What Is Talent Intelligence?
Talent Intelligence is one of three core intelligence layers in Deltabase One, Deltabase’s People & Culture Intelligence platform for advisory and consulting firms. It gives consultancies a detailed, externally benchmarked view of an organisation’s skills architecture and leadership depth — mapping capability concentration across functions, seniority levels and geographies — compared against direct competitors.
Talent Intelligence draws on the same external dataset that underpins the rest of Deltabase One: 5,500+ companies across 42 sectors, benchmarked to over 85% accuracy against 11M employee reviews, moving talent strategy from reactive hiring decisions to proactive capability design.
What Talent Intelligence measures
Talent Intelligence is structured around a 12-topic Talent Framework that assesses how an organisation’s skills and hiring patterns compare to its peers:
- Skills Inventory — what skills the company currently has access to across its workforce.
- Future Skills Readiness — whether the company has employees with cutting-edge or future-proof skill sets.
- Skill Gaps — whether the company faces notable skill gaps for its industry or growth priorities.
- Upskilling Opportunities — what structured opportunities exist for employees to upskill internally.
- Talent Pipeline Strength — whether the company is building a strong internal and external talent pipeline for future needs.
- Skills Monitoring — whether the company is tracking and benchmarking workforce skills to maintain competitiveness.
- Hiring Velocity — whether the company is hiring faster or slower than its industry peers.
- Talent Attraction Messaging — what messaging or employer branding is helping the company attract top talent.
- Hiring Priorities — what roles and skills are currently being prioritised in recruitment.
- Recruitment Focus — what skills the company has invested heavily in through recent hiring.
- Gap-Based Hiring — whether the company is recruiting to address specific skill gaps in its workforce.
- Hiring Diversity — whether the recruitment process is effectively supporting DEI goals.
Who Talent Intelligence is for
Like the rest of Deltabase One, Talent Intelligence is built for advisory and consulting firms rather than internal HR teams. It’s aimed at:
- HR and talent-strategy consultants who need credible external skills and hiring benchmarks
- Capability and skills advisors identifying gaps versus competitors
- Organisational design teams building future-ready workforce strategies for clients
- Teams supporting CHROs and talent management functions on capability planning
How Talent Intelligence relates to Deltabase One
Talent Intelligence is one of three intelligence layers inside Deltabase One, alongside Workforce Intelligence (headcount composition and operating model) and Culture Intelligence (organisational culture profile). All three draw on the same underlying dataset and are mapped to expert-built frameworks, so consultancies can move between workforce, talent and culture views of the same company inside a single platform.
Understanding the numbers
Talent Intelligence by the numbers
These figures describe the Deltabase dataset that underpins every module of Deltabase One, including the intelligence layer covered on this page.
5,500+
Companies covered
85%+
Benchmarking accuracy
42+
Sectors covered
11M+
Employee reviews
What is Talent Intelligence?
Talent Intelligence is one of the three core intelligence layers in Deltabase One. It gives advisory and consulting firms a data-rich, externally benchmarked view of an organisation’s skills landscape, capability strengths and gaps, and recent talent acquisition patterns.
What does Talent Intelligence measure?
Talent Intelligence is structured around a 12-topic Talent Framework covering skills inventory, future skills readiness, skill gaps, upskilling opportunities, talent pipeline strength, hiring velocity, talent attraction messaging, hiring priorities, recruitment focus and hiring diversity.
How is Talent Intelligence different from an internal ATS or HRIS?
An internal applicant tracking system or HR information system only shows a company’s own hiring and skills data. Talent Intelligence adds an external benchmarking layer, comparing a company’s skills landscape and hiring patterns against 5,500+ companies across 42 sectors, so capability strengths and gaps can be understood relative to competitors.
Who uses Talent Intelligence?
Talent Intelligence is built for advisory and consulting firms — including HR and talent-strategy consultants, capability and skills advisors, and organisational design teams — supporting clients such as CHROs and talent management teams, rather than for internal HR teams managing their own hiring.
How do I get access to Talent Intelligence?
Talent Intelligence is available as part of Deltabase One. You can book a demo or view plan options on the Talent Intelligence pricing page.