4.6 on Trustpilot
LMS for compliance training
Completion records that hold up in an audit, years later
You get tamper-evident completion records, certificates in each state’s format, and reporting that reaches the regulator without manual work. We build the platform around your rules and you own it outright, so no one charges you per learner.
TEAMS WE BUILD FOR
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems I’ve talked to thousands of learning businesses, compliance providers among them. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can normally hear which within a few minutes.
Legacy system
Quite a few compliance businesses I speak to still run on something built in the late nineties. The LMS, the shop, certificates, audit logs and things like that all live in one codebase, and nobody wants to be the one who breaks it. So nothing changes, and a competitor with a better checkout starts taking your learners.
Manual reporting
Every state wants its certificate a slightly different way, and some want completions sent over in a format that was old ten years ago. So someone on your team does it by hand, and the annual audit turns into a week of pulling records together.
Per-seat pricing
If you put 40,000 learners a year through a mandated course, a platform that charges per seat takes a cut of every one of them, forever. The maths gets silly quite quickly. And the extra money isn’t buying you anything, because the course itself probably hasn’t changed much in years.
They come back to the same thing: the platform wasn’t built for the business you run now. That’s fixable. Own the LMS outright, built around your states and your rules, and most of this goes away. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems I’ve talked to thousands of learning businesses, compliance providers among them. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can normally hear which within a few minutes.
Legacy system
Quite a few compliance businesses I speak to still run on something built in the late nineties. The LMS, the shop, certificates, audit logs and things like that all live in one codebase, and nobody wants to be the one who breaks it. So nothing changes, and a competitor with a better checkout starts taking your learners.
Manual reporting
Every state wants its certificate a slightly different way, and some want completions sent over in a format that was old ten years ago. So someone on your team does it by hand, and the annual audit turns into a week of pulling records together.
Per-seat pricing
If you put 40,000 learners a year through a mandated course, a platform that charges per seat takes a cut of every one of them, forever. The maths gets silly quite quickly. And the extra money isn’t buying you anything, because the course itself probably hasn’t changed much in years.
They come back to the same thing: the platform wasn’t built for the business you run now. That’s fixable. Own the LMS outright, built around your states and your rules, and most of this goes away. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems I’ve talked to thousands of learning businesses, compliance providers among them. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can normally hear which within a few minutes.
Legacy system
Quite a few compliance businesses I speak to still run on something built in the late nineties. The LMS, the shop, certificates, audit logs and things like that all live in one codebase, and nobody wants to be the one who breaks it. So nothing changes, and a competitor with a better checkout starts taking your learners.
Manual reporting
Every state wants its certificate a slightly different way, and some want completions sent over in a format that was old ten years ago. So someone on your team does it by hand, and the annual audit turns into a week of pulling records together.
Per-seat pricing
If you put 40,000 learners a year through a mandated course, a platform that charges per seat takes a cut of every one of them, forever. The maths gets silly quite quickly. And the extra money isn’t buying you anything, because the course itself probably hasn’t changed much in years.
They come back to the same thing: the platform wasn’t built for the business you run now. That’s fixable. Own the LMS outright, built around your states and your rules, and most of this goes away. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
What we build
What an LMS for compliance training providers needs to do
The course engine, payments and reporting are already built, so the build time goes on your state rules, certificate formats and integrations
What we build
What an LMS for compliance training providers needs to do
The course engine, payments and reporting are already built, so the build time goes on your state rules, certificate formats and integrations
What we build
What an LMS for compliance training providers needs to do
The course engine, payments and reporting are already built, so the build time goes on your state rules, certificate formats and integrations
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a regulatory training platform you own, records intact
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your states, their certificate rules, what each agency expects and the records you must keep, then cost the build. The plan is yours, whether you build with us or not.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype of the learner, employer and admin screens, so you see it before anything is built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the state rules and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape rather than waiting for a reveal
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic records, certificates and audit logs move across, counts verified, so every record a regulator asks for is there
04
05
Launch, rankings intact
Full launch or phased, with redirects mapped so the search rankings you live on carry over. Backed by 200+ launches.
05
06
You own it, we run it
You own the platform outright. We host it, keep the security controls current and add the next state’s rules when you need them.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a regulatory training platform you own, records intact
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your states, their certificate rules, what each agency expects and the records you must keep, then cost the build. The plan is yours, whether you build with us or not.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype of the learner, employer and admin screens, so you see it before anything is built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the state rules and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape rather than waiting for a reveal
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic records, certificates and audit logs move across, counts verified, so every record a regulator asks for is there
04
05
Launch, rankings intact
Full launch or phased, with redirects mapped so the search rankings you live on carry over. Backed by 200+ launches.
