Skillcoach

What Skillcoach does

Skillcoach (legally SkillCoach.io) is a Spain-domiciled, AI-powered career orientation platform that analyzes uploaded CVs, detects individual skill gaps, and recommends personalized training pathways from major course platforms. The technical architecture combines NLP-based CV parsing (PDF/DOCX input) with a recommendation engine that produces a proprietary Fit Score (0–100%) quantifying profile-to-role compatibility and outputs 3–5 course recommendations per analysis. The product surface spans seven interconnected modules, including a free entry-tier CV diagnosis, a skills analysis tool, a skills gap analyzer, an ideal profile matcher, a professional orientation diagnostic, and a career trajectory planner, all unified by the Fit Score metric. The go-to-market is product-led growth targeting individual Spanish-speaking professionals, with self-serve signup (email, Google, or LinkedIn SSO) and an extensive SEO-oriented content library of 95+ blog articles as the primary acquisition channel.

The business model is freemium supplemented by affiliate referral revenue. Basic CV diagnosis is free and gated only by registration; the complete analysis, full skill gap reports, and detailed recommendations are accessible after free account creation, and no paid premium tier is publicly disclosed. Monetization relies on affiliate commissions when users click through and enroll in courses on Udemy, Coursera, edX, or LinkedIn Learning, supplemented by inbound academic partnerships with three Spanish universities (UCM, UNED, UPM) that provide content validation credibility. The platform is consumer-grade only: there is no B2B/HR offering, no API, no native mobile app, and no enterprise tier.

Operationally, Skillcoach is a very early-stage private company founded in 2025 with 1–10 employees, headquartered in Palencia, Spain, serving Europe and LATAM. It reports 10,000+ users and maintains GDPR (RGPD) and LOPDGDD compliance. No funding rounds, revenue figures, M&A activity, leadership team disclosures, or institutional investors are documented in available sources, leaving the company essentially bootstrapped and pre-monetized at scale.

Name

Skillcoach

Legal name

SkillCoach.io

Website

https://skillcoach.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SkillCoach.io is a Spain-based AI-powered career guidance platform that analyzes uploaded CVs, identifies skill gaps via a Fit Score, and recommends personalized courses from Udemy, Coursera, edX, and LinkedIn Learning for Spanish-speaking individual professionals in Europe and LATAM.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Career Development Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Essay, Resume & Portfolio Coaching Platforms (EDAFAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Competency/Skills Analytics & Learning Progression Mapping (EDAFAFAF)

Keywords

• Career guidance platform
• AI career coaching
• Skill gap analysis
• CV optimization
• Career development

Headquarters

HQ city

Palencia

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Freemium CV Analysis: Free basic CV diagnosis and analysis service that generates initial user engagement. Users receive limited analysis results without registration, with full detailed report available upon signup.
2. Affiliate Course Referrals: Revenue generated through referral partnerships with course platforms (Udemy, Coursera, edX, LinkedIn Learning). Users clicking through to purchase recommended courses generate affiliate revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Skillcoach is an AI-powered career guidance platform that analyzes user CVs, detects skill gaps relative to target roles, and recommends personalized online courses to close those gaps. The product delivers an automated, individualized upskilling pathway for professionals seeking to advance or pivot their careers.

Product overview

SkillCoach.io is a unified AI-powered career guidance platform that combines CV analysis, skills assessment, and course recommendations into an integrated service. The core platform (SkillCoach.io) serves as the main interface, supported by specialized diagnostic modules including Tu Diagnóstico de CV (CV evaluation), Tu Análisis de Habilidades (skill extraction and mapping), Tu Análisis de Brecha de Habilidades (gap analysis), Tu Perfil Profesional Ideal (role matching), Tu Diagnóstico de Orientación Profesional (career orientation), Tu Futuro Profesional (career trajectory planning), and a free Análisis de CV gratuito entry tool. All modules interconnect: CV analysis feeds into skill assessment, which informs gap detection and role matching, which generates personalized course recommendations from integrated platforms (Udemy, Coursera, edX, LinkedIn Learning). The Fit Score metric (0-100%) ties all modules together by quantifying compatibility between user profiles and target professional roles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Skillcoach Platform An AI-powered career guidance platform for individual professionals that analyzes CVs, detects skill gaps relative to target roles, and recommends personalized online courses to close those gaps. Delivered as a self-serve online SaaS offering with a freemium tier and subscription upgrade.

