Turn verified skills data into action
Lens, AI-powered skills intelligence that learns your objectives and delivers skill insights that directly help you solve business problems and drive measurable results.
Make trustworthy decisions
Lens automatically connects the dots between verified skills data and business goals. Make decisions from resourcing and planning, to training and mobility, with confidence.
Save hours of work
Lens and its agents continuously work behind the scenes to elevate highly relevant operational and strategic insights. Move from running reports, to achieving outcomes.
Empower everyone
Lens helps every person in your organization tackle challenges with confidence, using skill insights that guide smarter decisions, stronger teams, and better business outcomes.
- Lens Insights & Visualizations
Real Skills Intelligence,
Clear for Everyone
Stop at high-level charts? No thanks. Get deep-dive analysis into every skill, gap, and opportunity that’s actually aligned to your goals.
Stop staring at numbers. Our dynamic visuals are bespoke for each insight, showing you exactly where and how to act.
Get the exact insights you need. Logically group, filter, and slice data for your team, your department, your location or whole org.
Trust the “why” as much as the “what.” We show you the exact data and context behind every single insight. No magic, just intelligence.
- Lens AI Agents
Deploy Your Agentic
On-Demand Analyst Team
Translate Your Strategy into an Actionable Plan
Translate high-level strategy into a clear, actionable plan. This assistant guides you in articulating your specific business goals, ensuring Lens can automatically prioritize the exact insights that matter most to your unique definition of success.
- Translate high-level strategy into a clear, measurable plan.
- Get insights that are automatically prioritized for you.
- Connect your skills data to your actual business goals.
Get Instant Answers from Your Raw Skills Data
Get instant, specific answers without building a report. Sam is your on-demand data analyst, allowing you to use plain English to interrogate your raw skills data. This helps you find exactly what you need, right when you need it, simply by asking a question.
- Ask questions in plain English, not "report-speak."
- Get immediate answers without building a complex report.
- Empower anyone to find talent data, no expertise needed.
Align Your Workforce with Future Strategy
Analyzes your workforce’s current skill trajectory, pinpointing where capabilities are growing and where deficiencies are forming. This helps you stop reacting to talent needs and start proactively building the team you’ll need next year based on a clear, data-driven foundation.
- Invest in skills your team wants to build.
- Focus hiring and L&D on your most critical gaps.
- Build your future workforce on data, not guesses.
Mitigate Critical and Emerging Risks
Identifies business-critical risks by analyzing skill trends. It flags declining capabilities, spots compliance risks from expiring certifications, and pinpoints high-value skills at risk of attrition. This helps you protect the business from preventable talent emergencies and answer “what’s our biggest risk?” with data.
- Spot and fix "single points of failure" in your talent.
- Get ahead of compliance and audit risks.
- Capture expert knowledge before it walks out the door.
Drive Provable ROI from L&D Investments
Delivers data-driven insights to maximize L&D impact. It pinpoints high-interest development opportunities, identifies which training actually improved skills, and flags ineffective programs. This helps you stop defending your L&D budget and start proving its value with hard evidence.
- Invest only in L&D programs that actually work.
- Boost engagement by aligning training to employee interest.
- Cut wasteful programs and reinvest in what works.
Deploy and Leverage Latent Expertise
Unlocks hidden potential by identifying highly skilled individuals not currently using those skills. This gives you an actionable list of “hidden experts” so you can get the right people on the right work, unlocking capacity you didn’t even know you had.
- Use the "hidden" expert talent you already have.
- Boost engagement by using people's full range of skills.
- Staff key projects with internal experts, fast.
Establish a Strategic Capability View
Provides a high-level, strategic view of your capability and risk profile by identifying your biggest skill gaps and pinpointing individuals below minimum competency. This helps you connect your C-suite’s strategic goals to your actual workforce capability.
- Give executives a clear answer to "Are we ready?"
- Inform strategic investment with real capability data.
- Mitigate quality, safety, and compliance risks.
Make Strategic, Gap-Driven Hiring Decisions
Optimizes hiring by transforming internal skill gap data into actionable strategy. It identifies capability clusters to fill with a strategic hire and finds internal candidates first, helping you turn recruiting from a reactive “order-taking” function into a proactive part of your workforce plan.
- Hire for the exact skills you need, not just roles.
- Find qualified internal candidates first.
- Reduce time-to-fill and improve the quality of new hires.
