• With a new reasoning model, Galileo™ Mercury release now features "chain of thought" processing for advanced AI capability. A New "Consultant Mode" transforms Galileo into an HR and organizational consultant.


• Vast datasets of jobs, skills, salaries, and employment data, from Lightcast and SHL, enable salary benchmarking, skills assessment, and workforce planning, making Galileo a top talent intelligence and compensation benchmarking platform


• Now used by 200+ global organizations less than a year after its 2024 debut

OAKLAND, Calif., April 9, 2025 -- The Josh Bersin Company, the world's most trusted human capital advisory firm, today unveils major upgrades to its AI-powered expert HR Assistant, Galileo™, delivering enhanced functionality, deeper data insights, expanded use cases, smarter coaching, and advanced leadership development capabilities.

The newest release of the HR advisory sector's smartest professional AI agent, Mercury—built on 25+ years of Josh Bersin Company expertise—now delivers unmatched, 24/7 support and deeply personalized resourcing for HR practitioners.

This move builds on the momentum of Galileo's Professional version launch in October, adding even more power to the platform with:

• A built-in Reasoning Engine within the core Sana-based Galileo platform enables "chain of thought" multi-step tasks, bringing it closer to full Agentic AI.


• Integration with Lightcast's unparalleled global labor market data—leveraging billions of real-time data points for the world's clearest picture of occupations and skills— lets Galileo users benchmark salaries, analyze job markets by location, and use Galileo as a talent intelligence system. Users can ask, "Compare these pay levels to market salaries" or "Which cities are best for hiring these roles, and why?"


• Introduction of the Meeting Assistant, allowing Galileo Pro users to integrate Galileo into web-based meetings, record discussions, and leverage data for candidate analysis, project summaries, and team productivity.


• Integration of SHL's industry-leading skills model, the renowned Universal Competency Framework. Backed by millions of talent decisions, SHL provides validated behavioral skills insights to help Galileo users identify skills that drive success in any role, create succession plans, nurture leaders, and target development strategies.


• Introduction of "Intelligent Benchmarking," a new consultant mode that transforms Galileo into an HR or organizational consultant, initially focused on helping HR leaders and teams benchmark their programs against the Josh Bersin Company maturity models.
  
  

These enhancements expand Galileo's powerful content ecosystem—backed by decades of Josh Bersin Company research, and enterprise-grade tools, data, and AI capabilities. Now adopted by over 200 organizations and thousands of individual users, including Conagra Brands and Rolls-Royce, Galileo enables HR teams to elevate their work and careers like never before.

Integrating these new features and databases into Galileo empowers HR teams with advanced capabilities, allowing them to:

• Find, hire, and onboard the perfect candidate—Upload resumes and a job description, and Galileo will instantly analyze applicant data, identify key skills, and generate a ranked table of candidates with strengths and weaknesses. It will also build custom behavioral interviews along with interview guides, onboarding plans, and development plans for new staff.


• Set fair and competitive pay with confidence—Galileo quickly assesses market pay by location and role, helping HR set a target salary or benchmark company pay programs to help HR teams identify pay gaps, ensure equity, and align compensation with shifting market conditions.


• Source talent in key locations—Need a chemical engineer in three specific cities? By combining proprietary, real-time labor market intelligence (Lightcast) with The Josh Bersin Company research corpus, Galileo identifies salary benchmarks, local job title variations, active employers, and skill availability in each region. This supports location planning, local sourcing, and ad placement for hiring.


• Find and develop leaders—Gain insights into the core behavioral skills that define great leadership. By uploading employee profiles and interview data, Galileo can apply the world's leading leadership capability model (SHL) to assess who is ready for leadership, build development plans for leaders, and even coach leaders themselves on any workplace or employee challenge.


• Self-assess organizational maturity—Gain insight into your company's standing across key HR domains like Talent Acquisition and Employee Experience. Galileo's "Consultant Mode" helps HR teams evaluate HR program maturity and provides detailed, personalized action plans based on Bersin Company maturity models.

With these additions, Galileo cements its status as the ultimate problem-solving and professional development tool for HR practitioners.

Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, says:

"Galileo's Mercury release is a monumental upgrade, achieving levels of intelligence and problem-solving that exceeded even our expectations. Now Galileo can turn every HR professional into a Superworker, improving their skills, problem-solving abilities, and access to tools and data. The entire HR profession will be changed."

"Even I was surprised by what it could do. I recently uploaded 30 interviews with Chief Learning Officers and Galileo gave me a comprehensive analysis of each company, then built a detailed roadmap for each company's migration to AI."

"The key takeaway is this: HR professionals now have access to insights and capabilities that organizations typically spend millions on—whether from AI-driven talent intelligence, human capital frameworks, or L&D content libraries—all powered by the latest AI and delivered instantly at their fingertips."

To explore the Galileo Mercury upgrade for yourself, your team, or your organization, visit www.joshbersin.com/galileo for more detail and to gain immediate access. If you are a Galileo user, you already have access to these enhancements.

About Lightcast
Lightcast provides trusted global labor market data, analytics, and expert guidance that empowers communities, corporations, and learning providers to make informed decisions and navigate the increasingly complex world of work. With a database of more than 2.5 billion job postings and career profiles, our team provides best-in-class customer service with robust data, clear analysis, and expert guidance on skills, jobs, and opportunities.

Lightcast is active in more than 30 countries and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and India. The company is backed by global private equity leader KKR. For more, visit lightcast.io.

About SHL
SHL, the global leader in Talent Insight, transforms businesses by leveraging the power of people, science, and technology. Our unrivalled, scientifically backed workforce data and highly validated talent solutions provide organizations with the insights needed to optimally leverage their people's potential and maximize business outcomes. We equip recruiters and leaders with people insights at an organization, team, and individual level, accelerating growth, decision-making, and talent mobility and inspiring an inclusive culture that supports game-changing agility. For more information, visit shl.com.

About The Josh Bersin Company
The most trusted human capital advisors in the world. More than a million HR and business leaders rely on us to help them overcome their greatest people challenges.

Thanks to our understanding of workplace issues, informed by the largest, and most up-to-date data sets on workers and employees, we give leaders the confidence to make decisions in line with the latest thinking and evidence about work and the workplace. We're great listeners, too. There's no one like us, who understands this area so comprehensively and without bias.

Our offerings include the industry's leading AI-powered HR expert assistant, Galileo™, fueled by 25 years of in-depth Josh Bersin Company research, case studies, benchmarks, and market information.

We help CHROs and CEOs be better at delivering their business goals. We do that by helping you to manage people better. We are enablers at our core. We provide strategic advice and counsel supported by in-depth research, thought leadership, and unrivaled professional development, community and networking opportunities.

We empower our clients to run their businesses better. And we empower the market by identifying results-driven practices that make work better for every person on the planet.

For more information, visit www.joshbersin.com

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