About MuchSkills
We lovewhat we do.
We think everyone should.
MuchSkills is a skills intelligence platform, started in 2020 by the design and strategy firm Up Strategy Lab. It shows what an organisation’s people can do, which certifications they hold and, just as important, what they want to do next.
Most skills systems are built for HR to fill in about people, so people treat them like forms. Ours works the other way round. When a profile belongs to the person, and shows them where they could grow, they keep it current without being chased.
Nobody knows your skills better than you do.
MuchSkills is a new way
- 01
Noel Braganza, one of our founders, spent years leading design teams across Europe, the US and Asia. One lesson kept coming back: teams that know each other’s strengths work better together, and their projects are more likely to succeed.
- 02
The irony is that most people in the same organisation have no idea what their colleagues can do, least of all outside their own team. That blind spot shows up as muddled meetings, lopsided workloads and, in the end, unhappy employees and clients.
- 03
So he built a skills matrix in Google Sheets that the team filled in themselves, colour-coded by proficiency like the grades on a climbing wall. It was clunky, but it worked. MuchSkills turned that spreadsheet into software people actually want to keep up to date.
The CV had a good run.
Then
Now
The way people describe their work should catch up with the way they do it.
Who runs MuchSkills
Daniel Nilsson
Co-founder and CEO
Noel Braganza
Co-founder
Oleksandr Telnov
CTO
They exist in every organisation
- The engineer who is quietly brilliant at running workshops.
- The consultant nobody knew held an Azure certification.
- The analyst who has wanted to lead a team for two years.
Most of the time, nobody can see them.
Our mission
Make every skill visible.
We make every person’s skills visible, so they get to do the work they are best at and care most about.
Our vision is a world of work where nobody’s ability goes unseen, and where “do we have the skills?” is answered with trusted data in minutes. Not with guesswork, a Slack thread or last year’s spreadsheet.
It starts with three honest questions
- What am I good at?
- What do I want to get better at?
- What gives me energy?
When people answer them, and see their colleagues do the same, the fear of being judged fades. What is left is a clear view of how a team can shine together.
You can’t develop what you can’t see.
The skills operating layer
MuchSkills sits between the systems you already run. It gathers skills data from each of them into one taxonomy, then puts it to work wherever decisions about people are made.
- HRISPeople, roles and org structure
Workday
SAP
BambooHR
Personio - LMSCourses and learning recordsCourseraLinkedIn LearningCornerstoneDocebo
- Performance managementGoals, reviews and 1:1sWorkdaySAPBambooHRPersonio
- Professional servicesStaffing and utilisationKantataAcceloFinancialForceRetain
- RecruitmentCandidates and open rolesAshbyBullhornTeamtailor
The skills operating layer
Skills data architecture
One business-aligned taxonomy of skills, roles and certifications, with AI assistance.
skills_uuid- Project managementWork, time and allocation
Jira
Tempo
SmartsheetNotionLinear - Talent marketplaceInternal moves and gigsGloatDegreedEightfold
- APISkills data wherever it’s needed
Power BIZapierMake.com
- AppsApplication & recruitment, and more modules on the same data
- MuchSkillsData visualisation, reports and AI querying of your data
Proposal-ready CVs from live profiles
Recognition for a small team from Gothenburg
A small Swedish company is holding its own in a field of giants. Everest Group has named us a Major Contender two years running, assessed alongside 25 skills intelligence providers, some with around 50 times our headcount. We are proud of the awards. We are prouder of the customers who rely on it every day.
- 2025 & 2026Everest Group PEAK Matrix®Skills Intelligence Platforms: Major Contender in both assessments
- 2024SHRM Labs Better Workplaces Challenges CupPeople’s Choice, Performance Management, among 600+ companies
- 2020Red Dot AwardBrands & Communication Design: User Experience and Interface Design
Trusted by teams across the globe
Verified reviews on G2
“Cut workforce planning time by 60%.”
“90% clearer visibility into team skills and project readiness.”
“Eliminated spreadsheet chaos across 200+ employees.”
“Our managers are having better 1:1s than ever.”
“They have implemented many of our suggestions and worked with us as a reliable implementation partner to tailor the tool to our needs.”
“The platform also made it easy for us to track and report on technical certifications across numerous vendors, notify the right people when certifications were close to expiring…”
“MuchSkills is really useful for us to get a complete picture of the skills across our Delivery team, especially since it’s a large group with professionals from various specialties.”
“It helps to visualize each individual’s skills, identify weaknesses and work on improvement to increase productivity and efficiency.”
“It’s rare to find a platform that can make workforce planning more data-driven while simultaneously making people conversations more meaningful.”
“It helps us stay audit-ready and meet the requirements connected to our ISO and AS certifications, while at the same time giving us a practical tool for identifying skill gaps.”
“It’s easy to use, easy to get value out of quickly, and it has a lot of flexibility in terms of integrating with different systems.”
“The initial setup was very easy, especially being able to sync AD users, which is really nice.”
“Transformed how we talk about skills, from assumptions to data.”
“The most compelling and intuitive solution on the market.”
Dmitry R.Head of People“I appreciate how easy it is to compile skills into an analysis list, give employees an assessment of their skills, and thus get a clear picture of the distribution of competencies in the company, such as AI skills.”
Recognised by
Everest Group PEAK Matrix® 2025 and 2026
Red Dot Winner 2020
SHRM Better Workplace ChallengeCome and talk to us in Gothenburg
No pitch deck, just the team in Gothenburg and a conversation about what changes when everyone can see what everyone else can do.
Who in our company wants to work on design problems?
Seven people. Three are already expert, and four have marked design thinking as something they want to do more of.
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