AI Skills Intelligence for Workforce Planning and Growth
Understand what your workforce can actually do. Use AI to surface, validate, and act on skills — so you can make better decisions about development, mobility, and succession.
Real-time visibility of your workforce's skills you can trust
See skills clearly — not just job titles
Credible data behind every decision
Move faster on the decisions that matter most
Surface skills from real work — not static, self-reported profiles
Most skills data is stale the moment it's entered. Betterworks' skills intelligence AI analyzes feedback, conversations, and role context to infer skills that reflect what employees are actually doing — not just what's listed in their profile. Role and job context are included in every suggestion, and the view updates dynamically as new signals become available, so skills are always current.
Validate what AI surfaces with the people who know the work best
AI inference gets you most of the way there. Manager verification closes the gap. Employees can review, add, or dismiss suggested skills, while managers confirm what they've seen demonstrated in practice. Skill levels and proficiency are tracked over time as the employee and the work evolves, and clear status tracking — recommended, added, verified — means everyone knows where things stand.
Capture what people can do today — and where they want to go next
Development conversations go further when both sides start with the same picture. Betterworks tracks skills employees have today alongside the capabilities they're actively working to build, capturing both current strengths and employee-defined growth interests. That gives managers and employees a shared starting point for conversations that actually move development forward.
Use skills data to drive talent decisions — not defend them after the fact
When it's time to identify internal candidates, plan succession, or prioritize development investments, the answer shouldn't be a guesswork. Skills Intelligence connects to development planning, internal mobility, and succession so that decisions are grounded in real capability — not recency bias or whoever spoke up loudest in the last calibration session.
Part of a connected system
Skills intelligence that connects to every talent decision
Every skill surfaced and verified in Betterworks flows directly into the Unified Talent Profile, giving leaders a complete view of each employee across performance, capability, and potential.
That same data feeds into Calibration — where skills context reduces bias and improves decision consistency — and into Succession Planning, where readiness and gap visibility matter most. When performance, skills, and talent decisions all live in one connected system, the insight compounds over time.
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Unified Talent Profile
Bring performance, skills, and potential into one connected view to make more confident talent decisions.
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Calibration
Performance calibration software for fair, consistent employee evaluations at scale.
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Succession
Build clear pipelines of ready talent for every critical role.
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We always get asked these questions
What is AI Skills Intelligence?
It's how Betterworks surfaces what your workforce can actually do — using AI to infer skills from real work signals like goals, feedback, and conversations, rather than relying on self-reported profiles or static job architectures. The result is a dynamic, continuously updated view of capability across your organization.
How is this different from a traditional skills database or skills project?
A skills database is a project. You build it, it goes stale, and two years later you're rebuilding it. Skills Intelligence is dynamic — it continuously updates based on actual employee activity and validates those updates through manager review. You get a living picture of workforce capability, not a snapshot that's out of date before it's finished.
How does AI decide which skills to recommend?
The AI analyzes signals from across the platform — goals set and achieved, feedback received, conversations had, and role context — and infers the skills most likely to reflect what an employee is actually doing. Employees and managers then review those suggestions, which improves accuracy over time.
Will employees and managers actually engage with it?
Yes, because it meets them where they already work. Skills show up inside existing workflows — performance reviews, 1:1s, and development conversations — rather than as a separate system to log into. Employees can review and update skills in minutes, and managers verify them as part of conversations they're already having.
How does skills data connect to performance data?
Skills add the "how" to the "what." Performance data shows what someone achieved; skills data shows the capabilities behind those achievements. Connecting the two gives leaders a more complete picture for calibration, development conversations, and succession — and makes those decisions more defensible.
How does employee skill mapping work in Betterworks?
Betterworks builds each employee's skills map dynamically — starting with AI inferences drawn from real work signals, then refined through employee input and manager verification. Instead of a manual skills inventory exercise that takes months and costs a fortune, you get a continuously updated view of capability across your workforce that improves as work happens.
See your workforce's current skills with clarity — not guesswork.
