Octolab

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The ART of Learning
The SCIENCE of Mastery


Immersive Learning - Lasting Impact

Build the Ultimate
Knowledge Foundation.

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We build an immersive learning library - scripting, shooting, editing and implementation all in one place.

One system, built once, working for years.

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Worked with
  • JB Hi-Fi
  • The Good Guys
  • Sunbeam
  • LG
  • Electrolux
  • Westinghouse
  • JURA
  • Premier Retail
  • The Just Group
  • Smiggle
  • Just Jeans
  • NARTA
  • Ultrahuman
  • Cygnett
  • Peter Alexander
  • Directed Electronics Australia
  • Total Tools
  • Juniper Networks
  • E&S Trading
  • Latitude Finance
  • The Accreditation Company
  • Sushi Sushi
  • Chisholm
  • Deakin University
  • Gordon TAFE
  • Mornington Peninsula Shire
  • Frankston City Council
  • Shepparton Art Museum

(The problem)

Training built once, then quietly abandoned.

Most companies have a training problem they've stopped calling a training problem. It shows up as unhappy teams, bad advice or a product launch that lands flat.

It's a system problem, and that's what gets built here.

(Try it)

Think you can handle it?

Ready?

You're on the shop floor. A customer walks up.

Pick the reply that earns their trust. Strong replies fill the trust meter.

(The system)

From information to instinct

Immersive, foundational learning experiences designed to help your team absorb critical knowledge deeply and retain it permanently.

Same crew, same process, one outcome!

Scripted, shot, edited, delivered and measured. You approve; we run it.

(The work)

Frames from training.

Product demonstrations, objection handling, installs, inductions and safety.

Ask and we'll send the full reel for the category closest to yours.

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Select a film to play it here.

(The platform)

Personalised, immersive, result based and designed to be sticky - 12 years planning the ultimate Learning Management System

An LMS that gets used.

Immersive learning with your voice and branding

A white-labelled training platform carrying your name, not ours. Your network gets a single link. You get to see who finished what.

  • Included with your first project for twelve months, then held on a monthly plan.
  • Nothing to install, nothing for your team to handle.
  • Completion data by teams and by person. The number you take upstairs when someone asks what the spend did.
  • Modules added as you launch, so the library grows instead of restarting.
White-labelledHosted & maintainedCompletion reportingSingle sign-on ready

(How it runs)

Five steps, one point of contact.

No account layer, no producer relaying messages. You deal with the person running it.

  1. Scope call

    We take the time to find out about your business and build a unique series of resources.

  2. Curriculum map and proposal

    You get the module list, the outcomes and a fixed price, in writing, before anything is committed.

  3. Scripts and approvals

    Written, reviewed with your product people, signed off. This is where the accuracy gets locked in.

  4. Production block

    Filmed in a concentrated block so your team gives up days, not months.

  5. Delivery and handover

    Live on the platform, reporting switched on, your team shown how to run it.

(Questions)

The ones that come up every time.

What does a project cost?

It depends on the number of modules and where they're shot, so there's no price list worth publishing. What we can say is that it's quoted as one fixed figure for the whole system, never a day rate, and you see it in writing before you commit to anything.

How long does it take?

A typical project runs six to ten weeks from scope call to live, with most of that in scripting and approvals rather than filming.

We already have an LMS.

Good. Then the films are delivered as files built to its specification, and the platform side simply doesn't apply.

Can you work with our existing footage?

Sometimes. If there's usable material it gets folded into the curriculum rather than reshot, and that's assessed during scoping.

Do you only do retail?

No. The same system covers sales training, induction, OH&S and knowledge capture, anywhere something known by a few people needs to be known by many.

Who actually does the work?

One practitioner runs every project end to end, with specialists engaged per job: a second shooter, an editor, a motion designer. You always deal with the same person.

(Start here)

Tell us what your channel keeps getting wrong.

A short email is enough. You'll get a reply from the person who would run the project. Not a sales sequence, not an account manager.

Email Mick directly

mick@mickrussell.com

Three lines is plenty. If you can answer these, the first call is a short one:

  • What are you trying to train, and who? Staff, your own reps, new starters, installers.
  • How many people need to learn it? One team or four hundred.
  • What happens now when they don't know it? Returns, wrong advice, a launch that lands flat.

Based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Working with suppliers and brands across Australia.