Introducing Cornerstone Workforce AI™ – The intelligence platform for workforce readiness

AI works best when it works in the service of people. It’s for amplifying judgment, accelerating execution, and keeping your workforce ready to evolve. Because they have to. Fast.

Today’s unprecedented change, driven by volatile market dynamics and AI as an actor in how work gets done, requires your organization and people to be able to lead through constant reinvention. If you can’t stay ready for whatever comes next, you’re already behind. So you need leaders to be able to decide, prioritize, and act as they shape a high-performing, future-ready workforce and drive critical outcomes forward.

Introducing Cornerstone Workforce AI™, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness.

Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for people and AI to work together, where humans remain in control and data is turned into action defined by clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Thanks to the Cornerstone People Graph™ and Cornerstone Skills Engine (more on them later), you can use Cornerstone Workforce AI to grow your organization’s workforce readiness in three steps:

• Connect workforce signals across your organization

• Turn them into contextual, dynamic intelligence

• Orchestrate action across learning, development, mobility, and workforce planning in real time

With Cornerstone Workforce AI, you can deliver the insights leaders want, the learning and skills people need, and the agents to make action easy.

Workforce readiness is required for leading through constant reinvention

With the speed at which today is different than yesterday, leaders are under constant pressure to transform both sides of work at once, their people and the systems they rely on. And AI is only accelerating that pressure. With workforce strategy decisions being such high-stakes calls, to succeed today, you have to lead through constant reinvention.

And that leadership requires workforce readiness. At the core of Cornerstone Workforce AI are the Cornerstone People Graph and Cornerstone Skills Engine, which create an inference layer that powers every decision from a combination of:

• Two decades of workforce data across 45 million users

• Terabytes of labor market intelligence

• A taxonomy of more than 55,000 skills

• Over 1 billion workforce profiles

• Signals from multiple systems-of-record

The rich, dynamic context this creates, coupled with agentic orchestration, makes Cornerstone Workforce AI a powerful ally for organizations that want to deliver strategic outcomes faster and turn continuous workforce readiness into a competitive advantage.

Real-time workforce intelligence is the key to continuous readiness

Workforce readiness is, simply, how ready your people are to change and adapt. It’s measuring who has the skills to grow quickly, to take on new challenges, or to move from a declining role to an emerging one. And to harness workforce readiness, you need visibility, intelligence, and the ability to act. And you need them now.

You can find countless solutions that address parts of building workforce readiness. But that’s the problem. Until Cornerstone Workforce AI, no single platform could address the entire equation. And we do that by integrating and powering our solutions with the Cornerstone People Graph and Cornerstone Skills Engine.

With the Cornerstone People Graph and Cornerstone Skills Engine, you can create a dynamic, governed data graph of the skills, roles, tasks, and experiences (i.e., workforce data) at your organization. You’ll know where people work, where their information lives, and how they collaborate to create a shared understanding of current workforce capability across your organization. Immediately. Whenever you need it.

Workforce intelligence only matters if it leads to action

Workforce data by itself, no matter how current, is just intelligence. And intelligence without action is just expensive data reporting. With Cornerstone Workforce AI, you can connect intelligence to action at the speed continuous reinvention demands:

• If a critical skill gap emerges, learning pathways can be assigned automatically

• If succession risk increases, development plans and talent recommendations can be surfaced immediately

• If workforce priorities shift, internal mobility workflows can identify and activate qualified talent before hiring cycles even begin

The quality of the connection between intelligence and action is what separates Cornerstone Workforce AI from everyone else in the industry. Others waste the human element. The guidance of experience. The wisdom of people. The gaps close just as fast, but with that wisdom, you can ensure they close how you want and that each action fits your organization. You can make workforce readiness continuous instead of just reactive.

AI agents orchestrate action into daily work

Cornerstone Workforce AI creates real-time connections throughout your workforce data and turns that data into action. But those connections and intelligence aren’t siloed off in a closed system because Cornerstone Workforce AI has an open, extensible, and headless architecture. You’ll have a network of AI agents helping you build workforce readiness that includes agents like:

• Proactive Coach – Provides signals about employee performance, risk factors, aspirations, and growth opportunities proactively so that opportunities and interventions can come before employees even know they need them

• Embark Navigator – Personalizes onboarding and role readiness to the individual, not just the job, adapting continuously based on skill gaps and progress

• Future of Work – Helps plan for how roles should evolve in the face of AI and automation

• Workforce Insights – Get instant answers to just about any question about your workforce, from retention risk to succession depth, using plain language queries

• And many more

The agents even work across the systems, workflows, and tools you and your people already rely on. Through Model Context Protocol (MCP), Cornerstone Workforce AI operates across Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other systems of work and engagement. Our strategic partnership with Salesforce extends workforce intelligence and coordinated action further by connecting directly into Agentforce, HR Service, ITSM, and Data Cloud.

Our agent deployment is built for your flexibility. You can take one of our pre-built, ready-to-use agents and tailor them to your specific contexts and outcomes. Or you can work with some of the talented Cornerstone forward-deployed engineers to build fully custom solutions from the ground up. Each agent stays governed, explainable, and auditable at every step.

How workforce readiness empowers everyone in your organization

With Cornerstone Workforce AI, you create organization-wide benefits. Each of your employees, managers, leaders, and HR admins can build readiness for their roles now and whatever they evolve into.

Employees build skills inside work itself

People don’t have time to stop working to learn. As skill demands shift faster and roles continue to evolve, workforce readiness depends on helping people build capability continuously, inside work itself.

