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Positioning · Sep 2026

AI Education,
so what

Most bookmarks are not the fight. The real set is live B2B enablement that puts employees on their own tools and cases.

Adaptto’s bet: leveled multi-week tracks (Literacy → Cowork → Builder) on company work, in ES / IT / EN across LatAm and Southern EU, delivered on your own Academy — still mostly project revenue, without a proven seat product like Section or 9x Teams.

StealDesign from 9x. Commercial shape from Section.
DefendItaly vs Martes / Soraia. LatAm boutiques as regional peers, not twins.
IgnorePrompt shops, LMS pipes, founder intensives, celebrity workshops.
Raindrop AI Education + Martes · founders / team onlyDo not share with clients
Ignore most of the folder

Almost nobody is competing for the same deal

Park these as background. They dilute focus when they sit on the same mental shelf as peers.

Prompt shops

God of Prompt, Latestly

Buyer noise (“we already bought prompts”). Not peers.

LMS pipes

Docebo, Sana

Distribution later — not curriculum rivals.

Founder intensives

AI Study Camp, Agentic Growth, Jason

Different buyer: founders and personal brands, not employed company teams.

Scale literacy

MinnaLearn, edX Business

Org-wide baseline seats. Adjacent — partner or add assessment; don’t fight for thousands of SCORM seats alone.

Celebrity / short

Miss Yera, 100x ladder, IDEO $399

Entry SKUs and brand. Useful as taster patterns — not your core product.

Filter

If it doesn’t teach employed teams to ship something on company work over days or weeks, it is background, not competition.

Noise / partner shelfNot the fight
Buyer jobs

Three jobs buyers actually hire for

People mix these up. Separating them clears the map.

Job 1Home

Make people useful on our work

Live workshops and multi-week cohorts on the client’s tools and cases. Adaptto’s home.

Also 9x custom, Clarinet, Biggest Goal, GPC, Soraia, Martes, 100x, AI Guru, Section services

Job 2Weak

Seats + continuous coach

Platform / subscription. Where multiples and NRR live. Adaptto does not win this yet.

Section Coach, 9x for Teams, Reforge, Learnn

Job 3Upsell only

Build it / embed

Retainers and Engineering-as-a-Service. High cash, low multiple — knowledge walks out. Trap if it becomes 100% of revenue.

Soraia agents, Torrenegra, AY, Martes EaS, Jumpstart

Strong on 1 · weak on 2 · use 3 only as upsell after capability stays in-houseDon’t confuse the jobs
Memory set

If you only remember five names

Everyone else is supporting cast.

9x

Steal

Remember as: ladder twin with a seat product.

Product shape + Teams SKU

Section

Steal

Remember as: platform + transformation money.

Assessment + seats commercial model

Biggest Goal

Steal

Remember as: ship urgency.

Funnel + intensity language

Martes

Watch

Remember as: Italy two-day ship + ROI loop.

Assessment story — don’t collapse your format

Soraia

Watch

Remember as: Italy PMI + retainer build.

Differentiator: knowledge stays with client
Study these five hardSupporting cast elsewhere
Who sits near you

Same neighborhood · same geography

Study the twins. Defend the regional peers. One line each.

Same neighborhood — study

Closest product / commercial / intensity / US mid-market peers

9x

Closest product design twin. Copy ladder clarity and seat SKU thinking — not their consumer cohorts or EU-AI-Act packaging.

Section

Closest commercial twin. Money model for assessment + seats. Don’t pretend you match their sales motion or brand.

Biggest Goal

Closest intensity twin. Steal ship-urgency language; keep Adaptto’s leveled company-case framing.

Clarinet

Closest US mid-market peer. “Adoption not slides” narrative. No public seat price.

Same geography — defend

Italy and LatAm ES: differentiate out loud

Martes AI (Italy)

Highest-overlap Italian workshop peer. They win “crush it in two days.” You win leveled multi-week + Academy. Steal their pre/post ROI story — don’t shrink the core.

Soraia (Italy, PMI)

Training + agent retainers. They monetize the post-training build. Differentiate on curriculum ownership; watch retainer creep.

100x / AI Guru / Miss Yera

LatAm ES boutiques. Same language market, thinner productization. Compete on structure and Academy, not celebrity reach.

Learnn / Reforge / Docebo = different gameDon’t confuse yourself
Adaptto

Where Adaptto sits

Plain facts. Say the meeting line out loud.

Buyer

Companies

People / Ops / business. Employed teams — not founders shopping a personal cohort.

Offer

Three tracks

Progressive Literacy → Cowork → Builder on their cases. Live + async. Tool-agnostic.

Delivery

Own Academy

Advantage vs pure slide shops. Not yet a sold seat product.

Languages

ES · IT · EN

LatAm + Southern EU. Few peers cover that triad with the same ladder.

Money today

Cohort / services

Pedagogy: ship-it cluster like Biggest Goal / 9x Automation / Martes live days — stretched across four weeks per level, not crushed into two days.

Money gap

Recurring seats

Confirmed seats like Section / 9x Teams. Without them, every win is a new project.

Meeting one-liner

We are the bilingual LatAm + Southern EU company bootcamp with a real Literacy → Cowork → Builder ladder on your work — closer to 9x’s design than to a two-day workshop or a Coach SaaS — and we still need a seat product so we don’t become a pure services shop.

Rare combinationSay it in the room
So-whats

Six decisions

The point is not “study everyone.” It is what you do next.

  1. 01Keep multi-week leveled tracks as the core SKU. Martes proves two-day intensives sell in Italy — use as a door, not a replacement for Cowork / Builder depth.
  2. 02Productize assessment next. Martes and Section both sell measure → enable → measure again. Make the so-what hours / process change, not vanity scores.
  3. 03Design a seat or annual team SKU. Study 9x Teams + Section seats. Without it, every win is a new project — consulting trap.
  4. 04Italy narrative: vs Martes = depth + Academy continuity; vs Soraia = capability stays in-house; vs Learnn = not another content catalog.
  5. 05LatAm narrative: vs 100x / Miss Yera / AI Guru = structured multi-week product + platform, not charla + implement.
  6. 06Stop stocking noise. Prompt packs and LMS names dilute focus. Park them in “noise / partner.”
Positioning and decisionsNot an encyclopedia
Close

Steal · shape · defend

One paragraph you can leave the room with.

Steal

Design from 9x

Ladder clarity and Teams-seat thinking. They prove the shape Adaptto is aiming at.

Shape

Commercial from Section

Assessment + seats money model. Your proficiency assessment WIP is Section-shaped.

Defend

Italy vs Martes / Soraia

Depth + Academy vs two-day crush. Capability stays in-house vs retainer build.

Peers

LatAm boutiques ≠ twins

100x / AI Guru / Miss Yera: same language geography, thinner productization. Compete on structure.

Reference dump

Long dossiers and tables live in ai-education-competitive-report.md. This deck is the so-what brief, not the encyclopedia.

Internal · founders / team onlyRead the brief, not every bookmark