OpenKnowra's Skill Proficiency Gap API compares a person's professional context with a target role and returns the skills they already have, the skills they need to develop, and the proficiency the role requires.
Use the returned gaps to drive coaching, mobility, career planning or your own learning workflow.
Powered by a connected knowledge graph of skills, roles and domains, not a role-title lookup.
Employees can name where they want to go. Managers can see that someone is not quite ready. Learning platforms have thousands of courses. The missing layer is a consistent answer to one question: what does this person specifically need to develop for that role?
Career paths often stop at role discovery. They show the destination without making the gap between today's capabilities and the target role visible.
Coaching depends heavily on individual judgment when there is no shared skill and proficiency baseline for the person and the role.
Learning recommendations become generic when the system knows the role but not the precise skill and proficiency gaps of the individual.
Growth conversations stay broad, development plans look similar across very different people, and internal mobility can show opportunities without showing the path to reach them.
One API call puts the person and the target role into the same skill and proficiency context, then returns the development gap in a structure your product can use immediately. Skill Domain Intelligence uses OpenKnowra's connected knowledge graph to understand what the target role requires rather than treating the role name as a few words.
Send a professional document such as a resume or career profile. OpenKnowra identifies technical and soft skills and assigns a 1–4 proficiency level.
Send the role name. Skill Domain Intelligence uses OpenKnowra's knowledge graph to identify the technical and soft capabilities expected for that role and domain.
The differentiation is not another list of keywords. OpenKnowra understands both sides of the development equation and expresses them in the same skill and proficiency vocabulary.
Every skill is expressed on the same four-level scale, making development more precise than a binary “has skill / missing skill” flag.
Skill Domain Intelligence maps the target role through connected skills, job profiles and industry context. The gap is calculated against a contextualized role, not a title treated as text.
The response separates technical gaps and soft-skill gaps, so coaching and development do not stop at technical capability.
You get matched skills and additional skills alongside the gaps. The experience can show what someone already brings, not just what they are missing.
That is the job of OpenKnowra Skill Domain Intelligence. Its continuously evolving knowledge graph connects skills, roles and domains, so a target role becomes a contextual capability model before the person is compared with it.
The graph understands how capabilities relate and travel together in real work, instead of relying only on exact labels or isolated keywords.
A role such as DevOps Engineer is resolved into the skills and proficiency expectations associated with that role, rather than compared as a string of text.
The same skill or role can carry different context across industries and work environments. Domain relationships help preserve that context in the gap analysis.
The person's capabilities and the target role are expressed in the same skill and proficiency framework. That common context is what makes the development gap usable downstream.
The API is infrastructure. Keep your own employee, manager, coach or learner experience and add a precise development-gap layer underneath it.
After someone selects a target role, show what they already bring and what they need to build next.
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCEGive managers a shared, role-specific baseline for more concrete growth conversations and development plans.
MANAGER / COACH EXPERIENCEMove beyond “roles you may like” by showing the capability gap between an employee and the role they are exploring.
TALENT MARKETPLACEUse the returned skill gaps as the input to your own course catalog, learning recommendation or development workflow.
LMS / LXP / LEARNINGSend a document, a role, or both. With a document + role, the API returns matched skills, additional skills, technical gaps, soft skills and soft-skill gaps. With a role alone, Skill Domain Intelligence uses the same knowledge graph to return the expected skill profile for that role.
No seat license. No annual commitment required to start. Pricing is based on input payload size, with the first 1 MB included in the base call.
Payload size is rounded up to the next whole MB for billing. See the live pricing page for all tiers.
View full pricing →The API is designed for self-service evaluation. Create an account, generate your API key, and make the first call from the docs.
Sign up for OpenKnowra using your work details.
User-scoped keys are created in the platform under Settings → API Keys.
Send a professional document and target role to /v1/skill-gap/analyze and use the returned gaps in your experience.
Embed a precise, role-specific development gap into your career, coaching, mobility or learning experience with one API call.