Thrive's Spring Release brings AI Agents, Mentoring, Chat and a wave of platform enhancements shaping the future of work
Thrive has unveiled its most intelligent release yet, putting a team of AI Agents at the heart of every employee experience. Alongside this, the Spring Release introduces new Mentoring capabilities, chat, and a suite of unique platform enhancements that mark Thrive's most ambitious step yet towards shaping the future of learning.
Thrive, the enablement platform reinventing how modern businesses connect people, knowledge, skills and systems, today announced its Spring Release 2026, its most ambitious platform release to date.
The launch marks a defining moment for enterprise learning and performance, introducing a full suite of Kiki AI Agents, the general release of Thrive Mentoring and a wave of capability enhancements across Thrive Hub, your organisation’s digital front door, Skills, Rewards and Reporting.
Where last year's Winter Release established Thrive as the unified platform for learning, knowledge, apps and human connection, the Spring Release goes further, making Thrive the platform where AI does the heavy lifting, so your people can focus on what matters most.
Meet the new team of Kiki AI Agents
At the heart of the latest release is the full launch of Kiki Agents, not a single chatbot, but a coordinated team of AI capabilities, each purpose-built to tackle a different dimension of the employee and L&D admin experience.
Kiki Analyse: Ask your data anything
For too long, insight has been trapped in dashboards that require time and expertise to interrogate. Kiki Analyse changes that entirely. L&D leaders and managers can now ask plain-language questions and get instant answers, visualisations and reports drawn from across the entire platform.
From compliance gaps to skills progression, content performance to engagement trends, Kiki Analyse surfaces what matters at the team, department and organisational level. The result is faster decisions, smarter interventions and clear strategic opportunities, without the wait.
Kiki Create: Content at the speed of thought
Creating relevant, high-quality learning content has historically been one of the most time-intensive tasks in L&D. Kiki Create removes that barrier. Using the best-in-class AI connections including Google VEO3, NanoBanana, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Mistral AI and CoPilot teams can generate copy, images, videos and rich media, adapt existing content for different roles, contexts and learning styles, and evidence knowledge through quizzes and assessments, all within Thrive's content creation experience.
Content is instantly available in over 70 languages, ensuring no employee is left behind regardless of their preferred language, and the outputs don't just look great, they're designed to deliver blended, multi-media experiences that stick.
Kiki Admin: Automate the overhead. Control what matters.
Kiki Admin gives L&D and ops teams more granular control over LLM knowledge usage, with deeper configuration options and stronger guardrails for organisations who want to adopt AI on their own terms. For those ready to automate, Kiki Admin handles the essentials, managing audiences and content in bulk, reviewing and tagging, clearing out-of-date material and keeping compliance records clean and current.
And for organisations building out broader AI strategies, Thrive now supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), the emerging standard for connecting AI agents to the platforms they need to act on. That means your team can create content, manage audiences, update learning pathways and complete Thrive admin tasks directly from within the AI tools they already use, Copilot, Claude, Gemini and beyond, without ever leaving their workflow.
It's true interoperability. Instead of AI living in one place, it operates across your entire ecosystem, taking real action in real time. As internal agent frameworks evolve, MCP ensures Thrive sits at the centre of the picture, not outside it.
Kiki Assistant: Answers in the flow of work
Kiki Assistant delivers instant answers drawn from Thrive content, organisational knowledge, and trusted web sources with summaries, next-step suggestions and contextual help surfaced in the moment, wherever work is happening.
As one of the first LMS platforms to offer deep SCORM search, Kiki can now unlock answers that have been trapped inside legacy SCORM content, complete with sources and a confidence score, making years of existing learning instantly searchable and accessible for the first time.
Kiki Coach: Real behaviour change, not just content consumption
The most powerful learning happens through practice, feedback and reflection, not passive consumption.
Kiki Coach brings AI-powered coaching to every employee. Available on web and mobile, whenever and wherever your people are ready, Kiki Coach turns learning into lasting capability through continuous testing of knowledge in Coach mode.
Cassie Gasson, Co-CEO of Thrive, commented:
"We didn't build another chatbot. We built a team. Kiki Agents represent a fundamental shift in what an AI learning platform can do, not just surfacing answers, but analysing data, creating content, coaching people and running the platform itself."
Thrive Mentoring
Following a highly successful early access programme launched at Thrive Live, Thrive Mentoring is now available to all customers.
Built in close partnership with some of the world's most recognised organisations, the matching experience has been designed to remove every barrier to meaningful connection.
Instant AI-powered matching draws on shared goals, skills appetite, role level and every data point an employee chooses to share, pairing people with the right mentor in moments, not weeks. Chat and availability functionality are built directly into the platform, keeping the entire experience seamlessly connected.
Ready-made content packs, full of pre and post-work, agenda support and session guidance, help organisations launch mentoring initiatives quickly, drive measurable impact from day one and build a mentoring development solution that scales sustainably over time.
Platform enhancements: Hub, Skills, Rewards and Reporting
The Spring Release also delivers significant enhancements across the core platform. Hub, Thrive's personalised performance launchpad, gains intelligent recommendations, an expanded widget marketplace, a connection to events in Teams and Google and an improved experience for new users to personalise their digital front door.
Skills introduces a refined profile experience with smarter UI, making it easier than ever for employees to understand their capabilities, level up performance and for organisations to build meaningful skills strategies.
Lastly, Thrive App Rewards brings engagement incentives directly into the Thrive mobile experience, with financial and physical rewards configurable against custom criteria. And new detailed reporting across Skills, AI usage and Spaces gives leaders clearer visibility and the dashboards to know what's working across their organisation.
Thrive will be showcasing their latest releases live on Stand G20 at Learning Technologies 2026, ExCeL London, 29–30 April.