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Acorn

Skills and development platform built on workforce evidence

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Acorn is a skills and development platform for midsize to enterprise organizations. It maps the capabilities each role requires, shows where each person stands against them, and captures evidence of skills demonstrated through real work, helping leaders identify readiness, gaps, and next steps. It combines learning management, capability assessments, development planning, and workflow automation in one system.

The platform includes Capabilities for competency-driven performance assessments and gap analysis, Development Plans built from assessed gaps, Internal Learning with white-labelled learner portals, cohort management, live learning, and automated enrollments, and Momentum for workflow automation across onboarding, mentoring, performance plans, and compliance. It supports custom and third-party capability frameworks, content creation and curation, multi-tenant environments, and integrations. An AI Tool Suite is also available.

Acorn is aimed at L&D managers, HR leaders, CIOs, and procurement teams. Pricing is structured around platform usage, with full-use licensing for internal use and options for suspending users.

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