Knowledge Stations · Permanent stations, launches and recording options
A Knowledge Station is an easy capture studio inside your workplace. We fit it to your room and equipment, train your operators and demonstrate the full recording workflow, so staff can explain, demonstrate and share real-work experience whenever it matters.
The explanation that gets repeated, the handover that happens in a hallway, the change nobody has time to film: a permanent station gives each of them a visible home, and makes recording part of normal work.
Three ways to bring a station and its learning system into your organization, and two temporary recording options.
Scoped separately
A station configured for your room and equipment, with operator training and a demonstrated recording workflow. Configuration, installation and support are agreed in a written proposal.
Scoped in a proposal
We reuse what is suitable and scope the community, staff training and learning design in a written proposal.
Separately scoped
A broader engagement does not inherit the package prices or the 90-day timeline. Each part is selected and scoped explicitly.
$9,500
We bring a studio, guide your experts and deliver 4–6 edited lessons with captions, transcripts and a job aid.
From $4,900
Installed and tested by DBX, operated by your team, collected when you are done.
A fixed-scope rollout, not a subscription. Your staff learn to run the Station and community alongside DBX, then take over with a practiced routine. You provide an internal owner, participating experts and agreed staff time.
Every package includes
Prove the model around one recurring problem.
$15,00090-day launch fee
Recommended by DBX
Test reuse across teams.
$25,00090-day launch fee
Coordinate related practices across a broader organization.
$35,00090-day launch fee
Station images: eGlass. Shown for reference - final configuration is confirmed in your written proposal.
Days 1-30
Set up the Station and community. Train the team, agree staff roles and welcome the first members.
Days 31-60
Record explanations and run practice and discussion together. Experts review answers; owners authorize trials.
Days 61-90
Client staff rehearse running the Station and community with DBX support, review the work and take over with the operating guide and templates.
Good to know
Launch fee: Covers the 90-day launch and supported handover. Time, production, platform and client responsibilities are agreed in writing.
Your Station captures explanations. Your community puts them into practice. During launch, DBX helps your staff learn to run both together, with expert approvals and time set aside for the work.
35-inch model
50-inch model
Published eGlass dimensions, not the full working footprint: the presenter, computer and camera arm need room around the station. You provide a compatible, IT-approved computer and suitable space.
eGlass specifications
Who guides your launch
Founder and CEO · Seattle
Denis brings experience in software engineering, instructional design and learning-platform development. He leads your launch with the DBX team.
Denis on LinkedInA group that learns together around shared work: asking questions, trying methods and reviewing what happens. DBX helps your staff establish and practice that routine during launch, then take over. Your owners decide what changes. Software alone does not create a functioning community.
Fixed 90-day launch fees are Foundation $15,000 (one practice, up to 30 initial members), Growth $25,000 (two related practices, up to 75 initial members) and Enterprise launch $35,000 (up to 3 practices, up to 150 initial members). Each includes one Knowledge Station at one client site, staff training, learning-design support, shared operation with DBX and supported handover. Ongoing DBX support is optional and quoted separately. Hosting, licenses, technical operations and infrastructure are separately scoped. Independent course design starts at a $750 course base plus $225-$1,125 per lesson.
Training follows a curriculum; an online community provides a place to talk. A community of practice adds a recurring cycle: try methods at work, compare results and improve together. An Expert Lab supports that cycle with recorded explanations, discussion and authorized trials with peer review. Practices have named owners and review dates.
The defined station/community packages run for 90 days: set up and train in days 1-30, record and practice together in days 31-60, then rehearse client-led operation and take over in days 61-90. Handover is the expected path, within the agreed scope and staff availability. Broader connected engagements and focused practice work have separately agreed timelines.
Yes - that is the design goal. With DBX support, staff practice recording, welcoming members, guiding discussion, routing expert questions, maintaining reviewed answers and checking progress. You receive an operating guide, reusable templates and trained staff roles. You provide an internal owner, participating experts and staff time. We agree the staff roles, weekly time and handover scope before launch. Ongoing DBX support is optional and quoted separately; hosting and technical operations remain separately scoped.
You pay for setup, staff training, learning design and supported handover, not just software. DBX guides and shares the work during launch. We use your existing tools where they fit; Discourse is recommended only when lasting discussion, deployment control, portability or ownership justify it.
In your existing tools, on managed Discourse hosting, or on your own infrastructure, on premises or in a private cloud, within an agreed scope. Hosting and technical operations are separate from day-to-day community operation. We agree identity, access, retention and processing boundaries for AI, email, analytics and backups with your IT team.
No. AI is optional, permissioned and reviewed; the community is designed to be valuable with it switched off. Dedicated Discourse communities include AI capabilities for search, summaries, reviewed-content answers, moderation and usage reporting. Discourse's included hosted model comes only with its hosting plans. Self-hosted communities use approved cloud AI, which processes selected content with that provider, or separately scoped and validated local AI. Stored AI data stays alongside community content; processing boundaries are agreed with IT.
Keep what is working. We target agreed gaps, such as expert workload, learning design, cross-team reuse or maintained practice, rather than replacing a healthy community.
