4.6 on Trustpilot
Financial services training LMS
A training platform built to pass a bank’s due diligence
Exam and CE records that hold up under a regulator’s review, security documentation your clients’ procurement teams can read, and a platform load-tested beyond a ten-thousand-learner rollout. We build it around your programmes and you own it outright, nothing metered.
TEAMS WE BUILD FOR
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems I’ve talked to thousands of learning businesses, a good few in insurance, securities and finance. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can tell which pretty quickly.
Weak backbone
A director at a finance training firm told me his content was way better than his competitors’, but he didn’t believe the backbone could hold it. I hear a version of that a lot. Good courses, sat on a plugin-based build that creaks the moment an agency rolls out a few thousand people at once.
Due diligence
Your clients are banks, insurers and broker-dealers, so before anyone signs, procurement sends a security questionnaire and things like that. This industry loves control and data but has to rely on vendors outside its control. If your platform provider can’t answer, the contract sits on hold.
Per-seat pricing
Win a ten-thousand-learner rollout on a per-seat plan and the vendor takes a cut of every one of them, every year, for doing nothing new. And you still don’t own the thing, which I think matters a lot if you ever want to sell the business or raise on it.
They come from the same place: a regulated business on a platform somebody else controls. The fix is owning the LMS outright, built around your programmes and the questions procurement asks, with people who’ll stand behind it. 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, a good few in insurance, securities and finance. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can tell which pretty quickly.
Weak backbone
A director at a finance training firm told me his content was way better than his competitors’, but he didn’t believe the backbone could hold it. I hear a version of that a lot. Good courses, sat on a plugin-based build that creaks the moment an agency rolls out a few thousand people at once.
Due diligence
Your clients are banks, insurers and broker-dealers, so before anyone signs, procurement sends a security questionnaire and things like that. This industry loves control and data but has to rely on vendors outside its control. If your platform provider can’t answer, the contract sits on hold.
Per-seat pricing
Win a ten-thousand-learner rollout on a per-seat plan and the vendor takes a cut of every one of them, every year, for doing nothing new. And you still don’t own the thing, which I think matters a lot if you ever want to sell the business or raise on it.
They come from the same place: a regulated business on a platform somebody else controls. The fix is owning the LMS outright, built around your programmes and the questions procurement asks, with people who’ll stand behind it. 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, a good few in insurance, securities and finance. What’s holding one back is usually one of three things, and I can tell which pretty quickly.
Weak backbone
A director at a finance training firm told me his content was way better than his competitors’, but he didn’t believe the backbone could hold it. I hear a version of that a lot. Good courses, sat on a plugin-based build that creaks the moment an agency rolls out a few thousand people at once.
Due diligence
Your clients are banks, insurers and broker-dealers, so before anyone signs, procurement sends a security questionnaire and things like that. This industry loves control and data but has to rely on vendors outside its control. If your platform provider can’t answer, the contract sits on hold.
Per-seat pricing
Win a ten-thousand-learner rollout on a per-seat plan and the vendor takes a cut of every one of them, every year, for doing nothing new. And you still don’t own the thing, which I think matters a lot if you ever want to sell the business or raise on it.
They come from the same place: a regulated business on a platform somebody else controls. The fix is owning the LMS outright, built around your programmes and the questions procurement asks, with people who’ll stand behind it. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
What we build
What an insurance pre-licensing and CE platform needs to do
Whether you train insurance agents, mortgage originators or registered representatives, the course engine is built, so the time goes on records, security and integrations
What we build
What an insurance pre-licensing and CE platform needs to do
Whether you train insurance agents, mortgage originators or registered representatives, the course engine is built, so the time goes on records, security and integrations
What we build
What an insurance pre-licensing and CE platform needs to do
Whether you train insurance agents, mortgage originators or registered representatives, the course engine is built, so the time goes on records, security and integrations
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a licensing or exam prep platform you own
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your programmes, the records each regulator expects, the questions your clients’ procurement teams ask and where your data lives, then cost the build. The plan is yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype: the exam experience, the agency portal, the admin screens, tested before a line of code
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer your exam logic, records and integrations in short sprints you steer. Your own engineers or advisors can review each one as it lands.
