The Complaint
This case had two complainants. Job seekers were tired of generic aptitude advice that fit everyone and helped no one. Separately, hiring managers had no real data to answer a much more expensive question: hire externally, or invest in upskilling the people already on the team?
Both needed the same missing piece — an actual map of a person's skills, not a stereotype of them, built from evidence rather than a four-box personality quiz.
The Investigation
I developed SkillSense AI as an AI-driven Progressive Web App that uses Generative AI to map and visualize a user's 'Skill DNA' — a structured picture of their real strengths, used to generate personalized learning paths and tailored job matches.
For the management side of the case, I implemented dynamic, interactive dashboards that track core strengths, growth scores, and team-wide skill gaps.
Those dashboards turn the same underlying Skill DNA data into a decision-support tool, empowering management to make data-driven hire-versus-upskill calls instead of guessing.
The Verdict
A Progressive Web App that builds a genuine 'Skill DNA' profile for individuals and a skill-gap dashboard for the managers deciding what to do with that information.