Lessons learned, actually learned

Stop paying for the same mistake twice

Lesson Connect puts what your organisation has already learned straight into the next project's risk register and programme, makes sure it is acted on, and proves the money and time it saved.

A Lesson Connect project intelligence report showing the priority risks for a new project, ticked and ready to add to the risk register
What changes

Better projects, because of what you already know

No more repeat mistakes

The lessons that matter reach the next project before work starts, as scored risks and planned actions, not as a report nobody reads.

Lessons captured in days, not months

Anonymous reviews, close-out reports, emails and Teams chats become agreed lessons in a fraction of the time.

Recurring problems fixed at the source

See what keeps going wrong across every project, and change the standards and processes behind it.

Savings proven, not estimated

Every completed action records what it avoided, so you can show the board the cost and time your learning saved.

The problem

Lessons are recorded, then forgotten

Teams fill in a lessons learned log at close-out. By the time the next project is planned, nobody reads it, and the same outage, permit, access and handover problems come back, at the same cost.

Captured too late

Lessons are written up at the end, when people have moved on and the honest detail is lost.

Never reach the next project

They sit in spreadsheets and reports, not in the risk register and programme where decisions are made.

No proof they made a difference

Nobody can say whether a lesson was used, or what it saved, so lessons learned looks like admin.

How Lesson Connect helps

From past lessons to proven savings

Every recommendation is traced to the lessons behind it, and every saving to the action that delivered it.

Know the biggest risks before work begins

Describe a new project and attach its brief, scope or project management plan. In about a minute Lesson Connect returns the risks your past projects point to, what each one cost last time, and an action plan with owners and how each action is checked.

The recommended action plan in a project intelligence report, with the cost and time at stake and the lessons behind each action

Straight into your risk register and programme

Add the risks to the project's risk register in one click, scored and linked to the lessons behind them. Add the actions to your Primavera P6, Excel or CSV programme, each placed before the activity it protects. Export to your own register, or send to Planner, SharePoint, Jira and more through Power Automate.

The Lesson Connect risk register with a likelihood and impact heat map and risks linked to past lessons

Savings you can evidence

Every lesson records what the problem cost. When the next project acts on it, the owner completes the action with evidence and records what was avoided: cost, time, downtime, defects or whatever your organisation measures. The dashboard shows it straight away.

The organisation dashboard showing reported cost avoidance, time protected and lessons captured

Screens show fictional example data.

Less by hand

Your project knowledge, working for you

Lesson Connect does the reading, finding and linking, so your teams spend their time on decisions, not admin.

1

Honest lessons from the whole team

Run a Learning Review: one anonymous survey, themes grouped for you in seconds, and a meeting where the lesson is already drafted from what the team said.

2

Lessons from the documents you already have

Upload close-out reports, saved emails or meeting notes, or paste a Teams chat. Lesson Connect finds the lessons, costs and delays, and checks every figure against the text.

3

Answers in seconds

Ask in plain English, such as "what went wrong with crane lifts?", and get a clear answer from your own records, with the cost of repeating it.

4

Risks and actions, owned and tracked

Risks are scored and owned; actions have an owner, a date and the evidence needed to close them, with every project's progress on its own dashboard.

5

Prevent it recurring

See the problems that keep coming back across projects, with organisation-wide fixes ranked by effort and impact and grounded in your own lessons.

6

Measures that fit your industry

Track cost and time, or downtime, defects, waste, customer minutes or your own measures. The dashboard follows what you choose.

Not another knowledge system

Finding a lesson does not stop the mistake

Knowledge tools help you find what you wrote down. Lesson Connect makes sure it changes the next project, and proves it did.

Typical lessons log or knowledge systemLesson Connect
Finds past lessonsYesYes, with the evidence behind every point
Captures honest lessons with little effortNoYes: anonymous reviews, documents, emails and Teams chats
Puts lessons into the risk registerNoYes: scored, owned and linked to the lesson
Puts actions into the programmeNoYes, including Primavera P6
Tracks actions to completion with evidenceNoYes
Proves what was savedNoYes: cost, time and your own measures, per project
Stops recurring problems across projectsNoYes: themes and organisation-wide fixes
Works with the tools you already useRarelyYes: Teams, Power Automate, P6, Excel and CSV
For consultancies and partners

Prove the value you deliver

Lesson Connect puts a figure on every lesson that is implemented, so your clients see a clear return on investment, and you have hard evidence of the impact of your work. Run Learning Reviews for clients, produce project intelligence reports, and report the savings.

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For PMOs and project leaders

Show the board you are getting better

One dashboard for lessons captured, actions completed, recurring themes and the money and time saved, across every project, ready for the board report or Power BI.

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Works with your tools

Fits how your teams already work

  • Use it inside Microsoft Teams, as an app in the Teams sidebar
  • Sign in with your Microsoft work account, with your own multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access rules
  • Add actions straight into Primavera P6, or into Excel and CSV (comma-separated values) schedules from Microsoft Project, Powerproject and Smartsheet
  • Export the risk register to Excel or CSV, or send risks and actions to Planner, SharePoint, Jira, ServiceNow and more through Power Automate
  • Load your existing lessons from spreadsheets, close-out reports and emails on day one
Security

Built for business data

  • Data stored in the UK and EU, on Microsoft Azure and Supabase
  • Aligned with UK data protection law (UK GDPR) and registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
  • Each organisation kept separate at database level, and tested
  • Your data is never used to train AI models
  • Every AI answer and suggestion cites your own records, and a person decides what is kept
  • Designed to the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard

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Pricing

Pricing that fits your organisation

Every feature included, priced per user, with lower rates as more people use it.

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See what Lesson Connect could save your organisation

A 30-minute demo, using a brief from one of your upcoming projects.

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