Free
Up to 5 employees
- Monthly billing
- €0.00per employee / month
- Yearly billing
- Always free
Know what your team can do. Develop the skills they need.
mySkilltower makes it clear which skills employees already have and which they still need for their role. AI helps turn these gaps into individual development paths. Repeated feedback from colleagues and managers shows the progress they observe in everyday work.
Understand skills. Plan development. Review progress.
Which skills do we have – and which are missing?
Many companies face the challenge of accurately assessing their employees’ actual skills and developing them in a targeted way.
General ratings rarely show which specific abilities someone has mastered. It is often unclear which training addresses their skill gaps. And after a course, the question remains: Are they actually applying what they have learned at work?
mySkilltower connects these steps: assess specific abilities, plan relevant development and review progress through feedback.
What can our employees actually do?
mySkilltower describes competencies through clear, observable abilities. Colleagues and managers provide feedback on them, creating a shared understanding of what someone has already mastered.
Who needs which development?
Comparing existing abilities with role requirements reveals specific gaps. AI suggests relevant, individual development steps for you to review and approve.
What difference did the training make?
Employees document how they put their development steps into practice. Follow-up feedback assesses progress against the same specific abilities, helping you understand what is being applied in everyday work.
The key terms in brief
- SkillBrick
- A building block for one level of a skill, for example “Facilitates team ceremonies”. Several SkillBricks stacked on top of each other make up the level in a skill.
- Skilltower
- The stacked SkillBricks of a person across all their skills. The current Skilltower shows today’s state, the target Skilltower the desired one.
- Role tower
- The Skilltower expected for a role – per role level, for example from Junior to Lead. This makes expectations comparable.
- Development goal
- Besides skills, you can set freely worded goals that are independent of a skill level.
AI power: professional models without prior experience
Building good competency, development and role models is demanding and takes experience. The AI in mySkilltower does the hard part: it makes suggestions using a proven structure, you review and decide. This gives even HR departments and companies without prior experience full and safe access to professional models.
Create skills with AI
From a competency area, the AI generates SkillBrick suggestions with clear statements per level. You do not have to start from scratch.
Create role models with AI
The AI suggests which skills and levels a role needs. The result is a role tower as a shared basis for expectations.
Review and approve development paths
The gap between current and target Skilltower becomes an AI-assisted development path. A person reviews and approves it.
Why AI fits so well here
- Fast start: keywords become structured models in minutes instead of weeks.
- Professional quality: consistent structure and clear wording, even without expert knowledge.
- Safe through control: the AI suggests, people review and approve. Nothing is adopted automatically.
What mySkilltower looks like
All views from the application – with demo data. Expand a feature to see its screenshot; click it to open in full size.
Skills and SkillBricks: how a Skilltower is built
A Skilltower is the sum of your skills. The following steps show how your individual skills become your Skilltower.
Step 1: A Skilltower consists of the skills you bring
Each skill appears as its own tab, for example “Agile Delivery”.
Step 2: Skills stack up to the Skilltower
All checked bricks across all skills together form your Skilltower.
Step 3: A skill describes a field of competence
A skill is a field of expertise, for example “Product Management”. It is not rated as a whole but described in levels (SkillBricks).
Step 4: Every SkillBrick describes a concrete ability
Each level of a skill is a SkillBrick with a statement, such as “Maintains an outcome-oriented backlog”. This makes clear what the level means.
HR dashboard
Company-wide overview: bricks, employees, covered skills, skill coverage (current vs. target), detected competency gap, distribution by role and peer feedback pipeline.
Create a development path
For a person you choose a target Skilltower or target role; mySkilltower shows the competency gap and uses AI to generate a development path from it.
Complete peer feedback process
How feedback works
Assessment
Feedback givers choose, per skill, the SkillBricks they can assess and confirm, and can add free text.
Goal review
Existing goals are reviewed before the next state is planned.
Target Skilltower
Based on the new current state, the target Skilltower is built, for example from a role template or individual SkillBricks.
Approval
The result is summarized and approved; the development path follows from it.
Start feedback
For a person, skills and peers are chosen who are asked for feedback; own skills are preselected, more can be added.
Give feedback
Feedback givers choose, per skill, the bricks they can assess and confirm, see the Skilltower preview and can use a free-text field.
Review feedback and derive goals
Multi-step flow: review feedback, review goals, plan next steps (new target Skilltower, further goals), summary, development path.
Personal dashboard
Your own Skilltower with bricks per skill and level, a “My skills” list and entry points for feedback, learning suggestions and the target profile.
Personal development path
Development goal with progress, next step, a list of all steps with status, a preview of the Skilltower after completion and additional goals.
Edit your own Skilltower
The level of each skill is set via clickable bricks; the Skilltower preview shows the total number of bricks.
Role towers
A role tower shows which skills and levels are expected per role level – here for Software Developer from Junior to Lead.
