Know your skills before the board asks

For HR and L&D leaders who need to answer 'do we have the skills?' with numbers, not guesses.

MuchSkills is a skills management platform on top of your HRIS. Your people keep their skills, certifications and goals current, so you get the answer in minutes. Not a Slack thread. Not last year's spreadsheet.

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You cannot plan with skills you cannot see

Ask most organisations what skills they have and you get a spreadsheet, a stale dashboard or a manager's best guess. That blind spot shows up everywhere HR is asked to deliver.

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Workforce planning is guesswork

Roles get filled externally because the right internal candidate was invisible. Nobody knew to look.

Growth they can't see, people you can't keep

The engagement survey flags 'lack of career growth' every year. Then a top performer resigns for development they never saw here.

Completions are not competence

Your LMS shows courses finished, not skills grown. So the CFO sees a cost line, and L&D stays in order-taking mode.

The graveyard of good intentions

A taxonomy project that died. A tool nobody opened. A Power BI dashboard stale within 6 months. A survey nobody filled in.

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Skills-based organisations are 107% more likely to place people efficiently and 98% more likely to keep key peopleSource: Deloitte, 2022

What changes when skills are visible

Your last taxonomy project stalled? Skip this one. You pick from 9,700+ certifications, 12,000+ tech skills and 70,000+ capabilities.

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One employee's profile

What they hold, how deep it goes and what a manager has validated.

Take numbers into the boardroom

A live skills matrix by team, role and location shows where the strategy is covered and where it's exposed. You bring data to the board, not a hunch.

Prove training closed the gap

Run a skill gap analysis, aim L&D spend at the priority gaps, then show the CFO which skills moved. That's what keeps a budget alive at the next review.

Find the people you already have

Search by skill, certification and interest to find internal candidates hiring managers didn't know about. People move because they were found, not because someone knew them.

Staff projects from skills, not memory

Connect Jira, Tempo, Harvest or Smartsheet and match the right people to projects and roles. TBS cut workforce planning time by 60%.

A growth path people can see

Employees set development goals against real skills and track their own progress. That's why they keep profiles current, and why they stay.

Check-ins worth having

Managers see each person's strengths, goals and gaps before the 1:1. The talk moves from task updates to what someone wants to get better at.

Audit-ready certifications

See who holds which certification in one place. Every record keeps an audit trail, so ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 audits stop being a scramble.

From assumptions to data

The change shows up in everyday conversations too. Marcus Thomas says its managers are 'having better 1:1s than ever'. Höegh Autoliners now talks about skills 'from assumptions to data'.

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“Eliminated spreadsheet chaos across 200+ employees.”
“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.”
Hannah R.Learning and Capability ManagerG2
“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.”
Victoria L.Global HR ManagerG2
“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.”
Martin Z.HR Developer and CoachG2
“90% clearer visibility into team skills and project readiness.”
“They have implemented many of our suggestions and worked with us as a reliable implementation partner to tailor the tool to our needs.”
Svenja G.Business Development ManagerG2
“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…”
Chelsea L.Resource ManagerG2
“It helps to visualize each individual’s skills, identify weaknesses and work on improvement to increase productivity and efficiency.”
Frank W.Senior Software EngineerG2
“The most compelling and intuitive solution on the market.”
Dmitry R.Head of People
“It’s rare to find a platform that can make workforce planning more data-driven while simultaneously making people conversations more meaningful.”
Mario B.Principal ConsultantG2
“Our managers are having better 1:1s than ever.”
“Cut workforce planning time by 60%.”
“The initial setup was very easy, especially being able to sync AD users, which is really nice.”
Verified userMid-market companyG2
“Transformed how we talk about skills, from assumptions to data.”
“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.”
Gonza P.VP of Technology EnablementG2
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90% clearer visibility into team skills and project readiness.

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Not another tool for the graveyard

Most skills projects die because the data goes stale or nobody owns the set-up. MuchSkills is built so that doesn't happen to you.

Connects to

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Cleared for procurement

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  1. Your HRIS stays the source

    MuchSkills connects to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Dayforce and more. Nobody retypes the org chart, and people data stays in sync.

  2. Skills in the reports you already use

    Push skills data to Power BI, Salesforce or any tool through the open API. Your board pack gets live numbers without a new dashboard to maintain.

  3. People who have done this before

    MuchSkills Services helps with onboarding, taxonomy design, workforce planning and L&D programmes. You don't have to design it alone.

  4. The report your CEO actually asked for

    MuchSkills extensions, launching soon, build the specific reports and workflows your organisation needs, instead of bending your questions to a fixed tool.

  5. Built to pass IT and legal

    GDPR compliant. Personal data hosted in the EU. Never used to train third-party AI models. Approved UK government supplier on G-Cloud 14.

Straight answers before you book

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Every question, in the FAQ
What is a skills matrix?

A skills matrix is a grid showing who in your organisation has which skills, and at what level. In a spreadsheet it goes stale within months. In MuchSkills the skills matrix stays live, because employees and managers update their own profiles. You can view it by team, role or location whenever someone asks what skills you have.

How do you do a skill gap analysis?

A skill gap analysis compares the skills your strategy needs with the skills your people have today. MuchSkills shows the gap across teams and roles from live profile data, so you can prioritise training, hiring or internal moves. Run it again after a programme and you can show which gaps actually closed.

What is the difference between skills management software and an LMS?

Skills management software shows which skills people have and how they grow. An LMS delivers courses and reports completions. MuchSkills sits alongside your LMS and HRIS, so you can target learning at real gaps and prove the outcome in skills, not just in courses finished.

What is talent mapping and competency mapping?

Talent mapping and competency mapping mean recording the skills, certifications and capabilities of every employee so you can find the right person for a role, project or succession plan. MuchSkills does this on top of your HRIS, drawing on a database of 12,000+ tech skills, 9,700+ certifications and 70,000+ capabilities.

Can MuchSkills be used as strategic workforce planning or project staffing software?

Yes. MuchSkills gives strategic workforce planning and project staffing the skills data they depend on. It connects to project tools such as Jira, Tempo, Harvest and Smartsheet, so you can match people to projects and roles by skill and certification. TBS cut its workforce planning time by 60% with MuchSkills.

How do we keep employee skills profiles up to date?

Employees keep their MuchSkills profiles current because the profile works for them. They see their own growth path, set personal development goals and bring the profile to check-ins with their manager. HRIS integrations keep roles and teams in sync automatically. Across customers, profile completion typically lands between 70% and the high 80s.

Does MuchSkills help with team building, including virtual teams?

MuchSkills helps you build the right team, not run team building activities. It shows the skills, certifications and interests of people across offices and remote locations, so you can put together project and virtual teams that fit the work. For virtual team building activities, pair it with your usual engagement programme.

Does MuchSkills integrate with our HRIS?

Yes. MuchSkills integrates with HR systems including Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Dayforce, CatalystOne, Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft AD. Every plan includes standard HRIS integrations, SSO, SCIM and the open API, Enterprise adds custom integrations, and skills data can be pushed to Power BI or Salesforce.

Is employee data secure in MuchSkills?

Yes. MuchSkills is GDPR compliant and hosts customer personal data in the European Union. It does not use customer personal data to train any third-party AI model, and its AI sub-processors are contractually barred from doing so. MuchSkills is also listed on UK G-Cloud 14 as an approved government supplier.

How much does skills management software 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 has current plans and prices.

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Where should next year's L&D budget go?

Three gaps, ranked. Data engineering, prompt design and accessibility. 62 people already have adjacent skills.

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