Your Evidence-Based Skills Infrastructure
What It Is
SkillsAware is a human-centered, AI-powered skills infrastructure layer that sits alongside existing systems to provide a verified, 360-degree view of real-world capability for both the organisation and the individual.
What It Does
It turns years of unseen workplace experience into an auditable record of skills evidence, enabling organisations to hire faster, stop redundant training, and deploy the right skills to the right projects in real time, while giving individuals a portable Skills IQ Indicator that makes their skills visible, evidences their true value and accelerates their career progression.
We empower your current systems with evidence-based visibility into real-world capability
Using AI, SkillsAware captures evidence of people’s life-wide skills and issues a shareable skills report
This isn’t a resume; it’s an auditable profile that provides a probability score of what an individual can actually do
SkillsAware acts as the Skills Infrastructure layer in the middle of your current tech stack
Problems We Solve
Cost of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Problem
Manual RPL is slow and prohibitively expensive
Solution
We use AI to automate evidence collation and mapping, reducing assessment time from days to hours
Hidden Talent
Problem
Systems only see the last job title, leaving 80% of skills undiscovered
Solution
Our guided AI conversation uncovers and catalogues a lifetime of diverse, life-wide capabilities
Wasted Training
Problem
Employees complete redundant training because existing skills are invisible
Solution
We identify existing capabilities so organisations can target specific gaps, saving time and money
Skills-Shortage Gap
Problem
87% of executives lack data to know if needed skills already exist internally
Solution
We surface hidden talent by mapping all individual evidence against industry or corporate standards
Inclusion Barriers
Problem
Traditional hiring relies on biased proxies like qualifications or previous roles
Solution
We level the field by focusing purely on evidence of what a person can actually do
Crisis Mobilisation
Problem
Agencies cannot rapidly verify skills of available volunteers during disasters
Solution
We provide a rapid method to deploy the right people to the right roles
Problem
Manual RPL is slow and prohibitively expensive.
Solution
We use AI to automate evidence collation and mapping, reducing assessment time from days to hours.
Problem
Systems only see the “last job,” leaving 80% of skills undiscovered.
Solution
Our guided AI conversation uncovers and catalogues a lifetime of diverse, “life-wide” capabilities.
Problem
Employees complete redundant training because existing skills are invisible.
Solution
We provide real-time workforce analytics to identify existing capabilities so organisations can target specific gaps, saving time and money.
Problem
87% of executives lack data to know if needed skills already exist internally.
Solution
We surface “hidden talent” by mapping all individual evidence against industry or corporate standards.
Problem
Traditional hiring relies on biased proxies like qualifications or previous roles.
Solution
We level the field by focusing purely on trusted evidence of what a person can actually do.
Problem
Traditional hiring relies on biased proxies like qualifications or previous roles.
Solution
We provide a rapid method to deploy the right people to the right role, at the time they are needed.
How it Works
Tailored Onboarding Survey
Tailored to your requirements, focus the individual and the AI on what’s most important to you
AI Guided Conversation
An intuitive AI assistant helps users “warehouse” evidence from work history, volunteering, and life experiences
Evidence Analysis
Documents, reports, and narratives are mapped against configurable standards – such as the national training package or other framework
Tailored View / Output
An opportunity to tailor a dashboard / shareable report that meets your requirements
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SkillsAware?
SkillsAware is a human-centered, AI-powered trusted skills infrastructure that provides evidence-based visibility into real-world capability. It empowers your existing HR and education systems by capturing evidence of an individual’s life-wide skills and generating an auditable record of what they can actually do.
How does SkillsAware differ from a traditional resume?
Unlike a resume, which is a self-reported summary of work history, SkillsAware provides an auditable profile and a probability score of proficiency. It captures evidence from formal work, volunteering, and informal life experiences, translating them into a quantifiable Skills IQ Indicator benchmarked against recognised standards.
What workforce problems does SkillsAware solve?
The platform addresses three critical challenges facing modern organisations:
- The cost of recognition – it can significantly reduce processing time by automating evidence collation for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
- Uncovering hidden talent – it can help surface the 80% of skills that traditional systems miss because they only focus on a person’s last job
- Eliminating wasted training – it provides a point-in-time analytics so organisations can target specific skill gaps rather than forcing employees through redundant training
How does the SkillsAware AI evidence analysis work?
SkillsAware uses Agentic AI and a guided conversation interface to help users warehouse their evidence. This data – including documents and narratives – is then mapped against over 75,000 industry-validated skills or your own specific corporate frameworks to ensure all recognised capability is benchmarked against a known standard.
Is there human oversight in the AI's decision-making?
Yes. SkillsAware maintains a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) approach throughout the entire process. While the AI provides automation and efficiency, human oversight of the final outputs maintain the precision, nuance, and ethical reasoning required for defensible results.
Does SkillsAware replace my current HR or Student Management System?
No. SkillsAware acts as a Skills Infrastructure layer that sits outside and alongside your existing tech stack, adding value to your data without requiring complex IT integrations or headaches.
How does SkillsAware ensure data privacy and security?
We adhere to Australian Privacy Principles and store all data in a secure, private back-end environment. Our platform is ISO 27001 certified, and we conduct both Privacy and Responsible AI Impact Assessments to ensure the highest standards of transparency and accountability.
What is a Skills IQ Indicator?
The Skills IQ Indicator is a quantifiable, evidence-based score of proficiency against any given standard. It allows individuals and organisations to clearly see capability levels at a granular level, enabling better informed decisions regarding recruitment, project allocation, and targeted upskilling.
Ready to Discover Your Skills IQ?
Book a Demo
See how SkillsAware works in action and learn how it can work for you
Review the Output
Request a sample Capability Report
Schedule a Workshop
Co-design onboarding and reporting workflow, and more
Pilot
Join our 2.0 early-access program
Book a Demo
See how SkillsAware works in action and learn how it can work for you
Review the Output
Request a sample Capability Report
Schedule a Workshop
Co-design onboarding and reporting workflow, and more
Pilot
Join our 2.0 early-access program