Pedagogy
How often to use VendAce
VendAce spaces practice inside the product. That only works if you show up on a rhythm the brain can use - short sessions, most days - not a bootcamp once a year.
The forgetting curve does not care about your calendar
Ebbinghaus mapped it more than a century ago: without return, retention collapses fast. A week later, almost everything from a one-off session is gone. And we are sure you have felt that yourself - we certainly have. Bootcamps and monthly check-ins fight the same curve. They lose.
Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve
Without return, retention falls off a cliff within days
What changes when you show up
Use the app more - and the curve works for you
On the science page we show how spaced returns inside the curriculum rebuild retention. Here the point is simpler: if you open VendAce regularly, skills get practised before they die - and each return makes the next decline slower. Miss weeks, and you are back on the scary curve.
With regular use
Same axes: knowledge retention over days. Watch each practice spike back to 100% - and how the next fall gets shallower (and greener).
Each session you show up for resets retention - and the next decline is slower
Rhythms that look serious and still fail
Intensity is not the same as spacing. These patterns feel like investment. Against the curve - and against a moving market - they are mostly theatre.
What fails
The annual bootcamp
One intense week, then silence for the rest of the year. Looking at the forgetting curve, almost everything from that week is gone within days of it ending - long before the next live deal needs it.
What fails
Once a month, if that
Better than never - still not enough. A month is plenty of time for a hard-won skill to slide back toward zero. Spacing only works if the gaps are short enough that the brain still has something to hang onto.
What fails
Cramming before the quarter
A burst of practice right before pressure feels productive. It is mostly panic. Durable skill is built in the quiet weeks, not the week before the number is due.
The market does not wait for your next bootcamp
Forgetting is only half the cost of long gaps. In a fast-moving market, the playbook itself goes stale - which is why experienced reps need regular practice as much as new ones.
Not just for new hires
Take too long between sessions and you fall behind the field
Keep your head in the sand and you plough ahead with yesterday's playbook. Ten minutes most days keeps veterans current - not just sharp on what they already knew.
What the science actually backs
Little and often. Duolingo did not win by running weekend language bootcamps - it won by making practice a daily habit. Same brain, same curve. VendAce is built for that rhythm.
What works
Most days
Not every day has to be heroic. Showing up most days is the habit the science backs - the same reason Duolingo wins by making language practice a daily ritual, when a weekend course does not.
What works
Ten to fifteen minutes
Short sessions beat marathon dumps. Working memory at the front of the brain cannot absorb an hour of new correction anyway. Little and often is the point.
What works
Stay current as the market moves
Regular use means you meet new objections and elite ways to handle them as they arise in the real world - not months later in a catch-up session. VendAce keeps you practising what the field is dealing with now.
The split
We have the inside covered. You have the outside.
Inside the app, the algorithm spaces skills, returns, and maintenance so previously covered work does not rot - as long as you are logging in. That is the half we can engineer. The other half is yours: open VendAce most days, even for ten or fifteen minutes. We cannot space a product you do not use.
How the algorithm chooses focus and maintenance is on the algorithm page. The learning-science case for spacing inside the curriculum is on the science page.
Science only works if the setup can carry it.
Most training programmes fail before spacing ever gets a chance.