Radplicity vs Cornerstone OnDemand
Radical simplicity is a product decision, not a smaller feature list.
Radplicity is a learning platform for organizations whose real constraint is administrative time. Here is what it does, so you can hold it against whatever else you are looking at.
Cornerstone OnDemand is a trademark of its respective owner. Radplicity is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by them. This page describes Radplicity only and makes no claims about any other product — for what theirs does, ask them.
If you are buying for a large workforce and the real constraint is how much administrative time you have
Three things we would want you to test.
Not a list of everything — the platform page has that. These are what we would put in front of somebody in this position, and each one is something you can check for yourself in a demo rather than take on trust.
Set-up is measured in the hours it takes, not the weeks
Bring people in from a CSV with a preview of exactly who will be created and changed before anything is written. Build a course, publish it, assign it to a group — the first useful thing happens on day one rather than after a configuration project.
Every screen tells you who is affected before it acts
Dynamic groups, assignment rules, automations, bulk actions and imports all show you the people they will touch first. “214 learners currently match” is the feature, not a nicety.
Reporting that answers the question above the course
Completion by program and by learning path, and where inside a sequence people stop — so a step everybody falls out of shows up as a step rather than as a lower total.
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The questions that separate learning platforms, and our answers.
Take this list to Cornerstone OnDemand unchanged. None of these is written so that only we can answer it, and every answer below links to the thing that backs it up.
- How does the price change as more people use it?
Per-learner pricing turns every new hire, every seasonal worker and every customer you want to train into a line item — which is how training budgets end up deciding who gets trained.
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Radplicity plans are priced on the plan, not per learner. What separates the plans is capability and capacity, and every limit is published on the pricing page rather than discovered later.
See what each plan includes →- What happens to somebody’s training record when they change role?
A transfer, a group change or a rule edit changes what is expected of somebody. Whether it also erases what they already did is a question worth asking out loud, because finding out afterwards is expensive.
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It never alters what they did. Corrections are adjustment records with a reason and an audit entry — losing a group or changing a role never deletes training history.
How records and assignments work →- Can a learner tell why they were assigned something?
“Why do I have to do this?” is the commonest question an administrator gets. Whether it can still be answered six months later depends entirely on what was recorded at the time it happened.
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Every assignment records its source — what caused it, which rule or group or person, and under which version. Conflicting sources are all kept; precedence decides what is in force, it never deletes the reason.
How assignments are traced →- Is AI something I can turn off?
Not everybody may put their people’s data through a model, and for some organizations that is a governance position rather than a preference.
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AI is included in every Radplicity plan and arrives switched off. An organization can prohibit it outright, and that setting overrides plan, permission and background job alike. Everything the platform does, it does without it.
What the AI controls do →- What does the accessibility story actually consist of?
This one is easy to answer with a statement of intent. The useful follow-up is what happens automatically when somebody ships a screen that fails a check.
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Accessibility is a build gate here: automated checks run against the real screens on every change and a failure stops the release. A branding palette that fails contrast cannot be saved.
How we build and what we check →- Can I get my data out, and in what shape?
The answer decides how hard it is to leave, which is worth knowing before you arrive.
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People, training records, completions and audit history export as CSV. Learners can request an export of their own record, and an erasure request is handled without destroying the training history other records depend on.
Data, export and privacy →- How many separate audiences can one account serve?
Employees, dealers and customers tend to need different branding, different catalogs and different front doors. Ask what that costs — in licences and in reporting — before you need the second one.
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One Radplicity account can run several portals, each with its own domain, branding and catalog, with the same person appearing once rather than as three accounts.
How portals work →- What happens when I republish a course people are part-way through?
The dangerous answers are “everyone restarts” and “nobody notices” — and both are usually discovered after it happens.
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Publishing creates a version, and a completion record pins the version it was earned against. Republishing moves the right learners and leaves everybody who already finished exactly where they were, and it tells you which is which before it runs.
Versions and republishing →
Already using something and thinking about moving?
Migration is a planning conversation before it is anything else: what you are moving, what has to stay intact, and what you want the next system to make easier. The one you are leaving matters less than knowing why you are leaving it.
5% off your first year
Available to eligible new Radplicity customers migrating from another learning platform. Applies to the first year of a new annual subscription and is confirmed during the sales process. Not combinable with other promotions. Separate from the 2-year price lock, which is included with every plan.