We only ask for the figures our tools need to work for you — headcount and salary data, so the Skills Gap Cost Calculator and the Value Calculator produce real numbers from your own organisation.

The sandbox is different. It runs on synthetic candidates, benchmarked against real job-market data — so you can explore freely without anyone's actual employee record in it.

The tools recommend — people decide. Every match, gap and value figure is there to support a human decision, and no recommendation ever makes that decision on its own.

We're also transparent about how things work: how Skills 1st Matching™ pairs people with roles, and what the underlying skills data represents. If you can't see how a result was produced, it isn't useful — so we show you.