SkillsAware
SkillsAware is a skills recognition engine that turns real-world experience into auditable evidence, revealing the actual capabilities of a workforce or student cohort. The platform uses guided AI to map evidence against industry-validated standards, producing a portable "Skills IQ" while keeping humans in the lead for every decision. It serves employers, higher education institutions, RTOs, and government agencies seeking to reduce skills mismatches and accelerate recognition of prior learning.
- HR Technology
- Education Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data & Analytics
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Organizations and educational institutions struggle to maintain accurate skills visibility, relying on manual, slow processes like Recognition of Prior Learning that can take months and cost significant administrative resources. Legacy HR systems capture only static job titles and credentials, leaving actual workforce capabilities invisible, leading to misaligned talent deployment, wasted training spend, and systemic bias that locks out skilled migrants and diverse talent.
Solution
SkillsAware provides an AI-driven skills intelligence platform that automates the evidence-mapping process for competency assessment. The platform maps real-world experience and evidence directly to industry-validated standards, producing an objective, portable Skills IQ. For institutions, it reduces Recognition of Prior Learning administrative processing from months to hours while maintaining audit compliance. For employers, it creates an enterprise-wide capability matrix that isolates genuine skills gaps and supports crisis mobilization by rapidly verifying volunteer capabilities. The system is designed with a human-in-the-lead approach where AI performs the heavy lifting but humans review every output, ensuring decisions are transparent and defensible.
Target Audience
Primary customers include higher education institutions, vocational education and training providers, Registered Training Organizations, employers, industry bodies, and government agencies seeking evidence-based workforce capability assessment and development. The platform also serves workforce and employment services, industry transition programs, and skilled migration pathways.
Features
- AI-powered automation of evidence collation and mapping against industry-validated standards or custom frameworks
- Enterprise-wide capability matrix that isolates genuine skills gaps to target development budgets precisely
- Objective Skills IQ that translates diverse international and life-wide experience into a portable, evidence-backed score
- Human-in-the-lead design where AI facilitates evidence identification but does not make automated decisions
- ISO 27001-certified infrastructure with Australian Privacy Principles compliance and Privacy Impact Assessments for each use case
- Tailored onboarding surveys and output formats to meet specific organizational goals
- Interoperable architecture that sits alongside existing systems without requiring IT integration overhauls
- Rapid skills verification capability supporting crisis response and volunteer deployment