Workera AI Skills Verification Platform

Workera is a skills intelligence company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, led by founder and CEO Kian Katanforoosh. It helps enterprises and government agencies verify what their workforce can actually do, especially in AI and technical skills, instead of relying on course completions or self-ratings.

Its Skills Intelligence Engine combines agentic AI, psychometrics and adaptive assessment to measure skills through role-specific scenarios. It powers four AI agents: Hiring for skills-first candidate assessment with proctoring, Skills Assessment with 100+ signature assessments and renewable credentials, AI Studio for building custom assessments, and Ambient Coaching for continuous measurement and personalised learning. An AI Readiness Index sorts employees into tiers from Literate to Steward. Customers include ServiceNow, Accenture and the United States Space Force.

• Skills Intelligence Engine: agentic AI, psychometrics and adaptive testing in role-specific scenarios.
• Hiring agent: skills-first candidate assessments with intelligent proctoring and custom benchmarks.
• Skills Assessment agent: 100+ signature assessments with credentials that renew as work changes.
• AI Studio: builds custom assessments, with forward-deployed engineering for key programs.
• Ambient Coaching: continuous capability measurement and personalised learning.
• AI Readiness Index: tiers employees from Literate, Practitioner and Engineer to Scientist and Steward.

A Vietnamese IT services company can benchmark AI and data skills across engineering teams before bidding on AI projects. A bank can measure AI literacy of all staff and target training by tier. An HR team can screen technical candidates with proctored skills assessments.

Gives L&D and HR leaders a verified baseline of workforce skills, such as ServiceNow's 54K verified baselines across a 28K-employee rollout with 10% average skill growth in 60 days. Lets hiring teams assess candidates on real skills with intelligent proctoring. Targets learning where gaps are measured, with the DFAS case reporting an 85% average score improvement. Meets enterprise security requirements.

Companies are spending heavily on AI upskilling but struggle to prove that employees actually gained skills. Vietnamese IT outsourcing firms, banks and telecoms competing for AI projects need verified evidence of staff capability for clients and internal promotion, driving demand for skills verification beyond course completion.

Founded 2019, headquartered in Palo Alto, about 60 employees. Pearson agreed on 29 September 2026 to acquire Workera into its Enterprise Learning & Skills unit, closing expected H2 2026. Named WEF Technology Pioneer 2025, Inc. 5000 2026 and TIME Top EdTech 2026. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001:2023.