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The Operating System for Workforce Enablement TeamsVisibility to Lead.
Signals to Execute.

Every other function has an operating system. Now L&D, Talent and HR do too. Cognota gives CHROs, CLOs and everyone they lead a clear view of demand, capacity and spend, so they invest in what matters most and the business sees the impact.

CHRO or CLO Officesets the governance standards, finally has visibility
L&D · Global5 teams
ComplianceLeadershipOnboarding+2
Training requests
Operational playbooks
Facilitators, IDs, CLOs
Intake prioritization
Talent · Americas4 teams
PerformanceSuccessionMobility+1
Program intake
Strategic alignment
Coaches, leadership, AI
Capacity and scheduling
HR · EMEA5 teams
OnboardingRewardsBenefits+2
HR project intake
Visibility & execution
PMs, coordinators, specialists
ROI and impact
one connected ecosystem that gives each team its own:
Workflow
Governance
Assist™ Marketplace
Digital Teammates

Trusted by L&D, Talent and HR teams

  • Sun Life
  • Truist
  • Texas Health Resources
  • Land O'Lakes
  • Goodyear
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • BeOne Medicines
  • Ace Hardware

Everything your teams run on. One connected ecosystem.

Built for LearnOps®, TalentOps and HR Ops: manage requests, capacity and programs in one connected ecosystem, with the signals to make the right decisions fast.

Workflow

You lead. Cognota runs the process. Govern intake, planning and execution across every workspace: requests scored on business priority, capacity planned before work starts, risk flagged before deadlines slip.

Explore Workflow
Requests 18
Table Board
Request NameHome teamStatus
Safety refresher L&D In Review
Manager toolkit Talent Waitlisted
Exit interview toolkit HR New
AI literacy, Claims L&D New
Leadership cohort review Talent In Review
No one with this role has capacity between the planned start and end dates.
Governance

Governance for people and AI, at any scale. Centralized, decentralized or federated. Each team, region or center of excellence gets its own workspace, connectors and rules, all in one ecosystem.

Explore Governance
Audit Log
WhenActorActionTarget
Oct 22, 2026, 3:17 PM Priya Shah Review decided AI literacy, Claims · Intake Submission
Oct 22, 2026, 1:12 PM Ana Ortiz Review decided Succession plan, Ops · Intake Submission
Oct 21, 2026, 4:52 PM Ana Ortiz Request approved Manager toolkit · Intake Submission
Oct 21, 2026, 9:30 AM Lena Novak Project created New hire orientation · Project
Oct 21, 2026, 8:55 AM Dana Lee Request approved Policy update rollout · Intake Submission
Assist™ Marketplace

Add capacity without adding headcount. When the team is full, bring in vetted consultants in learning, talent, HR and AI instead of waiting on a hire. 3,000+ experts, ready in 72 hours, no SOW.

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Assist Marketplace
48h unstaffed · Safety refresher
Your approvals apply
3 matches · ranked by qualifications, then free hours
Nadia Rahman eLearning developer
4.9· 38 projects
2 of 2 qualifications 48h free · starts Mon
Requested
Diego Morales eLearning developer
4.8· 52 projects
2 of 2 qualifications 30h free · starts Wed
Ama Okafor Learning designer
5.0· 21 projects
1 of 2 qualifications 48h free · starts Thu
Digital Teammates

Human and digital teammates, working as one. Signals reach the person or agent closest to the decision. AI turns on at your pace, under the roles you already set. Works in Claude and ChatGPT today.

Meet the Digital Teammates
Reporting Teammate
New chat
Request volume by home team
Approve this report plan: Request volume by home team?
Charts: requests by home team, acceptance rate Data: intake requests, last 6 months
Approved
Your report is ready. View report

Coming FY27AI App Builder. Describe the tool you need in plain language, built on your LMS and HRIS data, under your roles and audit trail.

Existing systems track pieces of work.
None of them connect the full story.

Cognota doesn’t replace your HRIS or LMS. It’s the operating layer between them, connecting demand, capacity and risk, and surfacing signals and recommended actions. It replaces the shadow spreadsheets, not your system of record.

Learner layer
LMS · LXP
  • Enrollments
  • Completions
  • Course catalog
For example
SanaCornerstoneDocebo360LearningAbsorb
Connected to Cognota
Talent and data layer
HRIS · BI
  • People and roles
  • Org structure
  • Headcount
For example
WorkdaySAPUKGDayforceHiBob
Connected to Cognota

Built for L&D, Talent and HR teams. Backed by data no one else has.

Generic work tools manage tasks. Cognota powers operations for workforce enablement teams, with the data to show impact and decide what to change.

Purpose-built for L&D, Talent and HR

Other tools make your team learn the tool before it can solve anything. Cognota arrives configured for workforce enablement work.

  • Intake, approvals and SLAs built for programs, talent cycles and rollouts, not IT tickets
  • Each workspace keeps its own rules, templates, integrations and digital teammates
  • Capacity by job role, so you know who can take the next priority

Benchmarks from our data

Compare your intake, cycle times, capacity and delivery with peer L&D, Talent and HR teams, not just your own history. Built from Cognota platform data and research with 100s of enterprises and leading analysts.

