Skills intelligence built to your exact requirements
MuchSkills gives you a powerful, configurable platform. Custom Solutions gives you what goes further – bespoke applications, integrations, workshops, and analytical reports for organisations with workflows too specific or strategic questions too particular for a standard implementation to address fully.
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Most organisations find that MuchSkills and our standard services cover everything they need. Custom Solutions exists for those with workflows too specific, architectures too complex, or strategic questions too particular for a packaged service to address fully.
What Custom Solutions covers
Custom application development
Bespoke applications, dashboards, and tools built on the MuchSkills API – so skills data connects directly to your organisation's specific workflows and decision-making requirements. Examples include custom compliance dashboards, board-ready skills reporting applications, skills-based project staffing tools, and automated gap alert systems. Everything built via the API stays live and in sync with your skills data. Scoped and priced per project.
Custom integration development
Connections between MuchSkills and the systems outside our native connectors – BambooHR, Workday, HiBob, Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, and more. For anything beyond those, custom integration development builds the connection via API – whether that's a proprietary internal platform, a data warehouse, an LMS, or a project management tool. Scoped and priced per integration.
Strategic workshops and training
Facilitated sessions designed around what decisions need to be made, who is in the room, and where the organisation is in its skills intelligence journey. Delivered on-site or virtually. Options include skills strategy workshops, leadership alignment sessions, manager skills conversation training, and HR skills analytics training. Scoped and priced per session.
Skills risk and opportunity reports
A focused analytical pass on your live skills data, structured around a specific strategic question and delivered as a clear report with recommendations your leadership team can act on. Typical questions: "What is our exposure if three key people leave?" / "Which team is best positioned for this opportunity?" / "Do we have the skills to deliver this programme on time?" Scoped and priced per report.
Ideal for
- Large enterprises and regulated organisations that need skills data connected directly to compliance reporting, board-level dashboards, or enterprise architecture
- Consulting and professional services firms with specific operational workflows – resource allocation systems, project management tools, or PSA platforms – that need to exchange data with MuchSkills in real time
- Compliance-driven organisations in regulated industries that need custom audit trails, certification dashboards, or competence evidence tools built to the exact format their auditors or clients require
- Leadership and HR teams that need a structured, facilitated session to align on skills strategy, translate data into decisions, or build manager capability
- Any organisation facing a specific, urgent strategic question about workforce capability that requires a dedicated analytical pass to answer
What this looks like in practice
Skills intelligence at government scale – Government of Nigeria
When the Nigerian Federal Government needed to assess the capabilities of nearly 55,000 civil servants across 45 ministries, three distinct custom solutions were required – a cross-ministry analytics environment, a calibrated scoring methodology to make ratings comparable across ministries, and a custom authentication portal for a workforce without active government email. The result: approximately 5 million skill data points captured across the Nigerian Federal Civil Service – one of the largest skills intelligence deployments on record.
90%+ adoption across a complex global workforce
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Engagements are scoped individually
Skills intelligence at government scale – Government of Nigeria
A global professional services firm operating across more than 2,000 teams used MuchSkills as the foundation for a skills-based workforce transformation. Leaders use live competence data to assemble delivery teams by matching required project skills with employee availability and expertise. The same data drives gap analysis, identifies talent ready for new assignments, and informs recruitment and L&D strategy. What began as a skills visibility initiative became the intelligence layer behind how the organisation plans, allocates, and develops its workforce.
A national government – strategic capability planning across 46 ministries
Following the completion of a national-scale skills assessment across nearly 55,000 civil servants, MuchSkills data was used to produce capability strategies for each of the 46 ministries – identifying where each ministry was strong, where it was underdeveloped, and where investment was needed. Cross-ministry comparisons gave central government a common reference point for the first time, shifting workforce planning decisions from inference and institutional memory to structured, comparable evidence. The result: a shared capability picture that informs national workforce strategy and organisational transformation at scale.
FAQs
Do I need to be an existing MuchSkills customer to access Custom Solutions?
For custom application development and custom integration development, yes – these services extend the MuchSkills platform, so a subscription is required. Strategic workshops and Skills Risk & Opportunity Reports can in some cases be delivered independently, but are most effective when skills data in MuchSkills is already in place. Talk to us about your specific situation.
How is a Custom Solutions engagement scoped and priced?
Every engagement is scoped individually – there is no fixed price list for Custom Solutions. We start with a discovery conversation to understand what you need, what systems are involved, and what the output should look like. Pricing is set per project, per integration, or per session depending on the service.
What is the MuchSkills API and what can it do?
The MuchSkills API gives authorised developers programmatic access to your organisation's skills data – enabling custom applications, integrations, and automated workflows to be built on top of the platform. Everything built via the API stays live and in sync with your skills data. Full API documentation is available at app.muchskills.com/api/docs.
Can you integrate MuchSkills with a system that isn't on your standard connectors list?
Yes. Our native connectors cover the most common platforms – including BambooHR, Workday, HiBob, Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, and Dayforce. For systems outside that list, custom integration development builds the connection via API.
What kinds of questions can a Skills Risk & Opportunity Report answer?
These reports are designed for specific strategic questions that require a focused analytical pass rather than an ongoing dashboard. Typical examples include single-point-of-failure analysis, opportunity assessment, and programme readiness analysis. The report is structured around your question, your data, and a clear set of actionable recommendations.
How do Custom Solutions relate to the other services in the MuchSkills programme?
Custom Solutions typically come later in an organisation's journey – after the foundational work of Skills Strategy & Design, Professional Onboarding, and Skills Assessment & Measurement is in place. Strategic workshops and risk reports can be delivered earlier, but custom applications and integrations depend on having live, reliable skills data to work from.
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Tell us what you need and we'll scope an engagement around it. Not sure which service fits? See the full services overview.
