Cornerstone's latest innovations supporting your human + AI workforce transformation

At HR Tech 2025, we unveiled the next big leap for Cornerstone: a system of AI agents powered by Cornerstone Galaxy AI.

Far more than AI assistants, our agents act as digital teammates: personalized, conversational, and context-aware, built to support employees, managers, and administrators in their daily work.

Why now? Because organizations everywhere are facing two urgent challenges:

1. Adopting AI to unlock productivity, successfully.

1. Preparing their people to work effectively alongside it.

Cornerstone is addressing both.

And we’re doing it not only through our new system of AI agents, but also through advances to our core Cornerstone Galaxy AI technology platform, new AI fluency programs to better prepare employees to work alongside AI, and innovations in content experiences that help organizations unlock ROI from their existing learning investments and deliver learning across modalities.

Here’s a closer look at what we just announced and how it supports human + AI workforce transformation across industries and roles.

Cornerstone's system of AI agents

By putting organizational and employee readiness at the core, Cornerstone’s system of AI agents help organizations align to business needs, keep leaders and employees moving in the same direction, and make outcomes measurable.

These agents act as digital teammates embedded in the flow of work, providing real-time guidance, learning, and support, whether employees are inside Cornerstone or working in familiar tools like Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce.

From building employee confidence, to automating administrator workflows, to modernizing entire content libraries, our system of agents is designed to scale impact.

Conversational AI agents powering personalization and confidence

Learning is no longer one-size-fits-all. Cornerstone AI agents create personalized, conversational, and context-aware learning experiences that adapt to each individual. Delivered through multimodal formats (e.g., VR, voice, and video avatars) learning becomes a transformative experience that accelerates growth.

Whether it’s onboarding into a new role, building new skills, or practicing critical conversations, our agents accelerate finding the right information and training available, at the right time to build confidence and improve performance.

What this can look like in your organization:

• Sales rep: On day one, a new rep can query product pricing strategies, access company-specific playbooks, and even practice competitive objection handling in a simulated environment. Instead of spending weeks shadowing peers, they’re holding confident customer conversations in days.

• Customer service agent: While handling a complex customer issue, an agent can instantly surface the right troubleshooting guide, role-play a tough de-escalation scenario, and get real-time prompts for empathetic phrasing. The result: happier customers and reduced burnout.

• Frontline manufacturing employee: On the shop floor, an employee operating new machinery can run through safety simulations, access step-by-step guides instantly, and receive context-aware alerts when anomalies occur. Training is faster, safer, and downtime is minimized.

The result: Faster ramp times, higher confidence, and stronger performance across the workforce

Agents powering productivity for Cornerstone administrators

It’s not just employees who benefit from agentic AI. Cornerstone admins are freed from repetitive tasks like assignment management, compliance monitoring, and content setup.

Cornerstone admin agents automate all of this, giving administrators the freedom to focus on higher-value work.

For example, an L&D administrator at a global bank needs to roll out a new compliance training to thousands of employees. Normally, it would take days of manual assignment building, spreadsheet tracking, and constant monitoring of completions.

With Cornerstone admin agents, the system automatically suggests the right assignments based on role, applies metadata instantly, and flags high-risk compliance gaps before they become issues. Instead of chasing reports, the admin spends their time designing better learning strategies and supporting the business.

• 40% less time managing assignments.

• 50% less time monitoring compliance with intelligent risk detection and remediation.

• 30% faster content configuration thanks to AI-driven metadata and recommendations.

The result: Administrators have the support to be strategic partners to the business.

Content agents reimagining personalized learning

The future of learning is hyper-personalized, adaptive, and seamless. Cornerstone’s content agents make this possible by transforming static libraries, often locked in formats like SCORM, into conversational experiences.

Cornerstone’s content agents unpack SCORM and long-form formats, converting them into interactive learning aligned to each individual’s skills profile and goals. This capability works across Grovo, customer, and partner content, helping organizations modernize at scale without costly rebuilds.

These agents remix and surface learning content across devices, formats, and modalities. Making learning engaging, impactful, and delivered where your people need it most.

The result: Richer learner experiences, unlocked ROI from existing investments, and a fast path from legacy content to next-gen learning.

AI integrations: Embedding context-aware agents in the flow

Cornerstone Galaxy AI doesn’t stop at creating intelligent, personalized agents. It embeds them directly into the flow of work.

With Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, Cornerstone agents connect seamlessly across platforms and collaborate agent-to-agent, extending learning and productivity into everyday tools like Microsoft and Salesforce. These integrations ensure employees get context-aware guidance exactly where work happens, reducing friction and amplifying impact.

For enterprise IT teams, this approach also simplifies adoption. As organizations experiment with conversational AI and deploy centralized copilots for their employees, Cornerstone Galaxy AI makes it easy to integrate Cornerstone into existing workplace ecosystems.

Whether embedding directly into tools employees already use, powering customer AI copilots, or doing both, Cornerstone Galaxy AI’s expanded integrations deliver a flexible, future-ready platform that meets organizations wherever they are.

The result: Increased adoption, time saved, and increased productivity in the flow of the work

Cornerstone AgentReady: Building trustworthy, compliant AI agents

As enterprises adopt AI to drive efficiency, safety and compliance remain top priorities. This is especially true in HR and talent development where the stakes are high.

To help organizations get the best out of AI while protecting their people, Cornerstone partnered with Salesforce to develop AgentReady, a proprietary, compliant AI technology.

AgentReady goes beyond basic guardrails to ensure agents are truly workforce-ready. Each agent is trained, tested, and certified before deployment, enabling organizations to move beyond low-risk tasks and scale AI into more meaningful, business-critical use cases.

Once in action, agent behavior is continuously monitored, with real-time compliance controls and human oversight providing an additional layer of trust and accountability.

Just as employees develop skills over time, AgentReady helps organizations nurture AI agents with context, training, and feedback so they can safely take on bigger roles.

The result: A foundation of safety, oversight, and adaptability so you can scale AI without sacrificing trust.

Cornerstone Galaxy AI: Core technology platform updates

In addition to launching a new system of AI agents across talent use cases, Cornerstone continues to advance the core technology foundation that makes AI adoption seamless, compliant, and intelligent for our customers.

At the center of this innovation is Cornerstone Galaxy AI, Cornerstone’s trusted core AI technology platform. What makes Cornerstone Galaxy AI unique is its ability to leverage best-in-class AI technology with both global labor market data and an organization’s proprietary data.

The result is a truly personalized, strategic AI engine that adapts to each customer environment and evolves with their workforce.

At the foundation is Cornerstone’s industry-leading AI Skills Engine, powered by SkyHive’s Knowledge Graph and daily scans of terabytes of labor market data.

This engine delivers smarter workforce planning, targeted learning, and clear career paths. Through Cornerstone Workforce Intelligence, available in November 2025, organizations can identify capability gaps against the broader market, plan for the future, and measure success with external context. The result is a skills-driven strategy that connects learning to business outcomes.

The result: An AI platform powered by contextual job and labor market data to better identify and close skills gaps

AI fluency: Preparing every employee to work alongside AI

You can’t unlock the full value of AI if your people don’t know how to use it. The true challenge in creating productivity from AI is organizational rather than technical. We are able to deploy technology much faster than we are able to shift skillsets, mindsets, and behaviors with the people who must use that technology.

That’s why we also announced Cornerstone AI Fluency and Mastery Programs: curated, role-based learning journeys that build confidence with AI at every level.

These offerings include:

• Progressive fluency tracks from beginner to mastery.

• Virtual human coaching and AI-powered role plays.

• Specialized upskilling in generative AI, machine learning, and prompt engineering, supported by a new partnership with Simplilearn (launching Q4 2025).

Every organization embarking on AI transformation can leverage Cornerstone’s ready-to-use AI learning kits, tailored for industries, functions, and roles.

The result: A confident, AI-literate workforce equipped to use AI responsibly, creatively, and at scale.

Final Thoughts

With Cornerstone AI agents, AgentReady, AI Fluency Programs, and Cornerstone Galaxy AI, we’re redefining how organizations adopt AI and prepare their people to thrive alongside it. Cornerstone is providing an AI ecosystem, intelligently designed and deeply integrated.

From frontline teams to functional leaders, from content management to skills development, every piece connects. Our system of AI agents works across your workflows, across your people, and across your organization.

This is what makes Cornerstone different: not just the parts, but the power of the whole.

If you’re ready to move beyond AI experiments and into enterprise transformation, we’d love to show you how. Learn more about Cornerstone Galaxy AI and how our system of AI agents is built for how work works now.