Optimize and Simplify Your Skills Framework
Streamlines your skills framework by analyzing skills with low proficiency and interest, flagging them for deprecation. This helps you “prune the tree,” ensuring your framework stays focused on the skills that matter and doesn’t become an unwieldy, outdated mess.
- Cut your admin and maintenance overhead.
- Focus your team on relevant, future-fit skills.
- Simplify your skills framework (and your life).
Ensure Assessment Integrity and Trust
Enhances the integrity of your skills data by identifying rating inconsistencies between supervisors, flagging misalignments in self/manager ratings, and spotting when completed training needs reassessment. This helps you build a rock-solid, trustworthy skills database—the foundation for all your talent decisions.
- Build trust with fair, consistent, and objective assessments.
- Spark productive manager-employee conversations.
- Validate that your training actually worked.
- Lens Privacy & Security
Enterprise-grade peace of mind
GDPR Compliance
Lens follows the same GDPR-compliant processing principles as the core Skills Base platform – ensuring lawful, fair, and transparent use of data.
ISO 27001 Aligned
Skills Base follows ISO 27001 principles and controls across its information security management framework, ensuring rigorous protection of data and systems.
Privacy by Design
Lens is built within the secure Skills Base environment – applying the same access controls, encryption, and compliance measures as the core platform.
No Model Training
We never use customer data to train or fine-tune any third-party AI models. Your data remains yours.
Encrypted in Transit and at Rest
Data is encrypted using modern, industry-standard encryption protocols.
No Third-Party Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or share customer data with marketing or analytics services
Audit and Monitoring
All AI interactions are logged and auditable under Skills Base’s security event monitoring policies.
- Lens Collaboration
Interrogate, Chat, and Act. As a Team.
Use the Sam Assistant to interrogate your raw skills data—”Show me all Java-certified engineers in Sydney.
Use the Lens Assistant to dig deeper into an insight—”Why are we at risk here?”
Share, and notify stakeholders directly to make each insight its own unique, actionable plan.
Chat with and @mention colleagues directly on any insight to build a plan and take action, all in one place.
- Pricing & Features
Ready to Put Your Skills Data to Work?
You’ve done the hard part. You have the verified skills data. Now it’s time to let Lens supercharge it. Lens is a simple, powerful add-on for any paid Skills Base subscription.
Join other Skills Intelligence leaders today!
Lens
AI Powered Skills Intelligence- Insight Generation
- Dynamic Dashboards
- Lens Agents
- Prioritization Engine
- Collaboration
- Lens Context
Align Your Skills Data
to unique Business Goals
Set specific goals for any entity. From the entire organization or geographic location, to a single role, team or individual.
Use the Lens Context Assistant to help you translate existing Operations or Strategic plans into clear goals.
Lens automatically surfaces the most critical insights based on your goals, so you always know what matters most.
Save any insight to create a point-in-time view to track progress, and to build your action plan.
- FAQ
Questions Answered.
How do I get access to Lens for my Skills Base account?
In order to access Lens and its functionality, reach out to the Skills Base team.
Can Lens work independently to Skills Base?
No, Lens cannot be used independently of Skills Base.
It is fundamentally designed to work with the Skills Base platform. Lens relies on the verified skills data from Skills Base as a crucial input source to produce its insights.
How much does Lens cost?
Lens is currently $2 USD per user per month as an add-on to any paid subscription. To find out more about what Skills Base would cost, check out our pricing page, or schedule a time to talk to the sales team.
Does Skills Base use customer data to train AI Models?
We never use customer data to train or fine-tune any third-party AI models. Your data remains yours.
What AI models does Skills Base use for Lens?
Skills Base uses Anthropic’s Claude model for its Lens feature.
This advanced AI model is securely integrated into the Skills Base platform using Amazon Bedrock, allowing it to operate entirely within Skills Base’s own systems and infrastructure.
How does Skills Base ensure security of customer data?
Security is ensured through a combination of compliance, technical controls, and strict policies:
- Frameworks: Following ISO 27001 principles for information security and GDPR-compliant data processing.
- Secure Architecture: Applying “Privacy by Design,” which includes access controls and encryption.
- Encryption: Encrypting all data “in transit and at rest” using industry-standard protocols.
- Data Control: A “No Third-Party Sharing” policy prevents selling, renting, or sharing data with marketing or analytics services.
- Auditing: All AI interactions are logged and auditable under “Audit and Monitoring” policies.