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic completions, CE credits and certificates move across with counts reconciled, so learners and regulators see an unbroken record
04
05
Launch without disruption
Full launch or phased, timed around your exam calendar and client renewals so nothing live is disrupted. 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 answer the technical sections of your clients’ security questionnaires.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a licensing or exam prep platform you own
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your programmes, the records each regulator expects, the questions your clients’ procurement teams ask and where your data lives, then cost the build. The plan is yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype: the exam experience, the agency portal, the admin screens, tested before a line of code
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer your exam logic, records and integrations in short sprints you steer. Your own engineers or advisors can review each one as it lands.
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic completions, CE credits and certificates move across with counts reconciled, so learners and regulators see an unbroken record
04
05
Launch without disruption
Full launch or phased, timed around your exam calendar and client renewals so nothing live is disrupted. 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 answer the technical sections of your clients’ security questionnaires.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a licensing or exam prep platform you own
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we map your programmes, the records each regulator expects, the questions your clients’ procurement teams ask and where your data lives, then cost the build. The plan is yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Prototype before code
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype: the exam experience, the agency portal, the admin screens, tested before a line of code
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer your exam logic, records and integrations in short sprints you steer. Your own engineers or advisors can review each one as it lands.
03
04
Migration with records intact
Historic completions, CE credits and certificates move across with counts reconciled, so learners and regulators see an unbroken record
04
05
Launch without disruption
Full launch or phased, timed around your exam calendar and client renewals so nothing live is disrupted. 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 answer the technical sections of your clients’ security questionnaires.
06
Engineered for due diligence and scale
An LMS you own is only worth owning if it holds up under a bank’s security review and an agency-wide rollout, so we build for both
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components hardened across live platforms: course flows, timed exams, certificates, payments, audit logs. You pay for the exam logic, record rules and integrations your business needs; the rest is already stable.
75%
built before we start
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components hardened across live platforms: course flows, timed exams, certificates, payments, audit logs. You pay for the exam logic, record rules and integrations your business needs; the rest is already stable.
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. An exam that scores wrongly or a CE record that doesn’t save is 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. An exam that scores wrongly or a CE record that doesn’t save is caught in testing, long before an audit.
100k
users load-tested
Senior engineers, built for scale
Senior developers build for where you’re headed. Our platform for Google serves a million teachers across a dozen countries; the one for Pillars, an investment-banking training firm, runs its day-to-day client delivery.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Senior engineers, built for scale
Senior developers build for where you’re headed. Our platform for Google serves a million teachers across a dozen countries; the one for Pillars, an investment-banking training firm, runs its day-to-day client delivery.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Designed so learners pass
Pass rates and completion rates are how your clients judge you. We design so people keep practising until they pass, and so the agency sees numbers worth renewing on.
3x
increase in completions
Designed so learners pass
Pass rates and completion rates are how your clients judge you. We design so people keep practising until they pass, and so the agency sees numbers worth renewing on.
