Hello! Paul here
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Hello! Paul here
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If you’re curious, here’s a little about us.

In 2010, Mark and I sat in on a post-mortem where one of our clients reviewed the failure of an online course experiment.

Here’s what “online courses” looked like then:

What a mess! The Learning Management System (“LMS”) greeted eager learners who’d paid good money with...

🤬 Content Chaos
So. Many. Links... all competing for attention.

🤷‍♂️ No Sense of Progress
What’s next? What’s done? Where am I? (Good luck.)

🤪 No Designed Experience
Zero effort given to creating a usable, beautiful online experience. (Isn’t it ironic, given the time and money spent making offline campuses beautiful?)

It’s no wonder the course utterly failed.

We were angry with the inept software and left the meeting to furiously prototype a better solution. The next morning, we pitched it to our client, and they funded part of what we needed to start building a better way to teach & learn online.

For over a decade, our team has built Pathwright alongside thoughtful, creative educators (not venture capitalists) as an alternative to the online learning status quo.

We don’t focus on winning feature list comparisons or chasing trends for making money online. We focus on one thing: helping you design focused, personal learning experiences for others — whether it’s one person or one hundred thousand.

So far, we’ve helped path makers design paths for over 2 million learners who’ve completed more than 80 million steps.

If you’re looking for an alternative to the status quo, give Pathwright a try. If you have any thoughts or questions, feel free to email me.

— Paul

Content isn’t enough.

If it were, libraries and the internet would have made geniuses of every one of us. Forging a path through the jungle of content takes a much rarer ability — connecting the right steps.

Teachers, team leaders, writers and more have been making paths through ideas since the beginning of human history. It’s because of them that we understand anything today.

Invisible paths connect everything.

You’ve been making paths since forever, too, you just may not have known it. Chasing the why and the how, bringing them back to people who need them. It’s a guiding instinct you couldn’t change even if you wanted to.

If only things always worked.

Two problems block your way.

Problem 1

Understanding something new is hard. Some people get lost no matter how hard you try. The spark of inspiration doesn’t come easily.

Problem 2

The paths you make — threading notebooks, emails, PDFs, video calls, and spoken encouragement together — are invisible. You can't design what you can’t see. You’ve been trying, but, to tackle what’s next, you'll need something that works with you.

Paths were invisible.

Not anymore.

Meet Pathwright, the platform for end-to-end learning built by a team of learning obsessives. Backed by a decade of experience and the support of folks just like you — our customers. With Pathwright, you can see, design and invite anyone to join a path through the challenge of learning anything in the world. It’s the supertool you’ve been looking for.

Now, it's yours. What will you make?

Who makes this?
Who makes this?

Humans of Pathwright

Humans of Pathwright

Brad

Reardon

Developer

Since

’15

Infrastructure

API Dev

Platform

Christian

Shockley

LX Designer

Since

’13

LX Design

Event Host

EdLabs

David

Chapman

Developer

Since

’18

DevX

Blocks

Processes

Evan

Walker

Accountant

Since

’23

Financial Ops

Reporting

Forecasting

Felipe

Arias

Developer

Since

’23

Front-End

Native App

R&D

Hosanna

Greene

Guide

Since

’23

Help Center

Guidance

Path Design

Joe

Van Leeuwen

Developer

Since

’15

Front-End

GraphQL

Reliability

Justin

Hall

Brand Designer

Since

’11

Partner

Brand

Marketing

Product

Kim

Chapman

Guide

Since

’20

Guidance

QA

Help Center

Mark

Johnson

Platform Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Platform

Architecture

R&D

Michelle

Johnson

Guide

Since

’13

Product Expert

Guidance

Demos

Paul

Johnson

Product Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Strategy

Product Design

Ops

Brad

Reardon

Developer

Since

’15

Infrastructure

API Dev

Platform

Christian

Shockley

LX Designer

Since

’13

LX Design

Event Host

EdLabs

David

Chapman

Developer

Since

’18

DevX

Blocks

Processes

Evan

Walker

Accountant

Since

’23

Financial Ops

Reporting

Forecasting

Felipe

Arias

Developer

Since

’23

Front-End

Native App

R&D

Hosanna

Greene

Guide

Since

’23

Help Center

Guidance

Path Design

Joe

Van Leeuwen

Developer

Since

’15

Front-End

GraphQL

Reliability

Justin

Hall

Brand Designer

Since

’11

Partner

Brand

Marketing

Product

Kim

Chapman

Guide

Since

’20

Guidance

QA

Help Center

Mark

Johnson

Platform Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Platform

Architecture

R&D

Michelle

Johnson

Guide

Since

’13

Product Expert

Guidance

Demos

Paul

Johnson

Product Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Strategy

Product Design

Ops

Brad

Reardon

Developer

Since

’15

Infrastructure

API Dev

Platform

Christian

Shockley

LX Designer

Since

’13

LX Design

Event Host

EdLabs

David

Chapman

Developer

Since

’18

DevX

Blocks

Processes

Evan

Walker

Accountant

Since

’23

Financial Ops

Reporting

Forecasting

Felipe

Arias

Developer

Since

’23

Front-End

Native App

R&D

Hosanna

Greene

Guide

Since

’23

Help Center

Guidance

Path Design

Joe

Van Leeuwen

Developer

Since

’15

Front-End

GraphQL

Reliability

Justin

Hall

Brand Designer

Since

’11

Partner

Brand

Marketing

Product

Kim

Chapman

Guide

Since

’20

Guidance

QA

Help Center

Mark

Johnson

Platform Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Platform

Architecture

R&D

Michelle

Johnson

Guide

Since

’13

Product Expert

Guidance

Demos

Paul

Johnson

Product Designer

Since

’09

Partner

Strategy

Product Design

Ops

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