Built
for teams that want to
know their
people
Skills mapping and skills auditing powered by conversational AI. Uncover, visualise, and act on the real skills within your organisation, with automated signposting, scheduled catch-ups, and workforce intelligence.
Skills discovery through natural conversation
Forget spreadsheets and tick-box forms. SkillDrill uses AI to have genuine, adaptive conversations with each team member, uncovering skills, experience, and interests that traditional audits miss entirely.
- Adapts questions based on each person's answers
- Standard or deep-dive conversation modes
- Custom question sets with your own prompts and context
- AI auto-generates conversation prompts from your questions
Admin creates question set
Define topics, depth, and conversation limits
AI generates tailored prompts
A conversation plan optimised for your questions
Staff have a natural chat
10-15 minutes, adapts to their answers in real time
Skills extracted automatically
Structured data from unstructured conversation
Visualise your workforce skills at a glance
An interactive bubble chart powered by AI-generated taxonomy. Click into categories, drill down into sub-skills, and see exactly who has what, all in one visual interface.
- AI clusters and organises skills into meaningful groups
- Drill down from category to sub-skill to individual people
- Build shortlists and convert directly into teams
- Regenerate taxonomy as new skills are discovered
160
Unique skills
47
Avg per person
Build the right team for every project
Search across your entire workforce by skill, experience, or interest. AI analyses team composition and identifies gaps. Share team profiles externally via secure links.
- AI-powered expertise search across your organisation
- Skills Drill: send targeted follow-up questions to team members
- AI gap analysis and team composition recommendations
- Secure external sharing with branded team profiles
- Team Terms of Reference: every team gets a shared purpose and scope, markdown supported
- Invite tracking: see who has accepted and who is still deciding, so team leads can follow up
"I need a team of 5 for a GDPR remediation project. They'll need data protection expertise, project management skills, and someone who can train the wider staff..."
Project Lead
GDPR, Change Management
Data Protection Officer
ISO 27001, DPIA
Training Lead
Staff Development, Communication
Catch what matters before it escalates
If someone discloses a professional concern during a conversation, the system flags it immediately for review. Custom keyword monitoring ensures nothing important gets missed.
- AI detects professional concerns in real time
- Custom keyword and phrase monitoring lists
- Review, escalate, or dismiss with audit trail
- Dedicated concerns dashboard with category filters
Workload concern detected
During skills conversation · 2 mins ago
"...I've been covering two roles since March and it's really affecting my ability to deliver on either properly..."
3
Pending review
12
Resolved
2
Escalated
Security that stands up to scrutiny
Built for organisations where data protection isn't optional. Per-tenant encryption, SSO, full audit trails, and your choice of AI provider, keeping your data firmly under your control.
- AES-256-GCM encryption at rest with per-tenant keys
- Microsoft Entra ID SSO for seamless public sector login
- Complete audit trail: every login, change, and action logged
- Custom roles and permissions with department and location scoping
AES-256-GCM
Per-tenant encryption keys derived via HKDF
SSO / Entra ID
Single sign-on with OIDC, no password needed
GDPR Compliant
UK data residency, DPA on request, right to deletion
Full Audit Trail
Every action logged with timestamp, user, and IP
Your platform, your rules
Brand it as your own with custom colours, fonts, and logos. Choose your own AI provider. Configure question sets, conversation depth, and user roles exactly how you need them.
- Your logo, colours, and fonts throughout the entire platform
- Choose your AI provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, or self-hosted Ollama
- Custom roles and permissions with department and location scoping
- Hierarchical departments and locations for complex organisations
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Azure
Your tenant
Ollama
Self-hosted
Colours, logo, fonts, and sidebar theme, all customisable per tenant.
Point people to the right resources automatically
After each conversation, SkillDrill matches what was discussed against your signposting rules and shows relevant resources, training links, or contacts. If someone mentions stress, they see your wellbeing support. If they need leadership training, they see your L&D portal. All automatic, all configurable.
