You're Already Paying For Skills Your Own Team Has
SkillDrill uses natural AI conversations, not forms, to uncover the skills, qualifications and hidden experience inside your organisation. Search by skill. Build teams in seconds. Stop finding out too late.
Security and privacy, built in from day one
AES-256-GCM
Encrypted at rest
GDPR Compliant
Full compliance
UK Data Residency
Tenant data never leaves the UK
ICO Registered
Registered data controller
Ethical AI
Always human-reviewed
See it in action
Watch how a SkillDrill conversation uncovers skills in real time, no forms in sight.
0 skills discovered
Skills will appear here as the conversation progresses...
Days, not months
Faster mapping
Skills mapping completes in days rather than the months a traditional audit takes
Dozens per person
Skills surfaced
Far more skills per person than any form or spreadsheet typically captures
100%
Encrypted
All data encrypted at rest with per-tenant keys
The £300-a-month problem hiding in your own team
A mid-sized charity was paying an agency £300 a month to run two social posts a week. One of their Saturday shop volunteers runs social media professionally: three brands, 40,000 followers of her own. She'd been volunteering for four months. Nobody had ever asked.
That's not an unusual story. It's the normal state of most organisations. You know people's job titles. You don't know what they can actually do.
Read the full storyA five-minute chat finds what a form never will
Traditional forms and surveys capture what people remember to write down. AI conversations uncover what people actually know.
The old way
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A form asks the same fixed questions to everyone
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People tick boxes for what they remember, not what they know
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Long forms get abandoned or rushed
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Anything not on the form stays invisible: languages, past careers, volunteering, things picked up on the job
SkillDrill
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An AI conversation adapts to each person, in real time
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It follows up. Mention project management, and it asks which methodology, which tools, how many people
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Feels like a chat with a colleague, not a compliance exercise, so people actually finish it
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Surfaces what a form would never think to ask about
Organisations using SkillDrill typically uncover dozens of skills per person that weren't recorded anywhere before.
How it works
Three simple steps to unlock your team's full potential.
1. Ask the right questions once
Build a question set for your organisation, or start from a template. SkillDrill turns it into natural conversation prompts automatically.
2. Let AI do the interviewing
Your team has a short, adaptive conversation, on their phone, at their own pace. No account setup, no training needed.
3. See what you actually have
Skills are extracted, organised, and made searchable immediately. Find who can do what in seconds, not weeks.
What you get
From AI conversations to interactive skill maps, SkillDrill gives you a complete picture of what your team can do.
Skill Explorer
An interactive, searchable map of every skill in your organisation. Click any skill to see who has it, and how strong they are.
- Search by skill
- Proficiency levels
- Interactive map
Smart Teams
Tell it what a project needs. It shows you who already has the right mix of skills to do it, instead of relying on who you happen to remember.
- Team suggestions
- Gap analysis
- Skill mix
Career Pathways
Show your people a real route forward, matched to skills they already have and the ones they'd need to build.
- Progression routes
- Prerequisites
- Skill matching
Concern Flagging
If someone raises a welfare or professional concern during a conversation, it's routed straight to a named person in your organisation. Never left buried in a transcript.
- Named recipient
- Escalation
- Human review
AI Conversations
Natural, adaptive chats that power everything above. No forms, no logins for your team.
Scheduled Catch-ups
Regular, automated check-in conversations keep every profile current without chasing anyone.
Automated Signposting
When a conversation surfaces a need, SkillDrill points the person to the right resource or support.
Built for organisations that can't afford to get data wrong
Charities, the NHS, and local government don't get to treat data security as an afterthought. Neither do we.
AES-256-GCM Encryption
All personal data encrypted at rest with tenant-specific keys. The same standard used by governments and banks.
Per-Tenant Isolation
Every organisation's data is completely isolated. Separate encryption keys, separate access controls, zero cross-tenant exposure.
Full Audit Trail
Every action logged and traceable. SSO via Microsoft Entra ID, with data export and deletion tools built in.
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AES-256-GCM encryption, with a separate key for every organisation
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UK data residency: your data doesn't leave the UK
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GDPR compliant, ICO registered, full audit trail
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Your AI, your choice: connect Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, or self-host with Ollama for a fully air-gapped setup
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No training on your data. Ever. Full stop.
AI you can trust
We believe AI should be transparent, ethical, and always under human control. Here's our commitment.
Your Data Stays Yours
Data never leaves the platform. Never sold, never shared, never used for advertising.
Human Oversight Always
AI assists and augments decisions. Humans always have the final say on every insight and profile.
No Training on Your Data
Your conversations are never used to train AI models. Strict data processing agreements enforced.
Full Transparency
Open AI policy. You can see exactly how AI is used, what data is processed, and what controls exist.
Your AI. Your keys.
Your choice.
SkillDrill doesn't lock you into a single AI provider. Connect your own API keys, choose your model, and keep full control. Your data goes directly to your chosen provider; we never proxy, store, or see your API traffic.
Anthropic Claude
Claude Sonnet, Opus, Haiku
OpenAI GPT
GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5
Azure OpenAI
Your Azure tenant, your data
Ollama (Self-Host)
Air-gapped, on your servers
Who SkillDrill is built for
Different organisations, the same blind spot: skills nobody ever wrote down.
Charities & Volunteer Organisations
Stop guessing who can do what. Match volunteers to roles by skill, not availability, and keep people engaged by using what they're actually good at.
See how it works for charitiesPublic Sector: NHS, Councils, Emergency Services
A single, secure source of truth for staff capability, built by someone who has spent over a decade building systems for police forces and public sector bodies.
See how it works for public sectorEvery other team
Not a charity or public sector body? SkillDrill still replaces your skills spreadsheet.
See how it works for your teamFrom the blog
Practical thinking on workforce strategy, skills mapping, and getting more from the team you have.
Why your skills directory belongs inside Microsoft Teams, not next to it
Every organisation has a skills directory somewhere - a SharePoint list, a Notion page, an HR module no-one opens. The reason it rots is the same reason a Teams-native skills directory works: people only use the tools they are already in. A walk-through of the four Teams surfaces that turn skills mapping from an HR exercise into a habit.
Need a German speaker in 30 seconds? Here is how a comms room actually finds one
Every UK police force has the language skill somewhere on the rota. The problem is finding it before the call goes cold. A walk-through of the old way (phone tag, hope) versus what a Teams-integrated skills directory does in two taps.
Your job description is not a skill spec - here is how to fix that
Most job descriptions are written to attract applications, not to filter them. That is why your ATS keeps surfacing the wrong candidates. The fix is to turn the ad copy into a real skill profile.
Ready to see what your team can actually do?
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