Cara AI

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Intelligent career and competence guidance — for people and managers.

AI for individual career development and manager-led competence decisions. It brings together two complementary capabilities:

  • Cara for Managers: real-time worker competence insight for managers

  • Cara.ai: IAG Matrix–aligned careers advisor

Together, they support better decisions about who people are, what they are competent to do, and how they can safely progress.

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Why customers choose Cara AI

Cara AI helps organisations make better decisions about people — faster and more consistently.

✓ Compress worker readiness and competence assessments to minutes

✓ Reduce the burden on managers, HR, and training teams

✓ Support apprentices and early talent whilst reducing burden on HR teams

✓ Create a joined-up, ethical approach to workforce career development

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Real-time worker assessment

Cara for Managers is directly connected to live Certchain user records. It analyses:

  • Competence passports

  • Certifications and qualifications

  • Expiry status and verification

  • Role requirements

  • Uploaded policies, documents, and CV’s

This allows managers to assess readiness, risk, and development needs as they exist right now, not based on outdated reports or manual checks.

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IAG Matrix–aligned careers guidance

Cara.ai is explicitly designed to meet UK Matrix Standard principles. It delivers:

  • Impartial, ethical careers guidance

  • Supportive, confidence-building conversations

  • CV upload and personalised insight

  • Downloadable IAG-aligned recommendation summaries

It helps individuals understand not just what jobs exist, but what competence looks like and how to build it responsibly.

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Joined-up career development pathways enabled by AI

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When deployed together, Cara.ai and Cara for Managers create a complete development loop:

  • Cara.ai helps individuals explore roles and prepare for progression

  • Cara for Managers evaluates real competence, gaps, and readiness

This creates a unified, scalable workforce development pathway — aligned to real requirements, not assumptions.

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What it does

Worker readiness and role assignment

Training and development planning

Managers quickly confirm whether individuals are competent for specific roles before assigning work — reducing risk and delays.

Managers identify gaps and receive clear, structured recommendations for upskilling and progression.

Supply chain competence assurance

Careers guidance and emerging talent support

Managers assess subcontractor competence with the same clarity as direct employees, improving governance across delivery partners.

Cara.ai supports apprentices, trainees, career changers, and returners with structured, ethical guidance — improving preparedness and retention.

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Who it’s for

Project and site managers

Supervisors and foremen

HR and training teams

Compliance and HSEQ teams

SME owners without dedicated compliance resources

Cara for Managers is designed for:

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Apprentices and early-career talent

Career changers and returners

Individuals exploring training or qualifications

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Organisations supporting recruitment

Cara.ai is designed for:

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  • Certchain uses AI to automate how competence and compliance data is presented — at a scale and frequency that manual processes can’t achieve.
    One of the UK’s largest prime contractors uses Certchain across 500+ sites and 300 supply-chain partners, achieving real-time compliance visibility and over 60% improvement in operational efficiency. With regulation tightening, waiting to improve is no longer an option.

  • We start with what you already have. Share your existing skills matrices, spreadsheets, or forms, and we use AI-assisted tools to ingest, structure, and operationalise the data quickly — turning static spreadsheets into live competence intelligence.

  • Very quickly.

    Once your user data is uploaded, a high-level compliance and competence dashboard can be live in around 10 minutes, giving immediate visibility across your workforce and supply chain.

  • Certchain integrates directly with over 40 competence and certification providers within the Workforce Competence Manager (WCM). A full list of current providers is available to download.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Each worker has a Certchain Skills Passport, managed on web and accessible via mobile.

    It brings together verified qualifications, certifications, and supporting evidence into a single, live competence record linked to role requirements.

  • Certchain integrates with a trusted identity verification partner network operating across 50+ countries. Workers without UK citizenship are prompted to complete a one-time Right to Work check, with verification securely recorded in their profile.

  • Gate systems only check compliance at a single moment in time. Certchain provides a continuous, real-time view of competence and compliance across over 40 live data feeds — allowing risks to be identified and addressed before they become site access issues.

  • Certchain’s architecture allows it to be deployed in secure, controlled environments — including defence, nuclear, and other highly regulated or isolated settings.