Workera
Workera tests workplace skills, and AI grades every answer. The score becomes a rating inside Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle. A licence starts at $40 a seat a year. One Air Force order paid $130 a seat. Each test programme is set up either to develop people or to judge them for hiring or other high-stakes decisions. That choice locks once people enrol. Every translated test is machine-translated, with no human review.
Workera tests AI, data and technical skills. AI grades each test. It sends the score to your HR system.
You need a tested score for AI, data or technical roles. You run Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle. Your people have time to sit the tests.
You want a reading of everyday work, not a test score. Workera’s Ambient does that, but it is still a free preview with a waitlist. Many of your staff would take the tests in a second language. Every translated test is machine-translated, with no human review.
Its cheapest plan costs $40 a seat a year. One Air Force order paid $910,000 for 7,000 licences. That works out to $130 a seat.
A Workera score comes from a graded test
Workera tests people and keeps each person’s results. It organises testing into programmes. An employer builds a programme for a role, a project or a business goal. Each programme has skills areas. Each skills area comes with a test and some learning material. Before the test, each person rates their own skill. Workera shows that self-rating next to the result. It does not count toward the score. Each test usually runs 12 to 15 questions. The questions range from talking with an AI and role play, to live coding, simulations and multiple choice. The test gets harder or easier depending on each answer.
AI grades each answer against a marking guide written by experts in that skill. Each answer gets a mark from 1 to 4. Most of what lands on a skill profile comes from questions that test a skill directly. For the rest, Workera’s AI guesses at skills the person probably has or lacks, from the pattern of their answers. Overall scores sit on a scale from 0 to 300. Below 100 is Beginner. 100 and up is Developing. 200 and up is Accomplished. A perfect 300 is Expert. People can retake short tests, called Skill Checks, as many times as they like. A Skill Check can only push a score up, never down. Workera keeps the highest score a person has ever earned as their current level. So a Workera score reflects someone’s best result, not their most recent one.
If a person disagrees with a mark, they can appeal it. Workera’s team replies within 4 business days. Workera added this appeal process in September 2025. Its chief executive wrote that its experts often “debate at length whether our agent has scored someone accurately”. Administrators can also turn on two extra controls. One blocks copy and paste. The other requires someone to supervise the test. In July 2026, Workera added supervised tests for hiring and for certification. These tests catch AI-assisted answers and browser tab switching as they happen.
Workera connects to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM. It also connects to Workday Recruiting. A connection to the Greenhouse recruiting system is being built. It connects to the Degreed learning platform, and to Credly for digital badges. It also connects to course libraries such as Udemy, Coursera and LinkedIn Learning. Your HR system tells Workera who works where. Workera sends scores back as that system’s own skill ratings. It updates those ratings every day. If your team prefers spreadsheets, administrators can download four reports instead. One report gives each person’s score history.
Ambient is Workera’s second product. It works in a different way. Instead of testing people, it reads their everyday work. It is a desktop app. It scans each person’s connected tools, such as Slack, email, meeting transcripts, code and project tools. It scans a few times a day, Monday to Friday. An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, sorts what it finds into different types of evidence. Then a fixed formula turns that evidence into scores. Those scores cover things like judgement, communication, leadership, working with AI and collaboration.
A Workera skill profile is really a record of tests taken. So the main work of a rollout is getting people to sit them. Once you have paid the licence, the main running cost is the time they spend doing it.
Plans start at $40 a seat a year
The $40 plan unlocks the whole platform. Workera compares this with two other technical skills platforms. HackerRank costs $450 a user a year. Pluralsight costs $540 a user a year. Workera also says it lets you “pay only for the outcomes that matter most”. Get in writing how an outcome becomes a line on your bill. Get any minimum company size, seat count or spend in writing. What the US government has paid Workera is public. Federal spending records show the Air Force has ordered Workera licences for its Digital University every year since 2023.
This was the first order for Workera licences for the Air Force’s Digital University. The contract behind it covers 5,000 licences. This order alone does not give a price per licence.
This is the only order that states how many licences were bought. That works out at $130 a licence for the year. It was a fixed-price order. No other company bid against Workera for it.
The Air Force paid the same amount again for Workera licences. This order gives no quantity.
This order covers Workera licences, under a new contract. This order gives no quantity, and like the 2024 order, no other company bid for it.
This is the total value of a new three-year contract, including options. It covers about 21,000 Workera licences. That also works out to about $130 a licence.
