tealside

tealside is a B2B learning platform for leadership development and people skills, built around cohorts: a group of at most twelve people goes through a multi-week learning journey together. We co-founded the company and built the platform as CTO, from the first line of code. Clients include BDO, Charité, Goethe-Institut, Barilla, EY, Wien Energie and Skaylink.

The platform

Course discovery, booking, learner sign-in and content delivery, in German and English. Journeys come in two shapes: public ones anyone can book, and custom programs for a single organisation. A journey mixes live online sessions, in-person workshops, one-to-one coaching and self-directed work, on a schedule that fits around a working week rather than replacing it. Trainers and coaches have profiles with their expertise and availability, and learners see their progress, completion and certificate in one place.

The learning journey

The product is the format, not a content library. A journey runs several weeks: expert-led live sessions, peer learning inside the cohort, and transfer tasks that have to be done at work, with case studies and workbooks along the way. Topics: leadership essentials, communication, AI literacy, sales. Twelve is the cap so that everyone in the room actually talks.

The rest of a company

A platform also needs the boring parts: demo booking through Calendly, newsletter subscriptions, lead capture that records what a prospect is interested in, case study downloads, and a CMS the team uses to manage course content without a developer.