05
06
You own it, we run it
You own the platform outright. We host it, keep the security controls current and add the next state’s rules when you need them.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a regulatory training platform you own, records intact
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your states, their certificate rules, what each agency expects and the records you must keep, then cost the build. The plan is yours, whether you build with us or not.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype of the learner, employer and admin screens, so you see it before anything is built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the state rules and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape rather than waiting for a reveal
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic records, certificates and audit logs move across, counts verified, so every record a regulator asks for is there
04
05
Launch, rankings intact
Full launch or phased, with redirects mapped so the search rankings you live on carry over. Backed by 200+ launches.
05
06
You own it, we run it
You own the platform outright. We host it, keep the security controls current and add the next state’s rules when you need them.
06
Engineered for audits, built to last
An LMS you own is only worth owning if it holds up when a regulator asks questions, so we build for the audit and the decade after launch
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components hardened across real platforms: course flows, timed assessments, certificates, payments, audit logging. You pay for the state rules and integrations specific to your business, and the rest is stable from day one.
75%
built before we start
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components hardened across real platforms: course flows, timed assessments, certificates, payments, audit logging. You pay for the state rules and integrations specific to your business, and the rest is stable from day one.
75%
built before we start
Tested to hold up
Specialist QA engineers who know how learning platforms fail, plus regression testing, automated alerts and load testing. A certificate that generates incorrectly or a record that doesn’t save gets caught in testing, long before an audit.
100k
users load-tested
Tested to hold up
Specialist QA engineers who know how learning platforms fail, plus regression testing, automated alerts and load testing. A certificate that generates incorrectly or a record that doesn’t save gets caught in testing, long before an audit.
100k
users load-tested
Senior engineers, built for volume
Senior developers design for the volumes you process and the contracts you’re chasing. We’ve built platforms designed for over a million learners, and we’re building for a 30-year aviation association training 600 member companies.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Senior engineers, built for volume
Senior developers design for the volumes you process and the contracts you’re chasing. We’ve built platforms designed for over a million learners, and we’re building for a 30-year aviation association training 600 member companies.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Designed so people finish
Mandated learners still have to finish, and employers judge you on how little chasing that takes. We design so people complete in one sitting and come back when the certificate expires.
3x
increase in completions
Designed so people finish
Mandated learners still have to finish, and employers judge you on how little chasing that takes. We design so people complete in one sitting and come back when the certificate expires.
3x
increase in completions
One platform for your whole business
Courses, shop, certificates, a spreadsheet for the regulator: most providers run four tools, and we build them as one
Sell B2B and B2C together: one checkout for the individual paying a court fee and the employer buying fifty seats, with one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, identity check, timed attempts, certificate and the copy sent to the state all sit on one learner record, retrievable years later
Bend it around your stack: connects to state reporting systems, your CRM, accounting and email tools; if an agency needs SOAP or XML, we build the integration
One source of truth: when the auditor asks for last year’s completions by state, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
One platform for your whole business
Courses, shop, certificates, a spreadsheet for the regulator: most providers run four tools, and we build them as one
Sell B2B and B2C together: one checkout for the individual paying a court fee and the employer buying fifty seats, with one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, identity check, timed attempts, certificate and the copy sent to the state all sit on one learner record, retrievable years later
Bend it around your stack: connects to state reporting systems, your CRM, accounting and email tools; if an agency needs SOAP or XML, we build the integration
One source of truth: when the auditor asks for last year’s completions by state, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
One platform for your whole business
Courses, shop, certificates, a spreadsheet for the regulator: most providers run four tools, and we build them as one
Sell B2B and B2C together: one checkout for the individual paying a court fee and the employer buying fifty seats, with one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, identity check, timed attempts, certificate and the copy sent to the state all sit on one learner record, retrievable years later
Bend it around your stack: connects to state reporting systems, your CRM, accounting and email tools; if an agency needs SOAP or XML, we build the integration
One source of truth: when the auditor asks for last year’s completions by state, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
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Steve Soldis, Trustpilot, November 2025
I've tried three different times to rebuild my legacy LMS (it's been around since 1998), and the first two attempts were honestly, quite terrible. Working with PLUME has been the total opposite. They're incredibly organized, super thorough, and respect everyone's time.
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
I'd highly recommend Plume to organizations looking for a partner that takes the time to understand the problem before building the solution.
Steve Soldis, Trustpilot, November 2025
I've tried three different times to rebuild my legacy LMS (it's been around since 1998), and the first two attempts were honestly, quite terrible. Working with PLUME has been the total opposite. They're incredibly organized, super thorough, and respect everyone's time.
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
I'd highly recommend Plume to organizations looking for a partner that takes the time to understand the problem before building the solution.
Steve Soldis, Trustpilot, November 2025
I've tried three different times to rebuild my legacy LMS (it's been around since 1998), and the first two attempts were honestly, quite terrible. Working with PLUME has been the total opposite. They're incredibly organized, super thorough, and respect everyone's time.