  • Cognota is known for being the category creators of LearnOps®
  • A proven maturity model, built on real operating best practices
  • See where you stand, and what the next stage takes

Embedded Marketplace

When capacity runs out, source vetted outside experts from the Assist™ Marketplace directly in the workflow, instead of waiting in an internal queue.

  • 3,000+ experts in learning, talent, HR and AI
  • Ready in 72 hours, no SOW
  • Your approvals still apply

One ecosystem.
Three people operations.

LearnOps®, TalentOps and HR Ops each run in their own workspace, set up the way that team works. Cognota connects them in one ecosystem.

An L&D lead planning at a table
Existing content
Sales onboarding refresh matches this request.

LearnOps®

Move from reactive order-taking to strategic delivery.

Deliver high-impact learning without burning out your team. From the team that created the LearnOps® category.

Explore LearnOps
Three talent colleagues working over a tablet at a table
Benchmark
Succession reviews here run 3 weeks behind peer teams.

TalentOps

Deliver every talent program on time and on budget.

Run performance, leadership and succession programs with clarity and ownership.

Explore TalentOps
Two HR colleagues reviewing a plan at a table
Assist™ Marketplace
An HR project manager can start Monday.

HR Ops

Maximize the business impact of HR investments.

Manage HR projects, vendors and spend across your HR teams, with headcount kept in check.

Explore HR Ops

One framework for LearnOps®, TalentOps and HR Ops

What Cognota does

Every request is scored against business priorities before work starts, so the team takes on what matters most.

The example

Three new requests land. One ties to a Q3 priority and moves to the top.

Are we working on what matters most?

Customer stories

Lacee CantuLacee CantuLearning Leader
“We had no clear line of sight into volume, capacity, or business impact. It was impossible to plan or execute with confidence.”
100%of delivery target, 6 months early
$200k*in productivity and time savings in the first year
25%shorter project cycle time

*The financial calculations are estimates. Actual ROI may vary.

Brandon Hall Group Technology Excellence Award, Gold, 2025

Brandon Hall Group Gold, Best Advance in Emerging Learning Technology, with State Farm

60 Days to Clarity: Inside State Farm’s LearnOps® ResetWebinar · 60 min · Lacee Cantu with Rebecca McDougall of CognotaWatch the webinar

Most teams are reactive.
The best teams adapt.

Fewer than 5% of teams have reached the Adaptive stage, where AI handles the routine work and people own the judgment calls. Most sit between Managed and Strategic. Find out where yours stands.

Get Your Maturity Score
Level 1ReactiveOrder-taker mentality, disparate tools, no visibility
Level 2ManagedDefined processes, partial alignment, limited visibility
Level 3StrategicTrusted advisor, single source of truth, success measures in place
Level 4PredictiveSeat at the table, full visibility, predictable delivery
Cognota customerLevel 5AdaptiveAI handles the routine work; your team owns the judgment calls
Most teamsFewer than 5% of teams

Run workforce enablement like the business functions they are.

Start with one team’s workspace, set up the way that team works, and add teams when you’re ready. See how Cognota could work for yours.

  • ✓Start with one team and add workspaces as you grow.
  • ✓Nothing turns on by default, including AI.
  • ✓Keep your LMS and HRIS. Cognota connects to them.
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Questions about workforce enablement

All FAQs

A workforce enablement operating system is where L&D, Talent and HR teams each run their own work in their own workspace, connected in one ecosystem: taking in requests, planning capacity, delivering programs and showing impact. Cognota is built for this. It connects to your LMS and HRIS and turns what’s happening into signals your team can act on.

Workforce enablement, sometimes called employee enablement, is how an organization equips its people for the work ahead, through learning, talent and HR programs working together instead of in silos. It covers skills, mobility, leadership, performance and workforce readiness. The goal is a workforce that can carry out the strategy, with impact the business can see.

An LMS delivers and tracks learning. A workforce enablement operating system runs the work behind it: demand, capacity, priorities and delivery risk, across L&D, Talent and HR. Cognota is the operating layer between your LMS and HRIS. It connects to both, so you keep the systems you already own and see demand, capacity and delivery in one place.

They’re the three use cases Cognota runs, each in its own workspace. LearnOps® is for L&D teams delivering learning programs. TalentOps is for talent teams running performance, leadership and succession programs. HR Ops is for HR teams managing HR projects, approvals and capacity. Each team sets up its own workspace, and the same signals connect them.

A workforce enablement team needs more than a training library. The recommended setup pairs your LMS for delivery with a workforce enablement operating system like Cognota to run intake, capacity, priorities and impact, plus on-demand experts when demand spikes. Together, they let the team deliver more of the right work and show what it delivered.

For enablement work, often yes. Generic project tools track tasks and dates but weren’t built to score requests, plan enablement capacity or connect to your LMS and HRIS. Sun Life replaced more than ten tools with one connected view in Cognota. Your LMS and HRIS stay; Cognota connects to them.

AI is built into the platform and turned on at your pace. Digital Teammates work inside your workflows under the same roles and permissions as your people, and Cognota already works inside Claude and ChatGPT, and bring-your-own AI is in early access, so you can use the models your company already approves. Nothing turns on by default; you choose which teams use AI and how much it does on its own.

Start with one team’s workspace, such as intake for L&D, and add teams as you go. Nothing turns on by default, and your LMS and HRIS stay in place. Book a demo to see your own workflows in Cognota, or take the maturity assessment to benchmark where your function stands today.

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