Stacking Superpowers: Why Talent Still Breaks or Builds Your Business

Talent is everything. It’s the engine behind your best product launches, your top-performing quarters, and your most innovative ideas. And yet, despite the billions spent trying to “fix” hiring, development, and retention, most companies still get talent wrong.

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “If only I had the right mix of superpowers on this team…”, you’re not alone. Managers across industries are trying to build high-performance teams but are often left guessing who’s actually capable of delivering.

Managers Performance Meeting

Here’s the reality:

Over $300B is spent globally on corporate training. Yet, 76% of employers struggle to find candidates with the right skills even with more degrees, certificates, and “badges” than ever before.

The Resume Illusion

Resumes were built for a different era. They offer a curated glimpse at what someone says they’ve done—but not what they can actually do. And as AI polishes those resumes into digital masterpieces, the signal gets lost in the noise.

What we’re left with is a high-stakes guessing game in hiring. No wonder teams fall short, despite best intentions and heavy investments.

The Skills-First Movement Needs Better Tools

There’s a growing push to hire based on skills, not just credentials. That’s a step in the right direction. But there’s a gap—we don’t have reliable, real-time ways to capture and validate the skills people actually gain on the job, in life, or anywhere outside formal education. “Research has also revealed that the ability to achieve meaningful progress in "skills development" is strongly associated with greater wide-scale adoption,” according to a recent report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity. 

That’s where Katch Skills comes in.

Katch Skils Dashboard

Meet Katch Skills: Make Every Skill Count

Katch Skills is the AI-powered platform that tracks and translates everyday learning into real, recognized skills.

Imagine a world where every learning moment counts. A world where snapping a simple QR code at a briefing, conference, podcast, or after a YouTube video automatically connects that experience to your skills.

Katch Skills makes this real. Individuals turn everyday learning into living skills profiles. Programs and organizations transform those logs into measurable outcomes that prove impact to funders and stakeholders. Businesses gain a clear view of real capabilities, building smarter teams and hiring with confidence. By connecting people, programs, and employers through one shared skills language, Katch Skills isn’t just tracking skills, it’s powering a movement that redefines how learning fuels opportunity.

• For Programs & Organizations: Prove Program Impact in Real Time Forget attendance sheets. Show real skill growth and performance outcomes that matter to funders, stakeholders, and learners alike.

  
  

• For Business:Build Smarter, Stronger Teams No more guessing games. Katch helps surface hidden talent, reduce hiring mistakes, and match people to roles based on real capabilities.

  
  

• For People: Capture Every Learning Moment Whether it’s solving a complex problem at work, volunteering, or self-study, Katch Skills logs learning wherever it happens, creating a dynamic, living skills profile.

Why It Works

Katch doesn’t just track credentials. It translates real-world actions like projects completed, problems solved, new tools learned, into visible, validated skills. That means better hiring, faster onboarding, smarter development.

It starts with individuals. Scales with institutions. And powers a workforce system built on truth, not assumptions.