Dive into our builds, our process, and the talented team behind it all.
Let’s break it down for you, with a short video from our Head of Marketing, Laura.
Before we dive into our builds, here’s a little more about us.
We’re a team of nearly 20 delivering Totara-based learning platforms across sectors and countries.
Scroll over our friendly faces to learn more.
Fred is the CEO and Founder of BuildEmpire, starting the business as a developer.
Laura is Head of Marketing at BuildEmpire and has worked in L&D for 3 years. Her favourite feature is gamification.
Michael, COO at BuildEmpire, is our go-to expert in practically everything and the owner of Milo, our adorable dog mascot.
As Head of Sales, Fliss helps people discover how to build their dream LMS using our platform.
With Totara, you get access to core learning creation options. But we’ve added extras you won’t find elsewhere including more course builder options, new activities (like audio upload and notes), as well as dashboard banner blocks including banner blocks and next activity blocks.
With some out-of-the-box learning solutions, you get a choice of adding a logo and some branding colours. With BuildEmpire’s Edition, you can manipulate more parts of your platform to make it truly bespoke.
From gamification and eCommerce, to more bespoke learning solutions, we’re building platforms that suit your programmes – not the other way around.
Here’s some new features we’ve built recently, and exactly why we built them
Our Edition takes your Totara LMS to the next level.
There’s not a lot we can’t do, but here are some of our users’ favourites related to our theme, colours, and notifications. 👇👇
We built our very own theme, to enhance your Totara platform to look more streamlined and user-friendly.
And we’ve got loads of customisation options to make it your own.

The Edition features a sleek, customisable design that allows you to incorporate your branding. Its visual appeal includes colours, fonts, icons, layouts and more which makes it popular with our users.
We built notifications to boost engagement through real-time feedback, reminders, and rewards, while also guiding learners toward goals, progress and community.

We love customisation. And it’s what The Edition is all about, solving our users’ problems. Whether that be with multi-tenancy, custom blocks or custom due dates,
there is a lot we can do.
Here are examples of customisation you can unlock.👇👇
Multi-tenancy allows multiple organisations to share the same platform while keeping their data and branding separate. This reduces costs, simplifies management, offers tailored experiences, and is backed by our dedicated support to ensure smooth operation and quick issue resolution.
We support customers with custom blocks tailored to their needs—whether it’s our dashboard banner to announce updates or a “What’s Next” activity block to guide learners. Each block is designed to enhance the learner experience while keeping engagement at the forefront.

We help customers set custom course dates for individual learners to fit their schedules, enabling flexible enrolment and better learner management tailored to their specific needs.
We all know engagement is vital. That’s why we have specific reports to track user engagement over long-term courses, pulling together disparate data. And with our gamification features, you can help increase learning motivation.
Find out more about these features here. 👇👇
We provide users with specific and customisable engagement reports, helping them track learner progress and measure training effectiveness with insights tailored to their organisational goals.
Learner engagement is an ongoing issue for providers. We include gamification elements like points and leaderboards so you can incentivise learning.

When our team are not enhancing your LMS, we love a team social to let our hair down.
Theme parks are a team favourite.
Whether you’re building a learning platform from scratch or migrating from another provider, we can help. Our team of devs and learning experts can help you make a solution custom to your needs.








