Betterworks Introduces AI-Powered Capabilities to Give Organizations Real-Time Visibility Into Workforce Readiness

New AI-powered capabilities connect insights from everyday work, employee development, and adaptive upskilling to help organizations identify emerging capabilities, close skill gaps faster, and prepare their workforce for what’s next.

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations often discover workforce capability gaps when they can least afford to: when a critical person leaves, a strategic initiative launches, or business priorities suddenly change. Yet the signals that show how employees are growing, which capabilities are emerging, and where gaps may be forming are often scattered across manager conversations, development plans, learning programs, and performance processes.

Betterworks today introduced new AI-powered capabilities designed to bring growth signals, development, and upskilling together to give organizations a more real-time view of workforce readiness. Conversational Intelligence captures development and performance signals from everyday manager-employee meetings, while Individual Development Plans and new Adaptive Learning & Upskilling help employees turn development priorities into focused actions and relevant learning tied to the capabilities they need next.

“The workforce that will drive tomorrow’s business outcomes is being built today,” said Doug Dennerline, CEO of Betterworks.

“Organizations can’t afford to wait until a critical skill gap appears to start developing the capabilities they need. By bringing intelligence from the conversations they're already having with development and upskilling, Betterworks helps organizations understand how their people are growing, build critical capabilities faster, and prepare their workforce as business priorities change.”

Capture growth signals from your meetings

Conversational Intelligence analyzes meeting transcripts from your preferred meeting transcription app to surface important context from manager-employee conversations, including discussion themes, commitments, action items, skills and development-related signals, and goal-related signals. By capturing those signals as work happens, organizations gain a more continuous view of employee growth and performance.

Conversational Intelligence helps managers turn everyday performance conversations into context they can use to support performance and development:

• See what matters for performance and growth: Surface goals, commitments, coaching opportunities, development signals, and potential risks discussed in 1:1 meetings and check-ins.
• Keep important next steps moving: Bring conversation insights into 1:1 meetings, action items, and Betterworks workflows so commitments are easier to track and follow through on.
• Coach with better context: Give managers visibility into recurring themes, progress, and open commitments across conversations.
• Work with the tools your teams already use: Capture performance signals through connected meeting platforms or transcripts from preferred note-taking tools.

This gives managers useful context they can return to throughout the year, whether they’re preparing for a 1:1 meeting, coaching an employee, or contributing to a review or talent discussion — while helping organizations preserve the growth signals that can inform a broader view of workforce capability over time.

Build the skills employees need next

Betterworks is also introducing Individual Development Plans with Adaptive Learning & Upskilling to connect employee development with skills, performance, and learning — and help employees build capabilities as business needs evolve.

Employees can create development goals tied to specific skills or receive AI-generated development recommendations based on their role, target skills, and existing capabilities. Adaptive Learning & Upskilling helps connect those development priorities to relevant learning, giving employees a clearer path from development goals to action while giving managers better visibility into how employees are growing.

Together, these capabilities create a more connected approach to workforce development — capturing growth and performance signals from real work, turning those signals into focused development and upskilling, and giving organizations greater visibility into whether their workforce is developing the capabilities the business will need next.

Because building the workforce you need tomorrow starts with understanding how your people are performing and growing today.

About Betterworks

Betterworks helps organizations turn performance into measurable business impact. Built for large and fast-growing companies, its AI-native solution brings goals, feedback, skills, and talent intelligence into the flow of work — giving leaders real-time visibility into workforce capability, manager effectiveness, and progress against business priorities. Betterworks helps organizations align teams, coach employees, support growth and internal mobility, and make confident talent decisions grounded in evidence rather than guesswork.

Trusted by leading organizations like Intuit, Betterworks is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Emergence Capital, 8VC, and John Doerr. For more information, visit www.betterworks.com.