TalentForge is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling custom talent applications on top of Eightfold Talent Intelligence. It enables organizations to build exactly what they need — owned by them, not licensed from a vendor.

What does TalentForge run on?

Every application built on TalentForge runs on Eightfold Talent Intelligence — a proprietary deep-learning model trained on over 1 billion career profiles, built over a decade to understand how skills work, how workforces move, and where careers go next.

How long does it take to build on TalentForge?

TalentForge compresses development timelines from multi-year custom builds to weeks. Eightfold built and deployed its own internal HRIS using TalentForge in weeks.

Is TalentForge enterprise-ready?

Yes. Anything built on TalentForge starts enterprise-ready by default — not by configuration. FedRAMP, ISO 42001, GDPR, and EEOC compliance are baked in from the first line of code, along with audit trails, role-based access controls, and a decade of implementation knowledge from global enterprise deployments.

How is TalentForge different from a generic AI builder?

Generic AI builders give you tools to generate software. TalentForge gives you a system that already knows your people. Every application runs on Eightfold Talent Intelligence — one brain across everything you build. That intelligence layer is not available in any other platform.

Does Eightfold use TalentForge internally?

Yes. Eightfold's own HR team built the HRIS running their people operations today using TalentForge — not software engineers. Not a prototype. Eightfold is Customer Zero.

TalentForge

Anyone can build.
What matters is what runs underneath.

Build custom talent applications on Eightfold Talent Intelligence. Enterprise-ready. In weeks, not quarters.

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1B+

Career trajectories

FedRAMP

+ ISO 42001

Weeks

Not quarters

THE CONSTRAINT IS GONE

For too long, a vendor decided what your talent system looked like.

You configured it as best you could. And when the software still didn’t fit, you lived with it — because building your own was never a realistic option. That assumption no longer holds.

With TalentForge, you can build the applications your organization needs. You decide what gets built. You own what you create. One Eightfold Talent Intelligence brain across everything you build.

Build

Design for your workflows.
Low-code or custom code.

Connect

Integrate your systems and data. Same skills intelligence powering all of Eightfold.

Deploy

Launch in weeks. Enterprise security and compliance already built in.

What it runs on

A system that already knows your people.

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Talent Intelligence

A decade of understanding how skills work, how workforces move, how careers develop. Hundreds of millions of data points. Every application knows your workforce from day one.

Enterprise Security

FedRAMP, ISO 42001, GDPR, EEOC. Baked in from the first line of code. Not bolted on after the fact.

Implementation Knowledge

The multi-geography exceptions, the calibration audits, the permission models that break when an organization restructures overnight. We have built for those realities. You don't have to rediscover them.

We needed a better HRIS. So we built one.

Our HR team built the HRIS running our own people operations today with TalentForge. Not our software engineers. Not a prototype. We are Customer Zero.

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