We record a baseline at the start, then look for reuse beyond the originating team, quality of methods, changes in expert effort and value to members. No posting quotas, and no outcome is guaranteed.
The package's selected eGlass lightboard with built-in camera and lighting, agreed mounting, setup and operator onboarding at one client site. You provide a compatible, IT-approved computer and suitable space; if you already have recording equipment, we reuse what is suitable. Foundation includes one complete explanation, Growth two and Enterprise launch three, with lengths and revisions agreed in the proposal. Delivery charges, tax, audio, cabling and any on-site work are confirmed there too. Unspecified travel and room works are not included.
Choose the sprint if you want finished lessons without adding work for your team. Choose the rental if you have people to record and edit. Neither leaves a station on site.
Need short explainer videos for marketing? Explanation Ads is a separate marketing service and is not included in any station, sprint or rental.
$9,500
Turn the know-how people depend on into training they can return to. We bring the studio, guide your experts and deliver short, polished lessons for your existing learning channels - all around one recording day.
Your team prepares the content, records, edits and publishes. Staff and editing are separate. Best fit: a focused recording campaign, an onboarding refresh, an expert handover, or several instructors recording around schedules.
We install and test → Your team records → We collect.
Sprint and rental: on-site in Seattle / Puget Sound.
The expert writes on a transparent board while facing the camera. The recording shows the person and the writing together, readable.
Keep the person and the thinking in view. Capture the explanation once, then share the finished lesson through your existing learning channels.
Images and video are illustrative equipment and teaching examples, not DBX client recordings. Exact equipment and room are confirmed before booking.
Anything not covered here, ask in the inquiry. We reply before anything is booked.
A quiet room with space for the board, the presenter behind it, the lights and the camera in front. Send photos and rough dimensions with your inquiry and we confirm whether the room works before anything is booked.
For the sprint, recording happens in one eight-hour on-site day, including install and removal, with up to two presenters. Preparation time is agreed in the recording plan, and one reviewer consolidates feedback on the edited lessons. With the rental, your team sets its own recording schedule within the 14 or 28 days.
We check light, noise, power and access before booking, so nothing is booked until the room is confirmed. If it isn't suitable, we tell you what would need to change.
Dates depend on studio availability and delivery. Share your target date in the inquiry and we confirm available dates in our reply, before anything is booked.
Tell us your requirements in the inquiry. We confirm file delivery, delivery formats and any device or data-handling requirements with you before booking.
Sprint: edited videos with human-reviewed captions and transcripts in the agreed formats, plus the job aid and application questions. Source and reuse files are those agreed in scope; raw footage and editable projects are not delivered automatically. Rental: your team records, edits and saves its own files.
This brief covers the two temporary options only: the installed studio rental and the assisted recording sprint. Permanent Knowledge Stations and connected learning systems are scoped separately.
DBX Lightboard Studio: rental and assisted sprint buyer brief
Installed studio rental: one common scope, 14 days ($4,900 total) or 28 days ($6,900 total).
Rental setup: agreed lightboard/presenter setup, background, camera/tripod, mic/audio, lights, recording station, confidence monitor and suitable teleprompter. Delivery/install, presets, operator orientation, one hour remote support weekly and collection.
Assisted recording sprint ($9,500): one workflow, 4–6 agreed lessons up to 30 finished minutes total, up to 2 presenters, one room and setup, one eight-hour on-site day including install and removal.
Sprint support: recording plan, presenter preparation/direction, guided capture, editing and review.
Before booking we confirm a suitable room, light and noise, power and access, dates and delivery.
For rental your team prepares the content and provides an operator to record, edit and publish.
For the sprint you bring approved source material, available experts and one reviewer who consolidates feedback. Schedule and readiness are agreed before booking.
Rental: DBX installs and tests; your team records, edits and publishes; DBX collects. Staff and editing are separate.
Sprint: DBX guides the recording and delivers finished lessons.
Rental: your operator makes, reviews and saves a test recording at handover.
Sprint: edited videos, human-reviewed captions and transcripts, one shared job aid and application questions, agreed delivery formats for your existing learning channels. One consolidated revision.
Source and reuse files are those agreed in scope. Raw footage and editable video projects are not delivered automatically.
Full curriculum research, animation, translation, tracked LMS packages or integration.
Rental handover is checked with your operator’s saved test recording. For the sprint, your reviewer checks the lessons, finished duration, captions/transcripts, job aid, questions and formats against the agreed scope and consolidates revision notes. Acceptance is based on agreed deliverables, not promised usage or learning outcomes.
Prices exclude tax. Any extra travel is agreed before booking. Extensions and additional work are agreed separately.
Send the inquiry. We confirm room, dates and scope with you before anything is booked.
denis@dbxai.com · 206-880-2045
Discovery Engine LLC DBA DBX Expert Lab
A scoped studio and production workstream sits under your curriculum, your brand and your client relationship. You direct the program and the client. Client experts approve the content. DBX supplies the agreed studio and production.
Four fields are enough. We reply to confirm room, dates and scope before anything is booked.