Capstone Workforce vs Geographic Solutions

The local practice and compliance layer beneath the state system.

Geographic Solutions builds the statewide workforce system: labor exchange, case management, ETPL, and the federal submission. Capstone Workforce gives the programs and boards inside that system their own number, this week, plus the scored practice that moves it. Here is where the two sit relative to each other.

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How the categories differ

What Capstone Workforce adds that a state workforce system is not designed to give a local program

Your number this week, computed locally, before the state cycle closes

Geographic Solutions builds the state workforce system: the labor exchange, WIOA case management, ETPL administration, and the federal PIRL submission on the state's schedule. A local program sees its performance when the state reports it. Capstone Workforce computes the six indicators for your cohorts continuously against your negotiated targets, and ranks the participants who can still close a gap before the window shuts.

The practice that produces measurable skill gains, at cohort scale

A state MIS records a skill gain a case manager entered. Capstone Workforce runs the mock interviews, workplace scenarios, and presentation practice, scores every session on a six-dimension rubric, and materializes the skill-gain evidence from the sessions themselves. In its first deployment, NPower ran 245 scored sessions in nine weeks with zero added staff.

Verified placements with participant and employer attestation

State wage-record matching confirms employment two quarters late. Capstone Workforce sends a short attestation to the participant and, where configured, the employer at placement, and stores the response with the record, so a program has evidence for its funders months before the wage match lands.

Reads the state export; never asks you to re-key it

Programs export the participant roster from the state system and import it into Capstone with a saved column mapping. Raw rows are stored untouched, enrollments and events materialize from them, and a mapping correction recomputes history without re-parsing.

Sovereignty tiers for boards and state agencies

Multi-tenant SaaS by default, with GovCloud, buyer-hosted, and metadata-only connector tiers for agencies that cannot put participant records in a shared cloud. The same calculation engine runs in every tier; only where the data lives changes.

Runs beneath the state system; does not replace it

Capstone Workforce does not do labor exchange, eligibility determination, ETPL administration, or the state's federal submission. Local boards and providers that operate inside a Geographic Solutions state system add Capstone for the coaching, the local indicator math, and the funder-format reporting the state system does not produce for them.

Which platform sits where in the workforce system

Geographic Solutions typically handles

  • The statewide labor exchange and job-seeker registration.
  • WIOA eligibility, case management, and the Individual Employment Plan.
  • Eligible Training Provider List administration and ITA tracking.
  • The state's quarterly and annual federal submission and wage-record matching.

Capstone Workforce typically handles

  • Rubric-scored interview, scenario, and presentation practice for each cohort.
  • The six indicators and Pell 70/70 rates for the local program, computed continuously against negotiated targets.
  • The intervention queue: who can still close which gap before which window.
  • Attested placements and funder-format exports for boards, grantors, and executive directors.

Local boards and providers keep the state system as the system of record and import the roster into Capstone. The state gets its submission on its schedule; the program gets its own number every week and the practice that moves it.

See it on your state export

30 minutes. Your roster, your negotiated levels, your funder's format.

Bring one cohort's export from the state system. We will import it live, show the six indicators against your targets, open the intervention queue, and walk through the outcome report with your fields.

Local indicator math
Intervention queue
Attested placements
CSV import, no migration

Common questions from boards and providers

Is Capstone Workforce an alternative to Geographic Solutions?

No. Geographic Solutions builds statewide workforce systems: the labor exchange, WIOA case management, Eligible Training Provider List administration, and the federal reporting the state submits. Capstone Workforce is the coaching and local outcome layer for the programs and boards operating inside that system. Most buyers who evaluate both run Capstone beneath their state system.

Why would a program need Capstone if the state system already reports WIOA performance?

The state reports on the state's cycle, in the state's format, for the state's purposes. A local program needs to know where it stands this week, which participants can still close a gap, and how to report to its own funders, board, and grantors in their formats. Capstone computes the indicators locally and continuously, and exports in funder formats.

Can Capstone Workforce import from a Geographic Solutions export?

Yes. Export the participant roster as CSV, map the columns once in the import wizard, and the mapping profile is saved for subsequent imports. Enrollment, exit, service, and credential data materialize into the compliance dashboard.

Does Capstone Workforce integrate directly with the state system?

Phase 1 is CSV import with saved mappings, which every state system can produce. Direct integrations and state wage-record matching are on the roadmap and depend on the state's data-sharing agreements.

What does the pricing look like?

Cohort Packs start at $4,500 per 16-week cycle for up to 50 participants. Annual Platform plans start at $12,000 per year for 250 active learners. The WIOA compliance module is an add-on, with GovCloud and buyer-hosted tiers priced separately. Full pricing is public at capstoneworkforce.com/pricing.

Do you have a case study?

Yes. In a nine-week deployment with NPower, an IT workforce nonprofit, the platform delivered 245 rubric-scored mock interviews with zero added staff, and the cohort exited at Proficient-level Confidence on the published rubric. The full write-up is on the case study page.

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