Interview with Stan Suchkov, CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve
7 February 2025
— Could you tell me about your career path. How did you make the decision to work in the field you are in now?
I’ve had several pivots in my life. I’ve started as sales manager at IT services company, moved towards construction and development field, running my own business for more than 5 years.
Finally, I’ve understood that I can’t live without IT niche and decided to start my startup. That’s how Evolve started, and we needed 2 more years to understand how make our product useful and desirable in B2B sector.
Finally, I’ve understood that I can’t live without IT niche and decided to start my startup. That’s how Evolve started, and we needed 2 more years to understand how make our product useful and desirable in B2B sector.
— What does your company do?
— Evolve is a unique Learning Management System that converts any uploaded materials into courses and trainings within 24 hours, saving up to 90% of time.
Our system evaluates all the training results by itself, providing massive amount of data and analytics for the management. And last, but not least, almost all of our features can be acquired by API integrated in other LMSs.
Our system evaluates all the training results by itself, providing massive amount of data and analytics for the management. And last, but not least, almost all of our features can be acquired by API integrated in other LMSs.
— You work with AI. What can you say about its future?
— It will definitely surprise us. In early 2000s I thought that we have everything we need to live, same was in the 2010s and even now I understand that we have everything we dreamed of. So I can’t state the things AI will improve in our lives, but with no doubts we will absorb the best opportunities new technologies will provide, and these values will be integrated in our daily routine smoothly. So, let’s see what the future and AI can give us.
— AI in HR is one interesting topic. A lot of people are using AI to automate processes. What are you using AI for?
— The HR sector often faces significant challenges – from limited budgets and a lack of resources to manual workloads and the undervaluation of its importance by many chief officers. HR professionals frequently juggle responsibilities with insufficient staff, making it difficult to perform at their best.
AI has transformed this sphere with improving processes like onboarding, training, hiring, and other critical functions. AI tools have strengthened the HR teams. Basic hiring, payroll, and learning systems increased the effectiveness years ago, but all these platforms evolve right now to provide more and more AI features.
Evolve uses AI to automate courses & trainings creation, cutting off 90% of time L&D and HR experts spend to build education programs. But that’s not only the case we help with. There is a huge paint with assessing the knowledge an employee has. Evolve evaluates all the training results including open-ended questions and provides feedback about each learner with strong and weak sides.
AI has transformed this sphere with improving processes like onboarding, training, hiring, and other critical functions. AI tools have strengthened the HR teams. Basic hiring, payroll, and learning systems increased the effectiveness years ago, but all these platforms evolve right now to provide more and more AI features.
Evolve uses AI to automate courses & trainings creation, cutting off 90% of time L&D and HR experts spend to build education programs. But that’s not only the case we help with. There is a huge paint with assessing the knowledge an employee has. Evolve evaluates all the training results including open-ended questions and provides feedback about each learner with strong and weak sides.
— What trends in the HR field do you see relevant in 2025?
— Main trends in the HR field are the following:
AI will be used to create courses and trainings. AI will be used during all phases of course and training creation: analysis, planning, implementation, and content creation.
Adaptive learning and tailoring learning content to the learner’s answers. With the advent of services, applications, programs, and platforms for adaptive learning, e-learning content will be more adapted to participants: presented at the right moment, in a convenient form, and in an optimal sequence. This solves the never-ending problem of student diversity: employees are different, and they learn in various ways.
Personalized learning tracks. A personalized learning track will help to solve managerial and strategic tasks, increase personal efficiency, and help to understand where to go next and how to achieve the career goal as quickly as possible.
Managing distributed teams. Even though many companies, including the biggest ones, return their employees to the offices, many teams will still work online. The constant development of new tools will help to organize real-time collaboration: task assignments, video calls, and webinars, messengers, quick correspondence, and file sharing.
Well-being & mental health. According to Gallup, the missed work due to poor mental health “is estimated to cost the U.S. economy $47.6 billion annually in lost productivity”. Companies have realized that investing in mental health is profitable, and they are trying different formats: some hire a corporate psychologist, and others use specialized platforms with consultants for that purpose. Although “only 21% of U.S. employees feel that their organization cares about their well-being”, so this trend will be on the rise in 2025.
AI will be used to create courses and trainings. AI will be used during all phases of course and training creation: analysis, planning, implementation, and content creation.
Adaptive learning and tailoring learning content to the learner’s answers. With the advent of services, applications, programs, and platforms for adaptive learning, e-learning content will be more adapted to participants: presented at the right moment, in a convenient form, and in an optimal sequence. This solves the never-ending problem of student diversity: employees are different, and they learn in various ways.
Personalized learning tracks. A personalized learning track will help to solve managerial and strategic tasks, increase personal efficiency, and help to understand where to go next and how to achieve the career goal as quickly as possible.
Managing distributed teams. Even though many companies, including the biggest ones, return their employees to the offices, many teams will still work online. The constant development of new tools will help to organize real-time collaboration: task assignments, video calls, and webinars, messengers, quick correspondence, and file sharing.
Well-being & mental health. According to Gallup, the missed work due to poor mental health “is estimated to cost the U.S. economy $47.6 billion annually in lost productivity”. Companies have realized that investing in mental health is profitable, and they are trying different formats: some hire a corporate psychologist, and others use specialized platforms with consultants for that purpose. Although “only 21% of U.S. employees feel that their organization cares about their well-being”, so this trend will be on the rise in 2025.
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