What Career Highways does

Career Highways (Career Highways, Inc., Delaware-incorporated, US-based) is a private enterprise software company that sells a Skills Intelligence Platform to HR, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and learning & development leaders at large organizations. The platform is built around a living workforce graph that unifies job architecture, a governed master skills framework, and career pathways, with embedded AI impact modeling at the skill and role level. Core product modules include Skills Intelligence, Living Job Architecture, Career Pathways, Liquid Insights (real-time workforce intelligence), Agentic AI (a governed workforce-agent portfolio with human-at-the-wheel oversight), SkillXP (skills-aligned upskilling), and Journey/Central (employee and administrator experiences). The company also operates a free public ecosystem of career exploration and resume tools for students and job seekers, originally built to help young women in STEM see career pathways.

The business is primarily enterprise SaaS sold through direct field sales initiated via 'Strategy Session' or 'Book a Demo' CTAs, with annual subscription pricing on a quote basis and a typical 8–10 week implementation timeline. A flagship channel relationship with Businessolver — the Pinnacle Partnership — extends Career Highways into Businessolver's benefits administration ecosystem under a 'Career Health' offering, giving indirect reach into Businessolver's ~20,000 employer customers. Customer outcomes cited by the company include +58% retention, +56% engagement, +23% productivity, -66% recruiting costs, and -75% faster job architecture rollouts; ROI is framed against traditional multi-year HR consulting engagements. The company is led by CEO Liz Eversoll, CPO Joe Shepherd (ex-Microsoft AI/digital transformation), CRO Mark Kendall, and Chief Education Officer Carter Tatge, with advisors including former McDonald's CHRO Rich Floersch and former Discover Financial Services CHRO/CAO Andy Eichfeld.

Name

Career Highways

Legal name

Career Highways, Inc.

Website

https://careerhighways.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Career Highways offers a governed Skills Intelligence Platform that unifies job architecture, skills frameworks, and career pathways for enterprise HR, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and L&D leaders, complemented by free career exploration tools for students and job seekers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Technology / Skills Intelligence Software

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM), Career Exploration, Interest/Skills Assessment & Pathway Planning (EDAFAMAK), Skills Assessment & Talent/Employability Testing Platforms (EDAFADAM)

Keywords

• Skills intelligence platform
• Workforce analytics software
• Talent management technology
• Career pathing solutions
• HR technology platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Madison

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Enterprise SaaS Subscription: Career Highways operates as a software platform delivered on a subscription basis. Organizations pay an annual subscription for access to the Skills Intelligence Platform, which includes job architecture, skills intelligence, career pathways, AI impact analysis, and optional SkillXP upskilling module. Implementation is streamlined (8–10 weeks) without heavy consulting engagements. The company explicitly notes that annual subscription cost is often less than hiring a top-tier HR consulting firm for a single week.
2. Pinnacle Partner Program Revenue: Revenue flows through Businessolver's Pinnacle Partner ecosystem, where Career Highways extends Businessolver's benefits administration platform into career growth and skills visibility. This creates co-selling and distribution leverage within Businessolver's enterprise client base.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Career Highways sells a Skills Intelligence Platform delivered as enterprise SaaS. The platform unifies living job architecture, a governed master skills framework, and career pathways with embedded AI impact analysis, agentic AI workforce agents, and optional upskilling modules. Customers — primarily enterprise HR, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and L&D teams — license the software on annual subscriptions to operationalize skills-based hiring, internal mobility, learning investment, and AI-driven workforce planning.

Product overview

Career Highways offers a unified Skills Intelligence Platform that replaces static job architecture with a governed, living workforce capability system. The platform is architected as a modular system with Skills Intelligence as the core foundational layer, supported by Living Job Architecture (dynamic role models), Career Pathways (role-to-skill connections), Liquid Insights (real-time workforce intelligence), Agentic AI (structured workforce AI with governance), and SkillXP (learning aligned to roles and skills). Additional modules include Journey (employee-facing career management experience) and Central (administrative platform for workforce data management). The Businessolver Pinnacle Partnership extends Career Health as an employee benefit integration. The platform operates as enterprise workforce decision infrastructure rather than isolated tools, dashboards, or skills libraries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SkillXP: Upskilling platform that connects learning directly to skills, roles, and career progression, designed to replace traditional LMS at lower cost.
• Liquid Insights
• Agentic AI

