Beyond Content Creation: Evolve Your Defense with Lab Builder AI Assistant 2.0

Immersive One customers got the speed to build custom content with the Lab Builder AI Assistant launch (October 2025). With the latest release, they gain the power to evolve and turn every lab into a continuous engine of cyber readiness. 

Earlier this fall, the Lab Builder AI Assistant revolutionized content creation on the Immersive One platform. It solved the ‘blank page’ problem, equipping your subject matter experts (SMEs) to build high-fidelity labs tailored to your environment in minutes, via a simple, conversational interface.

That was the first step: agile creation.

But creation is just the start. In cybersecurity, the threat actors and their tactics shift constantly. A custom lab built six months ago is only valuable if it reflects today’s reality. If your content stays static while threats evolve, your readiness gap reopens. 

That’s where Lab Builder AI Assistant 2.0 adds new value, released this week on Immersive One to all Immersive Labs and AppSec customers.

AI Lab Builder 2.0 expands the assistant from a powerful creation tool into a continuous improvement engine. Lab Authors can now not only generate new content but also update, modernize, and iterate on existing labs instantly. This ensures your upskilling exercises don't just sit on a shelf—they evolve alongside your threat landscape.

2.0 Enhancements Power the Full Content Lifecycle

With the initial Immersive One platform release, you gained the speed to generate a lab from scratch. Now, you gain the control to keep it relevant. Version 2.0 adds depth and agility to the process, ensuring your content both starts strong and also stays effective as threats evolve.

Iterate Instantly: Turn Static Content into “Living” Labs

Using the AI Lab Builder from today, you can sustain your content, not just build it. For example, you can now re-engage the Assistant on existing labs to introduce new task layers, refresh learning outcomes, or update hints. Instead of retiring outdated content, you can "patch" your training just as you would your software—ensuring your team’s skills stay aligned with the latest intelligence without starting over.

Deep Research: Inject Expert-Level Context Automatically

With enhancements to the research engine, you can now push beyond ‘general’ knowledge to get technically specific. The assistant operates as a dedicated researcher, surfacing detailed vulnerability data, threat intelligence, and regulatory context (like NIST or DORA) to weave directly into your scenario. This reduces SME  legwork, ensuring every lab is grounded in technical reality without the manual research time.

Specialized Blueprints: Higher Fidelity for High-Stakes Domains

Now you can also ensure consistent, high-quality outputs in the areas where you need the most assurance. Whether you are building CVE exploit walkthroughs, malware investigation scenarios, or GRC exercises, with access to specialized blueprints, the assistant applies structured best practices to the content. This guarantees your most critical drills meet the highest standard of depth and accuracy, every time.

<VIDEO>

Solved: Three Critical Readiness-Gap Use Cases

Since our initial release, organizations have jumped right in, simply assigning a Lab Author role to their own SMEs to drive creation. Here’s how those authors have begun to solve longstanding upskilling challenges.

1. Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

There is often a dangerous lag time between receiving a threat report and teams actually implementing the defense.

Now you can close that gap in hours, not weeks. By leveraging our Malware Analysis blueprints, your authors can upload sanitized samples or exploit details immediately after a threat is identified. The Assistant generates the briefing panels, investigation tasks, and supporting steps, allowing you to deploy a realistic "live fire" exercise while the threat is still headline news.

2. Turning Security Policy into Practice

Internal policies (like Incident Response playbooks or Data Handling rules) often sit in static documents, disconnected from daily operations. 

Lab Builder AI Assistant changes this dynamic, enabling you to validate that your teams actually know how to apply your rules. Lab Authors can upload specific policy documents, and the Assistant will generate scenarios where learners must apply those specific protocols to solve the problem. If a policy changes, Authors can use the iteration tools to update the lab, ensuring training always matches current governance.

3. Scaling Expert Knowledge

Your most senior experts can be your biggest bottleneck—they have the knowledge to teach others, but no time to create curriculum.

The AI Assistant acts as a force multiplier for your senior talent. Instead of spending days formatting content, your experts provide the raw "seed" intelligence—a specific vulnerability or a niche architectural risk—and the Assistant handles the heavy lifting of structure, hints, and learning science. This allows a single expert to drive readiness for the entire organization without pausing their core work.

Gain A More Agile Model for Lab Creation

Lab Builder AI Assistant 2.0 equips organizations to create relevant, high-quality labs quickly and keep them up to date. This supports faster response to new technologies, regulations and threats, and ensures that learning and readiness can evolve without long delays.

Get Started

• Existing Immersive One customer? Lab Authors can access the enhanced functionality once they log back in to the platform. Simply open any existing lab and look for the Assistant icon to start iterating.

To find out more about AI Lab Builder, head over to the Help Center.

• New to Immersive One?  Stop relying on generic training for specific threats. See how AI Lab Builder 2.0 can help you build—and maintain—a truly resilient workforce when you book a demo.

‍