Talentguide

Talentguide is an AI-powered workforce skills platform for organizations that want to understand and plan employee skills. Its shared skills taxonomy links jobs, people, teams, projects, and learning, allowing the same skills data to inform profiles and workforce decisions. Talentguide can draw information from uploaded documents, URLs, connected tools, and a predefined job library. It displays people’s current skills and levels, and maps job requirements and courses to skills. The platform supports skills-gap analysis, workforce planning, development plans, and skills-based remuneration decisions. AI suggests skills, proficiency levels, and development options, while people retain decision control; profiles connect competencies to source evidence and flag low-confidence data. Integrations with HRIS, workforce planning, and learning management systems can send taxonomy data back to those tools. The free Sandbox supports up to five seats. Paid Essentials and Plus are listed for 50 seats and up, at €5 and €7.50 per seat per month respectively, excluding VAT.

Talentguide brings skills profiles, planning, and development into a shared taxonomy, with evidence and confidence indicators for profile data. Seat limits and VAT-excluded paid pricing are worth considering before choosing a plan.

Talentguide suits organizations looking to map, develop, and plan workforce skills. The paid plans target organizations with at least 50 seats, while the free Sandbox is capped at five.

Talentguide is a workforce-skills platform for HR teams coordinating skills data across an organisation. It is best suited to employers building skills-led plans and development programmes; its shared taxonomy and evidence-linked profiles are compelling, but the 50-seat minimum on paid plans rules it out for many smaller teams.

Overview

The platform connects jobs, people, teams, projects and learning through a common skills taxonomy. That gives workforce planning, development and remuneration decisions a shared reference point, which is valuable when different HR processes need to use consistent skills data.

Talentguide builds skills data from uploaded documents, URLs, connected tools and a predefined job library. Profiles show people’s current skills and levels, with job requirements and courses mapped to skills. The result is a practical foundation for skills-gap analysis, development plans and workforce planning—not a standalone tool for individual career planning.

Key features

AI suggests extracted skills, proficiency levels and development options, while people retain decision control. Profiles link competencies to source evidence and flag low-confidence data, helping HR teams distinguish uncertain inferences from well-supported skills. That is a meaningful safeguard when skills data may inform consequential talent decisions.

Talentguide describes integrations with HRIS, workforce-planning tools and LMS systems, sending taxonomy data back to those tools. It also supports learning recommendations, career pathways, skills inference and internal mobility. Its usefulness will depend on how well the shared taxonomy fits an organisation’s existing systems and processes.

The privacy policy says personal data is processed and stored in the European Economic Area, with technical and organisational safeguards. The terms name Microsoft Azure as the hosting partner, or another provider if Talentguide gives notice. Support terms promise commercially reasonable efforts to resolve or work around reported errors; Essentials adds priority support.

Pricing

Sandbox: free, capped at five seats. It includes an evaluation sandbox, Talentguide library, skills-gap analysis, development plans, skills evaluation, WhatsApp companion and workforce planning. That is enough to explore the core workflow, but it is not a route to a larger team rollout.

Essentials: €5 a month, billed per seat/month, with a yearly option advertising SAVE 20%. Prices exclude VAT, and the plan starts at 50 seats. It includes everything in Sandbox plus custom branding, educations and priority support. This is the entry paid tier for organisations large enough to meet the seat floor.

Plus: €7.50 a month, billed per seat/month, also with a yearly option advertising SAVE 20%; prices exclude VAT and the plan starts at 50 seats. It includes everything in Essentials plus SSO, integrations and custom intelligence. Choose it when connecting Talentguide to existing HR systems or using SSO matters; otherwise Essentials avoids paying for those additions. The paid seat minimum makes both plans a poor fit for smaller employers. A free plan and free trial are offered.

Platforms

Talentguide runs on the web. Organisations seeking a mobile or API platform should consider whether that fits their deployment needs before choosing it.

Who it's for

Talentguide fits HR teams that want one skills framework to connect workforce planning, employee development and talent decisions. Its evidence trail and human oversight are especially relevant when inferred skills could affect opportunities or remuneration. Employers with fewer than 50 seats can evaluate the five-seat Sandbox, but the paid plans are structured for larger organisations.

Pros and cons

• Pros: A shared taxonomy links jobs, people, projects and learning, giving multiple talent processes a consistent skills foundation.
• Pros: Evidence links and confidence flags make uncertain skill inferences more visible, while people retain control over AI suggestions.
• Pros: The free Sandbox covers several core planning and development functions for up to five seats.
• Cons: Essentials and Plus both require at least 50 seats, a substantial commitment for smaller organisations.
• Cons: Paid prices exclude VAT, and integrations and SSO are reserved for Plus.

Alternatives

Talent Intelligence Software and Skills Management Software are useful starting points for comparing this category.

Eightfold Talent Intelligence is another paid option, with Android, iOS, web and API platforms. Betterworks may suit teams looking for a performance-focused tool: its Performance plan is $8 a month per user and includes real-time performance, goals and OKRs, feedback, conversations, one-to-ones, AI assistance and SSO; it has no free plan or trial. Draup, retrain.ai, TalentNeuron and Talentware are paid alternatives with API and web platforms.

Gloat Skills Foundation uses custom pricing, available by contacting Gloat or requesting a demo. Reejig may suit buyers prepared for its stated commitment: Work OS costs $250,000 a year, billed $250,000.00 per 12 months, on a 12-month contract, with a single contract dimension priced in Units.

Verdict

Choose Talentguide if your organisation needs a shared skills framework for planning and development, and wants evidence and confidence indicators alongside AI suggestions. The strongest reasons to look elsewhere are the 50-seat paid-plan threshold and the need for SSO or integrations on Plus rather than Essentials.