Hey there 👋,
Welcome to April’s edition of The Drop.
This is the market intelligence arm of Steal These Thoughts where I share a monthly roundup of the biggest stories, releases and movements across the learning tech market.
Before we begin…I can’t be everywhere, so if you’ve seen news I should share here next month, send your stories to me directly.
Here’s what you need to know this month ↓
1️⃣ The LMS + LXP is moving to the LLM
I can’t seem to end a day without another LMS/LXP provider launching a “in LLM” experience. I’ve seen similar announcements from providers like Thrive, Docebo and Degreed in the past few weeks.
It feels like it’s raining MCP’s with more platforms.
What we’re seeing is both vendors extending the capabilities of their platforms and also using your LLM of choice as the window/entry point for their services.
Perhaps, this is the start of true transformation with AI across the tech stack?
Only time will tell.
2️⃣ People functions become AI enablement functions
Another movement gaining speed in 2026 is the people function transforming into the AI enablement function.
April gave us more changes in this space.
I’ve seen CPO’s at Atlassian, Zapier, ServiceNow, Moderna and IBM turn into leaders of AI enablement, and for the most part, that makes a lotta sense. As at its core, all of this transformation is more people focused vs tech. Yes, it’s taken organisations a few years to figure this out, but we’re here.
Here’s a bit of commentary I enjoyed on the Atlassian move and the part that stayed with me:
“When AI agents execute work inside an organisation, two questions become unavoidable: Who owns the decisions they are making? Who is accountable when they get it wrong?
The answer cannot be the technology function. Technology builds and deploys. It does not own workforce strategy, capability design, or people risk. The answer has to be the People function. But only if the People function has been rebuilt to carry that weight.”
3️⃣ AI agents won, now what?
So, 2025 was not the year of the agent.
But 2026…feels like it crash landed and took over.
We’re all still figuring out how this plays out, and how we fit into it (we still fit into it, right?). I’m not going to play Nostradamus on the internet. You’ll find plenty of fools doing that on TikTok.
Instead, I’m sharing this fictional memo from the future crafted by ServiceNow.
This popped up on my feed from their CMO and struck me as a pretty cool idea. It’s not real and part of a campaign but nonetheless, it’s good food for thought.
The Global Intelligence Truth is a fictional memo sent out the morning after the AI agents take over the workforce. It asks, what now and next?
Perhaps a nudge to pay attention to AI governance today, not tomorrow.
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👀 Market Moves
Who’s moving and shaking in the learning tech scene.
Docebo makes its AI move: One of biggest product stories of the month from a long-standing LMS player. Docebo MCP (your learning content piped into any AI assistant via Model Context Protocol), and Harmony Tutor (course-grounded Q&A) are a few of the newly deployed features in their ecosystem.
Fosway 2026 9-Grid for Digital Learning lands: The big annual reckoning for the European learning tech vendor market. Fosway describes the digital learning market as experiencing its third consecutive year of economic stress, with flat budgets and greater scrutiny of the content supply chain.
LearningPool acquires WorkStep: Three acquisitions in quick succession for LP. The other two being WorkRamp and Elucidat. WorkStep is an AI-powered employee engagement platform specifically designed for the frontline workforce.
Blify raises $2.1M pre-seed for AI-native learning inside Slack and Teams: While I’m not totally convinced by solutions such as this with so many AI agents now bridging the gap and MCPs dropping everywhere. I do think we’ll see more of this over the next few years.
Truth of the month
Stop vibe coding stuff that works already. No one wants your version of “x”.
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