Hidden Skills provides a research‑backed platform that captures and visualizes durable skills—such as adaptability, communication, and leadership—developed by participants in programs like schools and athletics. Participants reflect on their experiences via their phones, and the service generates skill reports for both individuals and organizations, enabling data‑driven storytelling and program improvement without additional staff workload.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
High‑school programs often struggle to demonstrate the development of durable, non‑technical skills such as adaptability, communication, and leadership because these competencies are not directly observable and traditional assessments focus on academic outcomes.
Solution
Hidden Skills offers a research‑backed platform that captures participants’ reflections via their own smartphones, aligns the input with the organization’s skill framework, and applies analytics to surface evidence of skill growth. The system generates individualized skill reports for students and aggregated insights for staff, enabling programs to tell data‑driven impact stories without adding workload. Reports are delivered directly to participants’ phones and to staff inboxes, supporting both personal skill ownership and program improvement. By making hidden skills visible, the platform helps organizations validate outcomes and plan future activities.
Target Audience
Primary customers are high‑school education programs, extracurricular organizations, and youth development initiatives that need to track and communicate participants’ soft‑skill growth.
Features
- Mobile‑first reflection collection that requires no dedicated app installation
- Alignment with custom skill frameworks to map reflections to specific competencies
- Automated analysis that identifies and quantifies skill development across participants
- Individualized skill reports delivered to students’ phones for personal ownership
- Aggregated program‑level dashboards and email summaries for staff insight
- Evidence‑based storytelling tools that link skill data to program impact narratives