# Workera: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/workera/
Covers: Sept. 29, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Workera: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/workera/, updated 2026-11-11

> Workera is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated Sept. 29, 2026.

Workera is "the AI-native skills intelligence platform used by leading enterprises to verify what their workforce can actually do." It measures skills with adaptive assessments and psychometrics, then sends each person to targeted learning. Pearson says the data supports hiring, internal mobility, redeployment and strategic workforce planning. Buyers are L&D, talent and AI-readiness leads. It is an assessment-led tool, not a headcount planner. Source: [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/).

## Facts

- Site: [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/)
- Founded: [2019](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-workera)
- Category: Skills intelligence and internal mobility
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-workera)

Workera is "the AI-native skills intelligence platform used by leading enterprises to verify what their workforce can actually do." It measures skills with adaptive assessments and psychometrics, then sends each person to targeted learning. Pearson says the data supports hiring, internal mobility, redeployment and strategic workforce planning. Buyers are L&D, talent and AI-readiness leads. It is an assessment-led tool, not a headcount planner. Source: [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/).

- Category: Skills intelligence and internal mobility
- Price: not published; sales-led (Book Demo)
- AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant and Skills inventory
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series B of $23.5M in 2023; Pearson agreed to acquire it on 2026-09-29.)
- Founded: 2019

Sources: [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/), [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/blog), [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/blog/pearson-agrees-to-acquire-workera), [workera.ai](https://workera.ai/blog/introducing-ambient-always-on-privacy-first-coach), [trainingindustry.com](https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/measurement-and-analytics/pearson-acquires-workera-a-pioneer-in-ai-native-enterprise-assessment-and-skills-verification/) and [prnewswire.com](https://prnewswire.com/news-releases/workera-closes-23-5m-series-b-financing-establishing-itself-as-a-leader-in-skills-intelligence-301779164.html).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Pearson agrees to acquire Workera

Acquisition, Sept. 29, 2026. Pearson will fold Workera into its Enterprise Learning & Skills business, and founder and CEO Kian Katanforoosh joins that division's leadership team. Terms were not disclosed. The release expects closing in the second half of 2026.

Source: [Pearson release (Training Industry)](https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/measurement-and-analytics/pearson-acquires-workera-a-pioneer-in-ai-native-enterprise-assessment-and-skills-verification/). From [the AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-workera).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology