Cornerstone Skills Optimization
The skills intelligence behind ready-for-anything workforces.
Understand what your people can do, where skills are changing, and how to close gaps before they slow you down.
Intelligence for work, people, and business.
A governed, connected way for you to understand skills, close gaps, and turn workforce capability into your advantage.
Understand capability
See skills in the context of roles, work, learning, and business priorities.
Close gaps faster
Connect skills insight to learning, development, mobility, and planning.
Stay ready as work changes
Use labor market intelligence and workforce signals to keep your skills strategy current.
Start where you are. Skill where you're going.
Every organization is at a different stage of skills maturity. Cornerstone gives you a practical path to start fast, govern skills with confidence, and expand into real-time workforce intelligence.
Built-in skills for learning and talent
Start with a pre-built skills library included with your Cornerstone learning and talent investment.
- Recommend learning based on skill gaps
- Personalize people development paths
- Match people to internal opportunities
Shared skills data across systems
Build and maintain a governed skills foundation across roles, jobs, people, and systems.
- Create your own common skills language
- Keep skills data accurate and governed
- Identify gaps across people, teams, and the business
A live view of your workforce
Connect work, learning, and collaboration signals into a dynamic model of workforce capability.
- Understand what your people can really do
- Ask workforce questions in plain language
- Model skill gaps, risks, readiness, and opportunities
The three pillars of Cornerstone skills optimization.
Cornerstone Skills Engine
Most HR tech just labels skills. We understand they're worth so you can ground your workforce in decisions in reality.
Cornerstone Skills Architect
Cornerstone People Graph™
What governed skills intelligence makes possible.
When skills data is accurate, connected, and trusted, it becomes the foundation for faster decisions and better workforce action.
Targeted learning
Recommend learning based on real skill gaps, role expectations, and business priorities.
Transformation readiness
Assess whether your workforce is ready for AI rollouts, M&A, market expansion, or regulatory change.
Clear paths for every employee
Show people what skills they need, where they can grow, and how to get there.
Workforce planning
Understand capability gaps before they become execution risks.
Responsible, action-ready AI
Give AI agents trusted workforce context they can use to support recommendations, decisions, and action.
Internal mobility
Match people to opportunities based on capability, readiness, and growth potential.
Built on a world-leading workforce intelligence foundation.
28 TB
of global labor market data ingested and processed daily
150T
of computations made against 1B profiles and 5B job roles
190+
countries tracked in daily labor market model updates.
Real-life success stories from Cornerstone customers.
This technology is helping employers understand the DNA of their workforce — deeper than just understanding their resume — it’s what their skills are and where they could be repositioned in other roles within the business.
Ben Eubanks
Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory
Turn skills into your strategic advantage.
See how you can prepare your people for what your organization needs next.