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AI4LD AI for Learning Design
Free to Preview · For Instructional Design & LXD Professionals

Design Decisions,
Backed By Evidence.

The LXD Evidence Assistant runs the research — searching scholarly databases and handing you a citation-backed synthesis for your design problem. Free to preview, no account needed. Paired with AI Tool Intelligence (opens in a new tab) — also free — the two cover both sides of a design decision: what the research supports, and which tool to use.

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Now Live

The LXD Evidence Assistant does the research. You make the design call.

Give it a design problem and it searches the published literature, then hands back a synthesis you can actually use — evidence trail, key findings, design principles, and a measurement plan, every source cited.

Real research, every time

Searches five scholarly databases — OpenAlex, CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv. Every paper it cites is a real record, labeled by DOI status so you can open the original and check it.

A synthesis you can use

Evidence trail, key findings, design principles, an assessment strategy, and a measurement plan — not just a stack of abstracts to read yourself.

Free to preview

No account needed for your first research session. Full access unlocks for $47, or comes included with the Practitioner Stack.

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Also Free — AI Tool Intelligence

Once the evidence points a direction, this helps you pick the tool.

A working instrument for the evaluation decisions instructional designers and LXD professionals already make — grounded in learning science, not vendor marketing.

Score a tool against a learning-science rubric

Enter any AI tool and evaluate it against eight criteria grounded in learning science — so the assessment is based on how it supports learning and performance, not on marketing claims.

Compare tools side by side

Put up to five tools next to each other on the same criteria at once, so the differences that actually matter for learning design decisions are easy to see.

Get a personalized recommendation

Answer a short decision-guide questionnaire about your context, and get tool suggestions matched to your specific learning design problem — not a generic top-ten list.

A searchable directory of 30+ tools sits behind all three — so you can start from a name you already have in mind, or browse from scratch.

Just Launched

The LXD Evidence Assistant + AI Tool Intelligence, together

Both are free to start. Tell us what you think, or just get notified when the Practitioner Stack's next wave lands.

Get launch updates

One list — new tools, the Practitioner Stack's cycles rework, nothing else.

Tell us what's working (or not)

What felt useful, what felt confusing, what you'd never use — write as much as you'd like.

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