Get more out of your Cornerstone investment

We stay in your loop. You're using barely half of what Cornerstone can do. We're here for the rest.

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Cornerstone is all we do, and we've done it at scale.

Where we work
Healthcare Government & public sector Higher education Regulated & compliance-heavy orgs

We're not for everyone. On purpose.

We turn down most of what comes in. Not to be precious about it. We've watched what happens when the fit is wrong, and it wastes everyone's quarter. If one of these is you, don't book the call.

Don't bother if

  • You're shopping on price alone. There's always a cheaper freelancer. Go hire them.
  • You want a body to throw tickets at around the clock. We're a small senior team, not a help desk.
  • You want a slide deck about your AI journey. We configure the thing and wire it up. We don't do strategy theater.
  • Your org has already decided it won't change how it works. We can't fix what you won't let us touch.

Worth a call if

  1. Leadership wants an answer on AI, and it lands on you. You walk into that meeting with a clear plan you can defend, shaped by people who've configured Cornerstone's AI for real.
  2. Your last partner went quiet. We take over the open work and leave you with a platform that runs and someone who actually answers.
  3. You're migrating off Saba or SumTotal. We get you onto Cornerstone with your history intact and a price your CFO will sign.
  4. You're paying for licenses nobody touches. We switch on what you already own so the platform starts earning its keep, and you finally have a number for the board.

Six problems. One team to hand them to.

They look different from the outside, but the root is usually the same: you're paying for Cornerstone and not getting the half you should. Each of these is somewhere we close that gap.

Platform ownership

You stop being the person everything escalates to.

We run Cornerstone day to day: config, permissions, enrollments, and the kind of executive reporting we've stood up for systems with tens of thousands of learners. If you already have an admin, we hand them the heavy build work and the on-call nights so they can do the job they were hired for. While we're in there, we switch on the licensed features and modules you already pay for and nobody turned on. It stops being the fire you drop everything to put out, and starts earning what it costs.

Content development

Courses ship in days and pass accessibility the first time.

We build courses fast and revise them without a fight, with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 baked in from the first draft, so legal never holds up a launch. We track with xAPI, so you can tell leadership whether the training actually changed anything.

Migrations

You land on Cornerstone without losing your history.

Saba or SumTotal, a renewal clock ticking, and years of records you can't afford to drop. A senior consultant who's run these moves for public-sector and higher-ed teams handles it, validates the data at every step, and is still on the account after go-live when the edge cases surface.

Integrations and automation

Your systems agree, and the busywork runs itself.

We connect Cornerstone to Workday, SAP, and the rest of your stack, so the records match and stay matched instead of someone re-keying data into a system nobody trusts. Then we automate the weekly grind, enrollments, provisioning, reminders, and hand your team back the hours.

AI readiness

A straight answer on what AI is worth doing here.

When the board asks where you stand on AI, you need more than a vendor brochure. We tell you which of Cornerstone's AI features earn their place, which ones will quietly pollute your skills data, and we configure the worthwhile ones inside the governance your security and HR teams set, so you're building toward the workforce you'll need next, not just switching things on.

Workforce readiness

You always know where your workforce actually stands.

You should be able to say who's certified, who's overdue, and who's ready to step up, without a week of spreadsheet work. We get the platform answering that clearly, so workforce decisions run on real data instead of a guess.

The first 30 days.

No discovery phase, no alignment workshop. Here's what your team actually sees, week by week, after you sign.

Week 1

You sign. The next business day a senior consultant is on your account, reading your contract, your config, and your last six months of tickets before they ever take your time on a call.

Week 2

First working session. We agree on the three things worth doing first. Usually a permission mess, a report your finance team can't trust, and a compliance gap nobody had flagged yet.

Week 3

Fixes ship. You see them in the platform, not in a status deck. A short note tells you what changed and why, in language you can forward to your boss.

Week 4

Monthly check-in. What we did, what we found while we were in there, what we'd take on next. You decide whether month two happens. Nothing locks you in.

