Role 1318
Careerbook
The AI Platform Powering Workforce Management, Engagement For Companies & Education Events Booking Platform
Executive Summary
Careerbook is an AI-powered workforce management and training coordination platform that enables enterprise organisations to understand, manage and optimise how their staff work, attend training, engage with events and maintain compliance.
Most organisations still rely on fragmented systems to manage workforce training, internal events and professional development, resulting in significant manual administration, poor visibility of engagement and growing compliance risk. Careerbook replaces this with a single intelligent platform that automates administration, provides real-time insight into workforce behaviour, and improves operational decision-making.
Beyond internal workforce management, Careerbook also operates a global marketplace for live webinars, courses and professional education events, allowing organisations and educators to publish, distribute and monetise learning at scale. With 200+ organisations onboarded, 90,000+ users, 100% retention and rapid month-on-month growth, Careerbook is emerging as a category-defining platform at the intersection of workforce operations, learning, events and AI-driven insight.
The Problem
Organisations lack clear visibility into how their workforce actually works and engages with training, events and professional development.
Today:
- Workforce training is managed through LMS tools that track content, not behaviour
- Enterprise organisations spend over 30,000+ hours a year and £1.5M coordinating staff shifts, training and L&D using fragmented and poorly automated systems
- Engagement is inferred rather than measured
- Compliance reporting is manual, time-consuming and increasingly risky
As a result, leadership teams struggle to answer fundamental questions:
- Who attended — and who didn’t?
- Which teams or departments are disengaging?
- Where are compliance and staffing risks emerging?
- Which training, rotas or events are actually effective?
- How can workforce scheduling and training be optimised based on real behaviour?
The Solution
Careerbook brings workforce management, engagement monitoring and professional events into one AI-powered system.
The platform enables organisations to:
- Manage workforce training, courses, rotas and internal events end-to-end
- Track attendance via QR codes, e-signature and GPS
- Monitor real engagement, not just completion
- Automate reminders, alerts, certificates and feedback collection
- Access real-time dashboards covering attendance, lateness, absence and compliance
- Use AI to identify patterns, flag risk early and optimise scheduling and training delivery
In parallel, Careerbook operates a global booking marketplace where organisations and educators can host, promote and deliver:
- Live webinars
- Courses and certifications
- Conferences and professional education events
All attendance, engagement and booking data feeds into a single intelligence layer, creating a unified view of workforce behaviour and learning activity.
What Makes Careerbook Different
Careerbook does not simply manage content or bookings — it captures how people actually behave and uses AI to optimise workforce performance.
Key differentiators include:
- Behaviour-driven workforce intelligence, not static LMS reporting
- End-to-end engagement data across work, training and events
- Early-warning AI for lateness, absence and compliance risk
- High switching costs created by embedded operational workflows
- Network effects driven by the global learning and events marketplace
This creates a growing AI data moat that improves insight, prediction and optimisation as the platform scales.
Traction & Validation
- 200+ organisations live
- 90,000+ users and views
- 5,000+ events hosted
- 12,000+ bookings
- 4 NHS Trusts live, with 10+ more in advanced pipeline stages
- 100% retention among paying organisations
- £6k MRR and accelerating
- 60%+ month-on-month growth
Careerbook is currently expanding geographically and into additional regulated and professional sectors.
Business Model
Careerbook operates four scalable revenue streams:
- Enterprise level subscriptions (often 200-3,000 staff)
- Monthly subscription (using features on marketplace)
- Booking and transaction fees, purchasing paid events on marketplace
- Advertising to users on live-streaming
The model is designed for predictable, high-margin recurring revenue.
Market Opportunity
- £200B+ global workforce training and professional education market
- Initial focus on regulated industries (healthcare, enterprise)
- Expansion into corporate L&D, legal, finance, construction and energy
- Global distribution via the professional events and learning marketplace
Founding Team
Dr James Wallner – CEO & Founder
Emergency Medicine Doctor | MSc in Economics
Deep frontline experience in regulated workforce environments
Stephen Francis – CTO & Founder
Oxford Graduate | 30+ years in software engineering
Previously exited founder
Opportunity for Investing Non-Executive Directors
Careerbook is seeking 3–4 Investing Non-Executive Directors / Advisors to support:
- Strategic scale-up
- Enterprise and international expansion
- Governance and fundraising
- Marketplace growth
Time commitment: ~2–3 days per month
Investment: £25k–£50k per NED
Structure: SEIS / EIS (where applicable)
Applying for the Role: Please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to express your interest.
Closing date for applications: 4 weeks from today
