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.