Simply Get Results

What Simply Get Results does

Simply Get Results is a UK-based skills intelligence software company that helps large employers align workforce skills with business strategy. Founded in 2016 by former Deloitte Consulting alumni Simon Haines and John Guy, the company sells a modular SaaS platform that combines internal HRIS data (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors) with external labour market intelligence aggregated from Lightcast and other providers, covering 780 million talent profiles, billions of job posts, 34,000+ skills across 33 families, 72,000+ role profiles, and 1.6 million companies. Its product suite includes the Simply Data and Software Platform at its core, plus four add-on modules: Critical Future Skills (AI-mapped capabilities in four weeks), Skills Taxonomy (dynamic, bi-weekly refreshed skills library), Career Pathways (automated reskilling/mobility moves), and Employee Portal (branded employee-facing skills surface).

Revenue is generated through multi-year enterprise SaaS subscriptions, typically Board-sponsored, supplemented by professional services delivered by practitioner staff with in-house, consultancy, and vendor experience. Distribution is direct and consultative, targeting senior HR and business leaders (CHRO, CPO, CLO, Heads of Strategy) at large employers across financial services, telecommunications, professional services, and pharmaceuticals, with named customers including Finastra, VMO2, Liberty Global, BSI Group, Standard Bank, a Major Global Bank, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Channel reach is augmented through a referral partnership with KPMG and ecosystem partnerships with training providers BPP Education Group and TTRO.

In 2024 the company installed John Guy as CEO, formally appointed Paul Morton as Chairperson, and was subsequently acquired by Lightcast, its principal labour market data provider, with the deal signalled via a banner on the company homepage.

Name

Simply Get Results

Legal name

Simply Get Results Limited

Website

https://simplygetresults.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Simply Get Results is a UK-based SaaS company providing AI-driven skills intelligence and workforce planning software to large enterprise employers across financial services, telecommunications, and professional services, combining internal HRIS data with external labour market analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workforce Skills Intelligence Software

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Workforce Analytics, Reporting & Labor Cost Management (BPACAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM), Internship/Apprenticeship Matching & Work-Based Learning Platforms (EDAFAMAL), Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD), Skills & Job-Specific Competency Testing (Hard Skills) (BPACAMAD)

Keywords

• Skills intelligence platform
• Workforce planning software
• Talent analytics
• Career path solutions
• Skills taxonomy management

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Subscription-based access to Simply's Rightskilling Platform including data, AI tools, and analytics capabilities. Multi-year enterprise subscriptions with Board-level sponsorship at customer organizations.
2. Professional Services: Expert services including skills transformation consulting, implementation support, and advisory services delivered by practitioner team with in-house, consultancy, and vendor experience.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Simply Get Results provides a skills intelligence SaaS platform that combines internal HRIS data (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors) with external labour market data (780M+ talent profiles, billions of job posts sourced from Lightcast) to help enterprise employers align workforce skills with business strategy. The modular offering includes Critical Future Skills, Skills Taxonomy/Library, Career Pathways, Employee Portal, and a Rightskilling Platform for strategic workforce planning, reskilling, internal mobility, and rightskilling decisions.