Products and services

• Skills Intelligence Platform Foundational intelligence layer that transforms skills, job architecture, and career paths into strategic workforce infrastructure for enterprise HR, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and L&D teams. Continuously identifies required and emerging skills, connects skills to roles and pathways, aligns learning investment, and models AI and automation impact.
• Living Job Architecture Dynamic role models that evolve with work, technology, and business needs. Provides structured, scalable role models reflecting how work is actually performed rather than outdated static job definitions.
• Career Pathways Connections between roles and skills that make growth opportunities actionable and accelerate internal mobility. Generates pathways dynamically from governed job architecture and real-time skills data.
• Liquid Insights Real-time workforce intelligence system that transforms workforce questions into decision-ready answers with quantified impact for HR and workforce leaders. Delivers structured outputs identifying where risk exists, what is changing, which roles and skills are affected, and recommended actions with financial impact.
• Agentic AI Structured AI that performs workforce work within defined authority, enforceable controls, and human-at-the-wheel oversight. Includes Skill AI as the foundational intelligence pipeline and a portfolio of specialized workforce agents supporting strategic modeling, capability and risk monitoring, career pathway design, learning optimization, and organizational and talent optimization.
• SkillXP Learning platform that connects development directly to the skills employees need and the roles they can grow into. Aligns learning pathways to career progression and identified skill gaps, connecting learning to roles and measurable skill attainment.
• Central (Career Central) Administrative platform for organization administrators to create and manage Careers, Jobs, Programs, and Certifications; configure custom career pathways; leverage AI-driven program and certification parsing; automate employee census data ingestion; and apply tenant-specific branding.
• Journey End-user facing career exploration and pathway management interface for employees. Includes resume upload and parsing, role exploration, skills management, program and certification tracking, career route planning, and PDF resume generation.
• Career Health Structured approach to career growth delivered as a measurable employee benefit through the Businessolver Pinnacle Partnership. Brings career visibility, skill alignment, and internal mobility into the employee benefits system for Businessolver's enterprise client base.
• Career Guide AI AI chatbot that provides career guidance by answering questions about careers, jobs, certifications, training, and courses, and linking users to relevant resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• +58% Employee Retention, +56% Employee Engagement, +23% Productivity, -66% Recruiting Costs, +87% Talent Attraction (organizations implementing Skills Intelligence)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Businessolverflagship / coreGTM or Marketing PartnerCareer Highways was selected as a Pinnacle Partner by Businessolver — a limited, curated set of solutions evaluated for performance, scalability, and measurable client outcomes. The partnership extends Businessolver's benefits administration platform beyond benefits utilization into career growth, internal mobility, and workforce visibility ('Career Health'). Businessolver implemented Career Highways internally, achieving 75% faster job architecture rollout and 95% reduction in manual role/skills work before offering it to their client base of ~20,000 employers.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI's Talent Intelligence Platform is the closest direct competitor, offering skills inference, talent marketplace, and AI-driven career pathing for large enterprises. Both companies compete head-to-head for CHRO and talent acquisition budgets with skills-based architecture.
• Gloat: Gloat operates an internal talent marketplace and skills-based career mobility platform serving global enterprises. It directly competes with Career Highways' Career Pathways and internal mobility capabilities for the same L&D and CHRO buyer.
• Degreed: Degreed is a learning and skills platform that maps skill development to career pathways, directly comparable to Career Highways' SkillXP and Skills Intelligence modules. It targets the same L&D buyer with skills-aligned learning.
• Skyhive: Skyhive provides a skills intelligence platform with job architecture, skill inference, and workforce planning capabilities. It is a direct niche competitor to Career Highways' Skills Intelligence and Liquid Insights products.

Broad incumbents

• Workday (Skills Cloud / Illuminate): Workday's HCM platform embeds skills cloud and AI-driven talent features via Workday Illuminate, serving the same enterprise HR buyer with skills-based architecture and career pathing as part of a much broader suite.
• SAP SuccessFactors: SAP SuccessFactors is a broad HCM incumbent that has added skills ontology and opportunity marketplace features, competing for the same enterprise talent management wallet as Career Highways but as part of a wider suite.
• Lightcast (formerly Burning Glass): Lightcast provides labor market analytics and skills taxonomy data that underpins many skills-based HR initiatives. It is an adjacent incumbent whose skills taxonomy and labor data feed directly into the problem Career Highways addresses.
• iCIMS: iCIMS is a talent acquisition platform incumbent that has added skills-based matching and career pathing features, competing for the Talent Acquisition Leader buyer that Career Highways targets.

Emerging players

• Visier: Visier delivers workforce analytics and AI-driven people insights, adjacent to Career Highways' Liquid Insights module. Both target the workforce strategy and planning buyer with decision-ready intelligence grounded in HR data.
• Pillar (acquired by Aon): Pillar was an internal mobility and career pathing platform directly comparable to Career Highways' Career Pathways product; now part of Aon, it represents a talent-management peer with overlapping skills-based career capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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