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
I'd highly recommend Plume to organizations looking for a partner that takes the time to understand the problem before building the solution.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a compliance training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
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A compliance training LMS exists to produce evidence: who completed which mandated course, when, for how long, and that the record hasn’t changed since. On top of the course delivery any LMS does, it keeps a tamper-evident audit trail, generates each state’s certificate format, verifies identity, enforces seat time and reports completions to the state agency. Providers selling OSHA, food safety, harassment prevention or driver improvement courses need all of that, because the regulator, the employer and sometimes a court will ask. We build those capabilities in from the start, on a platform you own, so the records are yours to produce whenever someone asks.
How do we keep completion records tamper-evident and retrievable for audits years later?
Every completion is written to an audit trail recording who did what, when and from where, which can’t be altered afterwards. The certificate issued, identity checks passed, time spent and the copy sent to the state sit against one learner record. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from seven years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and deletion happens only when you decide. You own the platform and the database, so the records stay with you if you change hosts or bring it in-house. Encryption and role-based access mean only the right people see them.
Can the LMS send completions to state agencies?
Yes. We build the integration to each agency’s specification, whether that’s a SOAP or XML service or a scheduled secure file transfer, and completions go across automatically once the learner meets the requirements. Each transmission is logged with the agency’s response, so you can show exactly what was sent and when if a record is ever questioned. Where an agency changes its format, we update the integration under your maintenance plan. We’re building exactly this for a driver-improvement provider modernising a system built in 1997.
How do you migrate a 30-year-old system without losing records or search rankings?
Records come first. We map every table in the old system, migrate historic completions, certificates and audit logs, and reconcile the counts before go-live. The old system runs until the new one is proven. For search, every ranking URL gets a redirect, so the traffic you depend on carries over.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data?
You do. The platform is yours outright: the source code, the database and every record in it, with a full data export available in a usable format without asking us. Host with us, move it to your own cloud, or hand it to your own developer with a proper handover; a driver-improvement provider we’re working with has planned exactly that, with training for their in-house engineer. Nothing is metered, so your forty-thousandth learner costs the same as your first. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
What does a compliance training LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing at volume?
A complete platform is a single fee, paid up front or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the exact figure before anyone commits. Set that against per-seat pricing: at tens of thousands of learners a year, a per-learner charge of a few dollars adds up to six figures over three to five years, and it rises every time you grow. Owning the platform costs the same whether you train your first learner or your forty-thousandth. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered. The Blueprint is the low-risk first step: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page.
Can the platform handle different certificate formats and rules for each state?
Yes, that is most of what the custom work is for. Each state gets its own rules: seat time, exam coverage and attempts allowed, what the certificate says and how it is numbered, and where the completion goes. We encode those per state, so adding a state is configuration rather than a rebuild, and a rule change is a controlled update with an audit record of who changed what and when.
How does the LMS prove the right person completed the required hours?
Identity verification and timers are built into the course flow. Depending on what your state requires, that can be identity questions drawn from the learner’s own details, security questions at random points in the course, and timers that hold each module open for the mandated minutes before the learner can move on. Every check and every timed module is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows the time spent and the checks passed.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a compliance training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
A compliance training LMS exists to produce evidence: who completed which mandated course, when, for how long, and that the record hasn’t changed since. On top of the course delivery any LMS does, it keeps a tamper-evident audit trail, generates each state’s certificate format, verifies identity, enforces seat time and reports completions to the state agency. Providers selling OSHA, food safety, harassment prevention or driver improvement courses need all of that, because the regulator, the employer and sometimes a court will ask. We build those capabilities in from the start, on a platform you own, so the records are yours to produce whenever someone asks.
How do we keep completion records tamper-evident and retrievable for audits years later?
Every completion is written to an audit trail recording who did what, when and from where, which can’t be altered afterwards. The certificate issued, identity checks passed, time spent and the copy sent to the state sit against one learner record. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from seven years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and deletion happens only when you decide. You own the platform and the database, so the records stay with you if you change hosts or bring it in-house. Encryption and role-based access mean only the right people see them.
Can the LMS send completions to state agencies?
Yes. We build the integration to each agency’s specification, whether that’s a SOAP or XML service or a scheduled secure file transfer, and completions go across automatically once the learner meets the requirements. Each transmission is logged with the agency’s response, so you can show exactly what was sent and when if a record is ever questioned. Where an agency changes its format, we update the integration under your maintenance plan. We’re building exactly this for a driver-improvement provider modernising a system built in 1997.
How do you migrate a 30-year-old system without losing records or search rankings?
Records come first. We map every table in the old system, migrate historic completions, certificates and audit logs, and reconcile the counts before go-live. The old system runs until the new one is proven. For search, every ranking URL gets a redirect, so the traffic you depend on carries over.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data?
