Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered workforce agility and talent marketplace platform that helps organizations redeploy internal talent, map skills, identify career paths, and match employees to projects, roles, gigs, and learning opportunities.
- Highest 2026 tier: Tier II
- Workforce strategy and people-analytics provider
- Workforce Strategy Advisory
Overview
Gloat is an AI-powered workforce agility and talent marketplace platform that helps organizations redeploy internal talent, map skills, identify career paths, and match employees to projects, roles, gigs, and learning opportunities. The firm supports companies seeking to make better use of existing workforce capability.
Its relevance to workforce strategy comes from the shift toward skills-based organizations. Instead of treating jobs as fixed boxes, Gloat helps enterprises understand employee skills and deploy talent more flexibly across business needs. This makes it relevant to organizations trying to improve internal mobility, reduce unnecessary external hiring, and align workforce capability with changing strategic priorities.
Gloat is included in one 2026 Advisory Ranking category. The highest recorded classification is Tier II.
Firm facts
| Founded | 2015 |
| Firm type | Workforce strategy and people-analytics provider |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Primary focus | Workforce planning, organization design and people analytics |
| Highest 2026 Advisory Ranking tier | Tier II |
Principal activities
Strategic workforce planning
Demand and supply forecasting, skills planning and scenario analysis.
Organization and skills intelligence
Organization design, job architecture and skills taxonomies.
People analytics
Workforce data, benchmarking, planning platforms and decision support.
Gloat works with clients on assignments that may combine strategy, specialist analysis, implementation support and organizational adoption. The precise scope depends on the mandate, sector, geography and client requirements.
Sector and mandate coverage
Sector coverage
- Technology
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Consumer markets
- Industrials
- Public sector
Mandate types
- Workforce planning
- Organization design
- Skills intelligence
- People analytics
- Talent marketplaces
- Workforce productivity
Market position
Gloat is positioned as a workforce strategy and people-analytics provider. Its relevance reflects the combination of specialist capability, institutional experience and practical involvement in consequential strategic or corporate decisions.
Distinctive focus: Its relevance to workforce strategy comes from the shift toward skills-based organizations.
Competitive context
Gloat competes with specialist strategy advisers, executive-services firms, transaction advisers, analytics providers and larger multidisciplinary professional-services firms. The relevant peer set varies by mandate, industry, client segment, geographic scope and delivery model.
Comparable firms are selected according to overlap in business model, client segment, service coverage, geographic activity and mandate profile. Inclusion does not imply equivalence in scale, ranking or market position.
Leadership
| Person | Current position | Institutional background |
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Leadership information reflects the public sources reviewed for this profile. View the firm’s website ↗
Corporate and regulatory information
Gloat provides advisory, executive, analytical, transaction, managed or technology services. The contracting entity, professional obligations and regulatory status depend on the service, client jurisdiction and engagement scope.
View registered-entity details
| Service status | Advisory, executive, analytical, transaction or technology services |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
Principal offices
- New York, United States
Rankings and recognition
Ranking inclusion is editorially determined. The existence or maintenance of a Wiki profile does not influence ranking eligibility, tier or position.
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Related institutions and subjects
Sources and data transparency
The profile is based on the following publicly available institutional, regulatory and editorial sources:
- Gloat — official firm overview and service information.
- Advisory Ranking — Top 30 Workforce Strategy Advisory 2026 — inclusion and tier classification.
