Brand knowledge for distributed frontline teams

Your frontline teams represent hundreds of brands. Most have trained them once, if at all.

Brand trainings reach a handful of your people, once or twice a year, usually in a language that isn’t theirs — whether your teams work a department store, an airport shop, a hotel, a bar or a restaurant. Narraid brings brand knowledge to every one of them as short audio episodes on their own phone, in their own language.

Tell us about your teams. We reply within one working day, with a sample episode in a language of your choosing.

A retail team member advising two customers on the shop floor

Confident staff are the difference between browsing and buying — on a shop floor or behind a bar.

The problem

Everything about a live operation works against classroom training.

Your staff want to know the products they sell, pour and serve. The way brand knowledge is delivered today simply doesn’t survive contact with a live operation — in a store, a lounge, a hotel or a restaurant.

01

Brand trainings happen once or twice a year

And they reach the people who happened to be rostered that morning. Everyone else gets a summary from a colleague, or nothing at all.

02

Turnover outruns the training calendar

Your newest staff are often the ones facing customers at the busiest hours — with the least product knowledge behind them.

03

Your teams speak twenty languages

The training speaks one. Native-language delivery is not a nicety here; it is the difference between a team that remembers and a team that nods politely.

04

Every brand arrives in its own format

A portal from one, a PDF from another, a video from a third, a session scheduled by a fourth. Nothing lands in one place, so nothing is easy to find — and your sites are spread across terminals, cities or countries.

Why it is worth solving

Staff knowledge is the last marketing channel before the till.

Independent market research quantifies how much of the purchase decision is still made in the final conversation on the floor.

46%

Staff-influenced product choice

Of shoppers chose which product to buy based on staff guidance.

22%

Would not have bought at all

Of customers say they would not have purchased without staff guidance.

64%

Staff interaction rate

In luxury retail — the category where knowledgeable staff matter most.

Source: PI Insight, 2025.

Why it is worth solving

Staff knowledge is the last marketing channel before the till.

Independent market research quantifies how much of the purchase decision is still made in the final conversation on the floor.

46%

Staff-influenced product choice

Of shoppers chose which product to buy based on staff guidance.

22%

Would not have bought at all

Of customers say they would not have purchased without staff guidance.

64%

Staff interaction rate

In luxury retail — the category where knowledgeable staff matter most.

Source: PI Insight, 2025.

Why it is worth solving

Staff knowledge is the last marketing channel before the till.

Independent market research quantifies how much of the purchase decision is still made in the final conversation on the floor.

46%

Staff-influenced product choice

Of shoppers chose which product to buy based on staff guidance.

22%

Would not have bought at all

Of customers say they would not have purchased without staff guidance.

64%

Staff interaction rate

In luxury retail — the category where knowledgeable staff matter most.

Source: PI Insight, 2025.

The platform

One app for your teams. One dashboard for your office.

Narraid is two connected things: an app for every member of your frontline team, and a dashboard for the people who run them — at head office and at every site.

Staff app · iPhone & Android

The app they listen on

Free on iPhone and Android. Episodes of a few minutes, in 35+ languages written natively rather than translated. Quizzes, badges and streaks, because finishing is the entire point.

They listen on the commute, in the few minutes of a break, crossing the car park, on the walk in from the station — not standing on the floor or behind the bar.

Narraid app: an in-episode knowledge quiz
Narraid app home screen showing assigned brands and progress
Narraid app: the episode player

Partner dashboard

The dashboard for the people who run the teams

With logins for your head office and for the managers of every store, lounge or venue — not just one report that lands at HQ.

Participation, episode completion and brand knowledge confidence per site, so you can see which teams are ready for the season and which need attention before it starts.

●

Participation and completion per site

●

Brand knowledge confidence across your teams

●

Works with your LMS: episodes go into your own learning system and results flow back

The Narraid partner dashboard on a desktop monitor

EU hosting certified to ISO/IEC 27001. GDPR compliant.

Hear it

One episode. Twelve languages.

Press play and the same episode moves through twelve languages — or pick one. Each is written for its own audience, not translated.

One episode · twelve languages
English
Tap play, or pick a language
Each language gets its own script, written natively for that audience rather than translated, and read as a natural conversation. Sample: a Narraid showcase episode on the origins of Christmas traditions, about 75 seconds in total.

