Chris Old

AI Tools

These AI-built tools span nearly every stage of the talent management lifecycle, from workforce planning and talent acquisition to onboarding, learning and development, performance management, and career growth. Each pairs my talent management expertise with AI to solve a real business problem. Several were built for clients and are in use in their workflows today; others explore new ways to automate processes, support decisions, and speed up knowledge transfer.

They’re intentionally lightweight: no servers, no accounts, nothing to install, and free to explore. That makes them ideal for demonstrations, hands-on training, internal tools, and limited use. They aren’t built for enterprise-scale operations, sensitive data, or business-critical systems. Yet.

The same approach can scale into custom, enterprise-grade solutions with the security, infrastructure, and reliability your organization needs. Try a few below, and if you see one that fits a challenge you’re facing, let’s talk.

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Talent Acquisition Learning and Development Performance Management Career Development Change Management Succession Planning Workforce Planning

Talent Acquisition

Interview Guide Generator

Maps technical skills and behavioral competencies to roles across every function, then generates structured, role-based interview guides showing how each competency applies on the job. Each guide includes behavioral questions, follow-up probes, positive and negative indicators, and a standardized rating scale for consistent evaluation.

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Learning and Development

Learning & Performance Prioritization Framework

Score and prioritize learning, performance, and strategic initiative requests before committing resources. Use the scores to determine which requests should take priority.

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Learning & Performance Prioritization Framework (course)

Learn how to use the framework to score requests consistently, manage team capacity, and confidently explain prioritization decisions.

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Learning Outline Builder

Build a complete learning outline from a single source of truth, ready to expand into a full course.

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Learning Solution Cost Calculator

Answer a few questions about your team, timeline, and resources to get an accurate cost breakdown for designing and developing a learning solution.

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Cost Benefit Analysis

Walk through design and delivery costs against measurable benefits to calculate net benefits, cost-benefit ratio, and ROI for a training investment.

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Performance Review Conversations (course)

This tool provides an overview of the performance review framework covered in the Conducting Performance Reviews online module. It gives managers just-in-time guidance to help them prepare for effective performance review conversations.

This prototype shows how managers could access the training by simply typing "Performance Review Conversation Training" into their company's AI chat.

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Performance Calibration for Managers (course)

This AI-developed digital learning course combines my expertise in performance calibration and instructional design. I built the initial course in under an hour, followed by approximately four hours of review, refinement, and revisions.

The self-paced course teaches managers how to evaluate performance fairly, support ratings with evidence, participate confidently in calibration discussions, and communicate outcomes effectively to employees.

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Skills Taxonomy

A tool that helps companies track the skills they have and the skills they need.

SkillGraph reads documents a company already has, like job postings, project summaries, and course descriptions. It spots new skills, outdated skills, and skills whose meaning has changed, then suggests updates for people to approve. It also shows where the company is short on skills and gives hiring, learning, and AI tools one shared skills list.

This is a working prototype using sample data from a fictional company. It isn't connected to real company systems yet.

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About Tool

SkillGraph keeps one shared list of skills for the whole company and helps keep it current. The prototype runs on sample data for a fictional company, Northwind Financial, with engineering, HR, and sales teams. All examples below come from that data.

What it does

  • Keeps the skills list current. Finds new skills, like “people analytics,” and flags outdated ones, like “cold calling.”
  • Finds skill gaps. Shows where the company is short on skilled people or depends on one person.
  • Tracks trends. Shows which skills are rising or falling in demand.
  • Matches people to jobs. Compares someone’s skills to a role’s requirements.
  • Recommends learning. Links skills to approved courses and articles, and shows where training is missing.
  • Shares one skills list. Gives hiring, learning, and AI tools the same skill names and definitions.

Who it’s for

  • The skills team runs it. Two to five people in HR, people analytics, or learning and development. They review SkillGraph’s suggestions each week and keep the skills list accurate.
  • Leaders and planners use it to make decisions. HR and business leaders, workforce planners, learning teams, and recruiters check skill gaps, trends, training, and role requirements.
  • Everyone else would use it through other tools. Employees, recruiters, and AI assistants would get skills information from SkillGraph through the company’s career site, hiring system, or learning platform. IT teams would set up these connections.

How it would work in a real company

  1. Read new documents. Each week, SkillGraph reads new job postings, project summaries, courses, and business plans.
  2. Suggest updates. It recommends changes, like adding “Revenue Operations” or merging “Recruiting” and “Talent Acquisition.” Small fixes happen automatically.
  3. Review and approve. The skills team approves or rejects the bigger suggestions. Each one shows why it was made and which documents support it. Every change is recorded.
  4. Spot skill gaps. Leaders see where they’re short. In the sample data, customer retention needs are only 60% covered, and only one employee has critical account management expertise.
  5. Recommend learning. SkillGraph links skills to approved learning. Every new resource needs approval, and each suggestion includes a link to check first. If approved, the learning resource can be added to the company’s LMS. In the sample data, about half of the skills the company needs have approved learning.
  6. Connect to other tools. Hiring systems, career sites, and AI assistants could use SkillGraph’s skills list. No outside tools are connected in the prototype yet.
  7. Save versions. Each quarter, the company saves a dated version of the skills list so teams can compare changes.
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Performance Management

Performance Review Planner

Prepare for a performance review with a structured, evidence-based process. Walk through goals, achievements, examples of impact, values alignment, and peer feedback to land on a rating and a set of clear talking points ahead of calibration. You'll need a Claude account to try this one.

