2026 Impact Report

Turning training into measurable results

The Cards Impact Report

Data from more than 24,000 active users in 2025.

24k+

active users, professionals who turned learning into a routine, not an obligation.

88k+

That's the number of completed interactions — quizzes, polls, answers. Users don't just browse: they take part.

96%

satisfaction.
Training is seen as useful, accessible and fitted to teams' everyday work.

10min

That's the average engagement time per session, enough to anchor and cover 2 courses per login on average.

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Foreword

Training is no longer just consumed. It's practiced, repeated, and anchored.

This report doesn't measure usage. It measures what stays — and what changes. Cards turns content into learning routines activated over time, for real engagement, measurable anchoring, and lasting on-the-ground adoption.

The problem

Companies keep producing more content. But attention isn't keeping pace. Low completion, fast forgetting, weak on-the-job application — the paradox of modern training.

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The Cards model

Micro-content → regular activation → smart repetition → on-the-job application. Cards structures learning over time, rather than concentrating it into a single session.

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The result

What matters isn't what's seen. It's what's retained. This report documents the real engagement, measurable anchoring and lasting on-the-ground adoption Cards generated in 2025.

An impact that goes beyond training

Optimized time, easier on-the-ground adoption, learning that's used rather than stored. Training becomes a performance lever, not a cost center.
Reflexes, rather than content consumed and forgotten within days.

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A more sustainable and inclusive learning model

Less pedagogical waste, more inclusion for frontline teams, attention that's used sparingly. Learning better without producing more — that's Cards' conviction since 2018.

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Cards is 100% French, online software 🇫🇷

The legal name of our company is "Seekoya" and we are mainly based in Lyon and Paris.
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The team behind Cards

Cards is designed and run from Lyon by a committed, human-scale team, convinced that training better starts with anchoring better.

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Matthieu THOMAS

President & CEO

Matthieu leads the Learning & Development team at Cards. With more than 15 years of experience in professional training, including several years at Apple Retail France as a Train-the-Trainer, he designs digestible, actionable, results-driven L&D strategies.

He helps our customers structure their training journeys so they're better delivered, better retained, and better applied.

His approach combines a pedagogical vision, a product mindset, and a sense of impact, with one constant goal: turning every piece of internal knowledge into a lever for real-world action.

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Nicolas LEGENDRE

CEO & CPTO

Nicolas leads Cards' technical development and makes sure the product stays intuitive, robust and scalable. A passionate engineer, he combines sharp technical expertise with constant attention to user experience, performance and system scalability.

He runs the Tech team with rigor and pragmatism, with one clear goal: making Cards a tool that's both easy to pick up and solid for the long run, able to evolve with our customers' needs.

Nicolas works hand in hand with the Product, Support and Design teams to bring together product vision, technical reliability and execution agility.

Our mission

Give everyone the means to turn knowledge into concrete, lasting results. In a world saturated with information, we help companies get to the point: to create short, useful, well-thought-out training that anchors and transforms.

Origins and convictions

Cards was born from a simple but radical observation: most training produces knowledge... without producing lasting change. Too long, too theoretical, too disconnected from daily work, it saturates attention without truly changing behavior. Information overload keeps growing, forgetting sets in, and real impact stays low.

Faced with this, we started from a founding question: what's the point of training if nothing sticks?

Our conviction is that the challenge is no longer to deliver ever more content, but to create the conditions for cognitive, emotional and operational anchoring over time.

This is the thinking that led to the creation of Cards and its Learning Routine® anchoring engine: an approach grounded in cognitive science, andragogy and field experience, turning scattered knowledge into memorable, useful routines that can be activated in real work.

We believe in learning that is:

  • Short, to respect attention.
  • Intelligently repeated, to fight forgetting.
  • Contextualized, to encourage transfer.
  • Measurable, to steer impact.
  • Built into daily work, to become a habit rather than an interruption.

Our ambition isn't just to make people "learn," but to help organizations anchor what truly matters: key actions, professional reflexes, critical decisions, the knowledge that makes the difference on the ground.

Our approach

With Cards, learning becomes simple, agile and effective again.