When you make the case internally.

Whoever signs off will ask why not a big consultancy, or why not just hire someone. Fair questions. The honest version of all three is below, so you can answer them before they're asked.

Skill Loop Big consultancy One in-house hire
Time to first work session 10 business days 8 to 12 weeks 60 to 90 days from posting
How you pay Low monthly rate Six-figure project fees Full-time salary plus benefits
Who actually does the work Senior consultants every time Senior on the pitch, juniors on delivery One person's bandwidth and skill set
Cornerstone specialism Cornerstone OnDemand only One of dozens of platforms Depends entirely on the hire
AI and automation work Configured to your governance Sold as a separate project Rarely one generalist's skill set
WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 experience Built in Sometimes Depends
Who's accountable when it goes wrong The person you hired An account manager and a ticket queue One person, who also takes leave

Already with another partner? We can run alongside them for 30 days, take over open work, and you cancel when you're ready. No data migration, no platform rebuild.

Got an admin you trust? Good. We work next to them, not over them. They keep the relationships and the platform knowledge; we take the build backlog and the 2am pages off their plate. The goal is an admin who looks good, not one who looks redundant.

You don't have to figure out Cornerstone alone.

Book the call. Tell us what you inherited and what leadership is asking for. We'll tell you what we'd do first, and where AI is worth it, even if you never hire us. If we're not the right team, we'll say so and name someone who is.

Book a 30-minute call

The questions you'd ask on the call anyway.

If yours isn't here, ask us on the call.

What does this cost?
Most engagements run $5K to $15K a month. The low end is a couple of priorities and one point of contact. The high end is the platform fully owned, content development, AI and automation work, and someone on call. Either way it lands under the all-in cost of one full-time Cornerstone admin, and a senior person does the work instead of handing it down. We fix scope and price after the assessment, not before.
Is there a contract or lock-in?
No annual contract. It's monthly, and you can cancel any month. We'll discount a longer commitment if you want one, but we won't ask you to sign for one.
We don't really know what we want from AI yet. Is that a problem?
That's most of the calls we take. You don't need a position on AI before you talk to us. Half the value early on is telling you which of Cornerstone's AI features are worth turning on, which ones will quietly pollute your skills data, and which automations save real hours. We'd rather talk you out of something than sell you a feature you'll switch off in a quarter.
Why not just hire someone in-house?
Sometimes you should, and we'll say so. If the work is predictable and full time, hire for it. But one person is one point of view, takes 60 to 90 days to find and ramp, and goes dark the week they're on leave. Cornerstone is a deep platform. Most teams need config, content, integrations, and accessibility covered, which is more than one generalist can carry. We've done only this for the better part of a decade, and it's still plenty for a senior team.
How fast can you actually start?
A free 30-minute call within 48 hours. A written assessment within five business days of it. A senior consultant in your system within ten business days of signing. No multi-month discovery. We read your contract, your config, and your last six months of tickets before week one.
AI, integrations, accessibility: all of it?
Yes. Cornerstone's AI gets set up inside whatever governance your security and HR teams have agreed, and we don't route around it. Automations and integrations run between Cornerstone and the systems you already use, like Workday and SAP. Saba and SumTotal migrations onto Cornerstone are routine for us. xAPI is our default for new content, and SCORM stays supported where you still need it.
How do you handle access and our data?
You provision our access, you scope it, and you can revoke it in a click. We work to least privilege: the minimum role needed for the work in front of us, never standing admin we don't use. Your data stays in your Cornerstone tenant and the systems you already own; we don't copy it out to run our own tooling. We'll sign your NDA and DPA before anyone logs in, and we'll walk your security team through the access model on a call. Send procurement questions to security@skill-loop.com and a senior consultant answers, not a form.

Tell us what you've inherited.

A few sentences is plenty. A senior consultant, not a sales rep, replies within one business day. If we can't help, we'll say so and point you somewhere that can.

Reply within one business day, from Dave, a senior Cornerstone consultant, not a sales rep.