For Workforce Boards & Development Organizations
You spend millions to place people. You still can't see who's ready.
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The 4th Path reveals readiness before the seat is filled - decoding transferable skills and routing people into aligned pathways, so completion, placement, and the numbers you report to funders all move in the right direction.
No pitch deck. A working walkthrough.
The problem
We don't know who is truly ready — and we need better outcomes.
You're funding training and placement at scale. But "enrolled" isn't "ready," and you find out which is which far too late - after the seat is spent and the completion number is already set.
- Low completion. Seats fill with people who aren't aligned to the pathway, and they walk before the credential.
- Poor placement. Off-Resume skills that would transfer go undecoded, so good candidates get sorted into the wrong track.
- Hard to prove impact. Q2/Q4 retention, credentials, and median earnings are what funders grade - and you're reporting them after the fact, not steering toward them.
See readiness before you spend the seat.
The 4th Path workforce infrastructure gives your caseworkers a repeatable way to surface who's truly ready, translate the skills people already have, and route them into pathways they'll actually finish. Your outcomes stop being a surprise at the end of the cycle.
- READINESS, VISIBLE — Know who's aligned on Day One. Intelligence that surfaces fit and readiness up front, so caseworkers design pathways instead of vetting them one resume at a time.
- SKILLS, DECODED — Translate experience nobody else read. Go beyond the resume to map transferable skills, credentials, and capabilities to in-demand roles, producing a portable Skills Passport that follows the participant.
- PROCESS, REPEATABLE — Stop reinventing the wheel. Collective knowledge becomes a standardized system. Your caseworkers do the work of three — without doing it three times over.
- OUTCOMES, REPORTABLE — Move the metrics you're graded on. Completion, placement, retention, and credential attainment tracked automatically — the numbers funders ask for, built in.
From unseen to onsite. That's the path - and now it's a system, not a hope.
Demo — Two minutes. The whole flow.
Watch a participant move from intake to a decoded Skills Passport to an aligned pathway, and see exactly where your completion and placement numbers come from.
How it works
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01 · F-Gap (Discovery & readiness layer) — See readiness.
F-Gap surfaces who's truly ready and aligned before a seat is committed by measuring the distance between where someone is and where they want to be, then turning it into prioritized next steps. You stop guessing at the front door.
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02 · The Forge (Career translation & readiness engine) — Decode skills, build the pathway.
The Forge translates the skills people already have — on the resume and off — into the language of in-demand roles, then routes them toward credentials and work-based learning. Out comes a portable Skills Passport employers actually invest in.
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03 · Keystones (Retention & development layer) — Prove it. Sustain it.
Stackable, verified, reportable credentials track attainment automatically, and ongoing development keeps people on the path past placement, so Q2 and Q4 retention hold. The impact you report is the impact you built.
Outcomes, not engagement dressed up to look like outcomes.
The 4th Path is built around the performance metrics your organization is actually graded on — paid placement that sustains, credentials that report, and earnings that move.
- Q2 + Q4 — Employment retention. Built into the model — paid placement means sustained employment, tracked through.
- Stackable — Credential attainment. Verified, reportable credentials — the Skills Passport tracks it automatically.
- Median $ — Earnings movement. Infrastructure and trades wages move the earnings number — that's the point, not a side effect.
Bring your own program data to the call — we'll map it to exactly these reporting lines.
Help more people succeed — and finally prove it.
Book a focused 15-minute walkthrough. We'll look at one of your programs and show you where readiness, placement, and completion change. No deck.