Experfy Inc

Organizations that want to find outside specialists, and develop their own staff, use the talent platform of Experfy Inc. The company says the platform lets external talent be pipelined and hired at unprecedented speed, while career pathing, upskilling and mentorship support internal people. Incubation at the Harvard Innovation Lab forms part of its history, and the firm offers both hiring and a licensable self-service platform.

A talent platform for internal mobility

Beyond hiring from outside, the platform is built to support internal mobility. The company describes career pathing for existing employees, upskilling and mentorship, so that a business can see the talent it already has as well as the talent it needs. This is presented as part of one talent system rather than as a separate hiring tool.

Judgment from subject matter experts

Experfy Inc describes its method as a partnership between people and artificial intelligence. Its AI and machine learning algorithms work with subject matter experts who vet and assess each candidate. The company argues that talent recommended by generalists is not enough, and that expert assessment is what makes a candidate a near certainty for a role.

Vetted pools by skill and industry

Each TalentCloud is a pool of talent, checked in advance and organized by skill, role or industry. Every candidate goes through a technical assessment, followed by behavioral and personality screening. The firm says its platform recommends consultants, eight in ten of whom are hired by clients, and that projects can be staffed in days rather than weeks. Pools are replenished continually so that a supply of consultants is always available.

Hiring with background checks and payroll

Placed candidates go through background checks, and the firm handles their worker classification and payroll. The company says this allows a client to move quickly without giving up compliance at enterprise level. Its technology practice areas are chosen because demand for those skills is high and continuing.

Custom TalentClouds licensed to clients

Companies that identify strong ongoing demand for particular skill sets, roles or industry verticals can have a custom TalentCloud built to their own vetting requirements, combining the company's AI with human judgment. The custom cloud can be used with the enterprise SaaS platform as an engine for sourcing talent within a particular vertical.

Case studies and industries served

The company describes its clients as organizations that have embraced the benefits of the Experfy Marketplace. Examples it gives include a study of consumer habits to judge whether a new service is viable, packaging work that cuts the cost of online orders, a dashboard build for a national education project, a cross-selling engine for an online shop, and work with an advertising agency to strengthen its business model.

Learning, podcasts and insights

The learning arm, developed with thought leaders at the Harvard Innovation Lab, offers courses in data science, data mining, analytics, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, aimed at problems particular to each industry. Its podcast and insights blog, produced with thought leaders, cover the future of work and related subjects.