Expired authorisations found at audit
Average fine ~EUR 8,000 per non-conformity. Plus the operator you can't deploy until you rebuild the paper trail. Plus two days of meetings with the plant director.
Competency Acquisition Platform · Competency management platform for factories
ISO audit-ready capability app
to develop your people faster while giving your teams more time to focus on what matters.
Skill matrix, legal authorisations, development plans, training records and compliance reports for manufacturing plants. One product, one vendor, one audit trail.
Pilot programmes in progress across automotive, food and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
30-minute call with a product engineer. Data hosted in the EU.
The problems Competency Acquisition Platform solves
- Chaotic, delayed onboarding
- Skyrocketing external training costs
- Internal trainers wasting time on basics
- Scattered, inaccessible learning materials
- Missed compliance and safety training deadlines
- Unclear career progression and succession paths
- Role ambiguity and confusing factory requirements
- Spreadsheet clutter and “Excel fatigue”
- Messy paper tests with zero data security
- Unearned pay raises without verified skills
- Blind spots in training gap identification
- Money wasted on external trainers
Let's be honest
How much did spreadsheets cost you last year?
It is not your fault you still check authorisations on paper. It is the fault of a system that never gave you anything else. Here is what it actually costs you, in cash and in sleep:
Hours of Excel producing reports no one trusts
"Who's new on line 3?", "How many welders can work on their own?", "Who owns fire-safety training?"three hours of VLOOKUPs and it still comes out wrong. Same again next month.
Auditors asking for training proof in five minutes
Drawer, folder, illegible signatures, phone photos. Best case, you find it. Worst case, they write you up.
What the alternative looks like
See what changes Monday morning.
Three concrete shifts, not twenty feature slides. Each one fixes a problem you're paying for right now, with money or lost sleep.
Live skill matrix
Who does what, at any moment.
Operator × skill grid, levels 0-3 with the exact colours you'll see in-app. No audit surprises. Filter by line, section, direct manager. One click = XLSX export.
Authorisations that report themselves
Legal authorisations that report themselves, all on a traffic light.
Green over 120 days, yellow 90-120 days, red under 90, because re-authorising someone takes about three months. Email reminders to the operator and the manager. Inspection report in 60 seconds, in the format the inspector asks for.
IATF audit, no adrenaline
Ready for the IATF 16949 automotive audit, explained simply.
For every process you see on one page what goes in, what comes out, who is qualified and which machines and methods are used (auditors call this a “turtle diagram”). Managers do short shop-floor checks that the app schedules and re-checks after 30, 60 and 90 days (LPA, layered process audits). And you get an alert when a critical skill is covered by fewer than two people working independently, so one sick day doesn't stop the line. Audit day: 30 minutes instead of 3 days.
Inside the Competency Acquisition Platform box
Six features that pay off from day one.
Every sub-module is battle-tested in the pilot plant. No "coming soon" on sales decks.
Skill matrix
See flexibility and where you stand.
Onboarding
Fast and professional.
Knowledge confirmation and testing
Tests on any device, one question per screen, results linked to course attendance.
Individual development plans
Generated instantly. Easy to follow up and confirm.
Statistics
See your weaknesses from test stats, IDP completion, training hours and turnover.
Learning material inside the app
Everyone gets their own materials. No more lost money and time for trainings.
From Excel to Competency Acquisition Platform
Three steps. One week. Tops.
We don't ask you to stop production. We don't ask for a dedicated IT team. Send us the spreadsheets you already have. The rest is on us.
- 01
Excel import
Send your current spreadsheets (employees, skill matrix, authorisations). Our fuzzy parser maps them itself, including columns named differently in every file.
- 02
Configuration
We configure role templates (minimum skills per position), expiry thresholds and who receives which alerts. A short live session.
- 03
First report
Open the app, pick the report type, click Generate. In under 60 seconds you have the PDF or CSV your auditor asks for. Monday morning, done.
Pricing
Simple, per user. 20% off annual.
Tiered one-time installation & access fee. All prices exclude VAT.
Starter
Small factories moving out of spreadsheets.
€20 EUR / user / month
Installation & access, one-time: €1.500
Up to 50 users · 1 plant
- Skill Matrix + Legal Courses
- IDPs + role templates
- Excel import · XLSX/PDF export
Professional
Factories that want stress-free audits.
€30 EUR / user / month
Installation & access, one-time: €3.700
Unlimited users · up to 3 plants
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Shopfloor mode + DSP report
- Several plants + dashboards
Enterprise
Automotive groups / multi-site with IATF.
€40 EUR / user / month
Installation & access, one-time: €6.500
Unlimited users and plants
- Everything in Professional, plus:
- Full IATF 16949 module
- SSO + ERP / HR integrations on request
Objections we hear
What people ask us before booking a demo.
How long does migrating from my spreadsheets take?
On average 3 to 5 days, depending on the number of files and their complexity.
What happens to my data if I leave?
The data is yours. Export any time as CSV + PDF, straight from the app. After termination you keep a guaranteed 30-day export window, then everything is permanently deleted. No lock-in.
Is IATF 16949 actually ready?
Yes, in the Enterprise plan. Turtle diagram per process, LPA with 30/60/90 retest, redundancy warning when a critical skill is covered by fewer than two operators working independently. Aligned with IATF clauses 7.2 and 8.5.
GDPR / DPA / EU data?
EU servers (Cloudflare + LowPings Romania). DPA signed with every client. Policies written to GDPR. TLS 1.3, strict client isolation, immutable audit log. We are controller for account data and processor for your employees' data.
How many clients do you already have?
We are in pilot with the first factory. Honest answer: you won't see five pages of logos under the hero, and that shows in the price. You're among the first, you get personal attention, and the roadmap adapts to what your factory asks for.
Learning curve for operators?
None. The operator opens the tablet, types the badge code or scans, signs with a finger. Managers get ~2h of training at go-live. Admins: one day.
Why not Cornerstone / SkillsBase / Docebo?
Because the app we built comes from years of dealing with people's learning and development in factories as a direct responsibility, and it covers 2 to 3 times more needs: skill matrix, weaknesses, IDP confirmation, testing, learning library, IATF stats.
One more month escaping spreadsheets, or another month with expired authorisations?
You spend an hour a week checking what expires. The auditor is coming anyway. Choose what you want to find in the drawer when it happens.
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