Whether through our platform or our authoring tool, we let anyone quickly create and deliver digestible, memorable content that's above all results-oriented.

Our Learning Routine® anchoring engine activates the right reflexes at the right moments, adapting to teams' real pace and usage.

One team, one vision

We're a committed, human-scale team made up of people passionate about pedagogy, tech and experience design.

Every member of the team shares the same drive: to build a solution that respects the time, attention and energy of learners and designers alike.

We move fast, but always with purpose.

And above all, we listen to our customers, our users, our partners — the people who fuel Cards' evolution every day.

CSR impact: sober, inclusive learning

Information overload hurts organizations. It hurts clarity. Attention. Performance — and even the planet.

Cards was born to fight this overflow.
Less time spent producing, consuming and re-reading content means:

  • more clarity for everyone
  • reusable content that's lighter and leaner
  • greater respect for employees' cognitive and emotional energy

Because training better doesn't mean training more. It means anchoring what truly matters.

At Cards, we're convinced that e-learning should never replace people — quite the opposite. By building on in-person experience, sparking interest beforehand, and anchoring afterward, training finally makes full sense.

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Analysis

Impact measured in 2025

Real engagement, anchoring that lasts, an experience seen as useful.
The three pillars of Cards' impact, documented, measured, acted on.

Cards fits into this logic, upfront to bring people up to speed, and afterward to anchor and remind, delivering the right dose of knowledge at the right time, to the right person.

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In-person

Before: quick level-up
After: reminders and lasting anchoring

E-Learning

Before: teaser or prerequisites
After: the essentials extracted in a digestible format

Blended & Onboarding

Ongoing routine
Personalized reactivation
Support after the room or after the module

2025 in motion

In 2025, organizations of every size made Cards their anchoring infrastructure. From SMBs to large groups, from networks to training organizations — one shared goal: making sure training leaves an operational trace.

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INRAE
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NAOS
Institut Pasteur
Aramis Auto
MAIF
Logo de Stradal, une entreprise du groupe CRH.
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emlyon business school
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Métropole de Lyon
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R&D

Innovate & involve:
What our customers measured

Anonymized data from 12 months of real-world use. Scope: active Cards users with at least one session in 2025.
Circle #1 brought together 3 organizations with different contexts to validate the adoption, anchoring and operational impact of the Cards model, an R&D initiative run with rigor and humility.

Systemic impact:
Scalability + Activation

The Cards anchoring model works just as well for SMBs as for large groups. Circle 1 brought together 3 organizations of different sizes and had them compare their operational and strategic challenges.
The Naos group, the My English School franchise, and the My Learning Store organization joined the 1st Cards Circle dedicated to the impact and anchoring of their training and initiatives.

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Cognitive acceptability and perceived usefulness

Cards microlearning combines low cognitive friction with high perceived value.

The discussions, facilitation, directions taken, and Learning Expeditions helped validate the fine-tuned fit between operational needs, targeted micro-behaviors and the formats proposed, strengthening learner buy-in and their lasting engagement in anchoring routines.

Learning Routine® Cycle

This cycle models the cognitive and behavioral stages observed in learners, from exposure to knowledge to its integration into operational routines.

It forms the framework used to read and measure the real impact of the Cards programs presented in this report.

Diagramme circulaire des cinq étapes du Cycle d’Ancrage Cards: Découverte, Compréhension, Assimilation, Application, Rétention, chacune avec une icône et une description.

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Toward training with real impact

The challenge is no longer producing more content. It's guaranteeing its effect over time. Cards will keep structuring learning that's more targeted, more measurable, more lasting.

So we're carrying this momentum into 2026 and well beyond.

Adaptive microlearning

Anchoring Engine + AI

Toward an anchoring engine that's ever more adaptive, able to adjust formats, pace and reminders based on profiles, contexts and usage signals.

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Predictive

Analytics & Impact

Better understand what anchors, what resists, and what drives performance, to steer programs with data instead of intuition.

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Sector infrastructure

Expertise ecosystems

Build sector programs and reference frameworks drawn from real-world use, impact retrospectives and partner expertise.

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Training is an intention.
Anchoring is a result.