Blend-ed and Academy of Mine
Academy of Mine is a learning platform built for selling training to companies. Blend‑ed is a learning platform that also runs the training: the dates, the rooms, the trainers, the register, and the evidence at the end of it.
Both are good products. They are good at different halves of the same job, and which half matters more is the whole decision.
The short version
You sell mostly self‑paced courses to corporate clients, and each one needs its own branded portal.
Academy of Mine
You issue a lot of certificates and the renewal cycle is the business.
Academy of Mine
Your courses end in an assessment that somebody audits.
Blend-ed
A trainer, a room or a date changes after enrolment has opened.
Blend-ed
You want AI drafting the courses instead of your team.
Blend-ed
Three things that actually differ
There is no AI in Academy of Mine
Not a criticism, a statement about where they have spent their time. Their roadmap, three years of release notes and their own article listing the nineteen essential features of a learning platform contain no AI. Blend‑ed drafts a course from your own documents for your experts to check, and answers learners from your own content rather than the open internet.
What happens when a class fills up
Academy of Mine schedules classes properly. A date, a location with a real address, an instructor, a roster you can bulk enrol into. What it does not do is cap them: course capacity and waitlists are both still listed as in progress on their own public roadmap. In Blend‑ed a full date has a queue, a cancellation reoffers the seat to the next person, and a double‑booked trainer is caught before the joining instructions go out.
What counts as assessment
Academy of Mine marks real work. A learner uploads a file, an instructor writes feedback and gives it a score. If that is your assessment, it is enough and you should stop reading here. If your assessment has a rubric, a second marker who samples the first one’s work, and an auditor who wants the trail afterwards, it is not enough, and that is what Blend‑ed was built for.
What Academy of Mine does better
Corporate portals
Portals inside portals for departments, two separate ways of counting seats, client administrators with their own permissions, each portal on its own subdomain with its own sign‑on. This is their headline claim and they have earned it. We are not close.
The recertification cycle
A grace period before a certificate expires, a status that says so, an automatic reminder, and the course resetting itself when the learner pays again inside the window. Built properly, end to end.
Selling
Five payment gateways, subscriptions, memberships, tiered pricing, tax, abandoned carts, QuickBooks. For a business whose main job is selling courses online, this is more complete than ours.
Where we lose
Academy of Mine publishes its price. Nine hundred and ninety‑nine dollars a month, on the pricing page, no call needed. We quote ours per customer, which is slower for you, and we know it is the more annoying answer.
They have close to fifty reviews on Capterra. We have a handful. If third‑party proof is how you buy, that gap is real and it will take us a while to close.
And the three things above are not a polite gesture. On portals, certificates and selling, they are genuinely ahead of us today.
Bring the course that causes your team the most work.
We will walk it through Blend‑ed with you, from the first booking to the certificate. If Academy of Mine is the better fit for how you work, we will tell you on the call.