Quantifiable outcome

• Analysis results delivered in under 6 minutes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UdemycoreTechnology or IntegrationCourse recommendation partner integrated into the platform. Skillcoach.io recommends Udemy courses to users based on identified skill gaps. Users can enroll in recommended courses directly through the partnership.
• CourseracoreTechnology or IntegrationCourse recommendation partner providing professional development courses. Platform integrates Coursera course recommendations tailored to user's specific skill gaps and career objectives.
• edXcoreTechnology or IntegrationCourse recommendation partner offering university-level courses. Skillcoach.io recommends edX courses as part of its personalized learning pathway recommendations.
• LinkedIn LearningcoreTechnology or IntegrationCourse recommendation partner integrated into the platform. LinkedIn Learning courses are recommended to users based on skills gap analysis and professional development goals.
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership potentially providing research collaboration or content validation. Logo displayed among partner institutions on the platform.
• Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership potentially providing research collaboration or content validation. Logo displayed among partner institutions on the platform.
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership potentially providing research collaboration or content validation. Logo displayed among partner institutions on the platform.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• edX: edX is a university-level MOOC platform with MicroMasters, professional certificates, and a growing focus on career credentials. It is a Skillcoach integration partner but also a potential competitor as it builds skill-based recommendations and career guidance.
• Udemy: Udemy is a major course marketplace with growing emphasis on career paths and enterprise learning. It is a Skillcoach partner for affiliate recommendations, but also has the data and catalog to build competing AI career tools.
• Coursera: Coursera is a leading MOOC platform that has been expanding into career credentials, skill benchmarking, and guided projects with job outcomes. It is both a partner and a potential competitor, as it could launch its own AI career guidance surface leveraging its course catalog and skill graph.
• LinkedIn (with LinkedIn Learning): LinkedIn operates the dominant professional network combined with LinkedIn Learning, skill assessments, and AI-assisted profile and career suggestions. It is the principal incumbent Skillcoach competes against, with vastly superior distribution, user profiles (CV equivalents), and course catalog.

Emerging players

• Pathstream: Pathstream delivers career-focused online certificate programs with employer partnerships, blending skills training and career outcomes. It is comparable to Skillcoach's end-to-end goal of guiding individuals from skills gap to employment, with overlapping target user.
• Careerflow: Careerflow offers an AI-powered job tracker, resume analyzer, and LinkedIn optimization tool for job seekers. It is an emerging peer in the AI career tools category, with overlap on CV analysis and skill gap recommendations.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI provides a talent intelligence platform with skills inference, career pathing, and gap analysis for enterprises. It is a comparable player in the AI-driven skills gap and career guidance space, though primarily B2B and at much greater scale.

Direct peers

• Teal HQ: Teal offers an AI-powered resume builder, career platform, and job search tracker targeting individual professionals. It is a direct competitor in the AI CV analysis and career guidance category, with overlapping target user (job seekers, career changers) and freemium GTM.
• Jobscan: Jobscan is a resume optimization and ATS-compatibility platform that analyzes CVs against job descriptions and provides match scores. It is directly comparable to Skillcoach's skill gap detection and Fit Score feature, serving the same job-seeker persona.
• Rezi: Rezi is an AI resume builder that analyzes CVs, scores them, and provides keyword/recommendation feedback. It is a direct peer in the AI CV analysis space, with similar functionality to Skillcoach's Tu Diagnóstico de CV module.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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 →

Frequently asked questions about Skillcoach