X+ Ontologies

Understanding your organization, industry, and workforce. Guiding every match and decision with clarity, context, and consistency.

Connect the Chaos

Unify fragmented data from disparate sources. Every candidate, every skill, every employee, is integrated into a single knowledge structure that makes connections clear and actionable.

Predict What's Next

AI that understands the unique intricacies of your business and industry. Reveals skill gaps and flight risks before they impact performance and maps career paths with clarity.

Leverage Intelligence, at Scale

Hyper-personalize experiences powered by 200k+ skills, 1.1B candidate profiles, and real-time market insights. Data backing every decision.

X+ Ontologies

Built on over a decade of HR intelligence. Not empty algorithms.

  • 400M jobs
  • 1.1B candidates
  • 1K categories
  • 1.2M companies
  • 200K skills
  • 570K job titles
  • 270K schools
  • 12M locations
  • 50 industries

Knowledge Representation

Disparate workforce data becomes structured intelligence in seconds. Every skill, role, candidate, and employee connected into a unified graph.

LLM Reasoning

Interprets context across every data point. Knows which skills actually matter for each role. Makes inferences humans might miss.

Ontology Feedback

Every hiring decision, promotion, and retirement event makes the system smarter. Context that becomes richer and more impactful as your organization evolves.

AI-Enabled Applications

Intelligence activated across your entire tech stack. From candidate matching to succession planning.

Multi-Agent AI

Specialized agents working in parallel. Sourcing, coaching, planning, and predicting, all done simultaneously.

X+ Ontologies in Practice

Talent Acquisition

From scattered data to precise hiring decisions.

  • WITHOUT X+ ONTOLOGIES

    • Manual resume parsing
    • Static job descriptions
    • Time-intensive sourcing
    • Generic interview guides
    • Manual scheduling

  • WITH X+ ONTOLOGIES

    • AI agents surface best-fit candidates instantly
    • Skills requirements dynamically update jobs descriptions based on market data
    • Conversationally discover talent from 1.1B profiles
    • AI-generated guides tailored to role and evaluation criteria
    • AI Agents manage all calendar coordination across stakeholders

Talent Leader

From hidden potential to clear career paths.

  • WITHOUT X+ ONTOLOGIES

    • Manual skills tracking
    • Generic learning paths
    • Reactive retention efforts
    • Static succession planning
    • Siloed system data

  • WITH X+ ONTOLOGIES

    • Continuously updates monitors and flags skill gaps before business impact
    • Personalized career journeys for every employee
    • Predictive flight risk interventions
    • Team-level insights surface best-fit successors instantly
    • Unified intelligence across all talent stakeholders

X+ Agents powered by X+ Ontologies

From practical applications of agentic AI to addressing specific challenges and industry use cases, including:

Healthcare Sourcing Agent

Deployed to fill critical nursing roles during staff shortages. Discovers, engages, and converts qualified candidates, building a steady pipeline of pre-screened talent.

Retail Scheduling Agent

Resolves district manager's interview conflicts across multiple stores. Contacts candidates with alternatives, provides real-time updates, and follows up to maximize engagement.

Financial Services Talent Strategy Agent

Generates executive dashboards for a VP developing AI growth strategies. Delivers insights on employee distribution, skills gaps, and market conditions with data-driven roadmaps.

Manufacturing Voice Agents

Manages high-volume applicants for assembly line and operator roles through conversational screening. Evaluates candidates against role criteria and presents best-fit talent to recruiters.

Hospitality Skill Assessment Agent

Structures situational interviews for skills-based hiring. Evaluates responses against required competencies and produces prioritized candidate lists ready for formal interviews.

Transportation Retention Agent

Analyzes high attrition among logistics planners. Investigates root causes, rules out compensation issues, and identifies skill gaps—recommending personalized learning plans to improve retention.

Restaurant Interview Compliance Agent

Monitors interviews for legal compliance. Sends real-time warnings about non-compliant comments and recommends training to prevent future legal issues.

Education Preboarding Agent

Streamlines complex compliance for school bus drivers. Validates CDLs, physicals, and clearances—detecting errors and ensuring regulatory compliance while minimizing administrative burden.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Phenom X+ Ontologies and why do they matter for AI matching?

X+ Ontologies are the intelligence layer that makes Phenom AI accurate rather than approximate. Built on a decade of HR data including 1.1 billion candidate profiles, 400 million jobs, 200,000 skills, and 570,000 job titles, they map how skills, roles, and experience actually relate to each other.

How does Phenom match candidates to jobs more accurately than keyword search?

Phenom's ontology understands that a nurse with ICU experience is relevant for a surgical coordinator role even if the job description uses different terminology. Keyword search cannot make that inference.

Does the Phenom Ontology get better over time as we use it?

Yes. Every hiring decision, promotion, and departure in your organization feeds back into the ontology. The system learns what good looks like in your specific context, not just in the general market.

What scale of data does the Phenom Ontology cover?

The ontology spans 400 million jobs, 1.1 billion candidate profiles, 200,000 skills, 570,000 job titles, 1.2 million companies, 270,000 schools, and 50 industries.

How do X+ Ontologies power the AI Agents across different HR workflows?

Ontologies underpin every agent. The Sourcing Agent draws on 1.1 billion profiles to find candidates. The Career Coach Agent maps skills to progression paths. The Voice Screening Agent understands which answers signal competency for a specific role.