Andreas DeNeve, founder of TechWolf, believes AI can “infer” your skills with great precision. After years studying this problem TechWolf has built a variety of AI language models to observe and identify your skills and tasks, which then form the basis of many decisions in business.
TechWolf monitors and indexes all your work activity and then builds a “skills context graph” to show you a skills map of your company. This is a big idea, one which companies like Eightfold, Seekout, Findem, Sana and many others are pursuing.
In TechWolf’s platform employees retain full control, validating inferred skills in the flow of work, with a 90%+ acceptance rate across white- and blue-collar workers.
The interesting part of this story is that this approach competes with the massive industry of testing and industrial psychology, used for decades to assess fit for a job. Andreas describes the company’s successes and how they’re building an entire “work intelligence” platform for AI transformation.
Skills Inference, which is a new AI application, competes with testing and assessment, which is used for screening and recruiting. Andreas discusses how inference is used for talent management, workforce planning, and AI enablement and transformation. Now TechWolf positions its platform as a system to help discover what tasks and skills can be automated by AI. (Now called “task mining.”)
This new market is growing quickly, so it’s important to learn about products like TechWolf in your new HR 2030 architecture.
Additional Information
Introducing HR 2030: A Vision For Agentic Human Resources
The Four “New SoftSkills” We Need To Thrive In The Age of AI (pod)
How To Take A Pragmatic (and winning) Approach To Skills
AI Transformation From the Frontlines (pod)
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - Introduction to TechWolf and Andreas Deneve
- (00:02:35) - Andreas's Background and Founding TechWolf
- (00:03:59) - The Origin of Skills Inference from Work
- (00:05:14) - How Skills and Task Inference Technology Works
- (00:07:50) - Handling Non-Digital and Frontline Work
- (00:10:38) - Data Readiness and Honesty with Clients
- (00:12:08) - Employee Data Ownership and Transparency
- (00:13:58) - Evolution of Use Cases: Talent to Workforce Planning
- (00:16:01) - Rise of Work Intelligence and Task Proficiency
- (00:17:09) - AI Transformation and Role Redesign Use Cases
- (00:18:09) - Measuring AI Usage and Cost Efficiency
- (00:19:36) - How Insights Are Delivered: Agents and Platforms
- (00:22:31) - Biggest Challenges in Building TechWolf
- (00:24:19) - Expansion to the US and Future Plans
- (00:25:31) - Closing Thoughts and Final Wisdom
