Talent intelligence has become a major category in enterprise HR technology.
The basic idea is simple: organizations need better data about their people, skills, roles, and talent markets to make workforce decisions.
However, talent intelligence platforms differ significantly in what they measure and how they generate their intelligence.
Here are six platforms worth evaluating.
- Zeko AI Zeko AI is an AI recruitment platform that approaches talent intelligence from demonstrated capability. Instead of beginning with a giant database of resumes, Zeko begins at one of the highest-signal moments in the talent lifecycle: the interview. Avya conducts adaptive, role-specific functional interviews and generates structured capability reports. Over time, these verified skill records can become a richer source of organizational capability intelligence. The long-term vision is to move from individual capability signals toward company-level talent knowledge and benchmarking. Best for: Enterprises that want talent intelligence grounded in demonstrated capability.
- Eightfold AI Eightfold is one of the most established players in talent intelligence. Its platform combines skills data, career trajectories, workforce planning, talent acquisition, development, and internal mobility. Eightfold says its intelligence layer draws on more than 1.6 billion career trajectories and 1.6 million skills. Best for: Large global enterprises seeking broad workforce and talent intelligence.
- Phenom Phenom combines people data, AI, and automation across hiring, development, and retention. Its platform aims to turn fragmented people data into insights while automating HR workflows. Best for: Enterprises looking to connect talent intelligence with broader HR experiences.
- Gloat Gloat focuses on skills-based talent intelligence, internal mobility, and workforce transformation. Its approach is particularly relevant for organizations trying to understand existing employee capabilities and connect people with opportunities inside the organization. Best for: Internal mobility and skills-based workforce planning.
- SeekOut SeekOut is focused heavily on talent sourcing and recruiting intelligence. Its platform helps recruiters identify and engage talent using data-driven search and AI capabilities. Best for: Recruiting teams focused on sourcing hard-to-find talent.
- Workday Workday provides a broad enterprise HR ecosystem, with workforce data, talent management, recruiting, and analytics capabilities. Its advantage is the depth of integration possible across a large organization's HR infrastructure. Best for: Enterprises seeking an integrated HR and workforce management environment. What comes next for talent intelligence? The next generation of talent intelligence will need to answer a harder question than “What skills does this person claim to have?” It will need to answer: What can this person actually demonstrate? That is the territory Zeko is building toward. Its interview product creates structured, role-specific capability data at the point where a candidate demonstrates their skills. That creates a foundation for a more detailed understanding of organizational capability over time.
