Workera
Workera provides an AI-agent platform that verifies workforce skills through evidence-based assessments, enabling organizations to make defensible talent decisions across hiring, development, and mobility. The platform features four purpose-built AI agents—Hiring, Skills Assessment, AI Studio, and Ambient Coaching—that measure capabilities in the flow of work and integrate with 250+ HRIS, ATS, and LMS systems. Over 9 million skills have been verified across global enterprises using rubric-anchored scoring and a five-layer validity framework.
- HR Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Enterprise Software
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$44.5MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Organizations face a critical gap between inferred and verified workforce skillsamentals. Traditional hiring and talent management rely on resumes, self-reports, and subjective interviews—signals that are increasingly unreliable in an AI-driven environment where candidates can misrepresent capabilities. The cost of a technical mis-hire is estimated at 1.5–2x the role's annual salary, while 59% of hiring managers suspect AI-driven misrepresentation in candidate responses, creating an urgent need for defensible, evidence-based skill verification.
Solution
Workera delivers an AI-first skills intelligence platform that reads what a workforce can actually do and converts that into verified, auditable evidence for talent decisions. The platform deploys four purpose-built AI agents—Hiring, Skills Assessment, AI Studio, and Ambient Coaching—that work together to map job requirements, build custom assessments, measure capabilities through conversational role play, live coding, and simulations, and deliver scores grounded in rubric-anchored scoring under expert governance. The system verifies skills continuously in the flow of work, and results flow bidirectionally into 250+ HRIS, ATS, and LMS systems, enabling organizations to make hiring, promotion, and development decisions backed by a single, consistent signal across the entire talent lifecycle.
Target Audience
Primary customers are global enterprises in the Fortune 100 that need to make high-stakes hiring, promotion, and upskilling decisions with verified skills evidence. The platform serves team leaders, technical teams, and business teams across functions including AI, data, cyber, software, digital, and cloud.
Features
- Four AI agents: Hiring Agent, Assessment Agent, AI Studio (with "Compose" builder and "Elo" in-product agent), and Ambient Coaching for continuous, in-flow capability measurement
- Multi-agent measurement engine that orchestrates skill mapping, assessment composition, conversational measurement, scoring, and insight delivery
- Evidence-centered design with rubric-anchored scoring, auditable change history, and a five-layer validity framework ensuring defensibility under Legal and Compliance review
- AI-native integrity with two-stage detection and agentic post-session review; no webcams, no biometric capture, no automated disqualification
- Universal Integrations via Kombo partnership: bidirectional connectivity to 250+ HRIS, ATS, and LMS systems plus identity providers, with verified skills written back to candidate records and employee profiles
- 100+ AI-native assessments with industry-best benchmarks, 1,000+ custom assessments authored by customers, and credential renewal as work evolves
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001-2022 certified, GDPR and CCPA compliant, WCAG 2.2 AA conformant