The US Coast Guard and the Defense Health Agency funded these two orders. Both were placed under the Air Force’s earlier contract. Neither gives a quantity. Other parts of the US government buy through the same contract, for much smaller amounts.
The Air Force is only one government buyer. Your own price may be different.
You may not have to buy from Workera directly. Accenture has an agreement to resell it. In 2021, a $122,000 Air Force order for a Workera licence went to a different company, Blue Ivy Partners. Workera has also advertised a two-week pilot at no cost. It runs with Udemy Business and Carahsoft, a company that resells software.
Staff time is the rest of the cost. Workera takes a new snapshot every three months, or whenever you request one. From Oracle HCM and SAP SuccessFactors, Workera brings in who works where and in what role. Each new score takes 12 to 15 questions of your people’s time. Add the time your own experts spend, if tests need to be written for your roles.
If you leave Workera later, your scores already sit in Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle. They sit there as that system’s own ratings. Administrators can download each person’s score history. Badges issued through Credly stay in Credly. Workera’s terms say what enterprise users submit belongs to the customer. Your customer agreement sets out the detail. Workera also offers a data feed for your own reporting tools. The meaning of the scores is harder to take with you. Each retest uses new questions, built to be just as hard as the last set. That is what keeps scores comparable over time. So your score history only keeps its meaning while you keep using Workera’s tests. Put what happens to your data after the contract ends in writing.
Get a business price for Ambient before you plan on it. The preview is free for now. Pricing for individuals is coming. If your company joins Ambient, your employees pay nothing themselves. Workera has not yet linked Ambient to test results. That link is still planned. For now, only the tests can go in a business case.
You could also build this on your own systems. We have mapped what that looks like. See it as an agent
Workera fits teams that need tested proof of skill
It gives tested proof of who can do AI and data work
Workera’s tests cover AI, data science, machine learning and software engineering roles. A test gives proof of skill. A self-report only gives someone’s opinion of their own skill. At its customer Belcorp, Workera found many employees had rated themselves too low. So self-reports alone would have understated what they could really do.
Scores flow into Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle
First, an administrator matches Workera’s skills to your own skills list. If you run a different system, a partner called Kombo can help. It connects to more than 200 HR and recruiting systems, through one link. Workera says setup takes an administrator about 30 to 45 minutes. It also says your existing Workday connection “continues to run unchanged”.
Its published rollouts reach tens of thousands of staff
ServiceNow is the biggest customer it names for a fast rollout.
It can start with one team
One Workera case study covers a single engineering team of more than 125 people, at an unnamed financial services company. If your roles need their own tests, plan to lend Workera your own experts. For the US Air Force, it built tests for more than 200 skills, across 6 subject areas. It used 43 experts to do it.
US government and defence buyers already use it
The Air Force’s licence contract runs to 2029. The Coast Guard and the Defense Health Agency have already ordered through its earlier contract. In February 2026, Workera announced a partnership to test and train more than 14,000 Guardians. Guardians are what members of the US Space Force are called.
It holds three security certificates
ISO 27001 covers information security. ISO 42001 covers managing AI. A SOC 2 Type II report is an independent audit of its security controls. Workera can show all three to customers, and to companies thinking about buying. It also offers single sign-on, so staff log in with their normal work account. It sets up new user accounts on its own. It can host data in the EU or the US from day one.
Its figures count tests and score gains, not business results
Workera publishes figures on how fast customers rolled it out. It also publishes how much their scores went up, how many skills it has tested, and how users rate it. Before any of these goes into a business case, match it to a named customer.
Workera names ServiceNow for a rollout to 28,000 employees. It reports 54,000 verified baselines, meaning first tested scores, in 60 days. It also says an unnamed consulting firm launched Workera to 35,000 employees, in June 2026. So these two figures count people and skills tested. They do not show how scores changed afterward.
Workera reports a 42% average score gain, over 13 days, at an unnamed medical device maker. It also reports an 85% average score gain at the US Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Both figures measure change in Workera’s own scores. Get the starting scores and how long the gains lasted in writing.
Workera counts more than 9 million skills verified across its platform. This number only counts skills that have been scored.
Workera has a 4.7 out of 5 rating on G2, a site where people review software.
At Booz Allen Hamilton, Workera’s case study points to two results. Staff wait less time between assignments. More hiring happens from inside the company. Workera’s vice president of partnerships used to lead talent development at Booz Allen. That was while Booz Allen was a Workera customer. So if Booz Allen is offered to you as a reference, confirm who there you would be speaking to.