Product overview

Simply Get Results offers a unified skills intelligence platform — the Simply Data and Software Platform — that delivers skills-based strategic workforce planning through a modular architecture. The core platform combines internal HRIS data (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors) with external labour market data from Lightcast (780M talent profiles, billions of job posts, 34,000 skills, 72,000 role profiles, 1.6M companies) to help organisations get the right skills to execute business strategy. The portfolio comprises five integrated modules: Critical Future Skills (AI-powered capability and skills mapping from business strategy in under four weeks), Skills Taxonomy / Skills Library (34,000 skills across 33 families refreshed every two weeks from 500M+ job posts), Career Pathways (automated generation of ~1M career moves based on skill similarity and seniority), Employee Portal (branded employee-facing portal for skills exploration and career development), and Rightskilling Platform (end-to-end skills strategy, architecture, and gap-closing). A white-labelled variant, the Finastra Skills & Career Navigator, demonstrates the platform's deployment for enterprise customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Simply Data and Software Platform The central SaaS platform that uses data and machine learning to define skills strategy, build skills architecture, and rightskill workforces. Combines internal HRIS data with external labour market intelligence to deliver skills-based strategic workforce planning for enterprise employers.
• Critical Future Skills A solution that uses AI, data science, and labour market insights to map the capabilities, skills, and roles that drive business growth within four weeks. Includes competitor benchmarking, future skill growth projections, and a capability/skills map validated against business strategy.
• Skills Taxonomy / Skill Library A dynamic, market-aligned skill taxonomy built on over 500 million job posts and talent profiles, refreshed every two weeks. Contains 32,000-34,000 skills sorted into Families and Clusters across 33 skill families, with definitions, related skills, and role benchmarking integrations.
• Career Pathways An automated career pathway solution that generates career moves based on skill similarity between roles, seniority, and pay levels. Enables upskilling and reskilling identification, internal mobility, and redeployment planning, covering approximately one million career pathways.
• Employee Portal A branded, employee-facing portal that enables employees to identify essential skills, compare roles, explore career paths, and access learning content linked to skills. Integrates with existing HRIS systems via secure single sign-on and feeds data back to HR systems.
• Rightskilling Platform The overarching platform solution encompassing skills strategy definition, skills architecture building, and workforce rightskilling. Delivers critical skills identification, skill gap estimation, supply and demand analysis for roles and skills, and strategic workforce planning capabilities across global workforces.
• Skills Framework and Benchmarking A benchmarking capability enabling organisations to compare their priority skills and capabilities against direct competitors, named companies excelling in target capabilities, and global industry leaders. Powers evidence-based strategic workforce planning decisions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Skills strategy development in as little as 4 weeks
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• BPP Education GroupflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 May 2025Strategic partnership to help employers identify capabilities and skills needed now and in the future. BPP's 'Capability+' service combines with Simply's data insights to help businesses understand what skills they need, what they have, where gaps are, and how to close them through optimized training solutions.
• TTRO (The Training Room Online)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2024Strategic partnership to tackle the global skills crisis. Combines TTRO's expertise in developing transformative learning solutions with Simply's SaaS product to identify and close skills gaps efficiently for major employers.
• LightcastcoreTechnology or IntegrationData provider partnership for global labour market intelligence. Lightcast provides job posting and skills demand data that Simply aggregates with internal HRIS data to power skills benchmarking and workforce planning insights.
• KPMGcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInternational advisory partnership for skills intelligence and workforce planning solutions. KPMG refers enterprise clients to Simply's rightskilling platform as part of their HR and workforce transformation consulting services.
• BPP (Training Provider Brands including Estio and Firebrand)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as professional services data partner alongside TTRO and Lightcast in company partner section.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Gloat: Gloat is a direct peer offering an AI-powered internal talent marketplace with skills inference, career pathing, and workforce agility - functionally overlapping with Simply's Career Pathways and Employee Portal modules.
• Fuel50: Fuel50 is a direct competitor in skills-based career pathing and talent marketplace software, competing for the same enterprise HR buyer with an overlapping employee-facing experience.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold is a leading talent intelligence platform using AI on skills, jobs, and career data to power workforce planning - a direct competitor in skills-based strategic workforce planning for large enterprises.
• Retrain.ai: Retrain.ai is a direct competitor providing AI-driven skills intelligence and workforce planning, addressing the same talent strategy pain points Simply targets.
• Degreed: Degreed is a direct peer providing a learning and skill development platform with skills inference - it overlaps with Simply's skills taxonomy and career pathway capabilities for enterprise L&D and HR leaders.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Workday is the broad incumbent HRIS suite that Simply integrates with; its Workday Skills Cloud embeds adjacent skills intelligence into the system of record, posing an embedded-competitor threat to Simply's standalone value proposition.
• SAP SuccessFactors: SAP SuccessFactors is the broad incumbent HRIS suite Simply integrates with, increasingly bundling its own skills and workforce planning features that could subsume Simply's module-level capabilities over time.
• iCIMS: iCIMS is a broader incumbent in talent acquisition and candidate experience that has expanded into internal mobility, competing with Simply for HR technology wallet share at large enterprises.
• Cornerstone OnDemand: Cornerstone OnDemand is a broader incumbent in talent and learning management that has added skills intelligence capabilities, positioning itself as an alternative buy vs. Simply's best-of-breed approach.

Others

• Lightcast (acquirer): Lightcast is now Simply's parent and the source of its core labour market data; their skills taxonomy products overlap with Simply's Skills Taxonomy and Critical Future Skills offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/simply-get-results
• Xx.com/SimplyGetRes

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

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 →

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