escalations, safety decisions and leading through change.
Every decision is captured and mapped to the KPIs your organisation already tracks. You see where capability is strong, where it falls short and how that changes over time.
It depends on the scope of your first simulation. We'll talk it through in your demo and give you a clear price.
Bring us one decision your people get wrong.
Pick a decision your organisation already knows it gets wrong too often. In a 30-minute demo, we'll show you how Aurora would turn it into practice, and what the data would tell you. No obligation, just a conversation.