About Near-Life

About Near-Life

About Near-Life

Near-Life is the simplest, fastest platform for learning teams to create high quality interactive video and VR simulations that scale role-play, improve real-world decisions, and reduce organisational risk.

The platform enables learning professionals to design scenarios using interactive video, branching pathways, and immersive media — and to share them at scale through existing learning systems. Learners are placed in situations that reflect real work, where choices matter and outcomes change based on decisions made.

Near-Life is used by organisations where behaviour, consistency, and decision quality are critical, including healthcare, emergency services, public sector, financial services, education, and NGOs.

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Loved by learners. Easy for creators.

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What Near-Life is used for

Near-Life helps organisations:

  • Scale realistic role-play and scenario-based learning
  • Standardise behaviour practice across teams
  • Give learners a safe place to try, fail, and improve
  • Gain insight into how people make decisions, not just whether they complete training
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"You're doing what others are trying to do but in such a simple and easy way."

VYOND

"We love your software... it's becoming an integral part of our business."

Beth Goodwin, Program Manager, CMEology

"400,000 people every year learn to save a life through our training programmes, so it is exciting to have created this scenario-based learning with the potential to reach many more people in an effective online format."

Karen Wain, Training Products Manager at St John Ambulance

"Utilising digital media that mimics real life, aids delivery of training that is meaningful vs an artificial classroom setting.”

Lindsay Hallworth, Innovation Manager, NHS

"Your team are a pleasure to work with."

abbvie

"Their intuitive online interface makes the creation & use of video branching a breeze."

Nik Brown, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue

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Our story

Near-Life began after Mike, our Founder, returned to the UK after completing a course known as ‘Hostile Environment Awareness Training' (HEAT) to become part of the Government’s Stabilisation Unit on returning from Kosovo for a United Nations Mission.

His main focus at that point was media production, and he wondered… could you combine something realistic with a game-like simulation, to provide a similar experience to the HEAT Course?

That, in essence, was the inception of Near-Life...

Photo of Near-Life founders, Mike & Geseth