Its tests, translations and Ambient all have limits
Its named tests cover technical and data roles
Workera writes named tests for AI, machine learning, data science, software engineering and coding languages. It also tests how well people understand and use data. In total, it covers more than 10,000 skills, described in its own words as “technical to soft”. If you need tests for roles such as managers, salespeople or HR staff, see them working before you sign.
Translated tests get no human review
Every non-English test is machine-translated. Scores on it are measured against the English test. New tests can only be written in English first.
Some choices cannot be undone
Each programme is set up with one goal. That goal can be developing people’s skills or evaluating them for hiring or other high-stakes decisions. Once people are enrolled, that goal is locked in. The same is true for two settings. One blocks copy and paste. The other requires someone to supervise the test. Decide what each programme is for before anyone starts it.
Ambient is a Mac-only preview with a waitlist
Ambient is a free research preview, and you join it through a waitlist only. Today the only download is for Apple MacBooks with M-series chips. Ambient is meant to use four kinds of evidence, which Workera calls signals. Only one signal is built so far, what it observes in someone’s work. Test results, manager ratings and peer ratings are still only planned.
Ambient scores cannot fairly compare people
Workera says you cannot fairly compare Ambient scores between two people who connected different numbers of tools. It also says a score should never be the only reason behind a decision on promotion, pay or firing someone. Workera says the system has “an inherent bias toward digitally visible work”. In plain words, that means it favours people whose work happens on a screen.
What should you ask Workera before you sign?
- What would our own headcount cost at the $40 tier? Good answer: A written quote for our headcount, at that tier.
- What does a skill profile show before someone takes any tests? What do you take from Workday, compared with Oracle and SAP SuccessFactors? Good answer: A clear list of what Workday sends you, matched to Oracle and SAP.
- Can you show us live tests for roles such as HR, finance, sales or people management? Good answer: A live demo of tests built for those roles.
- Where do you publish your scoring method? How many score appeals happen per 1,000 tests? How often does an appeal change the score? Good answer: Published numbers for both questions.
- Every score is measured against the English test. What evidence shows scores are fair for a translated test? Good answer: Published evidence, not just an assurance.
- Does Ambient work with Microsoft Teams today? When will it run on Windows? Can we buy it for the whole company now? Good answer: A launch date for Windows, and a company-wide price.
- Which features does our Skills Strategist switch on for us? Are they, and the engineers who help us go live, included in the price? Good answer: A written list, with their time included in the price.
- When our contract ends, what do we get back, and in what form? What do you delete? Good answer: A written plan for data return and deletion.
iMocha and Kahuna for testing, TechWolf and Microsoft for reading work
iMocha and Kahuna also test people, like Workera. TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills read skills from someone’s actual work instead. Workday Skills Cloud and SAP Talent Intelligence Hub build skills features into those systems.
If someone wants to know who is ready to work with AI, compare Workera with iMocha and Kahuna. Our guide to skills intelligence software names them. iMocha sells something it calls an AI Readiness Index. You can run it as one wave of tests across the whole company. That makes it work the same way as Workera, by testing people. iMocha also offers an AI tool that works out skill level from CVs, certificates, learning history and work data. A customer can turn each of those sources up, down or off. So iMocha can give you both tested scores and skills worked out from records, in one product.
If you already run Workday or SAP SuccessFactors, Workera’s own FAQ raises this question. “Workday and SAP both ship a skills inference layer. Why pay for another?” In plain words, both systems already try to guess your people’s skills from data they hold. That data means CVs, job titles, completed courses and manager ratings. Workera says “none of those are measurements”. Workera adds tested scores on top of Workday or SAP, without replacing what is already there. The deciding question is whether some skills need a tested level. If you are weighing SAP’s own version, its AI skill suggestions needs a separately purchased AI units licence.
TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills take a different approach. They read skills that already show up in someone’s day-to-day work, instead of testing anyone. TechWolf’s price is not published. Microsoft ties People Skills to a Copilot or Viva licence you may already hold. On those terms it costs $0 extra, so far. It reads Microsoft 365 only. The two products also differ in what the scores are for. Microsoft says People Skills is not designed for promotion or pay decisions. Workera is built for the opposite job. You can set a Workera programme up to judge people for hiring or other high-stakes decisions.
You can also buy nothing yet. You might have one question to answer, such as how ready one team is to work with AI. Workera’s free two-week pilot, on that one team, may be all you need. If you want a rough picture of who knows what, try a tool that simply questions people. Our guide finds that fits most mid-market problems best. The risk is the one Belcorp found. Its testing showed many employees had rated their own skills too low.
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