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Performance Review Conversation Planner

Prepare for your next performance review with a simple, step-by-step planner. Work through two short sections to prepare your employee and yourself, gathering performance data, examples, key messages, and plans for possible reactions. At the end, review and edit your plan, then download it as a Word document or PDF.

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Talent Matrix: Prep

Prepare a draft 9-box placement before a talent review. Rate an individual employees’ performance and potential as Low, Moderate or High, and add evidence for each rating. Then drag the dot on the grid to adjust the placement. The tool flags missing, thin or generic evidence and prompts you to add a support plan for low ratings. When you’re done, it writes a talent summary you can bring to the review.

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Talent Matrix: Calibration

Run a live talent review with your team on one shared 9-box grid. Add each person with their level and starting placement, then drag dots to recalibrate as the group discusses them. Dashed rings mark placements that are open to adjusting. A distribution view shows how the team is spread across the grid, and a change log records every move.

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Goal Cascade

Connects company strategy to daily execution. Set your company's strategic goals, then watch as departments and business functions build their own goals aligned directly to them, creating a clear, visual line of sight from top-level priorities down to individual team execution.

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OKR Cascade Tool

Connects company goals to the work happening across the organization. Company OKRs flow down to departments and business functions, so teams can see how their work supports company goals and track progress at every level.

Note: OKR structures and alignment vary by organization. This working prototype shows one example of how it could work and can be adapted to fit your organization.

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Performance Calibration for Managers (course)

This AI-developed digital learning course combines my expertise in performance calibration and instructional design. I built the initial course in under an hour, followed by approximately four hours of review, refinement, and revisions.

The self-paced course teaches managers how to evaluate performance fairly, support ratings with evidence, participate confidently in calibration discussions, and communicate outcomes effectively to employees.

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Career Development

IDP Builder

Build your Individual Development Plan in minutes. This guided tool helps you set career goals, identify strengths and growth areas, and track progress with your manager. Works on any device, and you can download your finished plan as a Word document or PDF.

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Change Management

Change Management Planner

Build a complete organizational change plan, from stakeholder impact assessment through readiness scoring, action planning, and rollout monitoring. Built around the ADKAR framework, with information carrying forward automatically between sections and a live dashboard tracking readiness and impact as you go. Includes a Quick mode for smaller changes and a Full mode covering every ADKAR-aligned question.

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Succession Planning

Succession Planning Toolkit

A guided, interactive workspace for building a complete succession plan, from identifying critical roles to tracking successor readiness over time.

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Succession Calibration Grid

A drag-and-drop 9-box that helps calibration groups see who is ready to lead now, who is emerging, and where to invest in development.

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Workforce Planning

Skills Taxonomy

A tool that helps companies track the skills they have and the skills they need.

SkillGraph reads documents a company already has, like job postings, project summaries, and course descriptions. It spots new skills, outdated skills, and skills whose meaning has changed, then suggests updates for people to approve. It also shows where the company is short on skills and gives hiring, learning, and AI tools one shared skills list.

This is a working prototype using sample data from a fictional company. It isn't connected to real company systems yet.

Read more about SkillGraphShow less

About Tool

SkillGraph keeps one shared list of skills for the whole company and helps keep it current. The prototype runs on sample data for a fictional company, Northwind Financial, with engineering, HR, and sales teams. All examples below come from that data.

What it does

  • Keeps the skills list current. Finds new skills, like “people analytics,” and flags outdated ones, like “cold calling.”
  • Finds skill gaps. Shows where the company is short on skilled people or depends on one person.
  • Tracks trends. Shows which skills are rising or falling in demand.
  • Matches people to jobs. Compares someone’s skills to a role’s requirements.
  • Recommends learning. Links skills to approved courses and articles, and shows where training is missing.
  • Shares one skills list. Gives hiring, learning, and AI tools the same skill names and definitions.

Who it’s for

  • The skills team runs it. Two to five people in HR, people analytics, or learning and development. They review SkillGraph’s suggestions each week and keep the skills list accurate.
  • Leaders and planners use it to make decisions. HR and business leaders, workforce planners, learning teams, and recruiters check skill gaps, trends, training, and role requirements.
  • Everyone else would use it through other tools. Employees, recruiters, and AI assistants would get skills information from SkillGraph through the company’s career site, hiring system, or learning platform. IT teams would set up these connections.

How it would work in a real company

  1. Read new documents. Each week, SkillGraph reads new job postings, project summaries, courses, and business plans.
  2. Suggest updates. It recommends changes, like adding “Revenue Operations” or merging “Recruiting” and “Talent Acquisition.” Small fixes happen automatically.
  3. Review and approve. The skills team approves or rejects the bigger suggestions. Each one shows why it was made and which documents support it. Every change is recorded.
  4. Spot skill gaps. Leaders see where they’re short. In the sample data, customer retention needs are only 60% covered, and only one employee has critical account management expertise.
  5. Recommend learning. SkillGraph links skills to approved learning. Every new resource needs approval, and each suggestion includes a link to check first. If approved, the learning resource can be added to the company’s LMS. In the sample data, about half of the skills the company needs have approved learning.
  6. Connect to other tools. Hiring systems, career sites, and AI assistants could use SkillGraph’s skills list. No outside tools are connected in the prototype yet.
  7. Save versions. Each quarter, the company saves a dated version of the skills list so teams can compare changes.
Try it
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