- Trigger on skills detected, welfare flags, or keywords
- Show links, contacts, or both depending on the situation
- Track what was shown and whether it was clicked
- Works with training needs, wellbeing, and feedback question sets
Triggered by: skill detected (leadership, management)
View our leadership courses on the Learning Portal
Triggered by: concern flagged (wellbeing, workload)
Contact the Employee Assistance Programme: 0800 123 456
Triggered by: keyword (first aid, expired)
Book your refresher at training.company.com/first-aid
Keep skills profiles fresh with scheduled reviews
Skills change. People develop. SkillDrill automatically schedules follow-up conversations at intervals you choose, whether that is 30 days, 90 days, or annually. The catch-up conversation is polite and pulls through previous answers, so staff only need to update what has changed. No starting from scratch.
- Set intervals per question set: 30, 60, 90, 180, or 365 days
- Automatic email reminders when a review is due
- Previous answers carried forward, only updates needed
- New skills and qualifications captured automatically
General Skills Audit
Every 90 days
Leadership Assessment
Every 180 days
Wellbeing Check-in
Every 30 days
12 people due for catch-up
Reminders will be sent automatically
See what your organisation really knows
Skills Intelligence shows you the full picture: which skills are concentrated in one person, where the gaps are, and how two groups compare. Perfect for mergers, restructuring, or simply understanding where your organisation is strong and where it is vulnerable.
- Single-point-of-failure risk alerts for critical skills
- Compare two groups side-by-side for mergers and restructuring
- AI-generated merger analysis reports with retention priorities
- Filter and hide non-essential skills to focus on what matters
3 single-holder risks detected
Skills held by only one person in the organisation
Turn your policies and guides into a question-and-answer assistant
Paste in policies, FAQs, training notes, or career-progression material. The AI breaks each document into named sections automatically. Staff then ask questions in natural language and get answers grounded in your own content, with citations back to the source.
- Paste raw text, no formatting needed; AI organises it into sections
- Tag-based access so sensitive policies only reach the right roles
- Answers cite the source section so staff can verify and read more
- Lives next to the career chat on the staff profile, one place to ask anything
Knowledge tab
Grounded in your documents
According to the Hybrid Working policy (Eligibility section), you can:
- Work remotely up to 3 days per week
- Coordinate office days with your team
- Apply for additional flexibility through your manager
Career Pathways
Define progression routes within your organisation and let staff explore where they could go next. Career pathways are matched automatically based on skills discovered during conversations, so people see opportunities that genuinely fit their profile.
Build prerequisite chains like Junior Developer > Senior Developer > Tech Lead. Staff see the full route from where they are to where they want to be.
Control who sees which pathways using tags. Only show management pathways to those at the right grade, or technical routes to those in the engineering team.
When someone completes a skills conversation, pathways that match their skills are shown automatically. Each pathway displays a match percentage so people can see where they're strongest.
Staff express interest in pathways directly from their profile. Managers see aggregated interest across the organisation to plan development, succession, and recruitment.
Turn responses into actionable intelligence
AI analyses all responses across your team and writes an executive summary. Charts visualise structured answers, word clouds surface common themes, and demographic breakdowns show patterns by department, location, or tag.
- AI-written executive summary of all responses
- Charts for scale, yes/no, and choice questions with averages
- Word clouds from open-text responses
- Built-in anonymity - groups under 5 are hidden automatically
"Communication scores are the lowest across all metrics at 2.6/5, particularly in departments with fewer than 20 staff. Recognition is also a concern at 2.8/5. The data suggests a clear link between low communication scores and reduced overall satisfaction."
3.5
Satisfaction
2.6
Communication
2.8
Recognition
Five conversation modes for every need
Each type adapts the AI's behaviour, tone, and data extraction. Create as many sets as you need, each with custom questions, response tracking, and AI-generated prompts.
