Professional services skills mapping that puts the right people on every engagement
Your firm's greatest asset is its expertise. SkillDrill uses conversational AI for skills mapping across your consulting, legal, or accounting practice, with built-in signposting to direct people to relevant development paths so the right specialist is always on the right engagement.
Your firm's expertise is its product, but can you find it when you need it?
Professional services firms live and die by their ability to match the right expertise to each client engagement. Yet most rely on informal networks, outdated CVs, and who you happen to know.
Wrong people on the wrong engagements
Resourcing decisions are made based on availability rather than capability. Partners rely on personal networks, which means the best-suited consultant or associate is often overlooked simply because the right person did not know about them.
Knowledge walks out the door
When experienced consultants, lawyers, or accountants leave, their expertise leaves with them. Without a structured way to capture institutional knowledge, your firm loses years of accumulated insight overnight.
Utilisation suffers when skills are invisible
If leadership cannot see who has which skills, staff sit on the bench while client work goes to external contractors. Poor skills visibility directly erodes margins and leaves your own people underutilised.
A consulting firm expertise finder built for the way you work
SkillDrill replaces guesswork with a searchable, always up-to-date map of every skill in your firm, powered by conversational AI that your people actually enjoy using.
Find the right expertise for every client engagement, instantly
Stop asking around. SkillDrill lets partners, directors, and resource managers search your entire firm by skill, sector experience, or qualification. Build the perfect engagement team in minutes, not days.
- Search by technical skill, industry experience, or certification
- AI-powered skill matching ranks the most relevant people first
- Build shortlists and assemble engagement teams directly
- Share anonymised team profiles via secure external links
Search query
"Financial due diligence, M&A experience, IFRS"
Senior Associate
12 matching skills, 4 yrs M&A
Manager
10 matching skills, sector lead
Consultant
8 matching skills, CFA Level II
Build a living knowledge base that grows with your firm
Traditional staff expertise tracking captures a snapshot that is outdated within weeks. SkillDrill creates a continuously updated skills inventory through natural AI conversations, capturing new qualifications, project experience, and emerging capabilities as they develop.
- Conversational AI discovers skills that forms and CVs miss entirely
- Re-run conversations periodically to capture new expertise
- AI auto-generates taxonomy to organise skills into meaningful groups
- Preserve institutional knowledge even when people move on
340
Unique skills mapped
52
Avg per person
Improve utilisation by matching skills to demand
When you can see exactly who has which capabilities, resource management software becomes genuinely strategic. Reduce bench time, cut contractor spend, and staff engagements with the best internal talent first.
- Visualise skills supply and demand across the firm at a glance
- Identify skills gaps before they affect client delivery
- Plan targeted L&D investment based on real capability data
- Inform workforce planning and lateral hiring decisions with data
78%
Utilisation
-34%
Contractor spend
2.4x
Faster staffing
12 staff matched to new advisory engagement
Gap identified: ESG reporting (3 people needed)
4 bench consultants matched to pipeline work
Skills mapping for every type of professional services firm
Whether you are a Big Four practice or a specialist boutique, SkillDrill adapts to the way your firm organises and deploys expertise.
Management Consultancies
Map expertise across strategy, operations, technology, and change management to staff proposals and engagements faster.
Law Firms
Track practice area depth, sector experience, and jurisdictional knowledge for better law firm skills management and matter staffing.
Accounting and Audit
Audit qualifications, tax specialisms, and sector-specific accounting knowledge, all mapped and searchable for consulting skills audit requirements.
Engineering Consultancies
Map technical disciplines, professional registrations, and project type experience to bid with confidence and deliver with the right team.
Direct people to the right resources
After each conversation, SkillDrill shows relevant training links, support contacts, or next steps based on what was discussed. Configure rules to match skills, keywords, or welfare concerns to the right resources.
Keep profiles fresh automatically
Set review intervals per question set. SkillDrill reminds people when a catch-up is due and carries forward their previous answers so they only update what has changed. New skills and qualifications are captured automatically.
From setup to searchable expertise in days, not months
SkillDrill is designed to work around your firm's schedule. No lengthy implementation, no complex integrations, no disruption to client work.
Configure your question sets
Define the skills, competencies, and experience areas that matter to your firm. SkillDrill's AI generates tailored conversation prompts from your questions, or use our professional services templates to get started immediately.
Staff have AI conversations
Invite your team to a 10 to 15 minute conversational AI session. The AI adapts its questions in real time, following up on interesting threads and probing deeper where it matters, capturing far more than any form ever could.
Search, build teams, and act
Your firm's expertise is now searchable, visualised, and actionable. Find the right people for every engagement, identify skills gaps, build teams from shortlists, and share anonymised team profiles with clients.
Bench search from the same chat where you got the brief
A client asks for an SAP S/4HANA migration lead with insurance experience. You type @SkillDrill SAP S/4HANA insurance in Teams. Three names back, with availability dots. Pitch goes out before the next coffee.
Stop guessing who knows what. Start mapping your firm's expertise today.
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