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Adam Black, formerly of Pearson and Macmillan Learning, argues that most educational publishers now spend more on production operations than on creating intellectual property. He and GT CEO Gjergj Demiraj walk through how AI makes redesigning that operating model affordable for the first time.

"Early movers will reduce operational overhead earlier [...] those that delay will accumulate operational debt." Adam Black on why most publishers now spend more on production operations than on creating intellectual property, and what changes when AI can automate large parts of that work.

AI strategy depends on content AI can read. Most publisher content still sits in flat files built for print. Adam Black estimates large publishers could cut operational effort by 30–50% over time by redesigning the operating model around AI. Early movers cut overhead first. The rest build up operational debt.

Labyrinth Learning cut content production time by 40–60% with a single workflow for print and digital. Most educational publishers still run authoring, layout, assets, assessment and delivery as separate systems, and rebuild the content by hand at every boundary between them.

When a standard changes, finding every affected asset takes longer than rewriting it. Content in page-layout files cannot be queried by standard, grade or objective, so identification becomes a manual read of the catalog. GT holds content structured and tagged, which turns that review into a search.

See a live demo of GT's agentic course builder. We'll take a source document to a finished course, plus show you the evaluation rubric behind our quality claims. Free 45-minute demo, Oct 28.