3x
increase in completions
One platform for your whole business
Most providers run the LMS, exam engine, shop and CRM as separate tools, and we build them as one
Sell to individuals and institutions: one checkout for the individual buying a pre-licensing course and the agency enrolling two hundred hires, one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, exam attempts, CE credits earned and certificate issued sit on one record, so a state insurance department’s request is one export
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, your clients’ identity providers and your regulator’s reporting systems; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: when a client’s compliance officer asks who completed AML training, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
One platform for your whole business
Most providers run the LMS, exam engine, shop and CRM as separate tools, and we build them as one
Sell to individuals and institutions: one checkout for the individual buying a pre-licensing course and the agency enrolling two hundred hires, one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, exam attempts, CE credits earned and certificate issued sit on one record, so a state insurance department’s request is one export
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, your clients’ identity providers and your regulator’s reporting systems; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: when a client’s compliance officer asks who completed AML training, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
One platform for your whole business
Most providers run the LMS, exam engine, shop and CRM as separate tools, and we build them as one
Sell to individuals and institutions: one checkout for the individual buying a pre-licensing course and the agency enrolling two hundred hires, one record behind both
One record per learner: enrolment, exam attempts, CE credits earned and certificate issued sit on one record, so a state insurance department’s request is one export
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, your clients’ identity providers and your regulator’s reporting systems; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: when a client’s compliance officer asks who completed AML training, it’s one report, and it matches the certificates
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Vounder Analytics, Founder, via Clutch
Everything was explained to us thoroughly, and we avoided costly surprises.
David Locklin, Trustpilot, February 2026
Their team demonstrated a strong understanding of learning platforms and took the time to understand our goals before proposing solutions. Communication was clear and responsive throughout the process.
Vounder Analytics, Founder, via Clutch
Everything was explained to us thoroughly, and we avoided costly surprises.
David Locklin, Trustpilot, February 2026
Their team demonstrated a strong understanding of learning platforms and took the time to understand our goals before proposing solutions. Communication was clear and responsive throughout the process.
Vounder Analytics, Founder, via Clutch
Everything was explained to us thoroughly, and we avoided costly surprises.
David Locklin, Trustpilot, February 2026
Their team demonstrated a strong understanding of learning platforms and took the time to understand our goals before proposing solutions. Communication was clear and responsive throughout the process.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a financial services training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
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A financial services training LMS has to satisfy three audiences at once: the learner sitting a licensing exam, the institution whose procurement team runs vendor due diligence, and the regulator who may ask for records years later. Beyond delivering courses, it keeps an unalterable audit trail, logs exam attempts and CE credits against each learner, supports single sign-on for bank and agency clients, isolates each client’s data in its own portal, and is built to the security control standards a bank’s questionnaire asks about. We build those in from the start, on a platform you own, so the evidence is always yours to produce.
How do we get our training platform through a bank’s vendor due diligence?
Procurement wants two things: the security features in the platform, and evidence they work. The platform is built and hosted to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with audit trails, role-based access, single sign-on, encryption and tenant isolation as standard. Behind it sits the evidence: an annual independent penetration test and attestation letter, quarterly access reviews, and a security pack with data-flow diagram, subprocessor list and maintained questionnaire answers. When a client sends a questionnaire, we answer the technical sections within an agreed turnaround. SOC 2 is awarded to your organisation; if you pursue it, our evidence feeds your audit.
Will the LMS hold up under agency-wide rollouts?
Yes. We’ve load-tested to 100k users, so an agency onboarding ten thousand people on a Monday morning is well inside the tested range. Senior engineers design the architecture, caching and hosting around the volumes in your contracts, and the hosting scales with demand. The platform built for Google serves a million teachers across a dozen countries. A platform that melted on deployment is the fear we hear most from operators in this market, and load testing before launch is how we answer it.
How does the platform protect exam integrity in securities exam prep and CE?
Exam integrity is built into the course flow: randomised question banks so no two sittings match, timers that hold the mandated minutes, attempt limits, and identity checks at random points. Every attempt, answer and check is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows what happened and when.
Will the LMS keep records FINRA and states expect?
Yes. Every enrolment, module completion, exam attempt, score and CE credit is logged against the learner with a timestamp, and the audit trail can’t be altered afterwards. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from six years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and completions export in the format your state’s CE reporting system requires. FINRA, state insurance department and NMLS rules are your obligations; the platform’s job is to produce the evidence on demand, and because you own the platform and its database, the evidence stays with you.
How much does an LMS for insurance CE and licensing cost against per-seat pricing?
