Building the Human Intelligence Layer
Because people and organizations cannot navigate the age of AI without a trusted understanding of human experience.
Gobekli gives individuals the tools to navigate their careers and enables organizations to succeed in AI transformation by helping both create living, trusted sources of truth about human experience. These sources give people, systems, and AI the context they need to make better decisions and improve together.
Human intelligence remains the last analog layer of our digital world.
Organizations have digitized their finances, operations, customers, products, and technology. Yet most still understand people through résumés, job titles, degrees, surveys, performance reviews, and disconnected records.
These signals were always incomplete. AI has now exposed how fragile they are.
People can generate more applications, content, and credentials than ever before. Organizations can collect more data and deploy more powerful systems. But neither side has gained a clearer, more trusted understanding of human experience, capability, work, goals, or growth.
This is not only a hiring problem. It is a human representation problem.
Until people can create trusted sources of truth about themselves, they cannot use AI effectively to navigate their careers. Until organizations develop a shared understanding of their people and work, they cannot guide AI transformation with confidence.
What is the human intelligence layer?
The human intelligence layer is the shared infrastructure that makes human experience understandable and useful to people, organizations, systems, and AI.
It connects what people have experienced, learned, created, contributed, and demonstrated with what they are doing now and where they want to go next. It preserves the context and evidence behind that intelligence while giving individuals meaningful ownership and control.
For individuals, it becomes a living source of truth they can use to understand themselves, navigate their careers, pursue opportunities, and grow.
For organizations, it becomes a living source of truth about people, teams, work, capabilities, and needs that can guide decisions, organizational change, and AI transformation.
Gobekli is building the products, data structures, interfaces, and trusted connections that make this layer possible.
How Gobekli turns human experience into useful intelligence
The Talent Tree provides the shared structure
The Talent Tree organizes the many dimensions of human experience and capability without reducing a person to a score, title, or list of skills. It connects experiences, activities, roles, capabilities, motivations, evidence, goals, and growth so their relationships remain visible.
Pythia helps people create and use that intelligence
Pythia is Gobekli’s conversational AI interface. It helps people reflect on their experiences, articulate what they know and can do, identify meaningful patterns, and turn lived experience into structured intelligence.
Pythia does not replace human judgment. It helps people and organizations make better use of it by grounding AI in trusted human context.
Profiles make intelligence useful in context
No single profile can represent an entire person or organization. Gobekli enables people and teams to create different profiles for different goals while drawing from the same trusted source of truth. Profiles can support career opportunities, team development, hiring, learning, advancement, workforce planning, and organizational transformation without requiring people to rebuild or surrender their identities each time.
Passport Pages create trusted connections
Passport Pages enable permissioned, two-way exchange between people and the organizations that employ, educate, credential, serve, or support them. Individuals control what they share. Organizations can provide records, resources, guidance, opportunities, and feedback. Both sides gain better context without creating another isolated data silo.
What we built with them:
One human intelligence layer with two connected sides
TalentPass for individuals
TalentPass helps people create and control a living source of truth about their work, learning, experiences, capabilities, goals, and growth.
People use that intelligence with Pythia to understand themselves, navigate their careers, prepare for change, demonstrate what they can do, and pursue opportunities throughout their lives.
TalentSync for organizations
TalentSync helps organizations create a shared, continuously evolving understanding of their people, teams, work, capabilities, and needs.
Leaders use that intelligence to align teams, uncover active and latent talent, identify gaps, redesign work, guide employee development, and succeed in AI transformation.
Together, they create a continuous feedback loop
TalentPass helps people understand and develop themselves. TalentSync helps organizations understand and improve their teams and work. Passport Pages allow both sides to exchange trusted context with permission.
As people learn, contribute, and adapt, the organization gains a clearer understanding of what is happening. As the organization changes, people receive better context, guidance, and opportunities. Each side helps the other improve.
People gain clarity, ownership, and growth.
Organizations gain visibility, alignment, and outcomes.
As more people and institutions participate, the system improves for everyone — creating a durable network effect across work, learning, and public service.
Built on an open foundation of trust
Gobekli builds on Learning and Employment Records, verifiable credentials, and interoperable data standards. These technologies allow trusted information about learning, work, qualifications, and achievement to move across institutions while remaining connected to the individual.
Gobekli turns that portable data into something more useful. It connects verified records with lived experience, context, evidence, reflection, and goals to create human intelligence that people and organizations can understand and apply.
This allows Gobekli to work with existing education, workforce, HR, and enterprise systems rather than becoming another closed source of truth.
Why Gobekli Exists:
Human value can no longer be inferred from titles, credentials, keywords, or other incomplete signals. It has to be understood through experience, context, evidence, and continued dialogue.
We believe the age of AI should give people greater agency rather than reduce them to data points. We believe organizations should become more intelligent by understanding their people, not merely monitoring them. We believe people should be able to carry trusted knowledge about themselves across the institutions and systems that shape their lives.
Gobekli exists to build that foundation.
The future depends on our ability to adapt,
and adaptability begins with understanding.
Our People
Lead and designed by:
Danny Done (Founder/CEO)
Seasoned founder, lifelong entrepreneur and digital experience designer, former self-accredited homeschool student turned college student body president with a degree in Comparative History of Ideas from University of Washington
Engineered and built by:
Kayode Ezike (Co-founder/CTO)
Believer in building systems that empower people. MIT Masters of Engineering, leading expert in Verifiable Credential, LER, and human distributed data technologies.
Growth spearheaded by:
Beth Ardner (VP of Growth)
Edtech innovator and alliance builder. Expert in learning systems sales, relationship management, and product development. Monetization and launch strategist.
Pythia Experience Lead By:
J Wolf
Guides the voice, behavior, and evolution of Pythia across TalentPass and TalentSync. Focused on user feedback, conversational quality, system coherence, and continuous improvement of Gobekli’s AI interface.
Ken Cavallon
Docusign Founding Employee/ SAAS GTM/Fundraising Advisor
Phillip Long
LER Architecture Advisor US Chamber Foundation
Wallace Boston
Academic Industry Advisor / President Emeritus at American Public University System
Charlie Pascal
Legal
Advisor
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We work with individuals, employers, schools, workforce organizations, technology providers, researchers, and public institutions that want to make human intelligence more trustworthy, portable, and useful.
Whether you want to pilot Gobekli, integrate with our infrastructure, contribute to the emerging ecosystem, or challenge our thinking, we would like to hear from you.
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