Product · Skill Intelligence Platform

Skills aren't a
list. They're a
living graph.

Every organisation owns a vast, invisible skill ecosystem — unmapped, underutilised, and silently becoming obsolete. Astraal SkillSphere makes it visible, navigable, and alive for the first time.

Powered by Skill Topology Engine™
1 in 3
Skills on your HR profiles
are already obsolete
78%
Of workforce skill potential
never surfaces in a career
0
Platforms that map
skill adjacency in real-time
Skill Topology Engine™ · Live Graph
MAPPING
YOU
Data
Analysis
SQL
Adjacent
Python
2 steps
BI Tools
Adjacent
MLOps
3 steps
Statistics
Adjacent
Data Viz
Adjacent
NLP
Spark
Core Skill
Adjacent
2–3 Steps Away
Org Skill Health Index · Real-Time
2,847 skills tracked
Data & Analytics
82%
Cloud Infrastructure
67%
Leadership & Strategy
54%
AI / ML Literacy
38%
Regulatory & Compliance
91%
The Uncomfortable Truth

Your organisation's skill data is
three years out of date.
And you're making decisions with it.

87%
of business leaders say skill gaps are a critical risk to growth — yet fewer than 15% can accurately report what skills their workforce currently holds.
McKinsey Global Survey on the Future of Work
2.5yr
Average age of skill data in enterprise HRMS systems. In a world where technical skills have a half-life of 4 years, this is catastrophically stale.
Deloitte Human Capital Trends
₹6Cr+
Average annual spend on external hiring for roles that already have internal candidates — because organisations lack a precise internal skill map.
Astraal Internal Research · Mid-Enterprise

The real crisis isn't a skill shortage. It's a skill visibility crisis. Most organisations have the capability they need — they simply cannot see it, connect it to opportunity, or grow it with any precision. Every reskilling programme launched without a skill map is an educated guess. Astraal SkillSphere makes guessing obsolete.

What organisations do today
Run annual skill surveys. Employees self-report. HR trusts the data. Skills sit in a spreadsheet until someone needs to fill a role.
The hidden consequence
Talent mobility stalls. External hiring costs balloon. Reskilling budgets are spent on the wrong gaps. High-potential people leave because their skills are invisible.
The Astraal SkillSphere position
Skill intelligence is inferred — not declared. The Skill Topology Engine™ maps what people can actually do from how they work, learn, and apply knowledge. No survey required.
Core Intelligence

The Skill Topology Engine™
doesn't ask what you know.
It figures it out.

Most platforms rely on self-reported skill data. SkillSphere infers skills from evidence — learning behaviour, project outcomes, peer signals, and capability expression — then maps every skill to its adjacent possibilities.

Founding Engine · Skill Topology Engine™
The world's first
AI skill inference
and adjacency system.
"What am I capable of — now and potentially?"

The Skill Topology Engine™ builds a living, inference-driven map of every person's skill universe — current skills, adjacent skills within reach, and the precise development distance to each one. It doesn't wait for a survey. It listens to how people work.

