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STORM™ PLATFORM

The Future of
Talent Intelligence

An AI-powered operating system that transforms how organizations discover, develop, and deploy human capability

The Challenge

The CEO's Bombshell

We need to hire 200 AI engineers, reskill 40% of our workforce, and identify who can lead our transformation—all within 18 months.

Aha #1

You're Only Seeing 15%

47
SURFACE
312actually using ML

Fortune 500 Discovery: Their HRIS showed 47 employees with "data science" listed. AI-powered skills inference found 312 employees actively using ML techniques.

💡 The talent you need is already there—invisible to your systems.

Aha #2

Every Day Costs You Talent

4mo Average time to hire an AI engineer
40% Decline your offer for a competitor
5+ days Delay between interview stages
The Result
more likely to lose the candidate
when you're slow

Aha #3

Complexity Grows Exponentially

5
Systems
10
Integration Points
10
Systems
Integration Points
45
Not 2× complexity. 4.5×

Aha #4

The True Cost of Fragmentation

LAYER 1 Direct Costs Software, implementation, maintenance $750K–$1.6M
LAYER 2 Friction Costs Manual data transfer (5,300+ hrs/yr) $400K–$1.2M
LAYER 3 Decision Costs Delayed decisions, missed opportunities $2M–$8M
LAYER 4 Opportunity Costs Talent lost, initiatives not pursued $5M–$25M+
Total annual bleeding → $8M–$36M

Aha #5

HR is Doing Janitor Work

Fragmented Systems
67%
Data Mgmt
33%
Strategic
Integrated Platform
23%
Data Mgmt
77%
Strategic
Unlock
more strategic capacity

Aha #6

You Can't Prove You're Fair

A major retailer faced an EEOC investigation. With fragmented systems, reconstructing their hiring process—who made decisions, what criteria were used—took 1,200 hours over 14 months.

$2.3M
Settlement paid
14mo
To reconstruct data
Hours
With integrated platform

💡 They settled because they couldn't prove their practices were fair—even if they were.

The Solution

S
Strategic
T
Talent
O
Operations
R
Resource
M
Management

Not a system of record that tracks what happened—
A true operating system that actively orchestrates the entire talent lifecycle with AI-powered intelligence.

The Framework

The AI Talent Lifecycle

01
🧲

Attract

Find the backend engineer learning crypto who'll be your blockchain star.

02
🔬

Assess

Not "who's done this" but "who can excel at something they've never done."

03
🌱

Develop

Adaptive paths that evolve in real-time. Skills you need may not exist today.

04
🎯

Deploy

Match on cognitive patterns and capability adjacencies, not just resumes.

05
💎

Retain

#1 attrition driver: lack of growth. Match opportunities to aspirations.

The Differentiation

Remember SOLID

S

Sensing

Continuous awareness. When skills change, we know immediately.

O

Orchestration

Recruiting informs development. Performance feeds succession. All connected.

L

Learning

Every hire makes the system smarter. AI improves from outcomes.

I

Intelligence

Not just "what happened" but "what will happen" and "what should."

D

Dynamic

Real-time adaptation. Not batch. Not annual. Now.

The Proof

Internal Hires Outperform

100%
External Hire
Performance
121%
Data-Matched
Internal Hire

Harvard Business Review: Internal hires promoted into stretch roles outperform external hires by 21%—but only when identified through data-driven capability matching rather than manager intuition.

💡 The talent you develop beats the talent you buy.

The Evidence

Platform Maturity = Business Outcomes

Maturity Level Time-to-Hire Quality of Hire Internal Mobility Cost/Hire
Fragmented
120+ days 62% 8% $15,000+
Partial
85 days 71% 14% $11,000
Platform
55 days 84% 28% $7,500
AI-Enhanced
35 days 91% 42% $5,000

The Math

Three-Dimensional ROI

Efficiency Gains
Time saved, consolidated costs, lower CPH
150-300%
💎
Quality Improvements
Better hires, improved retention, matching
200-500%
🚀
Strategic Outcomes
Faster capability, risk reduction, edge
300-1000%+
First-Year ROI
490%
$14.75M value on $2.5M 2,500 employees • 20% growth

⚠️ Organizations that delay face compound disadvantage that becomes progressively harder to overcome

Lead or Follow.
The Gap Widens Daily.

Organizations that move now build 3–5 year advantages. They identify and develop capabilities faster than competitors can hire them.