Rise Up, the leading all-in-one learning platform, has launched Forge by Rise Up, a new AI performance layer designed to take organizations beyond training to continuous, measurable employee improvement.
Built on over a decade of L&D expertise, Forge acts as an AI performance officer, embedding autonomous AI coaches into daily workflows to identify capability gaps and provide real-time support.
Unlike popular AI tools, Forge combines organizational context and unique content to build an AI coach tailored to each company’s processes and goals, resulting in clearer, role-specific guidance and measurable performance improvements.
Forge operates as a continuous AI presence within your work flow, enabling always-on support that instantly responds to changing performance conditions. Detects performance drift or operational friction and automatically triggers targeted coaching interventions at the point of need. Every interaction is measured against predefined business KPIs, creating a direct and measurable link between skill development and business outcomes.
Arnaud Blachon, CEO and Founder of Rise Up, said:
“Companies are investing heavily in AI, but many still struggle to translate that investment into operational effectiveness. Despite large-scale adoption, 97% of organizations still report an AI skills gap, and we found that an estimated 40% of potential productivity gains are being missed. AI is in place, but not yet operational.”
“Forge changes this by bringing full-time, autonomous AI performance capabilities within organizations. Instead of waiting for employees to ask for training, Forge proactively identifies performance gaps, provides coaching directly within the workflow, and continuously adapts support based on real-time business conditions. This is an intentional transition from a learning system to an agentic performance system, and AI We don’t just support our employees, we proactively help organizations improve their performance as the work progresses.”
Guillaume Blachon, CTO and co-founder of Rise Up, added:
“Forge isn’t a chatbot with better prompts. It’s an orchestration layer for specialized AI agents designed to detect performance signals, build coaching plans, deliver personalized learning formats, and prove results. The hard part isn’t generating the answers. The hard part is making the system reliable, secure, and fast enough for enterprise deployment. For 12 years, 600 That’s what makes the difference: we’ve operated the Rise Up infrastructure for more than 1,000 companies and more than 5 million learners.”