AI Skill Inference Skill Adjacency Mapping Skill Half-Life Tracking Latent Potential Surfacing Real-Time Graph Updates
MECHANISM 01
Inference
Engine
Derives actual skill possession from 150+ behavioural and performance signals — without a single form to fill in.
MECHANISM 02
Adjacency
Mapper
Connects every skill to its nearest skill neighbours — creating a navigation map for career and development moves.
MECHANISM 03
Half-Life
Monitor
Tracks the decay velocity of each skill domain — alerting individuals and organisations before a skill becomes obsolete.
MECHANISM 04
Latent
Potential Radar
Identifies skills that exist at a latent level — close to expressed but not yet activated — and creates acceleration paths to surface them.
SKILL HALF-LIFE MONITOR · LIVE DECAY TRACKING
Generative AI Prompting
↓ Decaying
#5EEAD4
Cloud Architecture (AWS)
#60A5FA
Python (Data Science)
#A3E635
Excel Advanced
#FDE68A
Legacy ERP (SAP R/3)
↓ Decaying
#F87171
Regulatory Compliance
#6EE7B7
Half-life = years before 50% of skill value is obsolete · Updated hourly from industry signals
HOW THE ENGINE WORKS · 4-STAGE PROCESS
01
Signal Collection
Ingests data from learning interactions, project completions, peer endorsements, HRMS records, performance reviews, and real-world application events. No survey. Pure signal.
02
Skill Inference & Graph Construction
AI models map inferred skills against a master skill ontology of 40,000+ nodes — then build each person's skill graph with possession confidence scores for every node.
03
Adjacency Calculation
For every current skill, the engine calculates the adjacent skills — ranked by development distance (how many learning steps to acquire) and strategic value (how much the market needs them).
04
Opportunity Matching & Marketplace Activation
Skill profiles are matched to internal opportunities, learning pathways, project assignments, and career moves in real-time — creating a self-renewing talent marketplace powered by actual skill intelligence.
Capability Architecture

Four pillars. One skill intelligence system.

Organised around what happens to skills inside your organisation — not around what the software technically does.

Skill Cartography
Skill Marketplace
Skill Velocity
Skill Ops
Skill Cartography

Before you can develop, deploy, or move skills — you need to know exactly what you have. Skill Cartography maps the complete skill landscape of your organisation, inferred from evidence.

Inferred Skill Profiles

AI-derived skill maps for every individual — built from 150+ signals across learning, performance, and work activity data. Updated continuously. No self-reporting required.

Organisational Skill Topology

A real-time, queryable map of your entire workforce's skill estate — showing concentrations, gaps, decay risk areas, and hidden skill reserves by team, function, and level.

Hidden Talent Discovery

Surfaces latent skills and near-acquired capabilities that have never appeared in any review or profile — identifying the invisible talent your organisation already owns.

01
Map every skill
your organisation
actually possesses.
The Skill Cartography layer replaces the annual survey with a continuously updating, AI-inferred skill map of every person in your organisation. Accurate to 92% against verified assessments.
Skill Marketplace

The world's most precise internal talent marketplace. Every opportunity is matched to skill profiles — not job titles or seniority. The right person surfaces automatically.

Precision Internal Mobility Engine

Matches employees to open roles, projects, gigs, and stretch assignments using actual skill adjacency data — not LinkedIn-style keyword matching or manager gut feel.

Project & Gig Skill Matching

Connects skill supply to project demand across the organisation — enabling cross-functional deployment of talent based on what people can actually do right now.

Career Adjacency Paths

Shows each employee the career moves they are closest to making — based on their current skill graph and the skills required for target roles. Navigation, not aspiration.

02
The right person,
found before
the job goes external.
Organisations using SkillSphere's Skill Marketplace fill an average of 68% of senior roles internally within 12 months — reducing external hiring cost by ₹4–9 crore annually per 1,000 employees.
Skill Velocity

Skills don't just need to exist — they need to grow faster than they decay. Skill Velocity tracks the rate of skill development against the rate of skill obsolescence across your entire organisation.

Skill Growth Rate Tracking

Measures how fast individuals and teams are acquiring new skills — and whether that velocity is outpacing the decay rate of their current skill portfolio.

Skill Decay Alerts

Flags skills approaching obsolescence — at the individual, team, and organisational level — before they become critical gaps. Time to act, not time to react.

Precision Reskilling Triggers

Automatically surfaces targeted reskilling recommendations — connected to Astraal LXP — based on which specific skills need acceleration for which specific people right now.

03
Grow skills
faster than
they expire.
The average technical skill has a half-life of 4.2 years. Skill Velocity tells you exactly which skills in your organisation are on the wrong side of that curve — and who needs to move first.
Skill Ops

The strategic command centre for HR and talent leaders. Skill Ops translates individual skill intelligence into organisational strategy — connecting skill health to business outcomes.

Workforce Skill Health Dashboard

A real-time view of your organisation's collective skill capital — mapped to strategic priorities, business unit objectives, and future-state workforce models.