Hear a full episode, the way your teams would.

Two voices in a real conversation, not a voice reading out a brochure.

Staff episode · 5 min + quiz
Aurora Amulet: Three drops from the Arctic
A skincare brand briefs beauty advisors: the brand story, a 30-second ritual to show customers, and the travel-exclusive set.
Three drops from the Arctic0:00 / 4:57
Consumer story · 2.5 min
Aurora Amulet: The berry that waits for summer
The same story, told to the shopper. Played from a QR code on the shelf, the tester or the gift box.
The berry that waits for summer0:00 / 2:27
Our own episode · 8 languages
Narraid, told by Narraid
One episode about what we do, in eight languages, each written for its language rather than translated.
Narraid (English)0:00 / 5:22

Aurora Amulet is a fictional brand, made so we can share real examples without sharing any client’s material.

35+ languages and growing

Written natively in the languages your teams speak.

Arabic

العربية

Bengali

বাংলা

Chinese

中文

Dutch

Nederlands

English

Filipino

French

Français

German

Deutsch

Greek

Ελληνικά

Gujarati

ગુજરાતી

Hebrew

עברית

Hindi

हिन्दी

Hungarian

Magyar

Indonesian

Bahasa Indonesia

Italian

Italiano

Japanese

日本語

Kannada

ಕನ್ನಡ

Korean

한국어

Malay

Bahasa Melayu

Marathi

मराठी

Pashto

پښتو

Persian

فارسی

Polish

Polski

Portuguese

Português

Punjabi

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Romanian

Română

Russian

Русский

Spanish

Español

Swahili

Kiswahili

Tamil

தமிழ்

Telugu

తెలుగు

Thai

ไทย

Turkish

Türkçe

Ukrainian

Українська

Urdu

اردو

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt

Not on the list? Get in touch and tell us which language your teams need.

What you get

What this actually does for your operation.

Concretely — what changes, and what it asks of you.

Every brand in one place

Instead of a portal from one brand, a PDF from another and a session from a third, your teams open one app and find the brands they actually sell, pour and serve — one place to look, one habit to build.

Nobody comes off the floor

Episodes are minutes long and happen on their own phone, on the way in or on a break. No classroom hours to schedule at your busiest time of year, and no cover to arrange.

Faster onboarding

A new starter gets consistent brand knowledge from day one, whatever their site, shift or language — instead of waiting months for the next brand visit. In high-turnover operations this is where the value shows up first.

In the languages your teams actually speak

35+ languages, written natively rather than translated. Comprehension, confidence and recall all move together, and so does the quality of the conversation with the customer.

A dashboard for HQ and site managers

Participation, completion and brand knowledge confidence per site, so you know which teams are ready for peak and which need attention.

Beyond brand stories

The same format works for anything your teams need to know.

Brand knowledge is where most partners start. The same short episodes, quizzes and dashboard carry any subject your teams need to master.

Cultural knowledge

Help teams understand the travellers they serve: customs, expectations and the small courtesies that make a guest feel welcome.

Service skills

Greeting, finding out what someone needs, handling a complaint, closing with care. Practised in short episodes and checked with a quiz.

Your own priorities

Launches, operating standards, safety, sustainability or a new loyalty programme, produced in your teams’ own languages.

Any distributed workforce

Airports, hotels, cruise ships, stadiums, restaurant groups: wherever people work on their feet, spread across sites and shifts.

Three steps

What it takes from your side: almost nothing.

1

You open the door

Agree that your teams may use Narraid and help us reach them — QR codes in the back office, a word from managers, a place in onboarding.

2

The brands come on board

The brands on your shelves, back bars and menus share their material once. Your staff get a growing library covering the brands they actually sell, pour and serve.

3

Your staff listen — and you can see it

Listening, completion and knowledge confidence per site, on a dashboard your HQ and site managers can open themselves.

Today

Your brand

→

→

5 formats, 5 timings

→

→

5 retailers

→

→

floor staff — if it lands

With Narraid

Your brand

→

→

Narraid — one handover

→

→

One app

→

→

every retailer’s floor staff

Every brand partner solves this separately today, and your floor absorbs the difference. One channel means one library your staff can actually find.

Onboarding

New staff arrive knowing the brands, without taking a colleague off the floor to explain them.