Just like your organization, Cornerstone Workforce AI has plans to grow throughout 2026. Coming features will embed learning directly into where people work, helping employees access guidance, development, and skill-building in real time rather than through disconnected training experiences. Some of those features include:

• A Course Assistant answers questions in context without wasting time on unneeded information

• Adaptive Learning creates personalized practice environments where people can check their knowledge, ask questions, and rehearse real scenarios

• Role Readiness Academies present measurable proof of readiness through turnkey programs, with pre-curated content that includes real-world practice and dynamic confidence scoring

• AWS content partnership provides immediate access to high-demand content in AI, cloud, and data that helps build critical skills

• AI-Generated Development Plans build employees a clear path to where they’re headed by automatically generating, connecting to career goals and target roles, and mapping learning to skills

• Goals Assistant generates role-aligned SMART goals tied directly to the skills the role requires, so growth is connected to where someone is genuinely headed

Managers develop and mobilize talent with confidence

Cornerstone Workforce AI gives managers a connected, real-time picture of their team. This sounds simple, but so many managers spend (or waste) so much of their time scrambling to compile information from multiple disconnected systems. With that picture, you can reduce the research and analysis time your managers have to spend before they make a decision.

This focus on human judgement in Cornerstone Workforce AI ensures your people are accurately evaluated, your managers work more efficiently, and your organization builds workforce readiness. All brought to life through innovations like these:

• Reviews Assistants synthesize performance, skills, and development data into one view, adaptively guiding managers through better review conversations

• Succession Workspace shifts succession planning from a static, individual-based exercise to an always-on, role-based process with a dynamic view of readiness, bench strength, and succession risk all in one place

• Talent Pools Assistants enable teams to build and nurture pools of candidates organized by skills, experience, and role preferences so the right talent is already identified before a role opens

Leaders turn workforce intelligence into action

Leaders need to understand where capability exists, where risk is building, and where work is changing before gaps affect performance. Cornerstone Workforce AI gives leaders a governed, real-time view of workforce readiness so they can act fast with the assistance of agents:

• Workforce Value turns workforce planning into a data-backed scenario exercise, helping leaders evaluate automation opportunities, role duplication, and contractor overlap while quantifying potential savings without lengthy consulting engagements

• Future of Work gives leaders a scenario-based view of how AI could reshape roles, helping them model the future-state of work, test different assumptions, and identify the reskilling priorities needed to get there

• Workforce Insights lets leaders ask workforce questions in plain language and get governed answers from the Cornerstone People Graph, instantly surfacing signals like retention risk, skill coverage, and succession depth

HR and administrators waste less time on operational overhead

What’s your average HR admin’s workload look like? The answer is a near-endless list of verbs that collectively come down to “It’s a lot of juggling.” And all that juggling means that the really impactful aspects of their jobs require the same commitment as the more administrative tasks. With Cornerstone Workforce AI, you can give HR and administrators greater visibility, control, and confidence across the workforce ecosystem. They’ll have access to agents like these:

• Learning Catalog Health Assistants continuously evaluate the learning library, identifying gaps, removing outdated content, and optimizing relevance so the catalog stays current and trusted rather than becoming a cluttered repository nobody uses

• Assessment Engine adjusts based on performance, providing a more accurate read of genuine capability rather than simply tracking completions

• Reporting Assistants make workforce data conversational so you can ask for what you need in plain language and get the right view, with relevant filters applied, in seconds

• Reviews Administration handles the operational work of running performance review cycles, allowing administrators to focus on workforce outcomes rather than process coordination

Enterprise AI requires enterprise trust

Connecting intelligence to action across a global workforce is only sustainable if the foundation is secure, governed, and built to last. The enterprise layer of Cornerstone Workforce AI ensures every insight and recommendation the platform generates is governed, explainable, and auditable.

• Guardrails are built in, aligned to policy and regulation, and underpinned by certifications, including ISO/IEC 42001

• The open architecture integrates cleanly with existing enterprise systems

• Skills Architect Agent builds and maintains a customer-specific job and skills architecture, giving leaders a trusted, dynamic foundation for every skills-based decision the platform supports

A workforce platform built for continuous readiness

Work today demands a lot. It’s like you’re running on a treadmill that keeps ratcheting up its speed at random intervals and turning without warning while never once slowing down. And we’re all running up against the limits of what a human can accomplish alone. That’s why they won’t be alone. Cornerstone Workforce AI is here to take humans to the power of AI by building workforce readiness.

If you’re running on a traditional system with its dedicated, closed ecosystems, you just can’t keep up anymore. It’s either jump off or faceplant. The only way to stay on is by having the intelligence to know what’s changing and the wisdom to act with confidence. That’s workforce readiness. And with Cornerstone Workforce AI, you can build the workforce readiness you need to lead through constant reinvention:

• The Cornerstone People Graph and Skills Engine provide a dynamic, governed picture of workforce capability

• The readiness agent ecosystem turns that intelligence into coordinated action across learning, talent, and planning

• The enterprise-grade governance ensures every decision is trustworthy at scale

AI is changing work. But people still change business. And Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for both. Because workforce readiness is, at its core, about people. And Cornerstone Workforce AI, at its core, is too, elevating human potential with the exponential power of AI.

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If you’re new to Cornerstone and curious what this looks like for your organization, you can either explore more about Cornerstone Workforce AI on your own or talk to one of our experts.

If you’re already a Cornerstone customer, congratulations! Much of what powers Cornerstone Workforce AI is already working for you. Talk to your account team to see what’s new and what you can unlock.