Enterprise skills infrastructure

The Operating System forSkills Development

From funding to skills to work — one connected golden thread across funders, institutions, providers, learners, workplaces and outcomes.

From the first rand committed to the first day of employment, SkillsCortex creates a verifiable evidence trail across the entire skills-development lifecycle.

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R0m
Programme funding traced
0
Learners on one thread
0
Verified employment outcomes

Programme NSDP-2026

Golden thread
  1. 01
    Funder
  2. 02
    Programme
  3. 03
    Institution / Provider
  4. 04
    Learner
  5. 05
    Training
  6. 06
    Assessment
  7. 07
    Workplace
  8. 08
    Employment

Funding · Evidence · Compliance

R180,000,000 traced from agreement to verified employment outcome — every rand linked to the evidence that supports it.

Evidence chain, built as work happens

Attendance, assessment, moderation and payment records linked to every outcome.

One connected ecosystem

Funders
Implementing Entities
SETAs
Universities
TVET Colleges
Training Providers
Facilitators
Assessors
Moderators
Employers
The problem

Skills Development Is Connected. Its Systems Usually Aren't.

A single large programme routinely spans a dozen organisations. The work is shared — the information rarely is.

Organisations involved

Funding entitiesSETAsProgramme implementersUniversitiesTVET collegesTraining providersFacilitatorsLearnersAssessorsModeratorsEmployersPayment providers

Each one holds part of the truth about the same learner, the same cohort and the same rand.

Where the truth fragments

Spreadsheets
Email threads
Disconnected MIS
LMS platforms
Financial systems
Paper registers
Provider reports
Assessment systems
Payment files

By the time anyone asks what the funding achieved, the answer has to be reconstructed.

SkillsCortex connects the ecosystem.

The golden thread

One Learner. One Programme. One Golden Thread.

Twelve connected stages — each with its own stakeholders, money, decisions and evidence.

01

Funding

Programme funding is approved and allocated.

Financial
R180.0m approved
Evidence
Funding agreement FA-2026-011

SkillsCortex connects every step, decision, document, stakeholder, payment and piece of evidence.

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Financial traceability

Follow the Rand

Programme expenditure should be explainable down to a single learner — and back up to a single funding agreement.

Programme funding

R180,000,000

  1. Funding Agreement
  2. Programme Budget
  3. Allocation
  4. Provider Contract
  5. Cohort
  6. Learner
  7. Training Delivery
  8. Attendance Evidence
  9. Claim
  10. Payment
  11. Completion
  12. Workplace Placement
  13. Employment Outcome

Worked example

R18,500 invested in Learner L-004728

  • Attendance94%
  • AssessmentCompetent
  • ModerationConfirmed
  • Workplace experienceCompleted
  • OutcomeEmployed

SkillsCortex connects programme expenditure to measurable human outcomes.

The ecosystem

One Platform. Every Stakeholder.

Select a stakeholder to see how they experience the same connected programme.

SkillsCortex

Shared programme context

Stakeholder experience

Funders

Allocations, expenditure, evidence and cost per outcome.

Shared programme context

Role-based access

Own secure environment

Programme command centre

Dashboards Should Lead to Action

National Skills & Employment Programme (NSDP-2026) — every number opens the workflow behind it.

10,000

Learners

8,940

Active

312

At risk

74

Payment exceptions

18

Provider risks

247

Awaiting moderation

610

Placements required

R128.4m

Committed

Attention required

Programme intelligence

Intelligence Across the Skills Ecosystem

Explainable signals embedded in programme operations — every insight ends in an action, not a chat window.

Learners at risk
Provider underperformance
Suspicious attendance
Funding anomalies
Assessment anomalies
Moderation risk
Venue shortages
Facilitator shortages
Programme delays
Placement opportunities
Financial risk

Learner dropout risk: High

Why?

Attendance declined from 91% to 63% over four weeks, two assessments are outstanding and the learner missed the last three sessions.

Recommended action

Capability architecture

Eight Capability Groups. One Operating Model.

Not forty disconnected feature cards — the actual shape of running a skills programme.

  • Programme & qualification design
  • Funding agreements and sources
  • Budgets, allocations, commitments
  • Provider and institution contracts
  • Targets, KPIs and delivery models
Outcome economics

Measure More Than Training

Move from counting training activity to measuring skills-development impact.

  1. R180mInvestedProgramme funding
  2. 10,000EnrolledLearners
  3. 8,300CompletedTraining completion
  4. 7,900CompetentAssessed & moderated
  5. 6,100PlacedWorkplace placements
  6. 4,800EmployedVerified outcomes

Unit economics

Cost per enrolment
R18,000
Cost per completion
R21,687
Cost per competent learner
R22,785
Cost per workplace placement
R29,508
Cost per verified employment outcome
R37,500

Compare by programme, qualification, province, provider, institution or funding source.

Programme scenario

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R180m funding · 30,000 applicants · 10,000 learners · 4 provinces · multiple SETAs, universities, TVET colleges and providers.

Stage 01 of 12

Fund

Stakeholders

Funder, implementing entity, finance

Actions

Funding agreement signed, budget structured, allocations created per province

Money

R180.0m approved · R0 spent

Evidence

Funding agreement FA-2026-011, board approval

Risks

Allocation model untested against provincial demand

Decisions

Approve allocation split across 4 provinces

Outcome

Programme funded and ready to mobilise

Persona switcher

See the Same Programme Through Every Stakeholder's Eyes

One programme scenario, fourteen points of view. A shared operating model, not a collection of unrelated portals.

Funder

“Where did the money go?”

Allocation, expenditure, evidence and outcome economics across every implementing entity.

Committed
R128.4m
Disbursed
R96.2m
Cost per outcome
R37,500
Why SkillsCortex

What Makes SkillsCortex Different

The same domain, modelled as an operating system rather than a set of registers.

Traditional approach

SkillsCortex

Learner database

Learner golden thread

Provider register

Provider operating lifecycle

Attendance register

Attendance-driven workflows

Payment file

Evidence-linked financial workflow

Assessment records

Assessment + moderation lifecycle

Static dashboards

Operational command centre

Separate stakeholder portals

Connected ecosystem

Training completion

Workplace and employment outcomes

End-of-project audit

Continuous evidence

Disconnected modules

Integrated operating model

Manual intervention

Workflow-driven exceptions

Activity reporting

Outcome economics

Trust & governance

Trusted With Learners, Funding and Evidence

Governance designed for public funds, personal data and cross-organisation collaboration.

Multi-tenant isolation
Role-based access
Contextual permissions
Controlled cross-organisation access
Complete audit trails
Maker/checker controls
Approval workflows
Evidence management
Consent management
Secure integrations
Manual override governance
FAQ

Enterprise questions, answered

Can You Follow Every Learner and Every Rand?

SkillsCortex connects programme funding, institutions, providers, learners, training, evidence, assessments, workplace experience and outcomes into one operating model.

Run your next skills programme through one connected golden thread.

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