Most online courses are built around the gate: a sales page, a login, videos released a week at a time and a certificate at the end. Filamental is built around the subject. Every idea is a page with its clip, its pictures and its files, joined to everything it touches, so a learner explores at their own pace, in their own order, and keeps what they learned in a form their own AI can use.
Take away the sales page and most courses are the same three things in a row: a video, a slide deck and a PDF, released in an order somebody else chose, with a progress bar measuring how much of it you’ve sat through. The certificate at the end proves you got to the end.
None of that is the fault of the person teaching. Software built to take payments and release content on a schedule turns whatever goes into it into a queue, because a queue is the thing it knows how to sell.
In Filamental a course is a world. Every idea, technique or worked case is a page, with your clip cued to the second you explain it, the diagrams and photographs around it, and the files a learner needs, the workbook, the template or the checklist, on the page they belong to.
Want a route? Join the lessons in order and every page lists the next one at its foot, so a beginner follows the path you laid from the front page. Want people to wander? They click any idea, and the lines show what it rests on and what builds on it, so somebody who knows the basics starts in the middle and walks back only when they need to.
Nothing unlocks, nothing is released on a Tuesday, and nobody is told they’re 34% complete.
A course ends at the certificate. A Filamental world is text underneath, so it keeps working after the last page. Attach the one-file Export for AI to your front page and a learner hands the whole subject to the AI they already use, then asks it about their own situation with your material behind every answer.
And if you give it as a single HTML file, the learner keeps it: one file that opens in any browser, with no login and no expiry, so the subject is there the next time they need it rather than behind an account they’ve forgotten the password to.
Sell the single HTML file through whatever already takes your payments, or put a password on a link for members. Either way the buyer gets the whole world at once, theirs to keep and to explore, rather than a login to a queue.
Filamental takes no cut, because Filamental never sees the sale.
Connect Claude to a space over MCP, give it the transcripts and the video addresses, and it lays out a page per idea with the clip on each one cued to the moment you explain it. What comes out is roughly right, because a good lesson is already roughly the structure. Fix what it misread, drop the files on, and it’s ready to send.
A Filamental world is a folder of plain Markdown files on your own machine, with no account and no telemetry. Your videos stay on YouTube, Vimeo or Loom and play from there, and a shared link is encrypted on your computer before it leaves, so we can’t read it.
Building the world is free, permanently, with no account and no card. Sending it is Professional, at $120 a year or $12 a month, and your learners pay nothing to open it.
No, and that’s the point. Filamental doesn’t take payments, enrol students, run quizzes or issue certificates, which is the business side course platforms are built for. It builds the subject itself as a world of linked pages, with video clips cued to the second, pictures and downloadable files, which a learner opens in any browser and explores in any order or along the route you set. If you want to charge for it, sell the single HTML file through whatever already takes your payments, or put a password on a link.
Yes. Join the lessons in order with a connector and every page lists the next one at its foot, labelled, so a beginner follows the route you laid from the front page. Make the front page a set of cards, one per lesson, and it works as a contents page. Nothing stops anybody leaving the route either: every idea is one click away, with the lines showing what it rests on and what builds on it.
Yes. Paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Loom address onto a page and it becomes a player, and if the address carries a timestamp the player starts there, so each page plays the moment of the lesson it explains. Those players survive a shared link and the HTML file. A video file dropped onto a page plays inside Filamental but doesn’t travel into either, so for anything learners watch, use the link.
Yes. Filamental’s Export for AI saves the whole world as one Markdown file, every page, its notes and every connection, written so an AI knows what it’s looking at. Attach that file to your front page and a learner can hand the whole subject to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI that takes a file, then ask it about their own situation with your material behind every answer.
Building it is free, permanently, with no account and no card. Sending it, as a shared link or a single HTML file, is part of Professional at $120 a year or $12 a month, with no fee per learner and no cut of anything you sell, since the sale never passes through us. Opening it costs your learners nothing: no install, no account and no sign-in.
Give Claude the transcript of one lesson, open what comes back, and see whether it teaches better as a place than as a queue.