- Skills Audit - discovers and records skills, qualifications, and experience
- Training Needs - identifies gaps and development priorities
- Wellbeing Check-in - warm, empathetic conversations with welfare flagging
- Feedback Survey - structured feedback with tracked responses and reporting
- Signposting - understanding conversations that direct people to the right resources
Open conversation
What are your core professional skills?
Scale 1-5
How confident do you feel in your current role?
Multiple choice
How do you prefer to learn?
Yes / No
Do you feel supported by your team?
Drag to reorder. AI generates conversation prompts automatically.
A complete hiring intake, scored against the role you actually need
Build a custom application form, define the skills and traits the role needs, then share a public link. Candidates answer your questions, talk to an AI for a few minutes, and arrive in your pipeline already scored for fit. No CV pile, no spreadsheet shortlisting.
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Form builder, not a generic template.
Drag-and-drop fields, predefined lists (countries, languages, industries), validation, and a public job description in markdown or PDF.
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Skills and traits the role needs, scored automatically.
Define what good looks like once. Every applicant gets a compatibility score with a breakdown of where they match and where they fall short.
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A real pipeline, not a tag soup.
Submitted, reviewing, shortlisted, interviewing, offered, hired. Move people through stages, request human review of any AI decision, convert hired candidates into staff in one click.
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Search candidates and staff in one query.
When a project comes up, you don't have to remember whether the right person is on the team or in the talent pool. The skills search returns both.
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Compliant by default.
AI-disclosure notices, age gate for the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, per-category consent capture, and configurable retention so applicant data doesn't sit forever. More on compliance.
Skills required: Programme delivery, stakeholder management, risk. Traits: calm under pressure, decisive.
Sarah J.
All required skills evidenced. Strong on stakeholder management.
David M.
Strong delivery record. Limited budget exposure for this scale.
Priya K.
Skills broadly aligned. Newer to programme-scale work.
Your domain, your brand, seamless experience
Run SkillDrill on your own domain like skills.yourcompany.com. Your team sees your brand everywhere - login, onboarding, registration, and all communications. No mention of SkillDrill unless you want it.
- Simple CNAME setup with built-in DNS verification
- Automatic SSL certificate management
- Full white-label - your logo, colours, fonts on every page
- Microsoft SSO integration for seamless sign-in
Add a CNAME record
Point skills.yourcompany.com to skilldrill.app
Verify in settings
Click "Check" to verify DNS is configured
Done
SSL is automatic. Your domain is live.
Share skills data across organisations securely
Link with partner organisations, contractors, or other branches to share skills data. Data is re-encrypted with the receiving organisation's key so each party can only see what they are authorised to access.
- Request, accept, or decline links between organisations
- Data re-encrypted with each organisation's unique key
- Revoke access instantly - all shared data deleted immediately
- Full audit trail of all cross-organisation data access
Organisation A
Sends link request
Organisation B
Accepts and chooses what to share
Data synced with per-organisation encryption
Revoke access at any time
Find skills from inside Microsoft Teams
SkillDrill lives in your Teams left rail. Open it for the full app, or just type @SkillDrill find german speaker in any chat. Results appear as cards you can call, email, or message in one click.
Pay only for the staff you map. Anyone you authorise can search them, free.
- Single sign-on — click SkillDrill in Teams, you're already in. No second password.
- Search from any chat — the compose box becomes a workforce directory.
- Live presence — green dot if they're free, red if they're busy. Stop calling people who can't answer.
- Searcher access without a SkillDrill licence — control room operators, dispatchers, comms staff can find expertise without paying for a seat each.
- Audit-logged — every search recorded with who searched, what they typed, who they saw.
- 30-minute install — one click consent, one upload to your Teams admin centre, done.
A comprehensive interactive help guide is built into the application
Every feature on this page is documented inside the product, with an AI assistant your team can ask in plain English — so they're never stuck waiting on a colleague for the answer.
Ready to see what your team can really do?
Start mapping skills across your organisation today.