The platform is a single fee, paid once or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the number before anyone commits: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page. Set that against per-seat pricing at your volumes: when an agency rolls out ten thousand learners, a per-learner charge that looks small on paper becomes a serious annual bill, and it rises every time you win a contract. Owning the platform means you pay for it once; per-seat pricing means you pay again for every learner, every year. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data, and where is it hosted?
You do. The platform is yours outright: source code, database and every record in it, with a full data export in a usable format available without asking us. Host with us on infrastructure run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, or move it to your own cloud, in whatever region a bank’s data residency rules require. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
Can we take the LMS in-house later, and what IP do we own?
Yes. The custom code written for your platform is yours, and the pre-built components it sits on come with a lifetime licence, so you can run, change and extend the whole platform without us. The licence is an asset you can show a buyer. When you’re ready, we hand over the code and documentation and train your developers. What you’d lose on leaving is our monitoring, penetration testing and evidence history, which we also offer as a standalone service to platforms run in-house.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a financial services training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
A financial services training LMS has to satisfy three audiences at once: the learner sitting a licensing exam, the institution whose procurement team runs vendor due diligence, and the regulator who may ask for records years later. Beyond delivering courses, it keeps an unalterable audit trail, logs exam attempts and CE credits against each learner, supports single sign-on for bank and agency clients, isolates each client’s data in its own portal, and is built to the security control standards a bank’s questionnaire asks about. We build those in from the start, on a platform you own, so the evidence is always yours to produce.
How do we get our training platform through a bank’s vendor due diligence?
Procurement wants two things: the security features in the platform, and evidence they work. The platform is built and hosted to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with audit trails, role-based access, single sign-on, encryption and tenant isolation as standard. Behind it sits the evidence: an annual independent penetration test and attestation letter, quarterly access reviews, and a security pack with data-flow diagram, subprocessor list and maintained questionnaire answers. When a client sends a questionnaire, we answer the technical sections within an agreed turnaround. SOC 2 is awarded to your organisation; if you pursue it, our evidence feeds your audit.
Will the LMS hold up under agency-wide rollouts?
Yes. We’ve load-tested to 100k users, so an agency onboarding ten thousand people on a Monday morning is well inside the tested range. Senior engineers design the architecture, caching and hosting around the volumes in your contracts, and the hosting scales with demand. The platform built for Google serves a million teachers across a dozen countries. A platform that melted on deployment is the fear we hear most from operators in this market, and load testing before launch is how we answer it.
How does the platform protect exam integrity in securities exam prep and CE?
Exam integrity is built into the course flow: randomised question banks so no two sittings match, timers that hold the mandated minutes, attempt limits, and identity checks at random points. Every attempt, answer and check is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows what happened and when.
Will the LMS keep records FINRA and states expect?
Yes. Every enrolment, module completion, exam attempt, score and CE credit is logged against the learner with a timestamp, and the audit trail can’t be altered afterwards. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from six years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and completions export in the format your state’s CE reporting system requires. FINRA, state insurance department and NMLS rules are your obligations; the platform’s job is to produce the evidence on demand, and because you own the platform and its database, the evidence stays with you.
How much does an LMS for insurance CE and licensing cost against per-seat pricing?
The platform is a single fee, paid once or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the number before anyone commits: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page. Set that against per-seat pricing at your volumes: when an agency rolls out ten thousand learners, a per-learner charge that looks small on paper becomes a serious annual bill, and it rises every time you win a contract. Owning the platform means you pay for it once; per-seat pricing means you pay again for every learner, every year. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data, and where is it hosted?
You do. The platform is yours outright: source code, database and every record in it, with a full data export in a usable format available without asking us. Host with us on infrastructure run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, or move it to your own cloud, in whatever region a bank’s data residency rules require. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
Can we take the LMS in-house later, and what IP do we own?
