Build your Workday Skill Architecture
with deep, AI-powered skill intelligence.
Cobrainer's Skills Engine generates a complete, AI-driven Job & Skill Architecture and pushes it directly into your Workday environment — enriching Skills Cloud, powering job profiles, and giving every talent process the structured data it's been missing.
Skills Cloud enrichment
Fill Workday Skills Cloud with 170,000+ verified skills from Cobrainer's patented Skills Graph — not generic taxonomies, but skills that matter to your business.
Automated skill attribution
Map the right skills to the right jobs automatically. No more manual tagging, no more guesswork, no more inconsistent data across job profiles.
Job architecture in 1 hour
Generate a complete job and skill architecture from your existing data and have it live inside Workday in under a month.
Continuous synchronization
Keep Workday current with automated updates as roles evolve, new skills emerge, and your organization transforms.
Pay transparency ready
Deliver the structured job and skill data required for pay transparency compliance directly within Workday.
Workday is powerful. But without structured skill data, talent decisions lack a foundation.
Workday Skills Cloud promises a skills-based approach to talent management. But most organizations struggle to get value from it.
The root cause is always the same — bad data in, bad outcomes out:
- Skills Cloud populated with generic, unverified skills that don't reflect your actual business
- Job profiles with missing, inconsistent, or duplicated skill assignments
- No unified skill taxonomy across recruiting, learning, performance, and compensation
- Manual skill tagging that can't scale across thousands of roles
- Skill gap analyses that produce noise instead of actionable insights
The result: talent processes that should be intelligent run on incomplete data. Managers can't see what skills they have, employees can't see where they can grow, and workforce planning becomes guesswork.
10,000+
enterprises run Workday HCM globally
80%
of HR leaders say their skills data is incomplete or outdated
170,000+
skills in Cobrainer's patented Skills Graph
Cobrainer makes Workday skills-intelligent — from day one.
Cobrainer Clarity plugs into your Workday environment and delivers what Skills Cloud needs most: a structured, verified, continuously updated foundation of jobs and skills. We don't replace Workday — we make it work the way it was designed to.
Direct integration with your Workday environment.
Start Transformation
Job & Skill Architecture generation
Automatic skills profiling, harmonizing and governance
Intelligent skills-driven, performance, development, goals, learning, recruiting and succession
Skills-driven planning, workforce transformation, human-agent-pairing
Continuous Transformation
Six workflows Cobrainer automates in Workday.
Skills Cloud Enrichment
Populate Workday Skills Cloud with verified, business-relevant skills from Cobrainer's 170,000+ skill library. Replace generic or crowd-sourced skills with a curated, AI-verified taxonomy that actually reflects your organization.
Job Architecture Generation
Create complete job families, job profiles, and role hierarchies from your existing data. Cobrainer generates the full architecture and pushes it into Workday's Job Catalog — structured, consistent, and ready for use across all modules.
Automated Skill-to-Job Attribution
Automatically assign the right skills to the right job profiles at the right proficiency levels. Cobrainer's AI analyzes job context, responsibilities, and market benchmarks to produce accurate, defensible skill mappings at scale.
Skill Gap Analysis
Identify exactly which skills your organization has, which it lacks, and where the gaps sit — by team, department, location, or job family. Actionable insights, not just dashboards.
Career Pathing & Talent Mobility
With every role defined by clear, consistent skills, employees can see realistic career paths and internal opportunities. Managers can identify transferable skills and build development plans that connect to real business needs.
Pay Transparency Compliance
Deliver the structured job and skill data pay transparency regulations demand. Comparable work becomes provable when every role has a standardized skill profile with defined levels and responsibilities.
Live in Workday in 1 hour.
Connect & analyze
We ingest your existing job descriptions, org charts, role frameworks, and any skills data you already have in Workday. Our AI maps everything against the Cobrainer Skills Graph.
Generate architecture
Cobrainer produces a complete Job & Skill Architecture: job families, clusters, roles, levels, skills, proficiency scales, and responsibilities — all structured and validated.
Review & refine
Your HR team and business leaders review the architecture through collaborative workflows. Adjust, approve, and finalize — with full version control and audit trail.
Push to Workday
The approved architecture syncs directly into Workday via integration APIs. Skills Cloud, job profiles, and all connected modules receive consistent, structured data — automatically kept up to date.
What Workday customers want to know
Does Cobrainer replace Workday Skills Cloud?
No. Cobrainer is complementary to Workday. It generates, curates, and maintains the skill data that powers Skills Cloud and all connected Workday modules. Think of Cobrainer as the data engine behind your Workday skills strategy — we ensure Skills Cloud contains verified, business-relevant skills instead of generic or incomplete taxonomies.
How does Cobrainer integrate with Workday technically?
Cobrainer integrates via Workday's standard integration capabilities including RaaS (Report as a Service), EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), and REST APIs. Data flows are configured to match your security and governance requirements. The integration can typically be set up within days, with the full architecture live in Workday in under four weeks.
What if we already have some skills data in Workday?
That's a common starting point. Cobrainer can ingest your existing Workday skills data, analyze it for gaps, inconsistencies, and duplicates, and produce a harmonized, enriched version. We don't discard what you have — we clean it, structure it, and fill the gaps with verified data from our Skills Graph of 170,000+ skills.
Can Cobrainer handle our specific industry skills and job titles?
Yes. Cobrainer's Skills Graph spans all industries and is continuously updated with real-world labor market data. For specialized roles or proprietary job titles, our AI engine maps your internal terminology to standardized skill profiles while preserving your organization's language. The architecture is always tailored to your business — not a generic template applied on top.
Where do I get skills for Workday?
Cobrainer is the source of skills for Workday. Instead of relying on generic taxonomies or manual tagging, Cobrainer generates verified, business-specific skills for Workday from a patented Skills Graph with 170,000+ skills — mapped to your actual roles, at the right proficiency levels, and pushed directly into Workday Skills Cloud and your job profiles. It is the fastest way to get high-quality skills for Workday HCM: a complete, customer-specific skill library, live in your environment in 1 hour.
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