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Two educators
who were tired of the waste.

« But why do we train people, exactly? »

Action Flow was born from a frustration everyone who trains knows: doing the work well, and watching the result evaporate once the room is empty. The question came up in a conversation between the two of us. It sounds obvious, until you try to answer it.

We do not train to transmit content, or to fill a room, or to tick a line in a development plan.

We train so that something changes in the work, and so that the person learning feels more competent.

We are both instructional designers, on the same ground: pedagogy and the science of learning. Clément went looking for the answer at the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, in Basel, where learning transfer has been studied for forty years. The finding was clear: the subject is documented, but it is tooled nowhere. He drew the Curseurs method from it. Raphaël brought what was missing to go from the method to the product: software engineering. A year later, Action Flow exists.

A method without a tool stays a fine document. A tool without a method, an empty timeline.

The team

Two angles, the same ground.

Portrait of Clément Cahagne

Clément Cahagne

Instructional designer

Multimedia instructional designer for about ten years. He designs and runs in-company trainings, notably on bringing generative AI into professional practice.

Watching what became of his own trainings once the room was empty is what led him to specialize in transfer. He certified in early 2026 with the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, in Basel, and drew the Curseurs method from it, whose diagnoses and accompaniments he leads.

He co-hosts “Rendez-vous en terre digitale”, a weekly podcast on digital tools for training, more than 270 episodes, and the Apéro Pédago collective, which brings trainers, instructional designers, and consultants together over a drink.

Rendez-vous en terre digitale (opens in a new window)

Portrait of Raphaël Grasset

Raphaël Grasset

Cognitive science researcher

Founder of Traindy, a studio for pedagogical innovation that puts cognitive science at the service of training organizations. He has designed learning programs and tools there since 2020.

Participant autonomy, uses of AI in training, assessment, collective intelligence: his subjects meet transfer from another side, that of what happens in the participant’s mind.

On Action Flow, he carried out a literature review to turn the latest available scientific findings into concrete software features.

Traindy (opens in a new window)

Three convictions we share.

  1. A training that changes nothing is not a training.

    It is an event. Pleasant, sometimes inspiring, but without consequence. The only evaluation we care about is the one read in real work, three months later.

  2. Transfer is not a matter of individual motivation.

    The usual reflex is to put the failure on the participant who “did not play along”. Research says something else: without a chance to apply, without time and without support, the best will in the world is not enough. In other words, what is most often missing is decided in a meeting, not in the participant’s mind.

  3. A tool does not replace a method.

    We could have sold the software alone, it would have been simpler. But an empty timeline in the hands of someone who does not know what transfer is produces nothing. That is why accompaniment is part of the offer, on the same footing as the tool.

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