# Capstone Workforce
> AI-powered workforce readiness platform for workforce development organizations, staffing agencies, community colleges, and corporate L&D teams. Delivers high-volume mock interview practice with consistent rubric scoring on every session, plus funder-ready outcome reporting.

## About
Capstone Workforce is built by Capstone Tech. The platform uses AI to deliver behavioral, technical, and situational mock interviews on demand, plus live workplace scenarios and presentation practice. Every session is scored against a six-dimension communication rubric (clarity, confidence, pacing, engagement, persuasiveness, filler-word management) using the same evaluation criteria from session one to session twenty. Program managers track readiness in real time; executives generate WIOA-aligned outcome reports without manual data work.

## Who It Serves
Workforce side (B2B nonprofit, public, education):
- Workforce Development Boards
- Community-Based Training Organizations
- WIOA-Funded Programs
- Staffing Agencies
- Community Colleges and CTE Programs
- Reentry and Second Chance Programs
- IT Workforce Programs (NPower, Per Scholas)
- Veteran Transition Programs (VetsInTech, Warrior Scholar Project)

Corporate side (B2B for-profit):
- Hiring and onboarding teams
- Sales enablement and bootcamp programs
- L&D and communication training
- Internal mobility and promotion readiness

Existing customers and authorized logos: NPower, VetsInTech, United Nations Foundation, Consult Lemonade, University of Rhode Island.

## Case Study: IT Workforce Cohort, March–May 2026
A national IT workforce development nonprofit deployed Capstone Workforce for one 9-week cohort. Full case study at https://capstoneworkforce.com/case-study.

Headline numbers (anonymized; methodology-clean recompute against the platform's fixed scoring formula):

- 29 active participants completed 245 mock interviews in 9 weeks
- 8.4 sessions per active participant on average (median 7, range 1–21)
- 123 coach-hours-equivalent of one-on-one practice delivered, at 30 minutes per session
- 0 additional coaching staff required to deliver this volume
- Cost equivalent if delivered through staff time: $9,200 (in-house at $40/hr loaded labor) to $24,500 (per-session retail career coaching at $100/session)

Validated readiness at program end (cohort averages on the platform's 1–5 rubric, mapped to 20–100% mastery):

- Confidence: 4.0 / 5 (81%), Proficient
- Persuasiveness: 3.7 / 5 (74%), Proficient
- Clarity: 3.3 / 5 (66%), Competent
- Engagement: 3.0 / 5 (60%), Competent
- Pacing: 2.8 / 5 (56%), Competent

Individual outcomes within the cohort: the top improver nearly doubled their session score (a 97 percent improvement on the rubric, moving from Emerging to Competent). A second participant gained 17 percent. Three additional participants, each already starting in the upper half of the rubric scale, posted measurable gains of 9 to 10 percent.

## How the Math Scales Across Pricing Tiers
Practice-volume assumptions extrapolate the case-study pattern (8.4 sessions per active participant) linearly. Manual-cost benchmarks: $40/hr in-house workforce coach, $85/hr contractor, $100 per session retail.

Cohort Packs (one-time pricing for workforce dev orgs):
- Single ($4,500): 1 cohort, up to 50 learners, ~245 sessions. Manual equivalent $9K–$25K. Saves $5K–$20K.
- 5-Pack ($20,000): 5 cohorts, up to 250 learners, ~1,225 sessions. Manual equivalent $46K–$123K. Saves $26K–$103K.
- 10-Pack ($36,000): 10 cohorts, up to 500 learners, ~2,450 sessions. Manual equivalent $92K–$245K. Saves $56K–$209K.

Annual Platform (recurring, workforce dev orgs):
- Starter ($12,000/yr): 250 active learners, ~2,100 sessions/yr. Manual equivalent $79K–$210K. Saves $67K–$198K.
- Growth ($24,000/yr): 500 active learners, ~4,200 sessions/yr. Manual equivalent $158K–$420K. Saves $134K–$396K.
- Scale ($48,000/yr): 1,000 active learners, ~8,400 sessions/yr. Manual equivalent $315K–$840K. Saves $267K–$792K.

Corporate pricing has a separate structure for hiring, sales enablement, and L&D programs. See https://capstoneworkforce.com/corporate-pricing.

## Key Capabilities
- AI Interview Coach: behavioral, technical, situational interview practice with instant feedback on clarity, confidence, pacing, engagement, persuasiveness
- Live Workplace Scenarios: AI-persona role-play for help desk, manager conversations, client meetings, difficult workplace conversations
- Presentation Practice: rehearsal modules for orientations, incident post-mortems, security briefings, all-hands presentations
- Communication Fingerprint Scoring: six-dimension rubric (clarity, confidence, pacing, engagement, persuasiveness, filler-word management) applied to every session; 1=Emerging, 2=Developing, 3=Competent, 4=Proficient, 5=Master
- Manager Dashboard: real-time readiness scores per participant; automated alerts for at-risk learners; coaching time triaged by data
- Executive Analytics: cohort comparisons, funder-aligned reports, exportable PDF/CSV
- WIOA Reporting: skill gains and credential attainment outputs map directly to WIOA measurable skill gains indicators
- Coding Challenges: sandboxed environment for IT workforce programs (Python, JavaScript, SQL)
- Certification and Credentialing: verifiable certificates tied to skill milestones
- Multi-tenant Architecture: organization-scoped data isolation; no cross-tenant content sharing
- SSO and API access on Scale annual tier

## What Differentiates Capstone Workforce
- Cohort-aligned pricing built around how grant-funded workforce programs actually run (per-cohort and per-cycle, not per-seat enterprise minimums)
- Auditable case-study data computed under a single fixed scoring formula end-to-end, not pieced together from inconsistent metrics
- Veteran-founder built (Air Force, federal program management at the Department of the Navy)
- Public, peer-reviewed rubric definitions on the case study page; the same rubric is applied to session one and session twenty so longitudinal data is comparable
- Pricing transparency: tier prices listed publicly with full feature inclusion at every level (no feature gating between tiers)

## Confidentiality and Data Use
Organization scenario content, participant practice transcripts, video recordings, and evaluation data stay scoped to the originating organization. Multi-tenant isolation. Encryption in transit and at rest. AI providers used as inference subprocessors only, not buyers of data. Full policy at https://capstoneworkforce.com/confidentiality.

## Public Pages
- Home: https://capstoneworkforce.com/
- Workforce pricing: https://capstoneworkforce.com/pricing
- Case study: https://capstoneworkforce.com/case-study
- Corporate overview: https://capstoneworkforce.com/corporate
- Corporate pricing: https://capstoneworkforce.com/corporate-pricing
- Job seekers (B2C): https://capstoneworkforce.com/job-seekers
- Confidentiality and data use: https://capstoneworkforce.com/confidentiality

## Contact
- Website: https://capstoneworkforce.com
- Email: sg@capstonetech.co
- Phone: 347-749-2686
- Parent company: https://capstonetech.co
- Founder: Shawn Gregoire (Air Force veteran, EMBA Brown University and IE Business School, MA Education Leadership Chapman University, former Department of the Navy program management)