SkyHive

Name: SkyHive
Brand: SkyHive

SkyHive is a workforce skills intelligence and labor market data platform that ingests and normalizes labor market and people data, maps skills into a knowledge graph, and applies AI to produce skills inventories, reskilling pathways, and skills-based matching insights.

Est 2017|Valuation $128M|Raised $51.5M

LinkedIn 13K|Website|FTEs 36

MarketsHR Analytics & Workforce Planning

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Workday Skills Cloud - Workday reports broad adoption of Skills Cloud among its HCM customers. This adoption profile can be a decisive factor when an organization standardizes on Workday HCM. - Workday has previously identified SkyHive as a partner in skills ecosystem contexts, indicating SkyHive can act as an external labor market data contributor in some deployments. Gloat - Gloat offers an AI-driven talent marketplace focused on internal roles, projects, learning, and mentorship. For organizations where internal mobility and opportunity activation are primary objectives, a marketplace-focused vendor may be a closer fit. Fuel50 - Fuel50 specializes in career-pathing and talent development experiences. Pricing is typically provided via vendor engagement rather than self-serve tiers. Eightfold AI - Eightfold provides talent intelligence and automation. As with other enterprise HR vendors, pricing and deployment characteristics should be validated through official channels and procurement.

When customers choose competitors instead (and why)

Choose Workday Skills Cloud when the organization uses Workday HCM as the system of record and prefers native skills features with minimal additional platform integration.
Choose Gloat when activating internal mobility, gig assignments, and an internal talent marketplace are the primary objectives.
Choose Fuel50 when career pathing and employee development experiences are the core requirements and a vendor focused on those workflows is preferred.

	SkyHive (SkyHive by Cornerstone / Cornerstone Transform)	Workday Skills Cloud	Gloat Talent Marketplace
Starting Price	Not publicly listed (enterprise quote-based)	Included with Workday HCM in some configurations; overall Workday HCM is enterprise priced	Not publicly listed (enterprise quote-based)
Best For	Organizations pursuing skills intelligence and labor market data foundation, especially within the Cornerstone ecosystem	Workday HCM customers seeking native skills ontology and HR system integration	Organizations prioritizing internal mobility, gigs/projects, and talent marketplace activation
Key Strength	Vendor states a large labor market knowledge graph and jobs-to-skills transformation capabilities; integration with Cornerstone suite is expected	Native to Workday; broad customer base and embedded interoperability for Workday customers	Focus on internal mobility and marketplace activation (roles, gigs, mentorship, learning)
Key Weakness	Limited public third-party user reviews; post-acquisition packaging and roadmap clarity may vary; outcomes depend on data integration and governance	Optimal primarily for organizations using Workday HCM; external labor market depth may require partners	Focused on marketplace activation rather than deep external labor market knowledge; pricing transparency is limited

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Workday Skills Cloud

Workday reports broad adoption of Skills Cloud among its HCM customers. This adoption profile can be a decisive factor when an organization standardizes on Workday HCM.
Workday has previously identified SkyHive as a partner in skills ecosystem contexts, indicating SkyHive can act as an external labor market data contributor in some deployments.

Gloat

Gloat offers an AI-driven talent marketplace focused on internal roles, projects, learning, and mentorship. For organizations where internal mobility and opportunity activation are primary objectives, a marketplace-focused vendor may be a closer fit.

Fuel50

Fuel50 specializes in career-pathing and talent development experiences. Pricing is typically provided via vendor engagement rather than self-serve tiers.

Eightfold AI

Eightfold provides talent intelligence and automation. As with other enterprise HR vendors, pricing and deployment characteristics should be validated through official channels and procurement.

When customers choose competitors instead (and why)

Choose Workday Skills Cloud when the organization uses Workday HCM as the system of record and prefers native skills features with minimal additional platform integration.
Choose Gloat when activating internal mobility, gig assignments, and an internal talent marketplace are the primary objectives.
Choose Fuel50 when career pathing and employee development experiences are the core requirements and a vendor focused on those workflows is preferred.

	SkyHive (SkyHive by Cornerstone / Cornerstone Transform)	Workday Skills Cloud	Gloat Talent Marketplace
Starting Price	Not publicly listed (enterprise quote-based)	Included with Workday HCM in some configurations; overall Workday HCM is enterprise priced	Not publicly listed (enterprise quote-based)
Best For	Organizations pursuing skills intelligence and labor market data foundation, especially within the Cornerstone ecosystem	Workday HCM customers seeking native skills ontology and HR system integration	Organizations prioritizing internal mobility, gigs/projects, and talent marketplace activation
Key Strength	Vendor states a large labor market knowledge graph and jobs-to-skills transformation capabilities; integration with Cornerstone suite is expected	Native to Workday; broad customer base and embedded interoperability for Workday customers	Focus on internal mobility and marketplace activation (roles, gigs, mentorship, learning)
Key Weakness	Limited public third-party user reviews; post-acquisition packaging and roadmap clarity may vary; outcomes depend on data integration and governance	Optimal primarily for organizations using Workday HCM; external labor market depth may require partners	Focused on marketplace activation rather than deep external labor market knowledge; pricing transparency is limited