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Case Study

Building an Investment-Ready IT Talent Pool

People Cloud needed its Ukrainian IT specialists to be credible to Japanese employers. Three live programs later — agile delivery, AI & automation, future-ready leadership. No new infrastructure. Real numbers.

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Program outcomes

10/10

Avg. course satisfaction

+100

NPS — Leaders course

+1.55/5

Employees trained as the program scaled

100%

Plan to apply within 30 days

The client: People Cloud Inc. (株式会社 People Cloud) — a Japanese company connecting Eastern European IT specialists with Japanese employers. HQ in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture.

Program delivered

Agile, Scrum & Kanban with AI — Workshop (4 sessions × 2.5h)

Skills of the Future for Technical Teams — Webinar (1.5h)

Tech Skills for Leaders — Course (8 sessions × 2h)

Format & delivery

Live online, trainer-led sessions

All materials and exercises in Miro

No LMS, no new platforms, no integration overhead

March–May 2026

Background

The client and the business model

People Cloud Inc. is a Japanese company founded in May 2023, headquartered in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture. Backed by SAMI Japan, Monster Lab Omnibus, the City of Izumo and Shimane Chuo Shinkin Bank, it sits at the intersection of regional development and the global technology talent market.

People Cloud runs two connected businesses: "hello, yaponiya!", a placement service introducing high-skilled Eastern European IT specialists to Japanese companies, and "Izumonomad", a coworking hub by Izumo station.

Its strategic thesis: skilled people attract companies, and companies attract more people — building a sustainable cross-border talent pipeline between Ukraine and Japan. The entire model depends on one thing: the talent pool must be credible and investment-ready in the eyes of Japanese employers.

Challenge

The strategy existed.
The will to change didn't.

Before the program, the cohort of Ukrainian IT and product specialists faced three high-impact gaps. Together, these weren't a learning problem — they were a business risk that slowed matching, weakened the value proposition to Japanese partners, and stalled the pipeline.

Fragmented, uneven capability

Skill levels ranged from beginner to practitioner. Knowledge was "scattered" — hard to package or vouch for to a prospective employer.

A widening gap to modern ways of working

Agile delivery, AI tools, automation and remote-first practice are now baseline requirements for global tech work — but were not yet consistent across the group.

A business risk, not just a learning gap

An unmodernised pool slows matching, weakens the value proposition to Japanese partners, and ultimately stalls the cross-border pipeline the entire business is built on.

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Solution

One capability journey. Three products.

Beetroot Academy designed the engagement as a single, progressive program — not three disconnected events. The cohort moved from delivery foundations, through AI and automation, to future-ready leadership. Delivered live, online, in the evenings, with zero new tooling required on the client side.

01 Agile, Scrum & Kanban with AI — Workshop

4 live sessions × 2.5h. Delivery foundations: Agile values, Kanban flow, Scrum roles, artefacts, metrics, and applied AI in project management. Knowledge pre/post scores measured and tracked.

02 Skills of the Future for Technical Teams — Webinar

1 live session × 1.5h. Orientation on which skills to develop next and how to manage team resistance to change. After the session, 75% of participants changed their understanding of which skills to prioritise — turning uncertainty into an action plan.

03 Tech Skills for Leaders — Course

8 live sessions × 2h. Depth and leadership track covering: digital economy, AI for productivity, AI agents, no-code automation, data-driven decisions, API economy, cyber resilience and remote-first practices. 100% of participants committed to applying what they learned within 30 days.

Zero new tooling required

Sessions ran live online. All materials, exercises and collaborative work were hosted in Miro. No LMS to set up, no platform migration — the program slotted into the cohort's existing schedule from day one.

"Sincere thanks for a thoroughly modern, relevant and original course — the kind you can hardly find anywhere on the education market."

Tech Skills for Leaders

Program participant, People Cloud cohort

Results

Measurable impact across four levels.

We report this as early / leading impact: validated learning outcomes and behavioural readiness measured immediately after delivery. Downstream business ROI — matching speed, employer credibility — is best measured with People Cloud over 30–90 days.

L1 — Reaction

8.75/10 workshop CSAT

Webinar and Leaders course both scored 10/10. Trainer effectiveness rated 5.0/5 across all three products — without exception.

L2 — Learning

2.65 → 4.20 knowledge score /5

A +1.55-point gain in the Agile workshop — closing two-thirds of the gap to "confident, applying it." Scrum, Kanban and metrics each gained +1.75.

L3 — Behaviour

100% commitment rate

All Leaders course participants named concrete next steps — automating onboarding, rolling out AI agents. After the webinar, 75% changed their understanding of which skills to develop next.

L4 — Results

NPS +100 — Leaders course

The cohort is now structured, credible and "packageable" for Japanese employer partners — directly supporting People Cloud's cross-border pipeline thesis.

Outcomes by product

Metric

Workshop

Webinar

Leaders course

Satisfaction (/10)

8.75

Trainer (/5)

5.0

Engagement (/5)

5.0

4.5–5.0

4.8

NPS

Pending

+100

Apply within 30 days

3 of 4

50% + 50% considering

100%

What People Said

Feedback from participants
about the trainers.

Anonymous review

Seems like you are a natural speaker, kind of retain the audience's attention to the content. And also motivate us that Learning AI is easy!

Anonymous review

The trainer is really good and experienced. Showed what is safe and not for our organization. Really satisfied with the training and excited to put in work.

Anonymous review

The most valuable aspects of the session were the instructor’s active involvement, the clear and engaging teaching approach, and the small learning tasks, which made the concepts easy to understand and kept the session highly interactive.

L&D Manager

A useful overview of AI tools and practical cases for increasing productivity in daily work. The interactive format, specific examples, and the opportunity to practice prompting helped me better understand how to apply AI in practice. Discovering new tools and approaches to working with real-world tasks was particularly valuable.

Ksenia K.

I completed the Agile, Scrum & Kanban with AI workshop at Beetroot Academy — a concise but very practical format on agile frameworks, working with backlogs, user stories, and sprint planning with AI tools. Special thanks to Tim Vertogradov for the clear structure and engaging presentation — there was plenty of motivation even during blackouts.

Kateryna Sukhorebska

The Project Management with AI course at Beetroot Academy was a very valuable learning experience. The practical format, strong facilitation, and support from the trainer helped our team master new tools, gain fresh ideas, and feel confident in implementing projects with real impact — even in challenging conditions.

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Building an Investment-Ready IT Talent Pool

Program delivered

Format & delivery

The client and the business model

The strategy existed.The will to change didn't.

Fragmented, uneven capability

A widening gap to modern ways of working

A business risk, not just a learning gap

One capability journey. Three products.

01

Agile, Scrum & Kanban with AI — Workshop

02

Skills of the Future for Technical Teams — Webinar

03

Tech Skills for Leaders — Course

Zero new tooling required

Measurable impact across four levels.

Feedback from participantsabout the trainers.

Build and scale capability with one partner.

We have received your application!

The strategy existed.
The will to change didn't.

Feedback from participants
about the trainers.