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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Cornerstone: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cornerstone/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cornerstone/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cornerstone.md",
  "title": "Cornerstone: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Cornerstone is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 19, 2026.",
  "period": "May 20 to Oct. 19, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "cornerstone",
    "name": "Cornerstone",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/",
    "summary": "Cornerstone sells an intelligence platform for workforce readiness, built mainly on learning, skills and talent management, to more than 7,000 organizations. Recruiting is one module: TalentLink, pitched as \"an AI-powered and skills-driven solution\" with AI-driven candidate search, career sites, chatbots and resume parsing. Most of its AI news is about learning, skills and readiness (Cornerstone Workforce AI, Readiness Agents, Workforce Planning), not recruiting. Included because it sells recruiting with AI, but recruiting is not its main product.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
      "hcm"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "HR suites and HRIS"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "Cornerstone sells an intelligence platform for workforce readiness, built mainly on learning, skills and talent management, to more than 7,000 organizations. Recruiting is one module: TalentLink, pitched as \"an AI-powered and skills-driven solution\" with AI-driven candidate search, career sites, chatbots and resume parsing. Most of its AI news is about learning, skills and readiness (Cornerstone Workforce AI, Readiness Agents, Workforce Planning), not recruiting. Included because it sells recruiting with AI, but recruiting is not its main product.",
    "source": {
      "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
      "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/talentlink-recruitment/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-cornerstone",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Cornerstone",
      "site": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "Cornerstone sells an intelligence platform for workforce readiness, built mainly on learning, skills and talent management, to more than 7,000 organizations. Recruiting is one module: TalentLink, pitched as \"an AI-powered and skills-driven solution\" with AI-driven candidate search, career sites, chatbots and resume parsing. Most of its AI news is about learning, skills and readiness (Cornerstone Workforce AI, Readiness Agents, Workforce Planning), not recruiting. Included because it sells recruiting with AI, but recruiting is not its main product.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
        "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/talentlink-recruitment/"
      },
      "price": "Not published; sales-led.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI analytics",
          "Candidate chat",
          "Skills and planning",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 1,
      "scale": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue (Formerly public (NASDAQ: CSOD), taken private by Clearlake Capital in 2021; says it serves about 7,000 organizations and 135M users.)",
      "founded": null,
      "founded_source": null,
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
          "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/talentlink-recruitment/"
        },
        {
          "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
          "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/"
        },
        {
          "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
          "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/cornerstone-launches-cornerstone-workforce-ai-the-intelligence-platform-for-workforce-readiness-built-to-amplify-human-potential-exponentially-with-ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
          "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/building-the-agentic-future-responsibly-cornerstone-unveils-cornerstone-workforce-planning-and-cornerstone-agent-ready/"
        },
        {
          "name": "cornerstoneondemand.com",
          "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/clearlake-capital-completes-acquisition-of-cornerstone-ondemand/"
        }
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      "cross_listed": false
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cornerstone/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Cornerstone unveils Workforce Planning and Agent Ready",
      "summary": "Workforce Planning helps leaders decide whether to develop people, \"hire new talent\" or use AI to fill skill gaps; Agent Ready \"holds agents to the same standards of conduct as people in equivalent roles\".",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-cornerstone"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/building-the-agentic-future-responsibly-cornerstone-unveils-cornerstone-workforce-planning-and-cornerstone-agent-ready/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cornerstone/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-05-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Cornerstone launches Workforce AI with Readiness Agents",
      "summary": "Cornerstone Workforce AI is \"the intelligence platform for workforce readiness\", with pre-built, adaptive and custom Readiness Agents; adaptive agents cover areas such as internal mobility, onboarding and workforce insights. Recruiting sits in its Talent Development and Skills Optimization package.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-cornerstone"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/cornerstone-launches-cornerstone-workforce-ai-the-intelligence-platform-for-workforce-readiness-built-to-amplify-human-potential-exponentially-with-ai/"
      }
    }
  ]
}