Can your people deliver the strategy you just signed off?
For CEOs, CTOs and strategy leaders, becoming a skills-based organisation starts with one thing: knowing what your people can actually do.
MuchSkills gives your leadership team a live map of skills, certifications and motivation across the organisation. You spot key-person risks and hidden strengths before they show up in your results.
AI-readiness target 70%Share at Intermediate or above
Job titles don’t tell you what people can do
Neither your org chart nor your HRIS tells you who can lead an AI project, run the cloud platform or take over from a retiring expert. So plans rest on assumptions, and gaps turn up halfway through delivery.
The org chart
Shows reporting lines, not capability.
The HRIS
Shows roles and salaries, not skills.
Spreadsheets and Slack
Where the real knowledge lives, out of date and out of reach.
Skills-based organisations are 107% more likely to place people efficiently.
Risks and opportunities, in plain sight
You can’t plan around skills you can’t see. Being skills-based means starting from what people can do, not what their job title says.
- Key-person riskFind the roles where only one person holds the knowledge, before that person resigns or retires.
- Gaps against the strategyRun a gap analysis on the capabilities your three-year plan needs, by team, division or country.
- AI readinessShow the board who has AI and data skills today, and who is close enough to upskill.
- Hidden internal expertiseFind people whose skills never made it into the HRIS, and staff them before you hire externally.
- Build, buy or rentDecide whether to train, hire or contract based on the skills you already have.
No 18-month project required
MuchSkills sits on top of what you already run and adds the skills layer your plans are missing.
- Keep your HRISMuchSkills connects to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob and BambooHR. You add skills data without a replacement project.
- Profiles people keep currentEmployees and managers update their own skills profiles because it shows their growth path. Your data stays live, not six months old.
- A skills library, ready to useStart from 12,000+ tech skills, 9,700+ certifications and 20,000 industry-specific skills. No taxonomy committee needed.
- Certification trackingSee who holds which certification and when it expires, so a lapsed cert never costs you a tender or an audit.
- Straight into the board packPush skills data to Power BI or any tool through the open API, next to your financials.
- Data your people trustGDPR compliant, hosted in the EU, never used to train third-party AI. That trust is what gets profiles filled in.
Less guessing, faster decisions
Verified reviews on G2
“Cut workforce planning time by 60%.”
“Eliminated spreadsheet chaos across 200+ employees.”
“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.”
“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.”
“90% clearer visibility into team skills and project readiness.”
“It’s rare to find a platform that can make workforce planning more data-driven while simultaneously making people conversations more meaningful.”
“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 ChallengeBecoming skills-based: what leaders ask first
What is a skills-based organisation?
A skills-based organisation plans, staffs and develops work around the skills people actually have, rather than job titles or degrees. Leaders can see which capabilities exist, where the gaps are and who could grow into new roles. The result is fewer hiring surprises and fewer projects stalling for lack of the right people.
Why should the leadership team care about skills data?
Skills data tells the leadership team whether the organisation can deliver its strategy. It shows key-person risk, capability gaps and hidden internal expertise, so build, buy or rent decisions rest on evidence rather than org charts and gut feel. MuchSkills keeps that view live, instead of in a spreadsheet that goes stale in months.
How long does it take to get a skills picture of the whole company?
With MuchSkills it takes weeks, not a multi-year programme, because employees fill in their own profiles. For Nigeria’s Federal Civil Service, nearly 55,000 people across 46 ministries mapped their skills.
Do we need to replace our HRIS to become skills-based?
No. MuchSkills sits on top of your existing HRIS and connects to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Dayforce and others. Every plan includes standard HRIS integrations and SSO. SSO, SCIM and the open API come with every plan, and Enterprise adds custom integrations and a dedicated customer success manager.
How do we keep skills data accurate over time?
MuchSkills stays accurate because people keep their own profiles current. Employees see their skills, certifications and growth path in one place, so updating it helps their careers. Managers use it in 1:1s. Marcus Thomas says: “Our managers are having better 1:1s than ever.”
Is our employee data safe?
Yes. MuchSkills is GDPR compliant and hosts customer personal data in the European Union. It does not use customer personal data to train, fine-tune or improve any third-party AI model, and its AI sub-processors are contractually prohibited from doing so.
How much does MuchSkills cost?
Plans scale from Starter to Enterprise. Every plan includes standard HRIS integrations, SSO, SCIM and the open API, and Enterprise adds custom integrations and a dedicated customer success manager. The pricing page compares the plans; prices are on request.
See pricingStart with the question you can’t answer today
Bring one strategic question to a demo: AI readiness, key-person risk or the skills behind next year’s plan. We’ll show you how MuchSkills answers it with your own people’s data.
Do we have the AI skills next year’s plan assumes?
Partly: nine people are ready now. Fourteen more are one course away, and two teams have none. Upskill the fourteen before you hire.
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