Strategic Skill Gap Analysis

Models the skill requirements of your 3-year business strategy against your current skill topology — showing the precise gap, its size, its urgency, and the build-vs-buy decision framework.

HRMS & Ecosystem Integration

Bi-directional integration with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Darwinbox, Oracle HCM — enriching your HRMS with live, inferred skill data rather than replacing it.

04
Skill intelligence
as a strategic
business asset.
For the first time, the CHRO can walk into a board meeting and answer: "Here is exactly what skills we have, what we're missing, what's decaying, and what we're doing about all three — in real-time."
Inside the Platform

What it feels like when skills become visible.

This is what a talent manager sees. What an employee experiences. What a CHRO finally gets to act on.

app.astraal.ai/skillsphere/marketplace
My Skill Map
Opportunities
Career Paths
Skill Communities
Org Skill Health
Decay Alerts
Skills matched for Priya · 97 adjacencies found
94
SKILL SCORE
12
ADJACENT SKILLS
3
DECAY ALERTS
97%
MATCH ACCURACY
Top Matched Opportunities · Based on Your Skill Graph
Senior Analyst · Strategic Planning (Internal)
Data Analysis Strategy +3 more
96% match
Project Lead · AI Implementation Gig · 6 weeks
Python ML Ops +2 more
88% match
Skill Community Lead · Data & Analytics CoP
Community Facilitation
81% match
96% match — not a guess

That match score comes from comparing Priya's inferred skill graph against the actual skill requirements of the role — not keyword overlap. It's the difference between relevance and accuracy.

A 6-week gig, not just full roles

SkillSphere's marketplace includes roles, projects, gigs, and stretch assignments — because skills grow fastest when they're applied to real problems, not just trained in a classroom.

3 Decay Alerts — proactive, not reactive

The platform doesn't wait for a skill to disappear. Decay alerts fire while there's still time to act — surfacing targeted reskilling paths through Astraal LXP before the gap becomes a crisis.

97 adjacencies found — the invisible career map

Priya didn't know she was 2 skill-steps from a Senior Strategy role. SkillSphere did. That number changes how someone thinks about their own career — and how organisations plan talent mobility.

Built For

Four stakeholders.
One shared truth about skills.

Every person who interacts with SkillSphere sees a different surface — built precisely for what they need to know and what they need to do.

Chief Human Resources Officer

The CHRO

The Pain

"My board asks me what skills we have for our AI transformation. I have no honest answer — only survey data from 18 months ago."

SkillSphere Changes This
  • Real-time workforce skill topology — boardroom-ready, always current
  • Strategic skill gap modelling against 3-year business plans
  • Build-vs-buy decision framework backed by actual skill data
  • Executive skill health index — one number, full confidence
Head of Talent Management

The Talent Leader

The Pain

"We keep hiring externally for roles we could fill internally — because we can't see who internally has the right skills. It's expensive and demoralising."

SkillSphere Changes This
  • Precision internal talent search by actual skill — not title
  • Automatic surfacing of internal candidates for every open role
  • Skill adjacency maps that show who is 1–2 steps from readiness
  • Measurable internal fill rate improvement month-on-month
Individual Contributor · 5 years experience

Priya, 32

The Pain

"I know I can do more. But every time I look at job postings — internally or externally — I don't know which skills to build to actually get there. Nobody can tell me."

SkillSphere Changes This
  • A precise, AI-built map of every skill she currently holds
  • Career adjacency paths showing what she is already close to
  • Matched opportunities she didn't know she was qualified for
  • Targeted skill acceleration paths connected to Astraal LXP
Head of Learning & Development

The L&D Head

The Pain

"I spend my reskilling budget on programmes that are three steps removed from what people actually need. I'm solving for gaps I've estimated — not gaps I can see."

SkillSphere Changes This
  • Exact skill gap data — by person, team, and function — before any programme is built
  • Precision reskilling triggers that fire before gaps become critical
  • Direct pathway connection to Astraal LXP for immediate intervention
  • Programme ROI measured against actual skill change, not completions
The Astraal Ecosystem

SkillSphere is the skill intelligence layer.
Every other product is smarter because of it.

