retrain.ai vs Skima

retrain.ai is an AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform for workforce planning and HR decisions. Its Skills Architecture module brings skills language together, identifies workforce capabilities and gaps, and supports forecasting. The talent acquisition platform matches candidates to roles using skills and aptitudes while masking titles, degrees and other potential bias factors. Talent management tools map employee skills to open roles, upskilling options and career pathways. Its REST API returns JSON and documents skills extraction, skills similarity and role insights. The harmonized taxonomy contains more than 40,000 skills gathered from job postings, public profiles, resumes and courses. The platform is described as integrating with HCM, ATS, talent acquisition, talent management, and learning and development systems; named integrations include SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle HCM, Cornerstone, Greenhouse, Comeet and iCIMS. The company describes its AI as explainable and ethical, and says personal-data collection and processing are limited with internal access restricted. The platform is available on web and through an API. Prospective customers can request a demo or walkthrough; pricing is on request.

Skima is a people development platform for mapping team skills, identifying gaps, planning growth and tracking progress. Its executive dashboard shows KPIs, gap analysis and trends, while a heatmap matrix displays team strengths and gaps. Evaluations use a weighted formula based on level, frequency and criticality. Teams can connect goals to skill gaps and track actions through development plans, then compare team state across quarters, semesters and years. Data can be imported and exported in CSV and JSON formats. Skima works offline with data stored locally in SQLite; the product site says data stays on the user's machine. It is available as a desktop app, a Docker-hosted local web service or a build from source, and the README says it requires no account, cloud or tracking. Desktop updates are cryptographically signed; the updater is desktop-only, and Linux auto-update works for AppImage builds. Skima is free for personal use under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, with a commercial license available. Its intended users include CEOs and founders, operations and PMO teams, and analysts.