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Know what your people can actually do.

Most talent calls run on CV keywords, annual reviews and gut feel. CASA, RUBIQ's capability-assessment engine, measures real capability against the roles you define, so you can grow the people you already have, hire on proof, and see the skills hiding across your business.

Built for
  • Capability assessment
  • Development plans
  • Team heat-maps
  • Recruitment screening
ISO 27001:2022 Certification Ready · POPIA & GDPR aligned

Measured, not guessed

You can't grow what you can't measure.

CASA measures each person's capability against the level the role actually requires, not the keywords on a CV or a once-a-year rating. Where they clear the bar, you know it. Where they fall short, the gap turns into a specific development action, so you develop the right thing in the right person.

CASA Capability map Role under review Solutions Architect measured against its own baseline
  1. Cloud architecture Clears the role baseline Held
  2. Delivery & operations Clears the role baseline Held
  3. Stakeholder leadership Clears the role baseline Held
  4. Security & compliance Cloud-security certification path Develop
  5. Data engineering Pipeline build, mentored Develop
3 held 2 gaps 2 development plans Every gap is a specific action, not a generic training budget.
An illustrative CASA capability profile for a Solutions Architect role. Each competency is measured against the level the role requires (the baseline marker). Cloud architecture, delivery and stakeholder leadership clear the baseline and are held; security and compliance and data engineering fall short, and each shortfall becomes a named development action.

From a score to a plan

A rating tells you where someone sits. CASA tells you what to do about it: the same measurement that finds the gap prescribes the development action and sets the date to re-assess, so progress is something you can check, not hope for.

Where the AI workforce lives

One engine, every talent decision

Develop the people you have. Hire the ones you need.

CASA measures capability for both journeys, OneLake holds the people data, and KNECT onboards new hires into a sovereign vault. Two journeys, one engine: the talent you already have and the talent you bring in run on the same governed record and answer to the same board.

The board view

Group capability, gaps and readiness, on one screen.

Surfaced in KAIRO
Develop your people the talent you already have
  1. 1 Assessa capability campaign
  2. 2 Find the gapagainst the role baseline
  3. 3 Plana development plan per person
  4. 4 Growtargeted, tracked learning

Re-assess on a cycle, so progress is measured

Grow and keep the people you already have, instead of always buying skills in.

Hire the right people the talent you bring in
  1. 1 Define the rolethe bar to clear
  2. 2 Screen CVsmatched to the role, not keywords
  3. 3 Assessstructured, before the offer
  4. 4 Verifydecide on proof
  5. 5 Onboardinto a sovereign vaultKNECT

Hire on proven capability, and start them on a clean, governed record.

OneLake The HR data foundation
Ingested, deduplicated and normalised into one governed record per person

One continuous record, the Golden Thread of trust under every talent decision.

The talent engine. On the OneLake HR data foundation, two journeys run on one governed record: developing existing people is a continuous loop (assess, find the gap, plan, grow, re-assess); hiring new people is a gated funnel (define the role, screen CVs, assess, verify, then onboard into a sovereign vault with KNECT). Both surface to one board view of group capability, gaps and readiness inside KAIRO.

Governed, and fair

Your people's data, handled with care.

Talent data is the most sensitive data a business holds. CASA is powerful with it and careful with it: governed at the source, private by design, and human at every decision.

ISO 27001:2022 Certification Ready · POPIA & GDPR aligned Built around POPIA, with B-BBEE and employment-equity reporting from the same record.
  1. Your people data, in one governed place

    OneLake ingests CVs, HR records and certifications from across the business, removes the duplicates and normalises the formats into one clean record per person. The talent you already have stops hiding in spreadsheets, local drives and separate hiring systems.

  2. Their identity stays theirs

    Candidates and employees load their documents into their own sovereign vault. CASA works from a verified result, not a copy of their ID, so you hold the key, not the data. POPIA is built in: consent is recorded, only what is needed is collected, and legacy candidate profiles are deleted on schedule.

  3. Every talent decision stays human

    CASA measures capability and recommends; a manager decides. Nobody is hired, rated or developed by an algorithm on its own, and the assessment is against the role, not the person. Every step is logged, so a development plan or a hiring call can be explained and defended.

  4. Built for South African reporting

    The same governed record carries your B-BBEE skills-development and employment-equity reporting, so the numbers the board and the regulator ask for come out of how talent is already managed, not a separate year-end scramble.

Questions, answered

The short version.

What is RUBIQ's talent management solution?

RUBIQ's talent management solution is CASA, a capability-assessment engine that measures what your people can actually do against the roles you define. It runs on the OneLake HR data foundation, with KNECT holding candidate and employee identity, so you can develop the talent you already have, hire on proven capability, and report on it from one governed record.

How is CASA different from a performance review or a CV screen?

A performance review is a once-a-year opinion and a CV is a list of keywords. CASA runs structured assessment campaigns that measure capability against the level the role requires, names the gap, and prescribes a development action. It assesses your existing staff and external candidates the same way, so the comparison is fair and the result is evidence, not impression.

Can it help us develop the people we already have?

Yes, that is its main job. CASA maps each person's capability to the roles that matter, finds where the gaps are across the business, and surfaces capable people you may not know you have. Each gap becomes an individual development plan with a date to re-assess, so you grow and keep the people you already employ instead of always recruiting from outside.

Where does candidate and employee data live, and is it POPIA-compliant?

Candidate and employee data lives in a sovereign identity vault: the person loads their own documents and CASA works from a verified result, not a stored copy. POPIA is built into the design, with consent recorded, data minimised and legacy candidate profiles deleted on schedule. RUBIQ itself is ISO 27001:2022 Certification Ready and POPIA and GDPR aligned.

Does the AI make hiring or development decisions on its own?

No. CASA measures capability and recommends; a manager makes the call. Nobody is hired, rated or developed by an algorithm on its own, the assessment is against the role rather than the person, and every step is logged, so any decision can be reviewed, explained and defended.

Does it support B-BBEE and employment-equity reporting?

Yes. Because every assessment, development plan and qualification sits on one governed record, your B-BBEE skills-development and employment-equity reporting come out of how talent is already managed, rather than a separate year-end exercise.

Ready when you are

Grow the talent you already have.

A 30-minute discovery call about your people and skills. We look at where capability is hard to see across your business, and show how CASA measures it against the roles you define, then arrange a full demo on your own roles.

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ISO 27001:2022 Certification Ready · POPIA & GDPR aligned