PeopleBench.

Name

PeopleBench.

Legal name

PeopleBench

Website

https://peoplebench.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Workforce Analytics

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

People Analytics & Workforce Planning Training (EDABAIAH)

Keywords

• Workforce analytics software
• School workforce planning
• K-12 HR analytics
• Staff resilience measurement
• Education benchmarking platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Brisbane

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to the PeopleBench platform providing workforce resilience tracking, workforce strategy building, benchmarking, and national research data contributions. Subscriptions are sold to districts and individual schools, with pricing varying by scope/size.
2. Professional Learning: Revenue from professional learning courses delivered through learn.peoplebench.com. Includes courses such as Resilience for Educators and Boost Resilience at Work (including a free webinar replay course). These complement the software subscriptions and represent an additional revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

PeopleBench is a B2B SaaS platform that helps K-12 school districts and schools measure, monitor, and manage staff workforce resilience through the Workforce Resilience Tracker (a 5-minute validated Resilience@Work diagnostic with leader dashboards), benchmark their workforce against aggregated peer schools and national averages, and produce evidence-informed 3–5 year workforce strategies using the Workforce Strategy Builder wizard. The offering is delivered as a subscription, complemented by professional learning courses and a coaching and community-of-practice layer led by workplace psychologists and former superintendents.

Product overview

PeopleBench is a school workforce improvement platform that offers two core products: the Workforce Resilience Tracker and the Workforce Strategy Builder, which work together as an integrated system. The Workforce Resilience Tracker provides a diagnostic tool for measuring and monitoring staff wellbeing through quick surveys and dashboards, while the Workforce Strategy Builder enables schools to create evidence-informed 3-5 year strategic plans. Both products are delivered through a subscription model and are supported by professional learning resources including Resilience for Educators and Boost Resilience at Work courses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Workforce Resilience Tracker Diagnostic tool that measures staff resilience via a 5-minute online Resilience@Work survey (mobile-optimized, anonymous), with leader dashboards showing resilience trends across the whole school and insights identifying which staff cohorts need support and what type. Available under subscription to K-12 districts and schools.
• Workforce Strategy Builder Wizard-driven strategic planning tool that guides school leaders through building a 3-5 year workforce strategy in under an hour per school, using pre-populated, evidence-informed templates drawing on decades of consulting expertise. Produces branded strategy documents with school colors, logo, and leader headshots.
• Resilience for Educators Professional learning course designed to help educators build personal resilience and workplace wellbeing, delivered through the learn.peoplebench.com learning platform as an upsell/complement to the PeopleBench software subscription.
• Boost Resilience at Work Professional learning course (including a free webinar replay course) focused on resilience-building strategies for educators, delivered through learn.peoplebench.com.

Quantifiable outcome

• 813 staff across 4 districts completed the PeopleBench Workforce Resilience Tracker diagnostic in the Penn GSE research collaboration, revealing statistically significant differences in resilience scores by staff age, race/ethnicity, and gender — demonstrating the tool's ability to surface actionable workforce insights.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025PeopleBench is the key solution provider in a 5-year research collaboration (2026–29) with Penn GSE's Project for Mental Health and Optimal Development, known as Project HERO (Helping Educator Resilience & Optimism). Penn GSE serves as the grantee and research provider, evaluating the impact of PeopleBench's software and professional learning solution on staff resilience, culture, and retention across participating schools and districts. The collaboration also includes Penn GSE researchers Michael J. Nakkula (Co-Director), Dr. Wendy Chan, Dr. Katrina Struloeff, Dr. Megan MacDonald, and Cecilia Dye.
• QuantilycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Quantily is the key evaluation partner on Project HERO. Specializing in rigorous mixed-methods research and evaluation, Quantily supports data-driven decision-making for the research project, working alongside PeopleBench and Penn GSE to measure the impact of the workforce strategy solution on key staff outcomes such as wellbeing and retention.
• Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025PeopleBench partnered with Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) on the State of the Independent School Workforce project — a collaborative research initiative surveying schools and staff across Queensland's independent schools. Participating schools contribute to sector-wide understanding of workforce strengths, risks, and opportunities, and receive individual benchmarked reports.
• Montgomery County Educational Service Centre (MCESC), OhiocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025MCESC, which oversees 19 districts of schools across Ohio, partnered with PeopleBench to shift from 'peak recruitment' to 'peak retention.' MCESC's Organizational Care Plan was built using PeopleBench workforce data to proactively identify retention risks, allocate resources strategically, and create an environment where talented staff want to stay and grow.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Gallup: Gallup's Q12 employee engagement surveys are widely used in K-12 and adjacent sectors. It is a broad incumbent in workforce measurement, though not education-specific.
• PowerSchool (Talent / TalentEd): PowerSchool is the largest K-12 student information system and has expanded into talent management (TalentEd) for districts. It competes broadly across K-12 administrative software, including HR-adjacent workflows.
• Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee engagement and people analytics platform with growing education sector adoption. It overlaps with PeopleBench on resilience/engagement measurement for school staff.
• Qualtrics: Qualtrics is an enterprise employee experience and survey platform used in some K-12 districts. It is a broad incumbent whose engagement and analytics modules could be positioned as substitutes for PeopleBench's diagnostics.
• Workday: Workday is a large enterprise HCM and people analytics platform used by some districts and state education agencies. It competes indirectly as a generalist HR system that can absorb workforce analytics workloads.

Emerging players

• BetterLesson: BetterLesson delivers K-12 professional learning and coaching to educators. It overlaps with PeopleBench's learn.peoplebench.com professional learning catalog and shares the same district buyers.

Direct peers

• Panorama Education: Panorama provides K-12 survey, social-emotional learning, and student/teacher data analytics to districts and schools. It overlaps directly with PeopleBench's school-level diagnostic dashboards and benchmarking capabilities.
• Frontline Education: Frontline offers a K-12-specialized HR, talent management, and professional learning platform serving many of the same district and school customers. It competes in adjacent workforce/H R tooling for K-12 leaders.
• K12 Insight: K12 Insight delivers stakeholder engagement, employee and parent surveys, and strategic advisory to school districts. It directly overlaps with PeopleBench's workforce diagnostic and strategy capabilities.

Others

• EdSurge: EdSurge is a K-12 EdTech information and product discovery platform. It is adjacent to PeopleBench as an ecosystem channel rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/peoplebench
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@peoplebench
• Facebookfacebook.com/PeopleBench
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/peoplebench

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors1 record

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 →

Frequently asked questions about PeopleBench.