The people & talent OS · for HR Leaders, Managers & their teams

The People & Talent OS
For HR Leaders, Managers & Teams

Career graph, expected behaviors, and a live skill-demand map — plus compensation, time off, org planning, and the evidence loop that ties every dollar of development to results.

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Skill demand across the company with the experts in each area

The operating model

How growth actually compounds at LadderHub

Every step is connected. Every step leaves evidence.

01 · Role

A node on the graph

Every role is a node, not a rung.

HR defines

02 · Behaviors

What "good" looks like

Expected behaviors per position, AI-assisted.

HR defines

03 · Skill demand

Live, company-wide

Skills behind every behavior, rolled up live.

System computes

04 · Partners

Match gap to partner

Spend the upskilling budget where it lands.

HR + Manager pick

05 · Achievements

Evidence comes back

Real wins prove skill, behavior, and spend.

Report & manager

That's the loop. Define what good is, see the demand, fund the learning, watch the evidence come back.

Works in your language

A Portuguese reader gets a Portuguese catalog.

Not just the buttons — the skills, the categories, and the ESCO labels behind them. English stays the catalog's identity, so nothing drifts apart between locales.

Interface & catalog

Browse, search and sort the skill catalog in your own language, with English underneath as the shared reference.

One company, one language

AI-generated behaviors are written in the company's default language — not the language of whoever clicked generate.

Terms that don't translate

Kubernetes is Kubernetes. Skills with no meaningful translation are left exactly as they are, on purpose.

For CEOs & founders

When the strategy shifts, the behaviors shift with it.

Define expected behaviors that apply to everyone — not just one role. They show up in every position's gap analysis, every check-in, every plan.

"Find one task in your week to automate with AI. Ship it. Document it."

A company-wide behavior set by the CEO. Every position, every department, every level.

Top-down clarity

Every employee sees the same expectation, regardless of role.

Bottom-up evidence

Achievements linked to it surface across the whole company.

Skill-demand signal

The skills that enable it auto-roll into the company's skill demand.

How it works

Four steps from job titles to a working evidence loop.

01

Map your career graph

Define positions, departments, and the next-step edges between them. Templates available.

02

Define expected behaviors

Per position and company-wide. AI generates a starting set; HR refines. Behaviors declare their enabling skills.

03

Plug in evidence

Reports record achievements; managers approve. Skill wallets, behavior assessments, and XP update automatically.

04

Spend on what matters

Skill demand surfaces in real time. Match gaps to learning partners — and prove the spend with the same evidence loop.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about LadderHub.

It's a full people & talent OS. The career graph, behaviors, skill wallet, and evidence loop are the growth core — and around them LadderHub also runs compensation and salary bands, time off and holiday calendars, the people directory with offices and teams, the org chart, workforce planning, DISC assessments, recognition, documents, upskilling programs, and people analytics. One platform instead of five disconnected tools.

Compensation is a mature part of the platform. You get effective-dated salary history per person, salary bands with compa-ratio and band placement, benchmarking markets by geography, multi-currency reporting with a daily FX snapshot, and per-country employer on-costs — rolled up into a live cost-to-company view by department, team, or individual.

Yes. You define your own leave types — with your names, colours, approval rules, and how much colleagues see — on top of four platform categories, so multi-country reporting still works. Policies carry the allowance per cycle, whether the time is paid, and what happens to unused days, all as dated versions you can schedule ahead or backdate. Requests, approvals, and balances run through the same inbox as the rest of the platform, and holiday calendars are generated per country and followed by each office.

Yes — and it goes further than the interface. Skill names, categories, and ESCO labels are stored per language, so a Portuguese reader browses and searches a Portuguese catalog while English remains the shared identity behind each entry. Terms that don't translate, like Kubernetes or Scrum, are deliberately left alone. AI-generated behaviors are written in the company's default language, so one catalog stays in one language regardless of who generated it.

LadderHub combines the career graph, expected behaviors, achievement tracking, gap analysis, monthly check-ins, and learning-partner matching into one platform. Your team gets clear expectations, managers get visibility, and L&D spend becomes traceable.

Every position carries expected behaviors. Each behavior declares the skills that enable it. Achievements link to skills and behaviors. Manager-approved achievements turn self-declared skills into verified ones — and surface the company's true skill demand in the process.

Skill demand is computed from the behaviors attached to every position in your company, weighted by how many people hold (or target) those positions. The result is a live map of which skills your company needs more of, broken down by department and category.

Learning partners are vetted training providers (courses, bootcamps, coaching) with skills mapped to their offerings. LadderHub surfaces partners ranked by your highest-demand skill gaps, so HR and Managers can spend the upskilling budget where it lands.

Yes. Company-wide behaviors apply to every employee regardless of role. A CEO can declare a behavior like "find one task per week to automate with AI" and it shows up in every position's gap analysis and every check-in.

Each month, employees self-grade and summarize focus areas. Managers review, add their own assessment, and set expectations for the next period. Forward-looking and developmental — not a backwards-looking performance review.

LadderHub provides API tokens for programmatic access and supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-powered integrations. Create achievements from Slack, pull data into dashboards, or build custom workflows.

LadderHub uses encrypted connections, JWT authentication, and strict multi-tenant data isolation. Your company's data is never visible to other tenants. Your data is stored in EU (Germany).

Built for modern teams

Career conversations shouldn't happen in a panic the week before performance reviews. Yet in most companies, that's exactly what happens. Managers scramble to recall six months of work. Employees feel unseen. Promotions hinge on recency bias instead of sustained growth. And L&D budgets get spent on the same generic catalog year after year, with no way to tell what actually moved the needle.

We built LadderHub because we've lived this problem. As engineering managers and team leads, we watched talented people struggle to articulate their impact, saw great work get lost in the noise, and felt the frustration of promotion conversations that relied on gut feeling over evidence.

LadderHub replaces that chaos with clarity. Define what good looks like — once. See the skills your company actually needs. Match every gap to a learning partner, and let the achievements come back as proof. Career growth becomes visible, fair, and traceable — not something that only gets attention twice a year.

100%

Evidence-based decisions

Zero

Spreadsheets needed

Every

Gap, mapped to a learning partner

Ready to make growth visible?

Start with the career graph. The evidence will follow.