Refresh

Knowledge fades. A five-minute episode before a busy season puts it back, without anyone leaving the shop floor.

What just changed

Launches and campaign news reach your teams while they are still news.

The doors nobody visits

Your smallest and most remote stores get what your flagship gets.

Research-backed

We did not guess that audio works. We looked it up.

Narraid’s method is grounded in independent academic research, summarised in our Learning by Listening white paper.

→

Podcasts match or beat lectures

Systematic reviews show podcast learning matches or outperforms traditional lectures for knowledge gain. Cho et al., 2017; Kelly et al., 2022

→

Short beats long

Units of 3–10 minutes improve retention, completion and learner satisfaction over long sessions. Monib et al., 2024; Rof et al., 2024

→

Conversational voice outperforms formal script

Natural, conversational narration drives significantly better learning outcomes. Mayer, 2021

→

Native language changes the result

Native-language delivery measurably improves comprehension, trust and retention. Arif et al., 2021; Dungcik et al., 2024

Featured in

The Moodie Davitt Report, TRBusiness, DFNI, Global Travel Retail Magazine and TR Unblocked

Research-backed

We did not guess that audio works. We looked it up.

Narraid’s method is grounded in independent academic research, summarised in our Learning by Listening white paper.

→

Podcasts match or beat lectures

Systematic reviews show podcast learning matches or outperforms traditional lectures for knowledge gain. Cho et al., 2017; Kelly et al., 2022

→

Short beats long

Units of 3–10 minutes improve retention, completion and learner satisfaction over long sessions. Monib et al., 2024; Rof et al., 2024

→

Conversational voice outperforms formal script

Natural, conversational narration drives significantly better learning outcomes. Mayer, 2021

→

Native language changes the result

Native-language delivery measurably improves comprehension, trust and retention. Arif et al., 2021; Dungcik et al., 2024

Featured in

The Moodie Davitt Report, TRBusiness, DFNI, Global Travel Retail Magazine and TR Unblocked

Research-backed

We did not guess that audio works. We looked it up.

Narraid’s method is grounded in independent academic research, summarised in our Learning by Listening white paper.

→

Podcasts match or beat lectures

Systematic reviews show podcast learning matches or outperforms traditional lectures for knowledge gain. Cho et al., 2017; Kelly et al., 2022

→

Short beats long

Units of 3–10 minutes improve retention, completion and learner satisfaction over long sessions. Monib et al., 2024; Rof et al., 2024

→

Conversational voice outperforms formal script

Natural, conversational narration drives significantly better learning outcomes. Mayer, 2021

→

Native language changes the result

Native-language delivery measurably improves comprehension, trust and retention. Arif et al., 2021; Dungcik et al., 2024

Featured in

The Moodie Davitt Report, TRBusiness, DFNI, Global Travel Retail Magazine and TR Unblocked

We reply within one working day

Tell us about your teams.

No deck marathon. Tell us who your frontline teams are and what they need to know. We come back with a sample episode and an honest view of whether Narraid fits.

✓

We read your message and reply within one working day.

✓

You get a sample episode in a language your teams speak.

✓

We show you the dashboard your team would use.

✓

If it looks like a fit, we suggest a short call at a time that suits you.

A sales associate listens to an episode on her break

Five minutes on a break, and one more person on that floor can answer the question.

We reply within one working day

Tell us about your teams.

No deck marathon. Tell us who your frontline teams are and what they need to know. We come back with a sample episode and an honest view of whether Narraid fits.

✓

We read your message and reply within one working day.

✓

You get a sample episode in a language your teams speak.

✓

We show you the dashboard your team would use.

✓

If it looks like a fit, we suggest a short call at a time that suits you.

A sales associate listens to an episode on her break

Five minutes on a break, and one more person on that floor can answer the question.

We reply within one working day

Tell us about your teams.

No deck marathon. Tell us who your frontline teams are and what they need to know. We come back with a sample episode and an honest view of whether Narraid fits.

✓

We read your message and reply within one working day.

✓

You get a sample episode in a language your teams speak.

✓

We show you the dashboard your team would use.

✓

If it looks like a fit, we suggest a short call at a time that suits you.

A sales associate listens to an episode on her break

Five minutes on a break, and one more person on that floor can answer the question.