New Kahuna product translates validated frontline skills into one enterprise capability language, helping leaders see workforce gaps and act before staffing demands, operational changes, or workforce transitions create risk
Kahuna Workforce Solutions, a leading frontline workforce readiness platform trusted by enterprise organizations, today announced the commercial launch of Kahuna Skills Aggregator, a new product that turns validated frontline skills data into one enterprise capability language. The launch gives leaders across frontline organizations in energy, manufacturing, field service and healthcare a way to finally transform into a skills-based organization that includes the frontline, rather than stopping at corporate or knowledge roles.
Closing the Frontline Gap in the Skills-Based Organization
Skills gaps are the number one barrier to business transformation, cited by 63% of employers in the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 for the 2025 to 2030 period, ahead of every other obstacle. Nearly a third of employers point to a lack of usable data and technical infrastructure as a compounding problem. Nowhere is that gap more acute than on the frontline, where the majority of the workforce, and often the majority of revenue-generating work, sits. General skills ontologies cover corporate functions such as IT, legal, finance and supply chain, but they rarely reach a manufacturer’s line changeover process, a hospital’s clinical competencies or an energy company’s asset certifications. The frontline skills data that does exist is captured site by site for compliance and operations, in each site’s own terms, not at a level the rest of the enterprise can use.
Automated Capability Mapping
Skills Aggregator maps skills already validated in Skills Manager to one governed capability framework.
Live Proficiency & Confidence Scores
Every worker gets a proficiency score for each capability, plus a confidence score showing how strong the evidence is.
Extend Your HR & Operational Systems
Skills Aggregator draws on skills already validated in Skills Manager and feeds that data straight into Workday Skills Cloud and other HCM systems, with nothing new for the frontline to do.
Turning Validated Frontline Skills Into a Common Capability Language
Skills Aggregator closes the gap, taking skills already validated in Kahuna Skills Manager at the site level through assessments, sign-offs and certifications that operations use every day, and turns them into one capability language that workforce planning, deployment, development and compensation systems can all rely on. With Skills Aggregator, frontline organizations can:
- Translate skills already validated in Kahuna Skills Manager into one capability language the entire enterprise can use for workforce planning
- Feed validated data directly into existing workforce planning, HCM and operational systems, including Workday Skills Cloud and SAP Talent Intelligence Hub
- See where a critical capability rests on one or two people, who is closest to ready and where to aim training and hiring before a launch, turnaround or retirement turns a thin spot into a gap
- Extend the skills-based organization strategy across the entire organization, including frontline roles
Built for Multi-Site Frontline Industries
“The pace of change on the frontline keeps accelerating,” said Jai Shah, chief executive officer of Kahuna. “New product lines, a retirement wave or shifts in technology and infrastructure are constantly challenging leaders to reevaluate their organizational capabilities quickly. In most cases, organizations are finding out the frontline skills they need and the gaps they have at the same moment they need to fill them. Skills Aggregator gives them the ability to plan ahead so the decision-making process when change is needed is more strategic, rather than a fire drill.”
Skills Aggregator is now available to organizations with Kahuna Skills Manager across energy, manufacturing, healthcare and field services. It connects to Workday through a Workday Certified Integration and to the other systems organizations already run, including Oracle, SAP and UKG.