Setup wizard
Six setup steps: account, company context, employees, roles, Skilltower (with AI generation per role), finish.
Who is mySkilltower for?
For employees
- View and edit your own Skilltower and the level of each skill.
- Ask peers and your manager for feedback.
- Follow your own development path with next steps and status.
For managers
- Give feedback on concrete SkillBricks – as a manager as well as a peer.
- Use role towers as a shared basis to clarify expectations per role level.
- Guide the feedback process through to approval: assessment, goal review, target Skilltower.
For HR
- Company-wide overview: skill coverage, competency gaps and running feedback processes.
- Set up roles and role towers for the company – supported by a setup wizard.
- Create new skills, optionally with AI suggestions for the SkillBricks.
For management
- Overview of skill coverage and competency gaps across the whole company.
- Make well-founded decisions on training, hiring and building teams.
- Link the development of the company with the development of its people.
Get Started
Three ways. Your start.
How does your company get started with mySkilltower? In the way that works for you. Start fresh, build on what works or connect your existing systems – choose the right approach for your team.
7 days · free of charge
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Whatever master data system you use, we will connect any additional system on request within 7 days, free of charge. Get started with the data you already have.
Simple, fair pricing
Choose the right plan for the size of your company.
Small
Up to 25 employees
- Monthly billing
- €7.99per employee / month
- Yearly billing
- Pay for 11, get 12 months
Medium
Up to 100 employees
- Monthly billing
- €7.49per employee / month
- Yearly billing
- Pay for 10, get 12 months
Large
Up to 500 employees
- Monthly billing
- €6.99per employee / month
- Yearly billing
- Pay for 9, get 12 months
Enterprise
For companies of any size: individually scalable SaaS infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure Cloud, custom integrations, and personal support across sales, onboarding and technical operations.
Request a custom offerAll prices are per employee and exclude applicable VAT. Annual plans are billed yearly.
About us
mySkilltower was born in practice: we have experienced ourselves how quickly skills and development in teams become hard to keep track of. As a 100% German company we develop mySkilltower in Germany, host all data exclusively in Germany and the EU, and run entirely on the Microsoft Azure Cloud as a long-standing Microsoft partner – including all AI models. For you, that means the highest level of data security and genuine digital sovereignty, with no compromises.
Who can actually do what? Which skills are we missing for the next project? Who is ready for the next career step? In more than 15 years of leadership and coaching work we have been asked these questions again and again – and seen the same answers every time: outdated Excel lists, job profiles nobody reads anymore, feedback conversations once a year and expectations that only exist in the manager’s head.
On top of that, roles and skills change faster today than ever before. New technologies, AI and agile ways of working make requirement profiles obsolete within months. Rigid career ladders and annual reviews cannot keep up. A new approach is needed: skills, expectations and development have to be visible at any time, negotiable together and continuously adaptable – for employees, teams and companies alike.
That is exactly why we built mySkilltower: career development as easy as Lego – structured, measurable and affordable for every team.
Oliver Zilken
Co-founder · Agile & HR technology
Oliver holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science and is a nationally recognised agile influencer at the intersection of HR and technology. For more than 15 years he has been bridging both worlds: as Chief Scrum Master and Agile HR Coach at REWE digital he led up to 29 Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across several locations and established a specialist career model that is considered a benchmark in the DACH region. At Actineo he built a company-wide Agile Office as Agile Lead; at ALDI Digital Service he was responsible for 15 Scrum Masters as Chapter Lead and shaped the agile career models of the entire ALDI Süd IT.
Mirko Scharping
Co-founder · People development & culture
Mirko is a business graduate, Certified Scrum Professional and SAFe Agilist with more than twelve years of leadership experience as an Agile Coach and organisational developer. As Head of People and Culture at arxes-tolina in Berlin he restructured the HR department, introduced a career model and filled 35 positions without headhunters. He is a speaker, initiator of the “Agile Macro” event series – and the mind behind the Skilltower idea, which he originally developed with Lego bricks and Excel.
Certifications & recognitions
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Frequently asked questions
What is mySkilltower?
mySkilltower is a platform for skills, feedback and development. Skills are shown as SkillBricks in Skilltowers, role towers show the expectations per role level.
What is a Skilltower?
A Skilltower stacks the SkillBricks of a person across all their skills. It shows which skills they have and at which level.
What is a role tower?
A role tower maps which skills and levels are expected per role level – for example for Software Developer from Junior to Lead.
How does the feedback process work?
The process consists of assessment, goal review, target Skilltower and approval. The steps are described above in the section “How feedback works”.
Can I set my own development goals?
Yes. Besides skills, freely worded development goals can be set.
Is my development path published automatically?
No. A development path generated by AI is reviewed first; it is only published once you choose “Accept & publish”.
How do I sign up?
Use the button “Sign up for free and try it now” to reach the mySkilltower sign-up page. Prices are listed in the section “Simple, fair pricing”.
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