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Growth · May 1, 2014

Guides.co

Actionable, helpful & interactive content for your readers

Guides.co launched on May 1, 2014 with 103 votes, #138 of 1,247 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

Community-owned knowledge and nationally supported skill development — templates, short guides, and practical tests. Part of Commonet.

We're building Canadian infrastructure for turning knowledge into capability — and making it free for the people who need it. We work with organizations, associations, communities and experts to identify what Canadians need to know, turn it into practical learning, and make it available on location and at scale. Learning became a toll road — everybody's taxed. Government. Communities. Learners. Somewhere along the way, we confused certification with capability — showing up instead of getting the job done. Guides flips the switch: education that's practical, affordable, and in place — right where the skill is actually needed. A skill check shows you can still do it today — not that you sat…from guides.co

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