The Skill Topology Engine™ feeds real-time skill intelligence into the entire Astraal product ecosystem — making every product more precise, every recommendation more accurate, every decision more confident.

INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED FROM
Astraal LXP
FEEDS IN
Capability Genome™ data enriches SkillSphere's inference engine — learning behaviour, competency signals, and growth velocity all sharpen the skill graph accuracy.
Astraal Credentials
FEEDS IN
Verified assessment outcomes from Credentials are anchored to skill nodes in SkillSphere — converting test performance into confirmed skill possession with confidence scores.
Astraal Insights
BIDIRECTIONAL
Insights ingests SkillSphere's organisational topology for executive analytics. SkillSphere receives strategic business context from Insights to prioritise which skills matter most.
Skill Intelligence Layer
Astraal SkillSphere
Skill Topology Engine™
Maps 40,000+ skill nodes per organisation
Infers skills from 150+ evidence signals
Calculates adjacency distances in real-time
Tracks skill half-life against market signals
Powers precision marketplace matching
Fires targeted reskilling triggers to LXP
INTELLIGENCE DELIVERED TO
Astraal Polaris
POWERS
SkillSphere feeds live skill-to-role readiness scores into Polaris — enabling succession planning and talent mobility decisions anchored in actual capability, not manager assessment.
Astraal Horizon
POWERS
Skill decay signals from SkillSphere trigger contextual content recommendations in Horizon — surfacing exactly the knowledge a person needs before their skill gap widens.
Astraal Xperience
POWERS
Skill profiles from SkillSphere personalise the digital experience in Xperience — connecting each employee to communities, networks, and digital pathways that match their actual skill identity.
On the Astraal Nova Roadmap
Cross-organisation skill benchmarking — enabling anonymous industry-level skill health comparison across Astraal customers. Know how your workforce skill capital compares to the market. Nova-access customers get early preview.
Explore Nova →
Measured Outcomes

Skills found. Gaps closed.
Talent unlocked.

SkillSphere is measured on one thing: whether the people and organisations using it have a more accurate, more actionable understanding of skill — and whether that changes what they do.

68%
Increase in internal role fills within 12 months of SkillSphere deployment
Skill Marketplace
92%
Accuracy of AI-inferred skill profiles versus verified assessment benchmarks
Skill Topology Engine™
3.1×
Improvement in reskilling programme precision when driven by SkillSphere gap data
Skill Velocity
41%
Reduction in annual external hiring spend within 18 months — redirected to internal development
Skill Ops
Institutional Case · India · Financial Services · 8,500 Employees

"We had the talent for our AI transformation.
We just couldn't see it — until SkillSphere."

A large non-banking financial company was planning a major data and AI capability build-out. The initial assumption: they would need to hire 120 data professionals externally over 18 months. Before the first hire, they deployed SkillSphere across their workforce of 8,500. Within 6 weeks, the Skill Topology Engine™ had identified 340 employees with latent data and analytical skills — including 47 individuals who were within 2 skill steps of being production-ready data analysts. The external hiring plan was revised. The transformation budget was redirected.

340
Employees with latent data skills identified — invisible before SkillSphere
78%
Reduction in planned external AI/data hires — filled internally
₹12Cr
Saved in external recruitment cost in Year 1 alone
6wks
Time to complete full workforce skill mapping for 8,500 employees
Your Skill Visibility Starts Here

See what your
organisation can actually do.

Book a 45-minute Skill Topology Session — not a product demo. We'll run the Skill Topology Engine™ on a sample of 50–100 employees from your organisation, live, and show you what's already there that you've never been able to see.

Run a Skill Topology Session →
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40,000+
Skill nodes in our ontology
150+
Inference signals per person
6 weeks
To full org skill topology
API-First
Integrates with your HRMS
DPDP Ready
India data protection compliant