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.
See workforce capability clearly
Understand what employees can actually do — not just their job title — with skills grounded in real work
Build trust in skills data
AI recommendations, combined with manager validation, turn performance data into skills you can stand behind
Move faster on mobility and succession
Act on changing priorities with an always-current view of who has the skills you need
How it works
Capabilities that make every evaluation fair, grounded, and easy to run.
Surface skills based on real work
Our proprietary AI engine analyzes feedback, conversations, and role context to infer skills that reflect what employees are actually doing—not just what’s listed in their profile.
- AI-generated skills inferred from multiple data sources
- Role and job context included in skill suggestions
- Dynamic updates as new data is available for always current skill visibility
Validate and strengthen skills data
Employees and managers work together to review and confirm skills and skill levels, improving accuracy and reliability across the organization.
- Employees review, add, or dismiss suggested skills
- Manager verification to confirm skill to build credibility
- Skill levels and proficiency tracking over time as the employee and work evolves
- Clear status tracking (recommended, added, verified)
Track current strengths and future growth
Capture both what employees can do today and what they want to develop next, giving you a robust picture of an employee's capability and potential.
- “Skills I have” and “Skills I want to develop” tracking
- Employee-defined growth interests
- Visibility into emerging capabilities and gaps
Turn skills into talent decisions
Use skills intelligence to inform development, mobility, and succession—so decisions are grounded in real capability.
- Identify skill gaps and development opportunities
- Support targeted development conversations
- Enable internal mobility based on capability
- Strengthen succession planning inputs
Surface skills based on real work
Our proprietary AI engine analyzes feedback, conversations, and role context to infer skills that reflect what employees are actually doing—not just what’s listed in their profile.
- AI-generated skills inferred from multiple data sources
- Role and job context included in skill suggestions
- Dynamic updates as new data is available for always current skill visibility
Validate and strengthen skills data
Employees and managers work together to review and confirm skills and skill levels, improving accuracy and reliability across the organization.
- Employees review, add, or dismiss suggested skills
- Manager verification to confirm skill to build credibility
- Skill levels and proficiency tracking over time as the employee and work evolves
- Clear status tracking (recommended, added, verified)
Track current strengths and future growth
Capture both what employees can do today and what they want to develop next, giving you a robust picture of an employee's capability and potential.
- “Skills I have” and “Skills I want to develop” tracking
- Employee-defined growth interests
- Visibility into emerging capabilities and gaps
Turn skills into talent decisions
Use skills intelligence to inform development, mobility, and succession—so decisions are grounded in real capability.
- Identify skill gaps and development opportunities
- Support targeted development conversations
- Enable internal mobility based on capability
- Strengthen succession planning inputs
How it’s connected
Skills Intelligence
Turns signals from work and performance data into current skills that can be used across talent decisions.
Unified Talent Profiles
Skills data feeds into the profile, giving a complete view of current capability.
Calibration
Visibility into current skills adds context to the calibration conversation, supporting more consistent decisions.
Succession
Skills and potential inform readiness, helping leaders see who's ready now and who's developing for what's next.
AI That Actually Helps
Skills built from real work, not guesswork
AI helps surface the skills employees already demonstrate and the areas they’re ready to develop next, creating a more complete view of capability and potential.
See it in actionAI Features
Recommend skills based on real employee activity
Shows the exact source behind every recommendation to build trust
Continuously update skills recommendations as new data comes in
Why companies choose Betterworks
Betterworks helps organizations move from fragmented performance processes to a real-time system for alignment, coaching, and talent decisions. The result is faster decisions, better talent outcomes, stronger manager effectiveness, and a clearer link between people, performance, and business impact.
90+
NPS Score
99.9%
Uptime
24/7
Priority Support
"Partnering with Betterworks has allowed us to enable year-round performance conversations with our workforce. A dynamic platform where we can modify goals, track progress, and get feedback on a regular basis."
— VP of Talent Development, Intuit
"It's a really easy way to create and manage goals, document impactful conversations, and capture all the important parts of 1:1s."
— MaKayla Bigham, Sr. HRIS Analyst, Dairy Farmers of America
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
What is AI Skills Intelligence?
It’s a way to understand workforce capability using AI to recommend and organize skills based on real work data, not just self-reported skills and profiles.
How is Betterwork’s Skills Intelligence different from a skills database?
Traditional systems rely on static inputs. This continuously updates skills based on employee activity and performance signals and validates them through manager review. The result is a dynamic view of skills based on actual work vs a lengthy skills project that is out of date as soon as it’s rolled out.
How does this improve talent decisions?
It gives leaders a clearer, more complete view of capability and ambition, helping them make better decisions about development, mobility, and succession as well as providing insight to have more effective development conversations.
Will employees and managers actually use it?
Yes. Employees can easily review and update skills, and managers can verify them as part of existing workflows.
How does skills data work with performance data?
Skills data adds context to performance data by showing not just what someone achieved, but how they achieved it. AI Skills Intelligence connects skills to real performance signals—like goals, feedback, and conversations—so you can see the capabilities behind outcomes. This helps make performance reviews more consistent, supports more targeted development, and strengthens decisions in calibration and succession.
How does employee skill mapping software work?
Employee skill mapping software connects skills to each individual across the organization, showing what they can do today and where they can grow. AI Skills Intelligence builds this map dynamically by recommending skills based on real work signals, then strengthening them through employee input and manager verification.
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