Yes. The custom code written for your platform is yours, and the pre-built components it sits on come with a lifetime licence, so you can run, change and extend the whole platform without us. The licence is an asset you can show a buyer. When you’re ready, we hand over the code and documentation and train your developers. What you’d lose on leaving is our monitoring, penetration testing and evidence history, which we also offer as a standalone service to platforms run in-house.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What should a financial services training LMS do that a general learning management system does not?
A financial services training LMS has to satisfy three audiences at once: the learner sitting a licensing exam, the institution whose procurement team runs vendor due diligence, and the regulator who may ask for records years later. Beyond delivering courses, it keeps an unalterable audit trail, logs exam attempts and CE credits against each learner, supports single sign-on for bank and agency clients, isolates each client’s data in its own portal, and is built to the security control standards a bank’s questionnaire asks about. We build those in from the start, on a platform you own, so the evidence is always yours to produce.
How do we get our training platform through a bank’s vendor due diligence?
Procurement wants two things: the security features in the platform, and evidence they work. The platform is built and hosted to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with audit trails, role-based access, single sign-on, encryption and tenant isolation as standard. Behind it sits the evidence: an annual independent penetration test and attestation letter, quarterly access reviews, and a security pack with data-flow diagram, subprocessor list and maintained questionnaire answers. When a client sends a questionnaire, we answer the technical sections within an agreed turnaround. SOC 2 is awarded to your organisation; if you pursue it, our evidence feeds your audit.
Will the LMS hold up under agency-wide rollouts?
Yes. We’ve load-tested to 100k users, so an agency onboarding ten thousand people on a Monday morning is well inside the tested range. Senior engineers design the architecture, caching and hosting around the volumes in your contracts, and the hosting scales with demand. The platform built for Google serves a million teachers across a dozen countries. A platform that melted on deployment is the fear we hear most from operators in this market, and load testing before launch is how we answer it.
How does the platform protect exam integrity in securities exam prep and CE?
Exam integrity is built into the course flow: randomised question banks so no two sittings match, timers that hold the mandated minutes, attempt limits, and identity checks at random points. Every attempt, answer and check is written to the audit trail with a timestamp, so the record shows what happened and when.
Will the LMS keep records FINRA and states expect?
Yes. Every enrolment, module completion, exam attempt, score and CE credit is logged against the learner with a timestamp, and the audit trail can’t be altered afterwards. Retention follows your regulator’s rule, so a record from six years ago is as retrievable as last week’s, and completions export in the format your state’s CE reporting system requires. FINRA, state insurance department and NMLS rules are your obligations; the platform’s job is to produce the evidence on demand, and because you own the platform and its database, the evidence stays with you.
How much does an LMS for insurance CE and licensing cost against per-seat pricing?
The platform is a single fee, paid once or spread over three years, and the Blueprint fixes the number before anyone commits: a costed plan you keep, so nobody decides on the full build from a web page. Set that against per-seat pricing at your volumes: when an agency rolls out ten thousand learners, a per-learner charge that looks small on paper becomes a serious annual bill, and it rises every time you win a contract. Owning the platform means you pay for it once; per-seat pricing means you pay again for every learner, every year. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, with nothing metered.
Who owns the platform, the code and the data, and where is it hosted?
You do. The platform is yours outright: source code, database and every record in it, with a full data export in a usable format available without asking us. Host with us on infrastructure run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, or move it to your own cloud, in whatever region a bank’s data residency rules require. If you ever leave, the platform keeps working and the records go with you.
Can we take the LMS in-house later, and what IP do we own?
Yes. The custom code written for your platform is yours, and the pre-built components it sits on come with a lifetime licence, so you can run, change and extend the whole platform without us. The licence is an asset you can show a buyer. When you’re ready, we hand over the code and documentation and train your developers. What you’d lose on leaving is our monitoring, penetration testing and evidence history, which we also offer as a standalone service to platforms run in-house.
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4.6 on Trustpilot
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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.