You do. The platform is yours outright: the source code, the database and every record in it, with a full data export available in a usable format without asking us. Host with us, move it to your own cloud, or hand it to your own developer with a proper handover; a driver-improvement provider we’re working with has planned exactly that, with training for their in-house engineer. Nothing is metered, so your forty-thousandth learner costs the same as your first. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
What does a compliance training LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing at volume?
A complete platform is a single fee, paid up front or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the exact figure before anyone commits. Set that against per-seat pricing: at tens of thousands of learners a year, a per-learner charge of a few dollars adds up to six figures over three to five years, and it rises every time you grow. Owning the platform costs the same whether you train your first learner or your forty-thousandth. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered. The Blueprint is the low-risk first step: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page.
Can the platform handle different certificate formats and rules for each state?
Yes, that is most of what the custom work is for. Each state gets its own rules: seat time, exam coverage and attempts allowed, what the certificate says and how it is numbered, and where the completion goes. We encode those per state, so adding a state is configuration rather than a rebuild, and a rule change is a controlled update with an audit record of who changed what and when.
How does the LMS prove the right person completed the required hours?
Identity verification and timers are built into the course flow. Depending on what your state requires, that can be identity questions drawn from the learner’s own details, security questions at random points in the course, and timers that hold each module open for the mandated minutes before the learner can move on. Every check and every timed module is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows the time spent and the checks passed.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a compliance training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
A compliance training LMS exists to produce evidence: who completed which mandated course, when, for how long, and that the record hasn’t changed since. On top of the course delivery any LMS does, it keeps a tamper-evident audit trail, generates each state’s certificate format, verifies identity, enforces seat time and reports completions to the state agency. Providers selling OSHA, food safety, harassment prevention or driver improvement courses need all of that, because the regulator, the employer and sometimes a court will ask. We build those capabilities in from the start, on a platform you own, so the records are yours to produce whenever someone asks.
How do we keep completion records tamper-evident and retrievable for audits years later?
Every completion is written to an audit trail recording who did what, when and from where, which can’t be altered afterwards. The certificate issued, identity checks passed, time spent and the copy sent to the state sit against one learner record. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from seven years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and deletion happens only when you decide. You own the platform and the database, so the records stay with you if you change hosts or bring it in-house. Encryption and role-based access mean only the right people see them.
Can the LMS send completions to state agencies?
Yes. We build the integration to each agency’s specification, whether that’s a SOAP or XML service or a scheduled secure file transfer, and completions go across automatically once the learner meets the requirements. Each transmission is logged with the agency’s response, so you can show exactly what was sent and when if a record is ever questioned. Where an agency changes its format, we update the integration under your maintenance plan. We’re building exactly this for a driver-improvement provider modernising a system built in 1997.
How do you migrate a 30-year-old system without losing records or search rankings?
Records come first. We map every table in the old system, migrate historic completions, certificates and audit logs, and reconcile the counts before go-live. The old system runs until the new one is proven. For search, every ranking URL gets a redirect, so the traffic you depend on carries over.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data?
You do. The platform is yours outright: the source code, the database and every record in it, with a full data export available in a usable format without asking us. Host with us, move it to your own cloud, or hand it to your own developer with a proper handover; a driver-improvement provider we’re working with has planned exactly that, with training for their in-house engineer. Nothing is metered, so your forty-thousandth learner costs the same as your first. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
What does a compliance training LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing at volume?
A complete platform is a single fee, paid up front or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the exact figure before anyone commits. Set that against per-seat pricing: at tens of thousands of learners a year, a per-learner charge of a few dollars adds up to six figures over three to five years, and it rises every time you grow. Owning the platform costs the same whether you train your first learner or your forty-thousandth. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered. The Blueprint is the low-risk first step: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page.
Can the platform handle different certificate formats and rules for each state?
Yes, that is most of what the custom work is for. Each state gets its own rules: seat time, exam coverage and attempts allowed, what the certificate says and how it is numbered, and where the completion goes. We encode those per state, so adding a state is configuration rather than a rebuild, and a rule change is a controlled update with an audit record of who changed what and when.
How does the LMS prove the right person completed the required hours?
Identity verification and timers are built into the course flow. Depending on what your state requires, that can be identity questions drawn from the learner’s own details, security questions at random points in the course, and timers that hold each module open for the mandated minutes before the learner can move on. Every check and every timed module is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows the time spent and the checks passed.
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Let's explore your options
After you submit, our AI assistant will call you for a quick 2-3 minute chat about your project, so we can work out which options fit. You can book a call with our founder now, or after your chat with the assistant.
Plan your next learning platform with our founder
About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.
Plan your next learning platform with our founder
About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.
Plan your next learning platform with our founder
About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.